[simpits-tech] Interesting "big sim" tidbit............

[Brian Sikkema]

Where does your dad instruct? I just went through FSI Atlanta for their King Air 3 course in August. 

dabigboy at cox.net wrote:

>I was chatting with my dad the other day, who is an instructor at
>FlightSafety. His facility has been updating a number of their sims,
>and have a few fairly new sims in place. A couple years ago they did a
>major update on their Learjet 20-series sims....my dad informed me that
>now instead of a bunch of big ol' mainframes, the 20-series sim pretty
>much has a huge wad of wire bundles that just plug into expansion cards
>on a little PC or two (not surprising, considering the relative
>simplicity of this sim compared to its brethren).
>
>So the other day, I asked him if he knew anything of the software or
>operating systems FlightSafety is using. He replied "I don't know, but
>I keep seeing the Redhat logo pop up on screens in the sim computer
>room." It would appear that FlightSafety is running their sims on
>Linux. :)
>
>Now I don't know to what extent Linux pervades.....I am reasonably
>certain that the Vital visual systems, for instance, use some
>proprietary OS (though I would not be surprised if it's Unix-based).
>
>Having been 100% Linux-based on my sim since its initial design phase,
>I can tell you it makes a wonderfully simple, stable, and flexible
>platform for doing a serious, multi-computer/networked flight
>simulator. It's also an ideal programming/development platform, if
>you're rolling your own code.
>
>Matt
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