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Upcoming FlightGear Events

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Past FlightGear Events

November 1-2, 2008 - Flight Sim Weekend
Location: Aviodrome Air and Space Museum, Lelystad airport, the Netherlands
"FSWeekend is the world's largest Flight Simulator exihibition. Held annually at the Aviodrome Aviation museum at Lelystad airport (EHLE), in the Netherlands, the event is unique in its kind. FlightGear will be showcasing it's latest developements during this event."

May 28 - 31, 2008 - FlightGear on LinuxTag at Berlin's Messezentrum unter dem Funkturm.
The world's No. 1 Linux Expo and Conference since 1996.

For this years LinuxTag booth, SUN Microsystems GmbH (http://www.sun.de/) is sponsoring and providing the booth hardware: Two SUN Ultra 40 Workstations, each equipped with four monitors.

In addition, "Science + Computing AG" (http://www.science-computing.de), an IT company from Tuebingen, Germany, is providing money to help offset the costs of the FlightGear booth.

February 8-10, 2008 - Southern California Linux Expo. held at "The Westin Hotel", Los Angeles, CA.
LFS Technologies will be featuring FlightGear and a 747 Cockpit Project at the Scale6x conference to be held in Los Angeles on 8-10 Feb 2008. LFS Technologies is a developer of hardware and software for Linux based simulation systems that offer real-time execution and performance. LFS provides products and services that are adaptable to many commercial applications and affordable for the dedicated hobbyist.

November 3-4, 2007 - Flight Sim Weekend
Location: Aviodrome Air and Space Museum, Lelystad airport, the Netherlands
"FSWeekend is the world's largest Flight Simulator exihibition. Held annually at the Aviodrome Aviation museum at Lelystad airport (EHLE), in the Netherlands, the event is unique in its kind. FlightGear will be showcasing it's latest developements during this event."

May 30 - June 2, 2007 - FlightGear on LinuxTag at the Messegelände Berlin, Germany. The world's No. 1 Linux Expo and Conference since 1996.

For this years LinuxTag booth, SUN Microsystems GmbH (http://www.sun.de) is sponsoring and providing the booth hardware: Two SUN Ultra 40 Workstations each equipped with two Dual Core AMD Opteron 280 CPUs, 8GB memory and two NVIDIA Quadro 3500 graphic cards for connecting four 21,1" monitors.

In addition, "Science + Computing AG" (http://www.science-computing.de), an IT company from Tuebingen, Germany, is providing 500 Euro to help offset the costs of the FlightGear booth.

October 30 - JUSTICE
When the son of a millionaire is killed in a small engine plane crash with his blue-collar girlfriend, TNT&G represents the girlfriend's grieving parents in their wrongful death suit against the wealthy matriarch.

Watch for a few glimpses FlightGear in a courtroom demonstration near the end of the episode!

November 4-5, 2006 - Flight Sim Weekend
Location: Aviodrome Air and Space Museum, Lelystad airport, the Netherlands
FSWeekend is the largest annual Flight Simulator event in the Netherlands, with over 92 exhibitors. FlightGear will be present as one of the exhibitors at the event.

September 12, 2006 - The Coastal Los Angeles IEEE Section Computer Society Chapter presents ...
Introduction to the FlightGear Flight Simulator
Time: September 12, 2006 at 7:30pm
Speaker: Alex Perry, Google
Location: 604 Arizona, Santa Monica, CA 90401
IEEE membership is not required to attend this talk; we're always looking to grow our membership: http://www.ieee.org/membership/join/

May 3-6, 2006 - Linux-Tag at the Rhein-Main-Hallen in Wiesbaden, Germany, booth 128a. The world's No. 1 Linux Expo and Conference since 1996.

February 11-12, 2006 - Southern California Linux Expo. Westin Los Angeles Airport, CA.
LFS Technologies will be featuring FlightGear and a 747 Cockpit Project at the Scale4x conference to be held in Los Angeles on 11-12 Feb 2006. LFS Technologies is a developer of hardware and software for Linux based simulation systems that offer real-time execution and performance. LFS provides products and services that are adaptable to many commercial applications and affordable for the dedicated hobbyist.

February 12-13, 2005 - Southern California Linux Expo. Los Angeles Convention Center, CA.
John Wojnaroski will be bringing his 747 cockpit project to demo and display. Jim Brennan (retired United Airlines 747 pilot) will also be there to assist. Alex Perry will be presenting a paper on embedded Linux.

October 21 - 23, 2004 - AOPA Expo. Long Beach, CA (Los Angeles area)
Curt Olson will be present at the ATC Flight Simulators booth helping them demonstrate their FAA Level 3 FTD product which is largely based on the FlightGear software architecture.

August 6 - 8, 2004 - UKUUG Linux Technical Conference. Leeds, England.

Linux 2004

A wide cross-section of the Linux community will gather in Leeds this August for the annual UKUUG Linux Technical Conference. It's a great way to broaden your knowledge and keep up-to-date with what's happening in the world of linux. This low-cost event is for anyone with a serious interest in linux including systems administrators, linux professionals, developers and enthusiasts from companies and linux user groups throughout the UK and beyond.

The conference starts around 9.45am on Friday, 6th August, continues with a full day of presentations on Saturday, 7th August, and finishes about 4.30 p.m. on Sunday, 8th August. Tutorials will be held on Thursday, 5th August.

Building upon previous years' events, this promises to be a very successful conference. There should be plenty of time for informal discussions. There will be table-top displays on Friday and Saturday, and, new this year, a keysigning session. Places are limited, so early booking is advised. Please recommend the event to your friends and colleagues and download our Conference booklet (PDF).

The FlightGear Flight Simulator

FlightGear is a superb open source flight simulation project, offering the pilot's view of the cockpit and of the 3D scenery. The simulator pilot uses joystick, keyboard, yoke, pedals and other input devices to fly any of dozens of realistic aircraft around the world.

In order to run well on a commodity computer system, XML files determine which software modules are to be used and configure each so they integrate as the desired simulation. Individual files for aircraft, engines, instruments and other common components enables the simulation to reuse these files much like aircraft manufacturers reuse engines and instruments.

Connections between software modules are resolved to objects using a hierarchical namespace that is common to code and XML. The same namespace is exposed as a network service, enabling external software to monitor and modify the simulator state.

This talk introduces the scientific and engineering challenges and presents some work currently in progress.

July 1, 2004, 10:30am - Usenix 2004 SIG Session for FLightGear - Boston, MA.
The Usenix conference will have a FlightGear talk in the UseLinux stream on Thursday July 1 2004 around 10:30 am.

June 30, 2004, 7pm - Usenix 2004 BOF for FLightGear - Boston, MA.
There will be a FlightGear Birds-Of-a-Feather (BOF) session on Wednesday June 30 2004, 7pm to 9pm ... and I encourage you to come. There is no charge to attend the BOFs, but you need to register if you're not already registered to attend the conference that day.

April 20 & 21, 2004 - LinuxUser & Developer Expo 2004 - London, UK
The FlightGear

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