Cost-Effective Flight Simulator Approach for Ultralight Aircraft, Motor Gliders and Sailplanes

Authors

  • Florian Holzapfel IABG mbH, Einsteinstraße 20, D-85521 Ottobrunn, Germany
  • Gottfried Sachs Technische Universität München Boltzmannstr. 15, 85747 Garching, Germany

Keywords:

Design, Training and Safety

Abstract

The affordability and utilization of flight simulation is considered for ultralight aircraft, motor gliders and sail-planes.  A new approach is presented to significantly reduce costs while keeping system fidelity at a level re-quired for the simulation purposes.  Focus is on a solution comprising low-cost hardware and efficient software, with the goal to realize a flight simulator featuring all relevant system functions with correct operational charac-teristics. Achievement of a realistic, low-cost flight simulator is also supported by appropriate solutions in the fields of system architecture, data generation and modeling.

Presented at the XXVIII OSTIV Congress, Eskilstuna, Sweden, 8-15 June 2006

Author Biography

Florian Holzapfel, IABG mbH, Einsteinstraße 20, D-85521 Ottobrunn, Germany

http://www.sci.ccny.cuny.edu/~hindman/sumvitae.pdf

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Published

2012-04-18

Issue

Vol. 31 No. 1 (2007)

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