Hello and Welcome to Introduction to virtualization course, this is the first lecture of this course, shares the same name, which is called introduction to virtualization. In this lecture, we will going to do some things let's look at the agenda. on our agenda. Today we will talk about what it is and what is not. So, what is the aviation? What is simulation?

What is virtual aviation and what virtualization is not. So, there is quite some stereotypes and some misconceptions about virtual aviation. So, in order to fix them, we will talk about what virtualization is not. Also we will talk about what do we need to become a virtual VA aviator. So we can categorize them under software hardware and education and English level. Okay, let's begin.

So, in order to define virtual aviation correctly, first we need to define a variation. I have a really small and short and concise definition for aviation, which I quite like, this is aviation everything about the flight. So this is really short to the point director point but we need to make it a bit more elaborate, I think. So that includes occupations like pilots, air traffic, controlling aerospace engineering, aviation, methodologists, etc. So you feel liberated definition of aviation a little bit more. Aviation includes flying with creating or maintaining the aircrafts made by humans.

Okay. Be aware that we are using the word aircrafts, not the airplane. So aircraft as a general term for every machine that flies we can say, so that includes airplanes or also rotorcraft, which means like helicopters, or balloons or motorized parachutes or is that etc. So, a craft means like flying objects in general flying machines that can be controlled by humans in general. So, variation includes with flying so you can fly with them, create them like design them and also do the maintenance work of aircraft flying machines, okay. So if we define the variation, it is aviation, everything about flight is aviation.

Okay, so, we have aviation part now we need to define the simulation, as simulation, which can be defined as like it's coming from French I think the word is coming from French is the imitation of the operation of a real word processes or system over time. So that means there is a real process or a system that works in the real world, but you need to imitate them. You need to imitate them preferably in a lower scale. And in a more controllable environment. So what what are we using the simulation for? So why do we need simulations?

While we have the real world processes, then this question can arise. So, if the real process is hard to implement or hard to come by statistically or dangerous to try and play with, we need to simulations. I have one example if there is no simulation concept in the world, most probably the buildings that maybe you are living in while watching this video, or the computer or the smartphone or the tablet that you're using to watch this video right now, could not be made so easily or so perfectly as today, because simulation software's or a real I mean physical simulations allow us to understand the inner workings of a system on a smaller scale. And can make changes for example, if an architect designs a building and he or she can do this in a today in simulating software in the computers and can see like in cooperation with the you know, civil engineers can see whether the building will stand on the long run or building Can you know and weigh certain amount of you know, flats or certain amount of weight and can be stable in terms of structure.

So, this is one part of the simulation also you may have seen the automobile crashing trials or experiments in order for testing the safety score of a car, they do this like putting the dole humans inside and then in a certain speed they make the car crash in the wall and then and try to understand how the how the Humans inside the human doors affected by the crash by the accident. So this also include this kind of simulation. So these simulations, one is in the software so it says virtual simulation in the architecture program. And the other is a physical simulation. I have another example for physical simulation, which is called wind tunnel. So, we have a video over here let's let's watch this.

So in this video, you can see there is a airflow coming and we can see how the airflow and the Wink profile here interact with each other with each other. So in order to see this in a smaller scale, we need to build this wing wind tunnel and can do different kinds of measurements, you know, but if if you don't have this simulation concept, you need to you know, build the aircraft and fly it fly with it or like preferably you're not flying with it because it be dangerous but you need to try it by yourself by building the whole thing. So simulation means an imitation of a system or a working real world process in a smaller controllable scale. So you can understand also, as you guessed it, the flight simulation is really good way for pilot training and also emergency training because in for example old pilots in their training they need to be trained into the in case of an emergency like a an engine fire, but in order to you know, imitate that or pretend that it's happening or the rehearse that situation.

You can't do like you can't put a an engine on the fire in the air. You can't do this with a real airplane so dangerous, or you need to work with how to you know how to how to control the airplane on a stormy winds stormy weather, but you can't expect or you can't wait Storm come and go on the fly to do the training. So simulation or flight simulators allow us to do that. So as an example, for a flight simulator, they are not. They're coming from different shapes and sizes. And also for realism levels.

