Re: [Flightgear-devel] Windows Build Problems

[Geoff M. <ub...@ge...>]

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: chr...@fr...
> www.FreedomWorks.ca
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Stuart Buchanan [mailto:stu...@ya...] 
> 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
>