Here are a couple things off the top of my head ... - FlightGear is currently powering several FAA certified pilot training devices (www.atcflightsim.com)
- Flightgear uses a wgs-84 round earth model so you can fly from your real aviation charts and hit all the intersections and radials and headings right where they should be. - FlightGear has all the stars in the correct place in the sky for the current time and location as well as the sun and the moon and the planets, and the moon with proper phase ... you probably didn't know that Durk. :-) - FlightGear's runways are not exactly flat ... just like in the real world they follow the lay of the land and there can be substantial differences in altitude from one end of the runway to the other. - FlightGear's autopilot code has been used to fly real UAV's autonomously in the real world ... - FlightGear has some of the most realistic and complete helicopter flight dynamics available in PC sims. - FlightGear has an awsome V22 Osprey model that is a total blast to fly once you get the hang of it. - FlightGear supports multiple monitors on a single PC. We've demonstrated a system with 8 displays all connected to a single (quad-core) PC. One box driving 8 displays (4 pci-express video cards) ... limited not by FlightGear, but how many displays you can plug into your machine. - FlightGear has been around for 14 years of active development! Regards, Curt. On Thu, Apr 22, 2010 at 7:39 PM, James Sleeman wrote: > On 23/04/10 08:44, David Megginson wrote: > > Easy to set up for the command line, so you can launch straight into a > > practice approach without clicking through a bunch of screens (and can > > randomize things like wind). > > > Unfortunately, lets be honest, many (most) of our fellow pilots wouldn't > know what a command line is if it bonked them on the head. > > If this is your typical glossy aviation magazine, then you'll need high > level talking points, not "you can start it from a command line" because > that will switch people off. > > > > > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > _______________________________________________ > Flightgear-devel mailing list > Flightgear-devel@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/flightgear-devel > -- Curtis Olson: http://baron.flightgear.org/~curt/
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