User:AndersG

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Spare-time FlightGear developer since early 2006.

Current projects:

• Adding support for airships and balloons to FlightGear and JSBSim. http://www.gidenstam.org/FlightGear/Airships/ Available in JSBSim/CVS and FlightGear 1.9.0 and later.

• Varios airships, balloons and aircraft for FlightGear. Work in (various levels of) progress.
  • RNAS Submarine Scout Zero class airship. (In FlightGear 1.9.0 and later)
  • Zeppelin NT airship. (In FlightGear 1.9.0 and later)
  • ZF U.S. Navy free gas balloon. (In FlightGear 1.9.0 and later)
  • Zeppelin LZ 129 Hindenburg airship.
  • Short S.23 Empire flying boat.
  • SAAB 29 jet fighter.
  • Colting SA-60 AeroSphere airship.
  • Zeppelin LZ 120 Bodensee airship.

• Dual control of aircraft over the multiplayer network. http://www.gidenstam.org/FlightGear/DualControl/ Available in FlightGear 1.9.0 and later.

• Multiplayer shared aircraft carrier. http://www.gidenstam.org/FlightGear/misc/Carrier_over_MP/ Available in FlightGear/CVS.

• Multiplayer shared wild fire simulation. http://www.gidenstam.org/FlightGear/misc/WildFire/ Available in FlightGear/CVS.

• Experiments with tools for celestial navigation. http://www.gidenstam.org/FlightGear/Celestial_navigation_in_fgfs/

• Experiments with dynamic random scenery objects. http://www.gidenstam.org/FlightGear/OceanImprovement

• Improving the network bandwidth usage efficiency of the FlightGear multiplayer server. http://www.gidenstam.org/FlightGear/fgms/ (Stop-gap solution in current fgms. Further development inactive.)

• Experiments with head position tracking using a webcam. http://www.gidenstam.org/FlightGear/HeadTracking/ (Was inactive due to too weak hardware and now due to lack of space.)

I'm recently back in Sweden after two years in Germany as a PostDoc researcher. Progress on these projects is currently slow but I am working on them.