Instead the engineers were focussed upon the compilation of a product acceptance test procedure that the product was capable of passing,Īnd the customer knew no better until the equipment had been shipped to them and then they found the simulation was unlike reality. What they did not know was that for the last 6 months there was no further development of the product, On the due delivery date the customer's representatives arrived for acceptance tests,Īnd performed the tests and found the results acceptable.
Which still had to operate with pin-point accuracy and stability (no bouncing up and down nor any other direction). The sales department ignored the fact that a standard 3 dimension system had to be thrown around by a super super super super massive hydraulic system, The sales department were asked for a 4 dimension control system and they added 30% to the delivery time and 30% to the price of the previous 3 dimension system. That was a 3 dimension servo controlled feedback system, with complex interactions between each dimension.Įach system was custom designed for each customer and each aircraft. The entire cabin and flight crew and very heavy vertical jack were tilted fore and aft by a larger heavier jack controlled by the pilot's actions,Īnd all the above was were tilted left and right by a heavier jack controlled by the pilot's actions. The entire cabin and flight crew were thrown up and down by a hydraulic vertical jack that was controlled by the pilot's actions, The end result was a pilot's cabin in which the trainee pilot sat and experienced all the consequences of moving the controls,Įxcept that he could crash and then walk away.
That takes me back 40 years when a colleague told me of his previous job on the team that designed "virtual reality" aircraft cockpit simulators.
But they don't work when I play anything outside of the test noises for the Realtek Audio manager.
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