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Al Denelsbeck wrote: "Dr. Anthony J. Lomenzo" wrote in : Allll! And we'll quickly make that Al 'D' ! Mea culpa! Mea maxima culpa! Not a problem. I mean, c'mon, look at that name! It's been mangled by everyone who ever hears it, and these are people who just heard me pronounce it. There's a reason I don't market my work under it... ;-) Seriously Al, but keeping such savvy of your work to myself unless or until you ever go into it publicly....it markets 'itself'...it's that excellent and I mean that sincerely! No overt/covert satiric stuff here. I've seen it. And it's 'that' good! Nuff' said. In another area, I've known Roy Chaffin for some moons and his professional area is something to behold as well! But then, I've always found that by and large [with the usual, let us say, more blatant exceptions that 'any' area, hobby or real world profession has of course] the sim community, collectively, has the sparks! I think we have every profession under the sun from surgeons to you-name-it of every age and of course both genders. It's also a giving fraternity, in my view, and the level of technical expertise out there just within the sim world is more times than not a matter of a free download! So too, and you know me on this theme, I'm convinced that the sim community per se has literally out-produced in terms of sustained quality 'any' commercial sim-av enterprise in terms of what the community ITSELF has offered, improved on [Falcon 4, inter alia, comes immediately to mind when Micropose/Hasbro literally abandoned the sim until the community took it up and made it really soar! ] and often provides free of charge! My sim roots go back some years with those many classic albeit wholly free sim programs like Alain Capt and his ACS-GPS, Helge Schroeder [*Helge finally gave up correcting fan email he would get addressed to "Ms. Schroeder" ...hey, I lived there for 5 years [Darmstadt] and the 'Ami's' always figure 'Helge' is de facto a female name!]---anyway, his original FSNav 3.0 which was an excellent 'gotta'-have' freebie... it was only with the 4.0 series [4.51] that a fee was subsequently charged...Arnt Haaland and his nifty Flightzip 2000...and the countless planes, panels, sounds, scenery, usw. that were there for the DL. As for the sim community helping hand? Always there. That's been my experience anyway. RAS Group: "Zzzzzzz Zzzzzzz Zzzzzzzz" OK....OK...but my last point which found decent support within the RAP newsgroup: the value of the sim to the real-deal! I will debate that fact and truism with anyone and use Uncle Sam as exhibit one along with many FBO's who readily see the value of sim 'adjunctive' [operative word] use to that of the real McCoy. Funny, isn't it, and for those who subscribe to the 'real' av mags [as I do for some years...yes CP too on the sim scene] and what does one see within those pages for the FAA ticket holders--- does 'Elite' ring a bell? Does Commo ring a bell? Does the Nav DVD's WITH sim demonstrator ring a bell? And hey, when prior to '69 when there was 'no' previous experience in moon landings, where were those men in practice for such an attempt? I believe it was a sim! Sure, BIG geetis and all that but then today we can produce virtually anything on the machine electronically to mimic the real avionics! Our friends at Garmin are not exactly being 'solely' beneficent in allowing MS to use their GPS gear....in the FS sims! Think about it! And various others not to mention the ever increasing level of sim sophistication since Bruce Artwick first tinkered with an 'idea', or, conversely, Doc you-know-who and his ATC...sim....which of course the real-life controllers begin on in Ok City ...ATC....sims! Hey, take a peek at the Sporty's catalog! Ahhhhhh, I know...I'm off again on the old theme but the hobby to various and sundry that I know at least transcends some mere 'game' and they see the sim as an adjunctive aid to the real deal and it can decidedly be just that! Adjunctive to be sure but a defensible correlation to the real deal machine. So says Uncle Sam..among others ....and [if one reviews the literature] various of the