Re: new heights

["Curtis L. Olson" <curt@me.umn.edu>]

Rik van Riel writes:
> being root on the machine that's hosting this list, I
> have gathered statistics and found that this list already
> contains 31 members.
> 
> I'd say it's time to kick off the discussion and take
> Linux to new heights. The sky's the limit...

I'll jump in here and introduce myself.

My name is Curt Olson.  I work at the University of Minnesota in the
mechanical engineering department as a Unix sys admin.  In my spare
time I am heavily involved in the Flight Gear project:

    www.flightgear.org

We are trying to build a modern, open source, general aviation flight
simulator that runs on Linux and other platforms.

I noticed that several of the people subscribed to this list are also
subscribed to the flight gear mailing lists (hi guys).

The charter for this list mentions (among others):

  o Digital Charts and Cartography

    I've been hard at work revamping the flight gear scenery system.
    I'm working on incorporating 2d gis data (lakes, rivers, urban
    areas, etc.) with 3d elevation data (DEM).  It's been slow going
    and there are a lot of issues to deal with, but I'm hoping to have
    something worth seeing in a month or two.

  o GPS Interface Software

    Flight Gear can pretend to be a GPS and send telemetry data (NMEA
    and Garman format) out the serial port.  This way you can hook up
    to some moving map software and keep track of your flights.

  o Flight Control Systems

    I've done a real basic hack job on the flight gear autopilot.
    Jeff Goeke-Smith did the heading hold last year, and I have since
    added altitude hold, terrain following, and auto throttle.

  o Flight Simulators

    Well that's one of my big interests ... :-)

You are all welcome to check out the flight gear project.  I'm always
happy to answer questions.

Looking forward to some interesting discussions here.

Best Regards,

Curt.
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Curtis Olson                        University of MN, ME Dept.
curt@me.umn.edu                     
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