We will talk about that in a moment. But as an example, you're now seeing a like a full flight simulator, which is for 737 new generation model for Boeing. This these are like on the on the hydraulic, hydraulic station. And there's the bridge over here. Let me use a laser pointer Yeah. In the bridge over here can lift it and they separated and the whole cabin becomes like liberated free and then it can move on a six axis, six axis of movement.

So it's a really realistic Inside looks like this. So you have the captain side and first officer side. By the way first officer in aviation we call co pilots in you know everyday language you call them co pilots. But in aviation, they're called like Captain the same, but the copilot call this first officers short form that fo we usually say fo to them first officer. So first officer is here and there's an instructor like a teacher, and he can buy touchscreen here implement everything every scenario, he can transport this simulation or displaying to any aircraft in the air or you know, make for example, if they are training on the landing, he can put the plane on the landing course in the air, like really facing to the runway, and then they can try it again and again and again. But in the real world.

You can't give student pilots the real Boeing 730 sevens and do like flying over and over again. sorties of flying to do the landings again and again. So this is the lighting you understand the rationale behind flight simulating. So inside is like this. So this panel and everything are one to one replica of real world airplane. So, and also the working of the software inside and every, you know, physical reactions of their planes when you're controlling it.

So this is called ffs, which stands for full flight simulator, this is the level D, so there are levels of it. But ffs level D is the like currently the most realistic one on the on the flight to mating market. So these are professional simulator. If you're training this, you can get a real pilot license after that. So this is one to one. The exams to check rides for pilots are are done in this simulators.

So another example of a flight simulator. They Not necessarily should be, you know, six axis really in a cabin or most realistic one, they could be in a different level. So this is an awesome FNP to the inside look like this. So F NPT is not a full flight simulator considered as but it is like flight navigation and procedures training trainer number like level two. So you have a generic generic screen displays here. They are not a one to one replica of a real world airplane, but they are, you know, adjustable and customizable screens so you can study you can be trained in different kinds of airplanes into one simulator.

It's also like a practical way, but this is not so realistic as the full flight simulator, but this is also about a threshold. So these FNP tools are also can be used in flight real world flight training. I mean pilot license ones. So, so, if we like for the simulation for flight simulations, if we make a continue of a realism that sort of say, on the far left side we can say games. So, they are simulating your like real world flying, but not so realistically. So they are considered as games.

So what I mean by that, like they, you know, flying models, physical models, and a the the responses that the plane gives, and the equipment's and everything are not so realistic. So they are really lenient and like game, but on the far right side, we can say, the most realistic one is the real world aviation. So, ffs is like really, really close to real world like to real world experience. So they are full flight simulators. On the a little bit to the left, there's a fan PT two. So this is realistic, but not so much as ffs but it's also Towards the you know realistic ones.

And for a game example we can give like Grand Theft Auto five, let's say like a computer and also console game. So in this game, you can control it helicopters and some airplanes, but this is a game. So, this is not so realistic in terms of physics and also for example, if you do hard maneuvers, you can't damage the hole but whereas in the full flight simulators you can, so this is more realistic decide. So, if we put a red line that threshold the this is the threshold for realistic and also the threshold for you know, usability in real world or real vert aviation training okay. So this this line represented distress. So virtual aviation is placed here located here.

So, virtual aviation can be used as a as a professional simulation, but also you may proceed prize it's also can be used as games like a for entertainment purposes. So, the double sided thing with the dichotomy with the virtual aviation I can explain this like that. So virtual aviation What I mean is could be the software so, we will talk about flight simulator x team edition or Lockheed Martin's prepared, we will talk about them in a minute, but these software's can either be used for entertainment purposes, but also for real world flight trainings for for professional trainings. Okay, so this is about the Purpose The purpose the aim that you're using for So, and also the settings the realism settings then equipments can be arranged according to that. So for virtual aviation that we are going to talk about, and what I mean virtual aviation, I mean on the right side, so I mean virtual aviation, not for game, not for games because you can install the software on your computer, while steam or By buying them online and you can just start flying, but is if like like a given a hypothetical example if a if you are allowed to you know control a real world plane if that there's a chance to you can do that your success in that airplane is the same success that you use in this simulation software.

