AeroSim Flight Simulator is a collaborative project between Bee Games and Pony Vehicles, and the main design and maintenance is done by Bee Game, and Pony is only responsible for production and sales. The main reason for this is to put a "professional" vest on it, after all, the professional flight simulator produced by the game company is not reliable no matter how you look at it.

Then after the "poisonous hand" of Abbe's CEO was cleaned up, this child raised for others became the only remaining aviation-related project of the pony vehicle, which barely kept the company's flight genes.

In fact, cutting Pegasus is something that can't see the future and has to do it, as an aeronautical engineer, Abbe himself is still very passionate about the aviation industry, anyway, if Pony really becomes a pure car factory, he will definitely be the first to quit and say nothing.

During this time, he has also been studying the aviation industry at home and abroad, trying to help the company restart in the aviation field. So when he heard Atletico Madrid's proposal to create a World War II vehicle-themed simulation game, he immediately became interested, and his brain quickly worked to analyze the pros and cons.

After thinking about it clearly, he said, "No, Boss, I think we should do the data collection ourselves, and the test subjects can be purchased or rented. ”

Seeing that Atletico and Uncle Tommy were looking at him, Abbe only said one word and made the two of them look clear, that is, "salary!"

After all, the age is old, the design drawings of these classic machines and cars have long been incomplete, even if other people have relevant data, most of them only have basic data such as appearance size and simple speed, weight, turning radius, etc., which are enough to make toy models or video games, but it is far from enough to build a professional simulator, and it is necessary to specially test various mechanical data collection, otherwise the feeling of shaking up will be different, and it will laugh at the Fang family.

This work is obviously a meticulous job that requires careful patience, in other words, it is a labor/intelligence intensive job, and the wages in the United States are absolutely frighteningly high. Although the wages on the other side have increased, there is still a big gap between them and the annual income level of $40,000 per capita in the United States, so it is clear where the project should be placed.

So after Atletico Madrid's proposal, Abbe didn't think about the possibility of agreeing to it, and immediately said that it was his duty as the CEO of Pony Company.

However, Mr. Chairman only thought about it for a moment and frowned and said: "I think the test of the vehicle can be placed in China, and the aircraft may have to be placed on the side of the United States, after all, the test of the weapon system is more troublesome." Of course, the specific way to do it has to evaluate the costs of both sides to decide. ”

There will be no policy threshold for these old trucks to go to the other side, but it is a little troublesome to support weapons and equipment, and it is far more convenient to stay in the United States and entrust a professional security company to do it, and only need to send their own people to fix the sensor to the designated position of M or P51, and then pull it to the field shooting range in the desert Gobi to make a sudden attack.

The two Americans naturally understood this, so they said in unison: "Of course!"

They only need to set the direction, and the specific work is naturally done by middle-level leaders of front-line employees, Atletico Madrid looked at his watch and said: "Let's get here first today, I still have to catch a flight." ”

Bidding farewell to his two subordinates, he went out and took a car all the way towards the airport, where the business jet that had been contacted in advance was already waiting.

There are many private jets in the United States, and the number of business jets is large, and renting an airplane is not much more troublesome than renting a car. In recent years, Atletico Madrid has been renting a plane to run around in the United States, after all, it is convenient to fly if you want to.

Thinking of this, he couldn't help sighing again, the reason why he thought that the test of the old plane should be placed in the United States, in addition to the reason for the weapon system, another reason was that it was easy for the old plane to be transported back to China, and it was not so convenient to let it fly, because there was a big pit called general aviation in front.

To put it simply, general aviation is a general term for all civil aviation behaviors other than public passenger and cargo transportation, agricultural fire extinguishing and pest control, industrial patrol line patrol, service industry tour training performance, scientific research, surveying and mapping testing, and private aircraft and other businesses all belong to the category of general aviation, and sometimes police aviation is also included in foreign countries.