FBO flight schools in re nav techniques and getting to sense, even on the sim, the fact that the wrong move ... can be rather unforgiving. Whew! [suddenly!] Greasy: "How the $##$# does some 'pagan agnostic' [!] like that Doc Tony character savvy Latin I wanna' know!" Fr. Bill [tongue in cheek] : "Agnostics are not necessarily dumb, Mr. G, ... merely lost!" Agnosticism?!?!? What kind of approach is that? Of *course* you're lost - atheism is the only way! ;-) I think it first started back when ...and the good Sisters of St. Dominic. Let's just say that Jake and Elwood's visit to the "penguin" was 'not' exaggerated! Ba-da-bing! Ba-da-bang! Ba-da-bing! Circa the 50's anyway. But then, and duly available in "The Evening Sun" [Baltimore] morgue when that lady writes to me, and which I duly quoted in the published piece, to wit, "Why you're just as ungodly and sinful as he [*Mencken] was ... but I will remember you in my novenas and pray for your salvation...Mr. Mencken as well, sinner and heathen though he was when he lived.... ." I have that letter [1991] framed in my work room! ;-) [*And trusting mightily in Fr. Bill's decent sparks [read: well working neurons] and his known sense of humor!] Anyway, AL! I've missed you, buddy, and I appreciated your comments [and various others in both the RAS and RAP av groups some months back when my Dad passed and I did the 'Final Flight' post...ohhh yes...many real McCoy pilots here from RAP [rec.av.piloting]...you, Pete Duniho [who I'll respond to as well...and the others who also enjoy flight sims and their known 'adjunctive' value to the real thing [ A Sudden Voice! 'There Doc goes again!']. Where I came up with Al B...dunno...could be another one of the sim and/or real McCoy gang! Whoops! Ah, I suspect you really *are* thinking of Al B., somewhere. No 'real world' pilot here, though I've been in instruction a couple of times, just couldn't keep money and time auto-coordinated. As they (who?) say, "I'm not a pilot, but I play one on PC". Missed you too, amigo, and was wondering what happened. Glad to see you back and in previous form. Gonna make me start hanging out here again. I might also suggest you check out alt.binaries.pictures.aviation from time to time, too, warning you right now it's addictive. But recently there's been a few posts of your six-n-four there, including the prototype without the four. Great plane the now nostalgic B-36! 'Peacekeeper' indeed although [mercifully] it was never used in a combat situation. But what a monster it truly was! In my era, it was the helo that offered the smile and preferably not the one with the 'target' Red Cross on the nose...which wasn't ever honored by the folks with the AK-47's anyway. Nuff' said on that one. Hey Al---the helo 'Bluesmobile' --ring a bell? It should ... since you designed it and I still marvel at your helo stuff [and antics] both sim and real deal! But then what can be said about a man who felt that taking off from Meigs with a fully loaded albeit vintage B-36 '6 turnin' and 4 burnin' "Peacemaker" was 'doable' if one had faith in both pilot and machine! It was, I believe, at 'that' point where Fr. Bill made with the ad hoc and prior to your attempt .... 'De Profundis' ! [*'Out of the depths' ]. You'd be interested in knowing that the Bluesmobile still resides on my machine too, as my agile little taxiway-hopper. A little sensitive, but not squirrelly. 'Course, I have a few other custom repaints too... I think I mentioned last time about doing the old C-130 carrier landings, quite amusing. Also found out recently that, due to body and landing gear designs, the B-52 doesn't actually rotate on takeoff, and can't. The wing is mounted at a positive angle-of-attack, and the pilot merely builds speed until lift is achieved while held level. Haven't found a sim model yet that duplicates that (we won't go into what version FS I'm using...). But I admit to not trying it out of Meigs ;-) Oh, and scenery woes. Found a couple of detailed packages for my stomping grounds here in Florida, but they're mutually exclusive due to buffer limits. Grrrrrr! Real shame, because I like them both and fly between them often. But other