So there is no difference. You can fly it but you can crash like you will most probably crash or, for example, you can do the takeoff in the fly Scimitar x, but most probably you can't do the landing correctly. Like the real world type thing, but for virtually aviation what I mean after this after this lesson, we will mean virtually aviation. I mean the virtual aviation for real world flight training purposes so right side of the threshold okay. So Now we do since we defined the simulation and aviation now we can define virtual aviation a little bit better. So virtually aviation is the simulation of the real world aviation.

So this is a smaller definition but it has more details in it since you know, aviation better and since you know simulation better so the smallest and most concise definition for virtual aviation is virtual aviation is a simulation for real word aviation, that's all so that can include like you see in the picture now that can include home cockpits, these this is the most like you know, basic starting one. So there is the computer and the like peripheral USB accessories peripherals that you can use. So, this is like a an example of a home cockpit like muscle simple one, but they can be bigger. So another example. This is this is a picture from a real world flight school. They use with daeviation like they connected the iPad to the big screen.

And then they they can be trained in the panels and cockpit, you know, cockpit procedures by using this simulation. So this is not a real Boeing 737 cockpit, but this is simulated environment. So the when we talk about virtual aviation, this can be used either for, as I said entertainment purposes and for also real world training, but it's really easy like, rather than putting a picture like static picture, this is like dynamic, they can click two buttons and see what's changing. So it's really easy rather than to be this, put this, you know, students into a real cockpit, even if you put them a real cockpits like real airplanes cockpit, you need to be on the air to you know, see what's going on to displace. So simulation is a must here actually. So also, you're seeing a here you're seeing a sky like air airspace, you're seeing an airspace, Europe's airspace.

Let's play this video. You see airplanes like taking off and landing that go into their distinctions and some blue areas are on and off. So the blue areas are air traffic control sectors. So the the boundaries of the sectors air spaces, for example, for parties and for Spain, Italy, they are opening and closing and all the red airplanes are representing one air air traffic. So Mind you, maybe you're surprised you will be surprised but this is not a real air traffic. This is a air traffic simulation, which you can enjoy by joining one of The two biggest networks for virtual aviation of the world one is on the left side were two air traffic simulation network stands for Watson and also the AI whale or is like international virtual Aviation Organization.

So, these are the two biggest networks, you can think of them as like multiplayer networks. So when you if you have the flight simulator software and you become a member of these organizations and you install some plugins to this flight simulator software of yours, and then you can connect to the the their networks and can share the same airspace and also for these kinds of people. There are some air traffic controllers which can they they can do you know, radar thing or targeting from their home and they you can communicate via you know, voice communication like a like a radio in the real airplane. So they are really good in terms of simulating the real world areas. traffic. And so also they're quite the members.

So these are active member numbers. After the recording time of this video, these numbers would be higher, of course, so 400,000 members on what seem active members and to 200,000 members for Iberia, so they are really quite good. But one tip here, I wouldn't recommend to, you know, after this completing discourse, I wouldn't recommend to go to for you to go directly become a member either of these organizations because they require you to know how to fly an airplane and know all the rules. Also the local rules of your you know, where would you fly in the in the software, so, I wouldn't recommend that becoming a member right away. I would recommend that you would continue on like, private pilot license or commercial pilot license. I mean, virtual of them to do the practice.

Flight training. So what virtualization is not. So this is, I think, until now it's obvious, but let me repeat that this is not a game. So virtual aviation is not considered as a game. It changes according to your purpose, as I said, but our purpose in this course, and if you want to become a virtual aviator, not to become a gamer, if you want to become a virtual aviator, you would consider the virtual aviation is not a game. So why not a game because in games, there are certain common features of a game how we define a game in the game.

