Jim Wilson wrote:
BTW great pictures Curt. Sharp looking crew as well :-) And a very exciting flight story. The scariest jet airline flight I've been on was one that landed on Corfu and it was 100% routine. I have serious doubts that this jet could have stopped on the runway if an engine was out and beyond one end of the runway is water and buildings (houses, etc) on the other end. No room for overruns. When the aircraft finally braked to a stop, I actually thought we were a little off the end of the runway from the poor viewing angle I had in the cabin. The takeoff later was equally interesting, although by then I had convinced myself that they did this every day and we would make it, which we did.
I had a flight out of Cuzco, Peru (we were up to see Macchu Pichu) that was interesting. The Cuzco airport is up about 11,500' MSL and we were flying out of there in an old beater Boeing 727. I had a stop watch so I started it when we began our take off roll. We got airborn and everything was normal, but because of the geography of the area, 5 full minutes into flight we were still seeing terrain straight out our window and still very close. That's not something I'm used to seeing around here in Minnesota.
Anyway after all the exciting stories, is there anything more you are able to say about the simulator project mentioned top of the page?
Let's see. The NTPS has some simulator software that is their own proprietary product. The strength of their software is that it is really well suited and tuned towards developing and evaluating the performance of a modern fly-by-wire aircraft (and is well proven in action.) However, it has only very basic out the window graphics. I'm doing a (hopefully quick little) project to build an interface from their software to FlightGear in order to use FlightGear as the visuals.
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