| Sad News Thanks very much for your expressions of support and sympathy after the loss of our Founding Director and CEO Robert Strickland. The Airway Science for Kids (ASK) Board of Directors is working with our partners, supporters and volunteers to ensure the program's continuing successful operations. A Memorial Service was held November 1st at Pearson Air Museum in Vancouver, Washington. His family requests that you send contributions to Airway Science, PO Box 4142, Portland, OR 97208 rather than flowers. Thanks for your continuing support. |
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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.
ASK 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 ASK parent committee, the Hillsboro
Center received a makeover during June, 2006. The ASK 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 was complete with minimal
costs. |
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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, ASK 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. ASK
appreciates your endorsement and referral. |
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GoFlight, Inc.
Flight Modules used by ASK 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 ASK WEB site, www.airwayscience.org.Thanks
to GoFlight, Inc., a 30% donation to ASK is allowed on all items purchased
via our WEB site. ASK will only receive the donation if you first
access the GoFlight website by clicking on the link found on ASK's
home or funding pages. |
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..TrackiR
Complimentary copies of this product were recently provided to ASK
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! EAA AirVenture Oshkosh 2006
Thanks to the continued support of the ASK 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 ASK 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 ASK, 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:ASKids@comcast.net |
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