Software

This manual documents a specific configuration of hardware and software for use in accordance with PCATD purposes. We refer to this configuration by the name FGATD, replicating a generic Cessna 172 with 160 hp engine and standard propeller.

The FGATD configuration is a special case of the family of Flight Gear Flight Simulator (FGFS) configurations. These other configurations are not being submitted for approval; any discussion of FGFS features in this manual is purely to assist the reader in understanding the document. Such a feature is neither implied to be present, or to be absent, in the FGATD configuration unless explicitly stated otherwise in the relevant section of the document.

Computer system

The computer shall provide sufficient services through the PLIB portability libraries, such that an unmodified release of FlightGear source code will compile and run as normally expected. There is no Operating System constraint imposed, other than the availability of the PLIB services for that environment.

The installed software being executed shall be Version TBD of Flight Gear. This can be retrieved from the software's website http://www.flightgear.org. The software will only prompt for the required instructor's certificate number when it has passed self-tests for FGATD operations. If that prompt is not seen, the flight time cannot be logged under PCATD regulations.