Buchanan, Stuart wrote:
It is a wonderful project - amazing that you can get paid to do it ! ;)
Well unfortunately I only get paid a very small amount of my time to do
it, but maybe in the future if we can get more funding that percentage
might increase ...
I'm sure this has been asked before, but is the I/O fast enough that you
can pilot the aircraft using the FG instruments and synthetic view?
Right now the answer is no, but we suspect that we have some problems
with our radio modem link. But given the limited time I (and others)
have to work on the project, we haven't had a chance to dig into that
particular issue.
No idea if it would be useful, bit it would be cool.
It definitely would be cool to be able to remotely pilot the aircraft
without direct visual contact. At least if done with all the
appropriate safety precautions and authorizations. It's something we
hope to try in the future. With the synthetic view you can include
things like restricted airspace, waypoint goals, artificially enhanced
obstacles, etc. You could setup a 'virtual ils' for a perfect approach
every time. We have added code to CVS (Thanks Mathias!!!) to return the
lon, lat, elev of a scenery point if you click on it. In the future
this point could be then fed into some external database to lookup a
street address for instance. There are a lot of variations you could
think of. If you did a frame grab of the video and inserted it into FG,
you could click on the video and get back the lon/lat of the point you
clicked on which could be useful if you spot an accident or some other
incident that requires deploying some sort of emergency response. For
instance, you spot an odd plume of smoke, you could fly over, try to
determine if its intentinional or accidental and deploy the fire dept.
accordingly. Think civilian police, fire, disaster mgmt, traffic
management type applications here ...
It reminds me of a quote I heard from the test pilot of the A380 (or
whatever the latest huge Airbus is) when asked about his first flight in
the plane - "It flew just like the simulator". Apparently the fly-by-wire
system was identical
Well we are pretty close to having it look the same in the flight
simulator. We haven't started to make it fly the same just yet, but
that will be a really interesting process I hope because we have real
flight test data to contend with. We also have a student thinking about
doing some wind tunnel tests on the airframe.
Regards,
Curt.
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Curtis Olson http://www.flightgear.org/~curt
HumanFIRST Program http://www.humanfirst.umn.edu/
FlightGear Project http://www.flightgear.org
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