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

[dabigboy at cox.net]

He's at the Learjet center in Tucson. They also have a Challenger sim and a Eurocopter AS350 FTD (basically the same as a "big sim" but without motion...it is incredible!).

Who you flying for?

Matt

---- Brian Sikkema <brian at sikkema.us> wrote: 
> 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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