..Burt Rutan wrote an article on this very idea in EAA Experimenter about 10 years ago. The remaining bits missing, is, radar drivers, radar to visual etc models, and a radar echo integrator to build the
seen scenery and "the virtual antenna" track, and radar-to-radar communication, to share seen sceneries, "to see around the mountain". ;-)
The technology has matured a lot since then.
A mode S transponder will feed the location of other aircraft to a multifunction display (MFD), which will then superimpose the positions over a moving map with elevation information, taking your own position from a GPS receiver like the Garmin 430. At the same time, a Stormscope 950 will feed weather information from up to 200 nm away to the MFD, which will draw possible thunderstorms on top of the same map. I could have all of this in my Warrior, today, if I were willing to drop about USD 50-60K--that's about the resale value of my entire plane, but it's a lot cheaper and more realistic than it would have been 10 years ago, and is pretty-much standard in the few new planes now sold each year.
Presumably, the mode S transponder, GPS, and Stormscope could just as easily feed into a FlightGear-based display on a tablet PC, if you didn't mind a few wires across your lap.
..the remainder is AFAICT, a trivial adaption of FlightGear, and a somewhat less trivial certification. ;-)
No certification is required unless the equipment is permanently attached to the airplane. FlightGear running on a tablet PC strapped to your lap, for extra situational awareness, would be fine. I wouldn't want to be so crowded myself, but maybe some day ...
All the best,
David
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