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=== FSweekend === | === FSweekend === | ||
[[File:FSweekend 2011 group picture.jpg|thumb|300px|Proudly presenting FlightGear, from left to right: Gijs, Lindsay, Jorg, Mathias, Durk, ThorstenB, TorstenD, Martin, and Hans.]] | [[File:FSweekend 2011 group picture.jpg|thumb|300px|Proudly presenting FlightGear, from left to right: Gijs, Lindsay, Jorg, Mathias, Durk, ThorstenB, TorstenD, Martin, and Hans.]] | ||
This month, on November 5, and 6 the worlds’ largest annual FlightSimulator event was organized again at the Aviodrome aviation museum at Lelystad Airport, the Netherlands. Continuing our tradition, FlightGear had a strong representation, demonstrating the latest features of the upcoming FlightGear 2.6 release. During the 2-day event, we showed the latest experimental scenery developments, an early release of the wonderful DC-3 from the flightgear france development team, as well as many other goodies. Continuing our development from last year, we now had a fully working high-end computer, provided by Thomas-Krenn computing, that was running flightgear on no less than 10 monitors and 24 CPU-cores. | |||
In addition to presenting FlightGear on our booth, one of our team members, Durk Talsma, was also given a one hour slot to present the history of the FlightGear project, as well as it’s current state-of-the-art to a small but interested audience. As always, it’s nice to talk to the many visitors at our booth, and every year we begin to notice more recognition from the audience. As a consequence the team has gotten a number of invitations to present FlightGear among Flight Simulator clubs in the Netherlands and Belgium. The fact that FSWeekend is a great place to meet people was again exemplified by the fact that we met FlightGear contributer David Vanmosselbeen, who had traveled from Belgium to catch up with the team. But perhaps the greatest surprise of the weekend was the fact that our team was met by a DC3 captain, who offered us a discount on a flight with the real DC-3, the PH-PBA, formerly owned by his royal highness, prince Bernhard of the Netherlands, and once the first official aircraft of the Dutch government. Details of the plan are currently being worked out, so stay tuned for a short update once we have flown. | |||
* [http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=UJ8hH7uOsiE#t=82s A video, shot by a visitor], featuring our 10 screen [[Howto: Build your own procedure trainer|procedure trainer]] setup. | * [http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=UJ8hH7uOsiE#t=82s A video, shot by a visitor], featuring our 10 screen [[Howto: Build your own procedure trainer|procedure trainer]] setup. | ||