Search Results for "tools"

...When flying in a simulator, one often needs to look up details in PDF charts, plane manuals, checklists or other documents. Using a PDF reader breaks the immersion because the virtual aviator either has to take off of their HMD or use other tools that can move windows into VR. AviTab tries to solve this problem by offering a PDF reader inside a native plugin for X-Plane. Using a plugin also opens possibilities for more apps inside the tablet, for example, to display information about the plane status or aid in navigation. When hovering over the edges of the tablet from a short distance, X-Plane will display green bars around the tablet. ...

OpenEagle provides interfacing to Flightgear to create a synthetic view of the flight using a Garmin G5 EFIS, and other instruments to display the flight at 10hz. The system also includes tools to make and use browser based moving maps from the FAA sectional "tif" files free to download. OpenEagle replaces NAV, and FIX databases in Flightgear with current FAA data. FAA Special rules airspace such as Class B,C, and D, and MOA's et al are displayed in the synthetic view using translucent boundaries in the scene. See the intro video sample of the special flight rule area over the Grand Canyon.

Addons for Orbiter space flight simulator (Freeware). Mainly tools such as MFDs (MultiFunctional Displays) and plugins, which sometimes use complicated math

Orbiter is a realistic space flight simulator created by Doctor Martin Schweiger, last release in 2010. The final goal of the project is to create an handy addon maker for Orbiter that can be used by everyone. There already existes small creation tools, but nothing in order to make full addons Orbiter space simulator : http://orbit.medphys.ucl.ac.uk/