Flight Gear Subsystem List

• System tasks
  • The main task swapper
  • Menu system
  • Controls monitoring subsystem (keyboard/joystick)
• Internal airplane modules (relating to "self")
  • Flight Model subsystem ("low-pressure molecular motion" model?)
  • Engine subsytem
  • Electrical subsystem
  • Vacuum subsystem
  • Certain instruments may need special modeling.
  • Flight Recorder
• External modules (relating to our surroundings; optionally networked)
  • Environment module (weather, etc.)
  • Static Scenery module (terrain, airports, cities, water, etc.; will understand multiple formats)
  • Dynamic Scenery module (those people we fly with)
  • ATC module (perhaps combined with dynamic scenery)
  • Adventures
  • Time (daytime, season...)
• Machine dependent modules (to be isolated as much as possible)
  • Display:
    • scenery display
    • instruments display
    • map display (navaids, runways, radials, side view)
  • Sound effects player
  • Network interface module

Curtis L. Olson