Development of Visual System for Flight Simulation Training Device

Abstract

The complexity of avionics systems and aircraft equipment is increasing day by day. To operate the avionics equipment, rigorous training is required. The training of pilots to handle these advanced equipment is quite costly. To address this issue a novel flight simulation training device is proposed in this paper. The proposed flight simulator can train the pilot on the ground. The development of visual system for Flight Simulation Training Device (FSTD) is discussed in detail in this paper. The visual system for FSTD is designed using DAQ cards, multifunctional displays, serial communication interface, pilot controls and commercially available off-the-shelf (COTS) controller. This proposed system displays various flight parameters. OpenGL is used to create graphics pages to display flight parameters. DAQ cards were utilizedto connect the analog and digital signals of cockpit to the FSTD’s visual system. A visual system was used in development of actual FSTD by assimilating symbols developed in OpenGL and creating typical pages for simultaneous display on four display surfaces.