Today I had a chance to see a driving sim located at KMSP. They use it to train drivers for driving around on the airport grounds (taxiways, runways, service roads, tunnels, etc.) The really interesting thing about this sim is they had a beautifully done model of the airport. Every light, every sign, every painted line, every building, probably every tree and squirrel was modeled and placed accurately. You got a very good sense of being at the actual airport without having to rely on memory/imagination.
They said they started with cad drawings of the airport and then someone came out and took about 3000 digital pictures of everything. It took them over a year to complete the modeling. Supposedly they have about $1.5 million into it in terms of equipment and labor. Aside from the beautiful modeling job, they had a real fire truck cab to sit in, and a 3 projector 180 degree cylindrical visual system. They had one windows machine to interface with the cab hardware, but other than that, everything was running linux on commodity PC's. Pretty nifty system ... Curt. -- Curtis Olson HumanFIRST Program FlightGear Project Twin Cities curt 'at' me.umn.edu curt 'at' flightgear.org Minnesota http://www.flightgear.org/~curt http://www.flightgear.org _______________________________________________ Flightgear-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.flightgear.org/mailman/listinfo/flightgear-devel
