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

[Brian Sikkema]

Ah cool.  I'm still flying for the Air Force, but I moved from tankers to the MC-12, which is just a King Air 350 with a sensor ball and some other recce gear on it. They send us to FSI for our initial training and our yearly requal because we don't have a sim of our own yet. 

dabigboy at cox.net wrote:

>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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