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Next generation flight simulator could be your next ground station

Posted by James Mullins on November 20, 2011 at 4:00pm

 

Imagine strapping into one of these instead of your standard head-mounted display for FPV!

The system, while linked to the likes of X-Plane and Microsoft Flight Sim, can take raw input from gyro data etc and put the pilot into that position.  With a Mil-SPEC HMD, the system is really quite immersive and a fun ride.  While not a traditional UAV related post, I thought you might be interested.

 

Check out Universal Motion Simulator Home for more details.

Tags: fpv, flight, haptic, robot, simulator, training
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  • apocolipse November 20, 2011 at 7:37pm

    @Ellison Chan
    Years ago in Assembly Language Programming and Logic class at university, my professor (who happened to be in a research position at UMBC) told me a valuable lesson.  You don't get paid when you say the truth, that you are "playing around", call it "research" and you can justify a paycheck :).  In any event, these have been around for a long while but there's always room for advancement in any system.

    Mind you the true application for precision in the case of this is for use with X-Plane specifically for real pilots.  With full sim's real pilots can log FAA flight hours with X-Plane 

  • Ellison Chan November 20, 2011 at 6:45pm

    Funny how these researchers, get funding for "researching" things that people have already done years before them.

     

  • James Mullins November 20, 2011 at 4:33pm

    Thanks Mike,

    It can handle 500kg (1100pounds) so that's quite a bit of room for extra gear.  I see there's an option for a 1000kg system now too!

    Cheers,

    James

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    Michael Pursifull November 20, 2011 at 4:23pm

    ok, i know you've heard this question before, but here goes "how about a heavy lift model?" =)

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