A Generic Virtual Reality Flight Simulator

Flight simulators are used for di erent purposes, such as pilot training, aircraft design and development. Full-scale ight simulators have high costs and dependency on aircraft type due to hardware constraints. Hence, virtual reality ight simulators are designed. On the other hand, they are generally created only for speci c applications, such as helicopter simulators. As a result, these tools can hardly be used as a generic tool which can work with various aircraft simulations. Although, there are certain generic virtual reality applications that can be used for virtual prototyping and ergonomics, they lack realistic ight simulation and environment. In this paper, we present a generic aerospace application which brings a solution to these problems. The architecture of the application is described and a calibration method which, makes the application independent of the physical mock-up and the ight simulator compatible with di erent aircraft types, is presented. The preliminary results of the rst prototype are given as the generic virtual reality ight simulator is used by the aerospace industry for research and development purposes.