In the past, the general aviation was quite miserable in China, and the aircraft needed to report the time, altitude and route to the various air traffic control bureaus, civil aviation and air force along the way before take-off, and the whole process usually took a week. It is difficult to do things and the cost is high, which has led to the fact that this industry has not developed. Correspondingly, it has also made TV and movie aerial photography, flight tours and aerial afforestation high.

Then the multicopter drone quickly became popular after it was introduced, and to a certain extent, it was also related to the suppression of this long-term unmet demand.

Drone aerial photography, drone spraying, and drone patrol lines (oil, gas, hydropower pipelines) are becoming more and more common, and Goudong has even studied the feasibility of drone distribution in rural areas. At this time, the mothers-in-law above also realized that it was better to be blocked, and began to consider general aviation reform, or low-altitude airspace reform for general aviation.

The direction of reform is to simplify the management of airspace below 1 km, divided into control, surveillance and reporting three, the reporting airspace requirements are the least, only need to report the take-off and landing time to take off, and the requirements of monitoring airspace are slightly higher, the same report flight but must maintain radio contact and radar visibility, the control of airspace is similar to the current need for approval, but the process has been optimized, and a shorter processing time is provided.

As early as the 70s, people opened most of the low-altitude airspace below 3 kilometers, and usually only need to report to the airport tower or even shout on the public channel to take off and land, as long as you don't run to the control area, you can fly casually.

The reform began to brew after 08 years and began to be implemented in 10 years, hoping to gradually promote and eventually stimulate a new trillion yuan industry. However, it has been 7 years now, the country has risen more than 20 aviation industrial parks, more than 200 general aviation companies, and the company under construction is several times this, but the speed of industrial development is far behind the original plan, and the general aviation participants have really lived a hard life for several years, including bees, which play soy sauce.

Bee not only co-founded a general aviation company, but also actively researched small manned aerial vehicles and training simulators, which was obviously a good idea for mining, selling pickaxes and selling workers' pants. As a result, Pegasus was forced to suspend its long-term practical application, and the general aviation company had just turned around its losses for three consecutive years, and the simulator had become a tableware.

At the beginning, the advocates of the general aviation industry directly shouted in one breath that there would be a shortage of 8,000 general aviation pilots in five years, but five years later, there were only more than 2,000 aircraft and less than 3,000 pilots in the whole industry. The average number of pilots is 1.3, so it is naturally not that it is difficult to recruit talents, but that the operation is bleak and the cost is compressed, and we dare not hire too many pilots.

In fact, staring at the trick of drawing a pie with American data, the yacht industry has been doing it ten years ago, with 18.5 million yachts in the United States, and then experts said that there is a huge gap in domestic yachts, and cruise yachts and sailboats should be vigorously developed.

However, after so many years of tossing, the number of yachts in the country is only a few thousand. This is the case for yachts with relatively loose management, let alone private jets, which have not ushered in explosive growth in either private jets or general aviation in the pilot area.

As for the reason, in the final analysis, it is related to the natural environment and the habits of society as a whole.

There are less than 400,000 luxury yachts over 13 meters in the United States, and the number of boats under 24 feet (about 7.3 meters) is really supported.

The reason why ordinary people have such a large number of ships is first of all because of the geographical advantages of the United States, which sits on two oceans with 20,000 kilometers of coastline and 660,000 square kilometers of territorial waters (I think it is 360,000, and the total territory is just 9.52 million, second only to 960 ranked fourth), and most of them are located in the unfrozen temperate zone and tropics except Alaska, unlike Canada and Russia, which are the top two in terms of territorial waters.

Secondly, as a country of immigrants, the vast majority of Americans ancestors came by boat, the early colonies were built along rivers and lakes as much as possible in order to reduce transportation costs, and the main material exchange also relied on Atlantic shipping, which made the United States a "country on the oar" very early, even if the later railways, highways and civil aviation rose one after another, but shipping and inland waterway transportation rely on cost advantages are still vigorously maintained, many small towns may not be connected to railways and highways, but the dock airport is proper.

