Use of Air manger with 3rd party (user developed) simulator
Posted: Tue Jul 27, 2021 8:35 pm
Hi,
What is the recommended way to connect a 3rd part simulator to Air manger? we have a real-time simulator with with the aircraft full end-to-end model (flight dynamics model + Flight Controls). We are intending to use the X-Plane as the visualization engine for the out-the-window, we bypass the x-plane physics engine and set the aircraft position and attitude send by out simulator. The question is how to use Air manger panels in this situation. Some options that comes to the mind:
- Directly connect the simulator to air manger, is the doable? if yes is there an API?
- Use the x-plane as intermediate, in this case we will need to set more than attitude and position in x-plane, is this doable? and if yes is there any document on the ICD between air manager and x-plane (e.g., what xplane variables are transmitted, can they overriden by a plugin, etc.)
Thanks
What is the recommended way to connect a 3rd part simulator to Air manger? we have a real-time simulator with with the aircraft full end-to-end model (flight dynamics model + Flight Controls). We are intending to use the X-Plane as the visualization engine for the out-the-window, we bypass the x-plane physics engine and set the aircraft position and attitude send by out simulator. The question is how to use Air manger panels in this situation. Some options that comes to the mind:
- Directly connect the simulator to air manger, is the doable? if yes is there an API?
- Use the x-plane as intermediate, in this case we will need to set more than attitude and position in x-plane, is this doable? and if yes is there any document on the ICD between air manager and x-plane (e.g., what xplane variables are transmitted, can they overriden by a plugin, etc.)
Thanks