What is this software?

[GTechRV]

From the customer gallery on Dynons website.

Looks like 3d terrain/efis and a moving map to the right... monitors are pretty big, but the presentation in the software is awesome.

Anyone have any idea about this installation?

large panel picture

[jcoloccia]

I know this is going to sound wacky but it looks like...well...a flight simulator? Why else would there be that level of detail, down to the location of bushes and shrubs? Not only would that seem not useful but it would also be innacurate and could be quite detrimental and confusing to a pilot ("there's a tree on the display but no tree looking out the window....huh?").

Very bizarre indeed....

[PJSeipel]

Could it be the view from a video camera with the other info superimposed over it? That's kind of what it looks like to me. Not sure how useful that would really be since you'd have the same view out the window.

PJ Seipel
RV-10 #40032

[jrsites]

This isn't really going to help answer your question, but the moving map (far right) and all of the placards are in French.

[Yukon]

Originally Posted by jrsites

This isn't really going to help answer your question, but the moving map (far right) and all of the placards are in French.

That explains it. French.

[xavierm]

Originally Posted by jcoloccia

I know this is going to sound wacky but it looks like...well...a flight simulator?

There is an open source efis and autopilot movement out there.
Many are using an open source flight sim program as the moving map software, however, it's pretty accurate (going on what I was told by someone who built one).

Many are based on Linux. Many of the efis's on the market are running a flavor of linux. One that comes to mind is Blue Mountain running RTLinux.
There's no question that with continued software development by the community you couldn't take off the shelf hardware and build an efis/moving map for around $700 in parts.
I have been thinking of experimenting with them once I'm flying.

Here's some links:
Flight sim: http://www.flightgear.org/
Project using above flight sim: http://www.cobbin.com/synthetic-vision.htm
http://www.opengc.org/ (project stalled in 06)
Open source autopilot/UAV:
http://autopilot.sourceforge.net/
http://rcpilot.sourceforge.net/

Linux Aviation HOW-TO:
http://www.ibiblio.org/fplan/Aviatio...n-HOWTO-8.html