Re: [Flightgear-devel] Flightgear to demo 747 at Scale 3x.

Dave Martin wrote:

>Just found this at http://www.linuxgames.com
>
>Although the news story appears broken / mislinked, it states that someone 
>will be demoing a full-scale 747 cockpit driven by FlightGear at Scale 3x 
>this coming weekend.
>
>Any idea who's hardware / project it is?
>  
>

Yes, John Wojnaroski (retired military pilot and FG contributor), Jim 
Brennan (retired 747 pilot), Alex Perry (FG contributor, pilot, FAA 
safety inspector, phd, etc), and I will be at SCALE this coming weekend 
in the LA convention center.  John is building a full 747 cockpit 
simulator and basing his efforts largely on FlightGear, OpenGC, linux, 
and other open-source software.  If anyone else is in the area, please 
stop by and introduce yourself; we'd love to meet you.

There is a short note on my home page as Erik pointed out:

    http://www.flightgear.org/~curt/

There is also an entry on the FG events page:

    http://www.flightgear.org/events.html#scale05

Finally, there is a little bit larger description of the project with a 
few pictures here:

    http://www.flightgear.org/Projects/747-JW/

I hope to have a few more pictures and info after the event is 
finished.  John will be the first to point out the flaws and 
shortcomings of his sim (it's a lot of work to fully replicate a 747 
cockpit and he's not quite done yet.)  But to the average flight sim 
enthusiast or aviation enthusiast (and hopefully to the average linux 
geek) this is going to be a really awsome demo.  John has done some 
really impressive work with his cockpit both in software and hardware.

Regards,

Curt.

-- 
Curtis Olson        http://www.flightgear.org/~curt 
HumanFIRST Program  http://www.humanfirst.umn.edu/
FlightGear Project  http://www.flightgear.org
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