things have been keeping me busier too, so simming comes in only occasionally. What I'm doing admitting this on a simming newsgroup is anybody's guess... So in closing, I'll leave you with the immortal words of our fearless leader: "Joey, do you like movies about gladiators?" And my retort would be.... [and no doubt detractors would readily agree!] "I guess I picked the wrong week to stop sniffing glue!" I love that flick! And hey, on our other mutual favorite, I 'did' send you the RA sound byte...you know...the one, the only...."And now, ladies and gentlemen, from Calumet City, Illinois, ..... the show band .... the BLUES BROTHERS! ;-) Fr. Bill [goes for it! Doing an ad hoc soul-food joint A.F. ...] "Don't you blaspheme in here, Doc Tony! Don't you blaspheme in here! Now you can take your four friiiiiiied chickens, your driiiiiiied white toast...and 'fellow heathen' Al Denelsbeck [!]..... ." [suddenly! A cameo appearance! ] Helge S.: 'Wer? Doc Tony? Was hat er gesagt? [pauses] Ich kenne diesen Mann nicht!" [but then, alas, and simply hearing 'die Sprache' .... reverts forthwith!] Al D. [excited!] : "WAS? WAS? WO? Norrrrrrr-mannnnn-dieeeee? Wie dumm auf mir! Wie dumm!" Cue Real Audio: 'Dah-Dah-Dah-Dahhhhhhhhhh!' [but ahhhhhhh!] Greasy [same flick! Doing the guy from the 'Eight-Duece' ... ] "It's them bells! DING-DONG....DING-DONG....I've been hearing them all night!" [meanwhile....] Fr. Bill: [ditto for the flick!] "My communion kit! I've lost it!" John Ward: "We're under fire here, Padre!" ;-) ;-) ;-) ;-) :-) - Al. |
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Hi Doc Tony,
Hey mate, are your mind/spirit at peace at the moment, or is it still a tad too early? Regards, John "Dr. Anthony J. Lomenzo" wrote in message ... Al Denelsbeck wrote: "Dr. Anthony J. Lomenzo" wrote in : Allll! And we'll quickly make that Al 'D' ! Mea culpa! Mea maxima culpa! Not a problem. I mean, c'mon, look at that name! It's been mangled by everyone who ever hears it, and these are people who just heard me pronounce it. There's a reason I don't market my work under it... ;-) Seriously Al, but keeping such savvy of your work to myself unless or until you ever go into it publicly....it markets 'itself'...it's that excellent and I mean that sincerely! No overt/covert satiric stuff here. I've seen it. And it's 'that' good! Nuff' said. In another area, I've known Roy Chaffin for some moons and his professional area is something to behold as well! But then, I've always found that by and large [with the usual, let us say, more blatant exceptions that 'any' area, hobby or real world profession has of course] the sim community, collectively, has the sparks! I think we have every profession under the sun from surgeons to you-name-it of every age and of course both genders. It's also a giving fraternity, in my view, and the level of technical expertise out there just within the sim world is more times than not a matter of a free download! So too, and you know me on this theme, I'm convinced that the sim community per se has literally out-produced in terms of sustained quality 'any' commercial sim-av enterprise in terms of what the community ITSELF has offered, improved on [Falcon 4, inter alia, comes immediately to mind when Micropose/Hasbro literally abandoned the sim until the community took it up and made it really soar! ] and often provides free of charge! My sim roots go back some years with those many classic albeit wholly free sim programs like Alain Capt and his ACS-GPS, Helge Schroeder [*Helge finally gave up correcting fan email he would get addressed to "Ms. Schroeder" ...hey, I lived there for 5 years [Darmstadt] and the 'Ami's' always figure 'Helge' is de facto a female name!]