Skyroute: get realistic, computer-controlled air traffic in your training flight simulator.
Read on to find out more about Skyroute …
What Skyroute does
Populating the sky of flight simulators
- Computer-controlled entities create realistic air traffic around an airport with the minimum of operator input.
- Existing local procedures like SIDs, STARs and approach procedures are used to ensure real-world similarities.
- Customizable training experience: select the density of simulated traffic and which runways to use.
Skyroute is a group of programs that generate computer-controlled entities around an airport and animate them. The idea behind Skyroute is to have a plausible animated world with the minimum of operator input. For a flight simulator with training intent, this means managing the CGE would require little or no input from the instructor. The CGEs adhere to the local procedures without manual input for each airport or runway. These procedures are usually already available, encoded in local files used by the simulator for navigation purposes. The only input necessary is the density of local traffic and whether or not the CGEs should use the same runway as the student.
If you want to find out more, technical details about how the program works, click here.
Who Skyroute is for
Skyroute is the ideal solution for training centres to have in their simulators: by experiencing virtual aircraft traffic using real SIDs, STARs and approaches, pilots-in-training will have a realistic learning experience and learn to react to real-world scenarios in a safe, customizable environment.
How Skyroute works
Skyroute takes its route data from ARINC24 files and presents only the relevant information to the simulator. To do this, a separate program called NavDB is used to retrieve and categorise the necessary routes and waypoints. Click here to find out more. A dedicated subprogram is responsible for the generation of computer-generated entities. Through NavDB, it selects an airport, runway and procedure dependent on the trainee’s position. This program monitors the trainee’s position and queries NavDB for the local airport, then sends the information to the subprogram animating the CGE and/or to the IOS to display the path the CGE will follow. This process is repeated depending on the scenario and the airport traffic density desired. Read more about this part of the process on the technical details page.