A Synthetic Environment Flight Simulator: The AFIT Virtual Cockpit

Abstract

This thesis describes the design and implementation of a part of the Virtual Cockpit: a synthetic environment, distributed network flight simulator. The goal of the project was to prove the concept that this type of flight simulator could fill the gap between high-end, very expensive flight simulators and low-end game quality flight simulators. Discussed are: object-oriented design techniques, multi-processor utilization, the flight dynamics model, synthetic environment technology, the frame-rate vs. realism issue, and the interfaces to a realistic joystick and throttle.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Dec 01, 1992
Accession Number
ADA259220

Entities

People

  • John C. Switzer

Organizations

  • Air Force Institute of Technology

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Air Platforms
  • Energy and Power Technologies
  • Materials and Manufacturing Processes
  • Sensors
  • Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Aircraft Equipment
  • Aircrafts
  • Computer Graphics
  • Computer Programming
  • Computers
  • Coordinate Systems
  • Engineering
  • Flight Simulations
  • Flight Simulators
  • Flight Training
  • Object Oriented Programming
  • Operating Systems
  • Ray Tracing
  • Simulators
  • Software Development
  • Students
  • Two Dimensional

Fields of Study

  • Computer science

Readers

  • Aviation Science / Aeronautics.
  • Parallel and Distributed Computing.