There's either levels that you can, you know, unlock, or you know, progress through levels, you either can get rewards or points and they're usually a scenario for you know, single player games. So, these three things are not shared by virtual aviation software's. So you are not gaining any level in virtual, you know, Pricing matrix, for example, because you're just training yourself, there is no levels, there's no points or there's no scenario. So by definition, so the game but you can use as a game or as a professional training eight, as I can say. So after defining all of these, let's look into what do we need to become a virtual aviator? So we categorize them hardware in terms of which hardware Do we need, which software do we need and what kind of education and English level do we need?

So for in terms of hardware, you need an average PC configuration. It could either be desktop or laptop doesn't matter, and a joystick or a flight yoky. So for PC configuration, as I said, it could be a desktop or laptop. I mean, since the fly Scimitar x is an old software. You don't need really high end machines to run them really, you know, efficiently. So as that's why I said average but if you have higher end machines, you can you know increase the graphical settings to have a better visual experience but in terms of realism be having an average PC like in terms of physical models and motion realism or the behavior of the airplane that doesn't matter but for graphical enjoyment you can if you have a higher end machine that helps Okay, so for other accessories in on top of the on top of your computer in addition to that you need a either a joystick or a flight your key first of all my suggestion is here to start with the joystick because they are much cheaper and easier to find and like smaller and because you don't need you know, you don't do any like investment, both financial and for, you know, time and space in your home.

But after if you're feeling that you're alone liking it and want to you know be developed in this Go go go deeper on this hobby on this ritual aviation thing then you can buy yourself like your camera do so, for joysticks This is a you know typical example there used to be many many types of them but nowadays if you say joystick the thing that comes to people's mind or if you go to a shop and ask the you know, on the counter ask for a joystick they would give you game paths like a you know, Playstation or Xbox gamepad these are not joystick means this so what you can see in the picture of it for the joystick and this is the Logitech it extreme 3d Pro, you can use this, but you can also buy any kind of other joysticks, only things that you need two things it could it should have two things.

My suggestions first is that like a total chodron so like adjustable customer like you can do minor adjustments to trottle Like this side, to this side or the other side, so increase or decrease the total one thing. And the other thing. So for, I mean if there's a vertical access to that, like, so to say, it should have this motion, like a, you know, a screwdriver so you can with your, with your ankle. I mean, with your wrist, you can do it left or right, like a screwdriver on the vertical axis. I don't mean like two sides or front or backwards, I mean, from the vertical or with your ankle. I mean, with your wrist.

You can do it left or right like a screwdriver on the vertical axis. I don't mean like two sides or front or backwards. I mean from the vertical Okay, So as for flight, your key and rudder pedals the flight your key system consists of three main things this is the flight your key is like a you know steering wheel of a car. But like half of its missing and it looks like this. So, flight yoky you need a throttle. It's for you know different kinds of light for trottle propeller and mixture different.

We have different you know, valves for different kinds of engines, so and also a rudder pedals. So, these three things can select like a flight yoky system if we say so you can go advanced your equipment to this after having a joystick or if you're really certain that you will be doing this for for serious for a long time. You can just start by buying them in the in the Beginning okay in terms of hardware we need an average PC and either a joystick or if like your key system for the software we like today it's two main software's are using are used for virtualization one is Microsoft's like 10 years of legacy flies Demeter x so 10th of it it has discontinued and bought the like the codes bought by steam and then they do it again so that's why we are calling it steam edition and Lockheed Martin's prepared so I will explain them in detail now.

So Microsoft flights metrics dimension since Microsoft Flight Simulator x discontinued by Microsoft steamboat their base coats and make esteem edition and then you can buy them by the micro flies to x steam edition from the steam game market. The minimum system requirements are really you know, law I think because as I said Debate codes are same and the original one micro plasma x, as released in 2007, as I remember correctly, so, for beam system requirements minimums are really minimum. So you need a Windows operating system. Not it doesn't work on Mac OS X for like a one gigahertz processor. The processor is used in fly simulators for artificial intelligence, physics calculations, creating terrain, like the you know, elevation of terrain and weather modeling. If you have multi core processors, I like dual core and quad core that helps and one gigabyte of RAM is minimum.