---anyway, his original FSNav 3.0 which was an excellent 'gotta'-have' freebie... it was only with the 4.0 series [4.51] that a fee was subsequently charged...Arnt Haaland and his nifty Flightzip 2000...and the countless planes, panels, sounds, scenery, usw. that were there for the DL. As for the sim community helping hand? Always there. That's been my experience anyway. RAS Group: "Zzzzzzz Zzzzzzz Zzzzzzzz" OK....OK...but my last point which found decent support within the RAP newsgroup: the value of the sim to the real-deal! I will debate that fact and truism with anyone and use Uncle Sam as exhibit one along with many FBO's who readily see the value of sim 'adjunctive' [operative word] use to that of the real McCoy. Funny, isn't it, and for those who subscribe to the 'real' av mags [as I do for some years...yes CP too on the sim scene] and what does one see within those pages for the FAA ticket holders--- does 'Elite' ring a bell? Does Commo ring a bell? Does the Nav DVD's WITH sim demonstrator ring a bell? And hey, when prior to '69 when there was 'no' previous experience in moon landings, where were those men in practice for such an attempt? I believe it was a sim! Sure, BIG geetis and all that but then today we can produce virtually anything on the machine electronically to mimic the real avionics! Our friends at Garmin are not exactly being 'solely' beneficent in allowing MS to use their GPS gear....in the FS sims! Think about it! And various others not to mention the ever increasing level of sim sophistication since Bruce Artwick first tinkered with an 'idea', or, conversely, Doc you-know-who and his ATC...sim....which of course the real-life controllers begin on in Ok City ...ATC....sims! Hey, take a peek at the Sporty's catalog! Ahhhhhh, I know...I'm off again on the old theme but the hobby to various and sundry that I know at least transcends some mere 'game' and they see the sim as an adjunctive aid to the real deal and it can decidedly be just that! Adjunctive to be sure but a defensible correlation to the real deal machine. So says Uncle Sam..among others ...and [if one reviews the literature] various of the FBO flight schools in re nav techniques and getting to sense, even on the sim, the fact that the wrong move ... can be rather unforgiving. Whew! [suddenly!] Greasy: "How the $##$# does some 'pagan agnostic' [!] like that Doc Tony character savvy Latin I wanna' know!" Fr. Bill [tongue in cheek] : "Agnostics are not necessarily dumb, Mr. G, ... merely lost!" Agnosticism?!?!? What kind of approach is that? Of *course* you're lost - atheism is the only way! ;-) I think it first started back when ...and the good Sisters of St. Dominic. Let's just say that Jake and Elwood's visit to the "penguin" was 'not' exaggerated! Ba-da-bing! Ba-da-bang! Ba-da-bing! Circa the 50's anyway. But then, and duly available in "The Evening Sun" [Baltimore] morgue when that lady writes to me, and which I duly quoted in the published piece, to wit, "Why you're just as ungodly and sinful as he [*Mencken] was ... but I will remember you in my novenas and pray for your salvation...Mr. Mencken as well, sinner and heathen though he was when he lived.... ." I have that letter [1991] framed in my work room! ;-) [*And trusting mightily in Fr. Bill's decent sparks [read: well working neurons] and his known sense of humor!] Anyway, AL! I've missed you, buddy, and I appreciated your comments [and various others in both the RAS and RAP av groups some months back when my Dad passed and I did the 'Final Flight' post...ohhh yes...many real McCoy pilots here from RAP [rec.av.piloting]...you, Pete Duniho [who I'll respond to as well...and the others who also enjoy flight sims and their known 'adjunctive' value to the real thing [ A Sudden Voice! 'There Doc goes again!']. Where I came up with Al B...dunno...could be another one of the sim and/or real McCoy gang! Whoops! Ah, I suspect you really *are* thinking of Al B., somewhere. No 'real world' pilot here, though I've been in instruction a couple of times, just couldn't keep money and time auto-coordinated. As they (who?) say, "I'm not a pilot, but I play one on PC". Missed you too, amigo, and was wondering what happened. Glad to see you back and in previous form. Gonna make me start hanging out here again. I might also suggest you check out alt.binaries.pictures.aviation from time to time, too, warning you right now it's addictive. But recently there's been a few posts of your six-n-four there, including the prototype without the four. Great plane the now nostalgic B-36! 