Australian Defence Force Builds $1.7m Linux-Based Flight Simulator

scrubl writes "The Australian Defence Force (ADF) has revealed its latest flight simulator runs on SUSE Linux-based clusters of Opteron servers and uses an open source graphics platform. The Defence Science and Technology Organisation's (DSTO) Air Operations Simulation Centre in Melbourne creates virtual worlds that allow pilots to experience real-world combat situations without leaving the ground. The visuals software was written in OpenGL, using commercial and open source scene graph engines and making 'heavy use of OpenGL Shader Language programs.'"

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Re:$1.7m is dirt cheap! but missing something

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I'm aware of these rather expensive simulators, but they don't simulate 100% of g-forces in the most natural way. I've been in the one at the Mississippi Naval Air Station. It's cool but it feels like a simulator. You simply don't get the g-forces that you would in real jet flight.