Center Operations
Pearson Air Museum Center
Expansion
planning for a new Center in Vancouver, WA was
completed during March, 2006. This effort was
conducted in accordance with the organizations
development and expansion initiative. The new
Center is equipped with twelve (12) Flight
Simulation stations plus allocated space for the
program's model design and construction
(engineering) component. The Center held its
first open house/demonstration and recruitment session July 4, 2006 with an
estimated 500 guests participating. CAS is
supporting a two-week Summer Camp at the museum,
hosting approximately 20 youth for each of two
sessions, beginning July 10, 2006. Other camp
formats are being planned with expectations of
hosting kids throughout the summer next year.
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Hillsboro Center
Thanks to Kimberly Viera and the CAS
parent committee, the Hillsboro Center received a
makeover during June, 2006. The CAS building was
repainted, new gutters installed and a
new drainage system was put in. All this work
was done on Saturdays and Sundays - attesting to
the parents and community interest and project
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Portland Community College (Cascade
Campus)
Computer software upgrades were
recently completed at this Center, allowing the
use of state of the art flight simulation
equipment. This was also necessary in order to
be able to test our planned WEB-learning curriculum.
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New Technology
VoxATC
Thanks to Dr. Zane Gard, a certified
beta tester for VoxATC, CAS received copies of an
Air Traffic Control Commercial Utility that will
be a great compliment to our program
curriculum. VoxATC is an ATC add-on for FS 2004
with integrated voice recognition. During the
past two months, the Center's Director took the
opportunity to review this software and offers
high endorsement to anyone interested in
complementing real-world flight training. Dr.
Gard suggested, and we agree, this program is
best suited for real pilots and pilots in
training, but will also excite wanna-be sim
pilots who want a better experience of what the
cockpit workload is really like. Among its many
features are: true voice recognition for talking
to ATC; allows for IFR, VFR with flight
advisories (flight following) and VFR flights;
ability for in-flight emergencies; ATC uses names
for waypoints, airways and non-tower airports;
Prompting window if you don't know what to say;
good radio training aid for student pilots,
especially in the USA and it is easy to install
and use. Many thanks to Dr. Zane Gard. CAS
appreciates your endorsement and referral.
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GoFlight, Inc.
Flight Modules used by CAS for
several years are now on display at our Center at
the Pearson Air Museum. These units are great
complements to desk top Flight simulation,
replacing the mouse and keyboard with buttons and
twist knobs to mimic the real-world aircraft
cockpit. These units can be purchased through
the CAS WEB site,
www.airwayscience.org.Thanks to GoFlight, Inc., a
30% donation to CAS
is allowed on all items purchased via our WEB site.
CAS will only receive the donation if you first access the GoFlight website by clicking on
the link found on CAS's home or funding pages. |
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..TrackiR
Complimentary copies of this product
were recently provided to CAS to test for
on-going use. This product uses an Infrared
sensor that takes a special reflective mark and
converts its location. Simply move your head and
the screen ahead of you follows the point of
movement. Looking around in the cockpit can be
done intuitively, which means that you do not
have to think about pressing a button to change
your view - just turn your head. We like
it...thanks for the opportunity to review this product! Thanks
to the continued support of the CAS program by the Bogardus Trust, two
program youth attended the Experimental Aviation
Association’s (EAA’s) AirVenture -2006 in Oshkosh, WI. Thumbs up and special thanks
to Trust officers for their interest in supporting positive youth development through aviation.
Program Expansion Plans
A special project effort is under way to provide a web-based platform that will
allow expansion of the CAS program’s
geographic, age group, demographic and content coverage. Adding this component
will allow the provision of increased, individually-tailored access to the program and its
resources for all
participants without regard to schedule or geography. It will also generate
reliable revenues to support ongoing operations of CAS, while increasing visibility, credibility
and
public
awareness. A promotional CD has been completed for use in sharing the design
with
donor prospects and
others interested in assisting project development. For more information about
the project status, schedule and technical volunteer requirements, please contact Robert
Strickland, Project Lead at:wlsrhs@comcast.net |
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