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When more experienced visitors were flying at our booth, we used our netbooks to secretly telnet into the sim - and cause trouble by triggering specific failures. Flights were hampered by failing instruments, stalled engines or stuck gear (or any combination for really hard cases). Eventually, everyone was properly challenged! ;-) Kudos go to Martin Spott for safely landing a combined single-engine, stuck-gear and full instrument failure emergency in dense fog. He found his way back to the airport anyway. How did he manage? Unfortunately we forgot to fail the DME - and displayed distance obviously was enough information for his navigation... | When more experienced visitors were flying at our booth, we used our netbooks to secretly telnet into the sim - and cause trouble by triggering specific failures. Flights were hampered by failing instruments, stalled engines or stuck gear (or any combination for really hard cases). Eventually, everyone was properly challenged! ;-) Kudos go to Martin Spott for safely landing a combined single-engine, stuck-gear and full instrument failure emergency in dense fog. He found his way back to the airport anyway. How did he manage? Unfortunately we forgot to fail the DME - and displayed distance obviously was enough information for his navigation... | ||
During LinuxTag [http://www.radiotux.de RadioTux] also asked us to present FlightGear live at their booth. The recording of the interview is available as a [http://archiv.radiotux.de/interviews/2011-05-14.RadioTux.Torsten.Dreyer.Thorsten.Brehm.Flightgear.LinuxTag2011.mp3 podcast] (German). | |||
Finally, we'd like to express a warm "thank you" to those private and commercial sponsors who made this year's booth setup possible by donating money and/or equipment and giving trust into our promise to do "the right thing" with these donations: | Finally, we'd like to express a warm "thank you" to those private and commercial sponsors who made this year's booth setup possible by donating money and/or equipment and giving trust into our promise to do "the right thing" with these donations: | ||
* Local FlightGear-enthusiasts and -developers who had been buying a set of six 24" displays from their private budget in the run-up to one of the former LinuxTag exhibitions. | * Local FlightGear-enthusiasts and -developers who had been buying a set of six 24" displays from their private budget in the run-up to one of the former LinuxTag exhibitions. | ||
* | * [http://www.thomas-krenn.de Thomas Krenn AG] who have been donating an extremely powerful workstation for use in development and on exhibitions - including four graphics cards - which would have been completely unaffordable from our private budgets. | ||
* Various FlightGear-enthusiasts and -developers from all over the world who've been donating private money via our PayPal-account at "donations@flightgear.org", which eventually led to .... | * Various FlightGear-enthusiasts and -developers from all over the world who've been donating private money via our PayPal-account at "donations@flightgear.org", which eventually led to .... | ||
* the occasion of buying another five 24" displays at an advantageous price thanks to the subsidy of | * the occasion of buying another five 24" displays at an advantageous price thanks to the subsidy of [http://www.bee.de/ Baastrup GmbH]. | ||
* Finally, | * Finally, [http://www.science-computing.de Science + Computing AG] contributed to the affair by - guess, what - paying the insurance for all this equipment at the booth :). | ||
=== FlightGear on youtube === | === FlightGear on youtube === | ||
* Heiko created [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n_xdwEwTwX0 a very nice video] of a BK-117 flight around the very nice place of Innsbruck, Austria. | * Heiko created [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n_xdwEwTwX0 a very nice video] of a BK-117 flight around the very nice place of Innsbruck, Austria. | ||