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NexGen: Flight Simulator: Where did all begin...

phoenixcomm

imageSo what am I supposed to say; A time ago, in a different space, and time, I started designing a new canard aircraft, The Phoenix2000. In New Orleans, before I move to Dallas, Tx so it has to be over 20 years ago. My original website for it has a date of 1998 but that's about 10 years after the fact. I had built a dual channel, redundant FADEC, Full Authority Digital Engine Control, connected to FORD Taurus 3.0 engine. This means no mixture controls, you don't have to worry about things like EGT, mixture, temperature, etc.  Our EAA adviser in our chapter built RVs, and basically did not want to look at anything Digital Fly By Wire!! ( I left the EAA 96?)  Then in 2004, i found other crazies at SimPits(2k4) There have been ups and downs. The biggest down was when I lost my house and had to toss most of the aircraft stuff away..

My NOTAM #1 (Jan2K5) basically laid out my problems with current flight simulators; Keyboard Decoders, Monolithic, and No real communication (with the simulator/model).  This is where my simulator grew from.

My NOTAM #2 (Jun2K5) I created a demo program that flies a Great Circle Route between any two points. in a compressed time frame. So a flight from JFK to DFW is only a few seconds.. One small note and apologies to C purists, this demo was written in PERL. If you don't know PERL does not have any fixed point notation it is all floating point.

 

So for the past few years, I have been a living stable in an apartment, and I am back at work with several projects in the lab at one time.. current projects are:image

  • NAV_IOP
  • RSS_IOP
    • embedded processors for a few radio heads.
    • Morse Code Generator
    • FAA DB
    • Communication between the IOP and the radio heads
  • NAV_GROUP
    • communication between the SIMULATOR and the NAV_IOP and RSS_IOP  Ethernet & Protocols.

And now I want to show it off at Cockpit Fest 2014!!  Groan!!

 

  Keep tuned in, more to come!

 

~~Cris

 

 

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