Flight Simulator Architecture Development and Implementation

Abstract

Flight simulator is important aviation experiment equipment using simulation technology to develop/test different airplane systems and train pilots. With the development of computer science and modeling technology, new more powerful computers and application software have made it possible to built more and more advanced simulators which allows more complicated and high efficiency simulation. While modern flight simulator is a complex system in existence including software and hardware, with the improvement of fidelity request, real-time constraints and other quality attribution of software system must be guaranteed. In order to fulfill the requirements of extendibility, reusability, compatibility and maintainability for flight simulator, according to the components of flight simulator, software architecture decomposition modules and hardware architecture were given, object-oriented technology and rapid control prototyping technology were used to develop flight simulator system. Result shows that the developed system fulfilled above-mentioned requirement.