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1. phugoid · 1789567102 · focus · HN ↗

   This really made my day! I was a flight simulator engineer for 20 years and it brings back fond memories of a project I worked on.

   Simulating the passenger cabin is important for crew evacuation trainers. Those are large, lifelike fuselage sections that you put on a hydraulic motion platform and run flight/crash/evac training scenarios.

   To get a realistic out-the-window view, the trainers I worked on had a PC monitor behind each window opening. We used FlightGear in a master-slave setup: the master node simulates physics and feeds accelerations to the hydraulic platform, and the slave nodes generate out-the-window visuals for each window.

   1. rkotcher · 1789568812 · focus · HN ↗

      Your comment made my day! Thanks for the insight, and thanks for playing :-)

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