"André Somers" wrote in message
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What are your thoughts on Real-Time Linux for this application?

I guess that depends on what you want to do with it. For one, you can't
use
it for primairy instruments, at least not here. The greatest power of
using
a computer is where it is used now too: navigational aid and
flightcomputer
functions. For that, you don't really need a RT system IMHO.

André


Well, you probably couldn't CERTIFY a computer display for the primary
instruments (without a lot of money) but by displaying the primary
instrument data on the computer screen, all the flight data would be in one
place and easy to read. Keep the old primary instruments in the panel to
keep things legal and just hinge the thin computer screen over them so that
if you need to peek just lift the screen.

Bill Daniels