'Peacekeeper' indeed although [mercifully] it was never used in a combat situation. But what a monster it truly was! In my era, it was the helo that offered the smile and preferably not the one with the 'target' Red Cross on the nose...which wasn't ever honored by the folks with the AK-47's anyway. Nuff' said on that one. Hey Al---the helo 'Bluesmobile' --ring a bell? It should ... since you designed it and I still marvel at your helo stuff [and antics] both sim and real deal! But then what can be said about a man who felt that taking off from Meigs with a fully loaded albeit vintage B-36 '6 turnin' and 4 burnin' "Peacemaker" was 'doable' if one had faith in both pilot and machine! It was, I believe, at 'that' point where Fr. Bill made with the ad hoc and prior to your attempt .... 'De Profundis' ! [*'Out of the depths' ]. You'd be interested in knowing that the Bluesmobile still resides on my machine too, as my agile little taxiway-hopper. A little sensitive, but not squirrelly. 'Course, I have a few other custom repaints too... I think I mentioned last time about doing the old C-130 carrier landings, quite amusing. Also found out recently that, due to body and landing gear designs, the B-52 doesn't actually rotate on takeoff, and can't. The wing is mounted at a positive angle-of-attack, and the pilot merely builds speed until lift is achieved while held level. Haven't found a sim model yet that duplicates that (we won't go into what version FS I'm using...). But I admit to not trying it out of Meigs ;-) Oh, and scenery woes. Found a couple of detailed packages for my stomping grounds here in Florida, but they're mutually exclusive due to buffer limits. Grrrrrr! Real shame, because I like them both and fly between them often. But other things have been keeping me busier too, so simming comes in only occasionally. What I'm doing admitting this on a simming newsgroup is anybody's guess... So in closing, I'll leave you with the immortal words of our fearless leader: "Joey, do you like movies about gladiators?" And my retort would be.... [and no doubt detractors would readily agree!] "I guess I picked the wrong week to stop sniffing glue!" I love that flick! And hey, on our other mutual favorite, I 'did' send you the RA sound byte...you know...the one, the only...."And now, ladies and gentlemen, from Calumet City, Illinois, ..... the show band .... the BLUES BROTHERS! ;-) Fr. Bill [goes for it! Doing an ad hoc soul-food joint A.F. ...] "Don't you blaspheme in here, Doc Tony! Don't you blaspheme in here! Now you can take your four friiiiiiied chickens, your driiiiiiied white toast...and 'fellow heathen' Al Denelsbeck [!]..... ." [suddenly! A cameo appearance! ] Helge S.: 'Wer? Doc Tony? Was hat er gesagt? [pauses] Ich kenne diesen Mann nicht!" [but then, alas, and simply hearing 'die Sprache' .... reverts forthwith!] Al D. [excited!] : "WAS? WAS? WO? Norrrrrrr-mannnnn-dieeeee? Wie dumm auf mir! Wie dumm!" Cue Real Audio: 'Dah-Dah-Dah-Dahhhhhhhhhh!' [but ahhhhhhh!] Greasy [same flick! Doing the guy from the 'Eight-Duece' ... ] "It's them bells! DING-DONG....DING-DONG....I've been hearing them all night!" [meanwhile....] Fr. Bill: [ditto for the flick!] "My communion kit! I've lost it!" John Ward: "We're under fire here, Padre!" ;-) ;-) ;-) ;-) :-) - Al. |
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"Dr. Anthony J. Lomenzo" wrote in
: snipped, for convenience But then what can be said about a man who felt that taking off from Meigs with a fully loaded albeit vintage B-36 '6 turnin' and 4 burnin' "Peacemaker" was 'doable' if one had faith in both pilot and machine! It was, I believe, at 'that' point where Fr. Bill made with the ad hoc and prior to your attempt .... 'De Profundis' ! [*'Out of the depths' ]. Hey, Doc! Regarding what I said about alt.binaries.pictures.aviation, you of all people should visit http://www.b-36peacemakermuseum.org/lastb36/ right away, I mean right away. Recent posts regarding this site, and the publication therein, have indicated he has *ten* left and is not sure if a third edition will be made. I'll be back later on, - Al. -- To reply, insert dash in address to separate G and I in the domain |
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