Digitalización de instrumentos aeronáuticos para el simulador de vuelo X – Plane 11 y Air Manager

Abstract

The use of flight simulators is of great importance in an aviation course, they are a way to effectively and efficiently face, among others, aspects such as security, economy and coverage. But sometimes students are required to practice in an aircraft that is not on the simulator's predetermined list, it is then: 1) Acquire the manufacturer the aircraft that is needed, if it is already designed or failing to assume the costs of a development 2) use the most similar aircraft (moving the student away from an experience with the real airplane) or 3) select the aircraft that requires the least changes and adapt it to the pedagogical needs. This last possibility was the one that the Colombian Air Force and the Santiago de Cali University chose when it was needed that the Cadets of the Military Aviation School "Marco Fidel Suárez" were trained in a plane that is not one of the default options in the flight simulator program they use.