Re: [Autopilot] FlightGear collaboration

[Martin S. <ma...@pl...>]

On Thu, Nov 22, 2001 at 05:47:37AM -0700, Tramm Hudson wrote:
> Martin Spott wrote:
> > On Wed, Nov 21, 2001 at 07:52:51PM -0700, Tramm Hudson wrote:
> > > It also occurs to me that using FlightGear for our groundstation
> > > might be useful.  We can feed it attitude data from the IMU and
> > > have it represent our helicopter onscreen with all the instruments
> > > that we could desire.
> > 
> > This is what made me have a closer look at FlighGear some time ago.
> > Now I got stuck and I am participating in writing the 'Getting Started'
> > manual  :-)
> 
> The build was difficult -- there appears to be a minor bug (for which
> I submitted a patch) and I had to upgrade my OpenGL libraries.

CVS or daily snapschots is a moving target these days. I wouldn't expect it
to run out of the box. If you stick to the latest release (ok., it's a
little bit dated now) you will experience very little trouble.

> > ... Additionally there was some
> > interest in implementing Boeing's new CIGI interface (http://cigi.sf.net/).
> > Maybe this might lead so some sort of 'standard' in future time (asides that
> > people are not shure if they really want to follow Boeing's marketing ...).
> 
> They have lots of programmer documentation (API's, etc) but lack
> screen shots [...]

That's it, they're propagating their API and network layer.

> That URL didn't work for me.  I found it at:
> 
> 	http://opengc.sf.net/
> 
> It's Windows-only for now.  They plan a non-legacy release sometime,
> but have not started on it.

There is ongoing development. This might be proven by mailing list archives.

> They link to some totally insane "home-brew" flight simulators
> that use software glass cockpits in complete airline flight decks.
> Here's a good collection of pictures of them working on it:
> 
> 	http://www.avsim.com/hangar/flight/a320project/pics26.html

As far as I know these two projects have nothing to do with each other,

Martin.
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