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Flight Simulator - coding challenge

PostDateIconFriday, 08 April 2011 22:01 | PostAuthorIconWritten by Wail Yahia | PDF | Print | E-mail
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Do you have basic MATLAB knowledge? Are you up for coding challenge that will give you an exposure to the online aerospace community and enhance your profile? We are working on developing a basic instrument flight simulator and we would like you to get involved!

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Last Updated (Friday, 08 April 2011 22:17)

 

OpenEaagles

PostDateIconSaturday, 12 December 2009 21:19 | PostAuthorIconWritten by Anatoly Starikov | PDF | Print | E-mail
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OpenEaagles (Open Extensible Architecture for the Analysis and Generation of Linked Simulations) is a multi-platform simulation framework. It is designed to help build virtual, distributed, scalable simulation applications. Various applications including flight simulation, human factors studies, and operator training have all been used to develop virtual simulation systems.The framework includes interoperability interfaces to support the development of distributed applications because it includes interfaces that support the Distributed Interactive Simulation (DIS) protocol. A variety of DIS compliant distributed simulation applications have been built using this framework as a foundation.

A great advantage of the OpenEaagles framework is that it does not provide a main() function to be utilized. This enables the operator complete access of the construction and utilization of the framework, whatever the application may be. There is no default graphical user interface (GUI), allowing the user maximum flexibility to asses and incorporate their requirements.
 

 

Overview of OpenEaagles structure

Overview of the OpenEaagles structure.

OpenEaagles is written in C++ to provide object-oriented flexibility and portable cross-platform compatibility. Also the ability to provide high performance deterministic execution or the ability to run in “real-time” is a reason why OpenEaagles is written in C++. OpenEaagles provides the ability to run JSBSim as a rapid, high quality dynamics model in the creation of new flight simulators which is a reason why the Openae team feels it is necessary to spread the word to interested persons.

 
OpenEaagles is offered for free under the GNU Lesser General Public License (LGPL). To get started please visit http://www.openeaagles.org.  

Last Updated (Wednesday, 30 December 2009 21:49)

 

FlightGear

PostDateIconThursday, 22 October 2009 22:32 | PostAuthorIconWritten by Anatoly Starikov | PDF | Print | E-mail
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FlightGear is a free, multi-platform, open source flight simulator.
                                                                                                                         
It has various functions for weather, time of day, and lighting effects as well as the ability to have the user choose the exact starting location, direction and altitude. Numerous airports have been added to its library for various landing and takeoff operations. FlightGear comes included with a wide array of airplanes ready for simulation. Everything from Cessna’s and Sopwith’s, to P-51’s and F-16’s can be flown in FlightGear’s catalog. Even the up and coming B787 Dreamliner. The real advantage of FlightGear though is the ability to fly an airplane of your design. This makes FlightGear an exceptional tool throughout various research and academic environments.
 
Through the implementation of Datcom+ and the calculated stability derivatives, these aerodynamics files can be directly converted to the JSBSim-ML format (the XML file format). This is the format that the flight dynamics model JSBSim reads. FlightGear simulates the control and dynamics of the vehicle to a considerably accurate degree using this file.
 
FlightGear has been around since 1997 and is capable of working on various operating systems including Microsoft Windows (Win 32), Mac OS X, Linux, IRIX, and Solaris.
 
FlightGear can be downloaded for free under the Downloads tab.
 
 

Menu for choosing an aircraft

 

Screenshot of the T-38 in flight

Screenshot of the T-38 in flight

 

 

 

Last Updated (Wednesday, 30 December 2009 22:03)

 

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