Sim programming
WilyB,
The sims have a sets of equations describing everything from Engine Performance to turbulent weather to day/night to ACARS ...the data points to create that would take decades if they were collected and then programmed. The whole idea of the sim is it will do exactly what the plane would in the real world....if they had to program captured data points that means that the below glide slope approach some guy flew in the sim wouldn't be possible unless they'd captured the data points beforehand....the whole reason they can train pilots to fly the 787 or 380 before the plane ever flies is because they have detailed equations to describe all phases of flight....what happened to our Airbus sims is that the equations only described what the programmers in Toulouse expected pilots to see in normal flight regimes.
Last edited by captdaddy; 8th Jun 2011 at 23:37.
Reason: additional info