DECUS Heritage

Version: 2.5, January 1992
Submitted By: Digital Equipment Corporation
Operating System: VAX/VMS V5.4
Source Language: PASCAL, MACRO-32, C
Keywords: Games, Graphics, Simulations, X Windows, Aircraft
Software Requirements: DECwindows
Hardware Requirements: X Windows Device
Notes: Executable and/or object code is included.
Restrictions: Operating System VAX/VMS V5.4 or later is required.

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Abstract: FLIGHT for VAX VMS is an aircraft simulation package which performs realtime, three dimensional simulation of aircraft on X Window devices. The display is in color wireframe, not solid, and the aircraft is controlled using the mouse. The client server architecture of FLIGHT allows for up to eight simultaneous users in one simulated environment, allowing for interaction between the users' aircraft (such as combat or formation flying).

Features

• Installation through standard VMSINSTAL procedures.
• Over a dozen different aircraft.
• Civilian aircraft, including the Cherokee 140D and the RV-4, an experimental home built aircraft.
• WWI aircraft, including the Sopwith F.1 (Camel) biplane and the Fokker DrI triplane.
• WWII aircraft, including the Hawker Typhoon attack aircraft, the B-25H Mitchell bomber and the P-38L Lightning fighter.
• Modern jet aircraft, including the F-16C Fighting Falcon and the Sukhoi SU-27 Flanker.
• Two simulation environments.
• A "desert" world containing very little, but providing maximum performance.
• A "pacific islands" world containing three small islands and an aircraft carrier, complete with working catapults.
• Cockpit instrumentation. Cockpits layouts approximate the correct placement and types of instrumentation.
• ADF and VOR/ILS for navigation.
• Artificial horizon, compass, dial guage, toggle switch.
• Head Up Displays (HUDs).
• Combat with guided missiles, guns and bombs. Ground targets are provided for engagement by single users. Aircraft may be damaged without being destroyed, with performance adjustments appropriate to the damage. Aircraft are equipped with weaponry appropriate to their type.
• Flight recorder capability to record and replay simulations. Simulations may be replayed at varying forward and backward speeds or they may be paused. Recordings do not record the activities of any aircraft except your own.
• Photograph capability to take color PostScript pictures of events during a simulation.
• Online help and PostScript keyboard diagrams are provided. A reference manual describing customization of the keyboard is also available.

FLIGHT does not provide features such as scorekeeping or computer piloted combatants. FLIGHT has not been certified by the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) at any level and does not fulfill the requirements for time spent on simulators.

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