Originally Posted by
yoko1
Aviation Week reports that the tests were conducted in Boeing's engineering flight simulator (i.e. a testing platform, not a training device), so I suspect that from a system standpoint they were emulating the aircraft hardware and software as much as feasible.
Thanks.
That makes a lot more sense if they are drawing actual hardware performance conclusions from the test ‘flights’. If I was building a commercial flight simulator I would stick all the processing in a modern quad core based computer with a shed load of RAM with a very accurately written programme to model what happens in the actual aircraft (much like a high end gaming flight sim).