After a year of continous work of the CICTE (Peruvian Army) to develop a new MI-17 helicopter simulator, in the SITDEF the beta release for the solution was properly showed. ICTEC, my company, as software consultor for the DIDETEC/CICTE, suggest -obviously- FLOSS solutions to make the develop times faster and in this case, the core of the new peruvian simulator is a FlightGear based application.
Many months of training in Blender, Python/GTK/Glade, Databases, etc. allows to the people of the CICTE build now a really good and cheap option (the budget was about US$ 600k, meanwhile the market offers at least US$ 3.5M simulators). Peru is making our own technology pieces and FLOSS based (wait for more technical news).
Many months of training in Blender, Python/GTK/Glade, Databases, etc. allows to the people of the CICTE build now a really good and cheap option (the budget was about US$ 600k, meanwhile the market offers at least US$ 3.5M simulators). Peru is making our own technology pieces and FLOSS based (wait for more technical news).
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Check the photos:
Check the photos:
Simulator Entrance (Real MI-17 Cabin)
Pilot Fliying over Lima/Callao (Check the Scenario)
Pilot still over Lima/Callao (Projection in the side now)
Computers for the electronical control (at least 200 signal processing)
Instructor Control Panel (Python/GTK based with full FG Admin)
People waiting for their turn (the row was really big each hour)
People enjoying the solution
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