With such history and reality, it is not difficult to explain why Americans are so in love with ships, after all, there are many ports and it is convenient to travel.

And there is no such condition in China, the era of the south ship and the north horse has long been gone with the wind, the lake is enclosed for farming, water surface aquaculture, water pollution, and the reclamation of the lake and the sea to build buildings make it difficult for people to even get close to the water surface, let alone the public dock, there is no way to get on the boat casually, ordinary people are idle and hurt to buy a small yacht.

In addition, for domestic yacht owners, there is a more embarrassing problem in front of them, a very important reason for the American rich to buy a large yacht is that they can sail all the way to the high seas, avoid the busy offshore routes to enjoy the coolness, but also enjoy the maximum degree of privacy, do something illegal without pressure.

And the local tyrants in China are depressed, the Yellow Sea is North Korea and South Korea, the East China Sea is Japan, the South China Sea is the Philippines, and there is a tangled bay in the middle, and if you want to run to the open sea, the difficulty is not much lower than the navy breaking through the first island chain.

Therefore, those who have bought luxury yachts can only let their sea mansions dock on rented berths for a long time, and the only role is to place them there as an endorsement of their wealth.

Of course, what is even more depressing than them is the local tyrants who bought private jets like Mr. Zhao, and the planes have to be attached to professional airlines, and they still have to say hello a few days in advance if they want to sit.

As for the general aviation industry, which is in full swing, not many airplanes have been built, but a bunch of houses have been built.

The domestic real estate developers are really too imba (game term: unbalanced), the state supports the animation industry, and they have engaged in the animation industrial park real estate project: the state advocates innovation, they have engaged in the real estate project of the pioneer park, the state encourages general aviation, and they still have the aviation town real estate project!

There are more than 300 residential aviation towns in the United States, most of which have been converted from abandoned airports, and the residences are built around the airport, and the residents of the community travel by plane rather than by car. If you don't get orange in Huaibei, it is citrus, but when you go to the domestic aviation town, it has become a flavor label to increase housing prices, as for the airport, training, maintenance, insurance, what are these supporting things, can you eat it?

The legendary flight training industry has come to naught, and the AeroSim flight simulator, which aims at domestic aviation training, naturally needs to be a cup. If it can't be sold in China, it has to find a way to sell it abroad, so Atletico Madrid brought it to CES.

In fact, the aviation field also has its own professional exhibition, the gap between the three major international air shows is too big, needless to mention, is the abbreviation of the Test Flight Association, more than 60 years ago a group of American flying enthusiasts set up this organization to promote the development of private home-made aircraft, now their annual conference has become the world's largest air show 10,000 aircraft, 90,000 takeoffs and landings, this scale to ask you are afraid?

Atletico is aware of the event, and has sent someone to take Pegasus to soy sauce, and Pony Vehicles is also in contact with EAA, intending to open up AeroSim's API to its members, allowing others to import data from homemade aircraft into it, and hopefully enable remote test drives in the future, provided that the "AeroBar" project planned by Pony can be successful in the United States.

Although there are 300,000 private jets and 700,000 pilot license holders in the United States, flying is still not a simple task, especially for most city dwellers.

With the help of Bee's powerful image and audio technology, they can provide maximum flight simulation, the only problem is that the model library is quite scarce, and the big manufacturers ignore it, so they have to go to EAA's homemade aircraft.

And his whimsical World War II classic aircraft project will also be operated on the basis of this interface platform in the future, so his original intention should actually be "Abbey, you see that our ASapi has just been opened and no one has come, so you can reluctantly contribute your father and your grandfather!"

As a result, Abbe wanted to save money for the company, so he rejected Atletico Madrid's initial suggestion, feeling that cheap labor could not be used well and God could not look at it.

Las Vegas is about 900 kilometers away from Berkeley, and it takes nearly 8 hours to drive, but Atletico Madrid only takes more than an hour to reach its destination by business jet, and you can also feel the difference between Chinese and American university cafeterias, which is the biggest advantage of private jets.