What about attitude and heading?

Le Chaud Lapin wrote:

wrote:
"'Vejita' S. Cousin" wrote:
Not the original poster, but actually yes I am A good stable system
that you do not touch/play with should work/last without problems. And I
don't need to run winXP I could run linux (in fact given the costs and
licenses I would) which is rock solid stable.

You still need sensors for attitude and heading. You also need sensors for
engine and fuel parameters, and so forth. Somehow, you need all those to
interface with your PC's flight instrument display (displays?).

USB. I think it would be highly appropriate for this type of
application. Theoretically, you can have up to 127 USB devices
pluggged into the same USB card on a PC. If you put multiple cards in
the PC, then you can have even more USB devices. Since the required
bandwidth for temperature sensors is very low, It is conceivable that
one USB PCI card could drive the entire control infrastructure of the
aircraft.

The design would probably entail a redundancy model where one PC
motherboard acts as a secondary to the primary controller. Windows
supports multiple displays, so you could have 4 displays in the
aircraft. One for each passenger, with radio, music, DVD's.

I think this model is the same thing that Boeing/Airbus & friends use,
only they probably get charged 10-20 times the cost of what they should
be paying.

-Chaud Lapin-