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= The Components = | = The Components = | ||
[[Image:Pmpt-Schematic.png|thumb|250px|General Schematic of the PMPT]] | |||
Bearing the first 'P' of the acronym in mind, most of the hardware is non-state-of-the-art, either from the attic (to bad to be used but to good to be thrown away) or bought second/third hand. | |||
The main components are: | |||
* A PC with a 2GHz Athlon, 1.5GB RAM, 100GB HD and a nVidia 7950 graphics card. This is the work horse and the main FlightGear computer. | |||
* A second PC, a former diskless "thin client". It has a 1GHz Athlon CPU, 512MB RAM and I replaced the builtin 256MB compact flash memory with an old 4GB microdrive from my old iPod mini which was unusable due to it's dead battery. The only new item is a nVidia 6xxx graphics card which sits now it the PC's only PCI slot. This PC drives the panel displays. | |||
* Two 15" TFT 1280x1024 displays (for a few EURO at ebay) were stripped from their chassis and serve as the panel displays. | |||
* Two 19" TFT 1280x1024 displays (for a few EURO at ebay) sit on top for the outside view. | |||
* A ELITE ProPanel II - this is the most expensive part of the entire PMPT. Also from eBay, came together with the rudder pedals from FlightLink. | |||
* A tiny PC with a touchscreen display, running a Pentium at 600MHz and 256MB RAM is for the moving map application Atlas. | |||
* The homemade USB controller are based on ATMEL microcontroller for less than 10 EURO. | |||
* Ethernet HUP, Cables | |||
== Flight Dynamics Model == | == Flight Dynamics Model == | ||
This is no sweat at all! FlightGear comes with usable, good and even excellent flight dynamics models out of the box. This HOWTO focuses on a Seneca procedure trainer and uses the SenecaII from the FlightGear base package but can be adapted to other aircraft. One computer running a FlightGear instance computes the FDM, renders the scenery and receives all the input from various controls. | This is no sweat at all! FlightGear comes with usable, good and even excellent flight dynamics models out of the box. This HOWTO focuses on a Seneca procedure trainer and uses the SenecaII from the FlightGear base package but can be adapted to other aircraft. One computer running a FlightGear instance computes the FDM, renders the scenery and receives all the input from various controls. | ||