I'll second the suggestion of X-Plane. It's a great bit of software, with the advantage that the flight model is sufficienty realistic to allow you to model your own design of aircraft (which I would suggest would be the next step in this project). You might like to talk to TRANSAS (Portsmouth) about how they do thier full-bridge simulation.
Tim B. On Thursday 29 Mar 2012 15:46:22 Paul Stimpson wrote: > Vic <l...@beer.org.uk> wrote: > >Hi All. > > > >I have a project to put together a sit-in flight simulator, and > >FlightGear > >seems to have the necessary models for my needs. > > > >Does anyone use it? I've tried it out on a couple of laptops, where it > >was > >completely unusable. > > > >I'm looking for some recommendations of what hardware I should buy... > > I've not used Flight Gear but if you are prepared to consider a closed > source product you might like X-Plane X. It's supposed to be the closest > thing to real flight there is. I have X-plane 9 for Android and its very > good. > > A home user license for X is $90.it also has the ability to interface with > hardware. If you buy the pro license, it becomes the core of a fully FAA > certified training simulator, hours on which can be used towards a pilot's > license. > > It's is available on Linux, Windows and Mac. > > Cheers, > Paul. -- Please post to: Hampshire@mailman.lug.org.uk Web Interface: https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/hampshire LUG URL: http://www.hantslug.org.uk --------------------------------------------------------------