But if you have more that, I mean, maybe many of you have more than that now. So Rams are for storing temporary storage of geographical data texture and aircrafts. And at least 12 gigabyte free hard disk space. That's really important because all like Google Earth, you can think of a Google Earth all of the airports like it over a 200,000 airports are located inside and the you know, the the satellite images of the terrain of all the world, not one location, all the world is located inside this semester. So that's why you need to have gigabytes of free hard disk space, at least 32 megabyte, but this is so I mean, so minimum, so like, every graphical card works with that Direct X nine compatible, so this also support Direct X 10, but not dialectics. 11 or 12.

I mean, I didn't know what is the 12th is the current one, but that doesn't mean anything. So that means only the software is old. So GPU and G ram are important. So GPU is the graphical processor your person unit in the graphics card. So that's really important. The the the the second number likely if you have more than four For example, NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 980 980.

So 980 so the nine in the beginning the first first letter, first digit means the generation, but the second digit is from the left is the most important one that gives you an idea of it's like a, you know, minimum minimal or like moderate power for all high end graphic cards. So it's 449 ad. So eight is a big number. So about five like 959 60 they are they would be good. So this one thing and GVM the graphical RAM is the like here to make megabytes but if you have at least two gigabytes of G ram graphical RAM, that would help. So for other things Lockheed Martin's, so in 2009, Lockheed Martin announced that they had negotiated with Microsoft To purchase the intellectual property and the base code source code for a flight information, price matrix, Service Pack two.

So in 2010, they released the prepared so it's like spelled as prepared. So Direct X 11 sport that's different than the steam edition, high definition texture textures also like one important thing and for Microsoft license like flyswatter Extreme Edition is sold in a game market so steams a game marketplace, but prepared is not sold under the game category. It is defined as a professional simulation software by the company and you can either buy this as an academic license or for military or for real world flight schools. So this is a different thing. The system requirements are a bit higher than the the physics estimation. So two gigahertz CPU but recommend the disk quad core three gigahertz, that's really good and more than four gigabytes of RAM that's really important.

And rather than 12 gigabytes This is 30 gigabytes free disk space. And a solid state drive SSD is not hard drives, but SSDs are strongly recommended, because the access times of SSDs are much, much much I mean, tenfold quicker than hard drives. So this is really important. For graphics card RAM, like minimum is one gigabyte, but over four gigabytes is really good and full direct, excellent support. That's, that's an important thing. So as as for the hardware and software loop, we looked at the requirements for being a virtual aviator.

And for education English level, being a high school graduate really helps because in virtual aviation also, we are sharing most of the theoretical part of real world aviation training, like pilot trainings, so the concepts could be a little bit difficult For some people, so, being a high school graduate is really important in terms of that you know the simple mathematics like geometry and geography. Because you know, we will talk about metrology and for physical some some you know there will be some degrees and some navigating to charts chart reading you know that these are really important and a able to like DDD talent the skill to think in 3d world like three dimensional thinking, and this is really also important in cognitive mapping, that is the map on your mind of a place. So, not not losing your orientation in the, you know, in the plane.

So, these are really important things and also English level because the language of aviation throughout world globally is English, the English I mean the aviation language we will talk about this in the, in the following lectures in for example, in aviation phraseology, course lecture so, in this Extra, we'll talk a bit more but English that we use in aviation is not the everyday language of English, it is a little bit advanced and it could be a jargon of of the occupation. So, that's why in order for you to learn aviation English, you need to have a basis for English. So, B one or B two of CFR levels is good is required. So, B one and B two could be like intermediate or upper intermediate level Also, if you go to the resources of this lecture in Udemy, you can just you know assess yourself by self assessment grid that I will leave the link there in the resources section.

Okay, so, this was the first lecture, I will see on the next lecture we will talk about aviation history. In the meantime, before going to aviation history, you can take the quiz to test your knowledge, see you in the next lecture.