Hi Christian, Building on Stuart's reply, while I do not know how, or where to track down other companies using FG for FAA approved training - I will leave that for others to respond - I did do some very simple I/O stuff using MS C# back in 2008!
This was built on some efforts from this blog - http://linkslink.wordpress.com/takeoff/ where he built a simple physical model to react to FG, over the COM1 port... I took his C# example, and modified it, per my page - http://geoffair.net/fg/fgfs-046.htm which includes a source download, but maybe this is far too simple to be of any real help... But it does show the expansive capabilities of the FG I/O, based on reading and setting values in FG's 'property tree', which I think of as a big 'public' array of - 'string/path' = 'value', that controls all aspects of the 'simulation'. As you have no doubt found, you can view this 'property tree' using FG's own menu File -> Browse Internal Properties option, but it can also be 'seen' in any web browser using the say the $ fgfs --hpptd=5555 option, as also mentioned on the above page 046... HTH, Geoff. PS: still working on updating my site... On Tue, 2010-01-05 at 08:58 -0500, Christian Menge wrote: > Hi Stuart, > > Thanks for the help. I did notice the I/O system and we read through one of > the samples yesterday. > > I'm happy to hear that others have used FG for FAA approved training. How > would I track some of these companies down? > > Christian > > FreedomWorks Inc. > > US: 609-858-2290 > Canada: 905-228-0285 > Fax: 347-296-3666 > Email: christ...@freedomworks.ca > www.FreedomWorks.ca > > > -----Original Message----- > From: Stuart Buchanan [mailto:stuart_d_bucha...@yahoo.co.uk] > Sent: Tuesday, January 05, 2010 3:34 AM > To: FlightGear developers discussions > Subject: Re: [Flightgear-devel] Windows Build Problems > > Christian Menge wrote: > > > I'll be sure to send any build questions but for now we need to run a > bunch of > > assessment tests to verify that FG can provide the tools needed for FAA / > AATD > > Certification with the C172. Initial observation looks good, except for no > > > Instructor Station. > > > > I'm investigating what kind of effort it will take for us to develop an > IOS and > > writing some drivers for our hardware. > > Creating an instructor station should be fairly straightforward. In fact, I > believe it has > already been done by other commercial adaptions of FG, though I'm not sure > the > specific FAA certification they were targeting. > > We have a very flexible I/O system that allows an external program to write > to the > internal state of the simulator (the property tree), plus telnet and HTTP > interfaces. > There are documents in data/Docs that will be of interest. In particular see > > data/Docs/README.IO. > > Writing a client to these interfaces is pretty easy. Have a look under > source/scripts for example > java, perl, and python clients. > > -Stuart > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Verizon Developer Community Take advantage of Verizon's best-in-class app development support A streamlined, 14 day to market process makes app distribution fast and easy Join now and get one step closer to millions of Verizon customers http://p.sf.net/sfu/verizon-dev2dev _______________________________________________ Flightgear-devel mailing list Flightgear-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/flightgear-devel
