The same computer also runs the captain’s flight and map displays, using FlightGear’s ability to expose in-cockpit displays to separate applications. The main computer runs FlightGear on Linux, driving the main display on a 4K LCD. The cockpit is an approximate version of a 737-800 captain’s side panel and centre pedestal, with a floor-mounted Boeing-style yoke.
More specifically, we will show a home-built cockpit, constructed using a mixture of commercially available hardware, salvaged aircraft parts and hand-made electronics interfaces.
OPEN SOURCE FREE FLIGHTGEAR SOFTWARE
This year we aim to show how you can use our software by integrating it into home-built cockpits. Although FlightGear has traditionally mainly been of interest to hackers and tinkerers, recent years have seen significant efforts to improve usability and user-friendliness, opening up to project to a large group of users.įlightGear has already been present at FSWeekend since 2005, and this year will be no exception.
FlightGear is a so-called open source project: this means that development takes place in an open environment and that all materials resulting from the project are freely available for everybody. The FlightGear project was started in 1997 by a group of volunteers scattered across the internet.
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