FlightGear Newsletter August 2009: Difference between revisions

The 2009 edition of the LinuxTag has been concluded and the Flightgear hangar was there full of aircraft and pilots ! You could easily spot our stand since it seemed to me the most popular one, the idea to take a free virtual flight coupled with a free flight instructor was like honey for bears. Furthermore the hardware was impressive, 2 flight stations with 3 big monitors each and real leverage were worth a try ! You could even track your flight through a projected mapserver on the wall.<br/>. We flew mostly around the [[EDDF|Frankfurt]] area, where a well done airport (still with a high fps rate) was the background of our participants. The favorite aircraft was the [[Piper_PA34-200T_Seneca_II|SenecaII]] as it was perfect to be flown with out equipment, meanwhile in the forward station was easy to see some [[Eurocopter_Bo105|Eurocopter Bo105]] pilot or [[Grumman_F-14_Tomcat|F-14 Tomcat]] top gun enjoying [[Aircraft_carrier|carrier]] approaches.<br/>

But that was not just fly and fun, at the stand you could easily take conversation with some code and model developers, discussing about new features and wishes. There was a developers section too, Till was hacking hearth and seas textures generator to improve our virtual world terrain painting applying [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shader shaders] instead of fixed photos; early results where really interesting and I hope to see theme soon in the [[CVS|cvs]] repo.

 

The FlightGear guys proven them self very gentle and always speaked in english in my presence, Martin Spott took care to manage an entrance pass for me and kept me informed about needed stuff and events prior the LinuxTag via Emails. This means you have no excuses to miss the event next year (At least only if you are not afraid to virtually fly !).