cockpit

Cockpit is a flight simulator.

Cockpit is a flight simulator. It uses both mouse and keyboard input to allow users to manuever around a surface plot in a manner similar to flying an airplane. A limited instrument panel provides information on altitude, heading, and location. Users have a high degree of control over the simulation, controlling the shape of the landscape, speed of the aircraft, amount of lift and gravity, sky color, etc. The program also features a virtual plane mode, which allows the user to see the pitch, bank and heading of the plane as if they were watcing from a distance.

Satisfactory performance can be obtained by manipulating the shading style and size of the landscape. It is entertaining on a Pentium II 350Mhz; computers much slower than this may do fine with simple enough landscapes.

The program was written and tested under Matlab 5.2.