Abstract
Two designs of a low-cost flight simulator for research, development and training purposes are being presented in this paper. The first simulator has been designed and built at the Brno University of Technology, Faculty of Informati on Technologies. This simulator is based on a cockpit of a popular Evektor SportStar light sp ort aircraft. SportStar was the first Light Sport Aircraft to receive the Federal Aviation Admin istration airworthiness certificate. Due to Evektor’s strong tradition in the design and manufacturing of light and general aviation aircraft, the SportStar represents a successful conceptual evolution that is increasingly gaining popularity among the flying public w orldwide. In contrast to the original aircraft the simulator’s cockpit is equipped with an experimental dual 12” touch screen flight data visualization system. The flight simul ator designed at Rzeszow University of Technology, Department of Avionics and Control, is ba sed on the cabin of the M-15 aircraft. The M-15 was a unique “crop duster” jet plane bui lt in Poland at the beginning of the 1980’s. One cabin of this aircraft type has been adopted for didactical and demonstration purposes in the 1990’s. Functionality of this device has been extended in last years by adding a visualization system, real-time simulation environme nt and an electronic representation of flight instruments. Both simulators support two operati onal modes. The first mode uses a model of the flight dynamics delivered from an external, commercial or open-source software. The second mode supports custom aircraft models and an environment dynamics run in a selected real-time simulation. Open and modular archit ecture of simulators allows for a rapid prototyping of new cockpit layouts, the desig n of intuitive flight control systems and user interfaces for the light and ultra-light aircraft.
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