On Saturday 24 Sep 2005 16:28, Curtis L. Olson wrote: > This is somewhat off topic, but in the spirit of open source > I'd like to share the tragedies as well as the triumphs ... > > http://www.flightgear.org/~curt/Models/Special/Rascal110_1/ > > This is part of a university project I'm helping out with. We > have a backup plane and our expensive instrumentation survived > intact, so this shouldn't be a severe setback to us. > > Very high on my todo list is to build some glue code that can > take live IMU/INS/GPS data from the airplane (sent over radio > modem) to the ground station and display a live synthetic view > of the airplane using FlightGear. If I'm successful with > building the link, then the next obvious thing to try is to > fly the airplane looking only at the real time FlightGear > view, not looking at the real airplane. Beyond just being a > fun thing to try, you could imagine putting some > representation of restricted airspace in the synthetic view, > or other objects that are important to your mission ... > whether that be monitoring traffic, wild fires, surveying > damage after a storm, etc. > > Curt.
Hmm... I'm getting a 504 - gateway time-out when I try to look at www.flightgear.org. (Hmm... wonders if this e-mail will get through...) LeeE _______________________________________________ Flightgear-devel mailing list [email protected] http://mail.flightgear.org/mailman/listinfo/flightgear-devel 2f585eeea02e2c79d7b1d8c4963bae2d
