On Sat, Jan 17, 2009 at 6:30 PM, John Denker <j...@av8n.com> wrote:
> On 01/17/2009 05:16 PM, Curtis Olson wrote:
>
> > http://www.atcflightsim.com/index.html
>
> If I may be permitted to answer in kind:
>
> http://www.atcflightsim.com/pricing.html
You are expecting a complete cockpit enclosure, instruments, radio hardware,
instructor station software, plush seat, and FAA certification for free?
The FAA doesn't certify a software application (well unless you are looking
at a PCATD and even there, it's not just the software they are looking at.)
For Level 3 FTD certification and above they certify a complete simulator
and at least half of their certification tests involve control loading in
some way or another. They go so far as to insist that if you move a
simulator to a new location, you must get it recertified.
If you are thinking about PCATD certification, then you might want to look
at:
http://fgatd.sourceforge.net/
It's been a while since I've visited that site, but as the page suggests, a
big portion of the battle is to find or build some sort of approved control
inputs ... apparently the CH product stuff is not up to snuff according to
the FAA. Then another huge chunk of the work is documentation. Getting
something certified through the FAA involves a lot of painstaking
documentation effort to show that you meet every single requirement. There
also the need for an instructor station which would be something external to
FlightGear itself. In terms of the software itself, sure there are plenty
of things you could nitpick, but I'm sure it would take very little
additional work to satisfy the FAA on that front.
Curt.
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Curtis Olson: http://baron.flightgear.org/~curt/
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