AIRSIM, a desktop research flight simulator

Abstract

AIRSIM, which is short for Avionics Integration Research SIMulator, is an integrated desktop research flight simulator, meant for avionics development and tests checkout of research simulator and research aircraft experiments, accident investigation analysis and Air Traffic Control (ATC) simulations. Developed at the National Aerospace Laboratory NLR, AIRSIM can be used as a high fidelity, low cost flight simulator, as a computer-based trainer and as a familiarization tool for aircraft behaviour and cockpit instruments. AIRSIM offers the same basic functionality as NLR's research flight simulator and has a highly configurable and flexible setup.

AVES SDK: Bridging the Gap between Simulator and Flight Systems Designer

“…The Avionics Integration Research SIMulator (AIRSIM) 17 was developed by The National Aerospace Laboratory (NLR) in Netherlands as a low cost desktop flight simulator in 1998. Its development philosophy was to provide developers with a high fidelity simulation capability at their desktop without the use of an entire simulator facility.…”

Real-time Desktop Flying Qualities Evaluation Simulator

“…The present work aims to avoid extensive coding work and as well as multiple/distributed processors, yet achieved a cost effective desk top solution for handling/ flying quality evaluations. Similar work named AIRSIM has been carried out at NLR, Netherlands which is also a PC based desktop simulator 5 . AIRSIM is specially developed for avionics development and testing, for air traffic control simulations and for aircraft incident/accident analysis.…”