Failures triggered from remote computer

[morrisman1]

Righto, I have an idea. It would be rather neat to be able to trigger failures remotely at my will from another computer on the network. Is this possible and how would it be done. It would have to be capable of doing it with add-on aircraft like the realair duke or carenado seneca. Every now and then one of my flying buddies is over and has a play on the simulator and id like to give them a surprise test of their training to see how quickly they remember it in a surprise situation (evil laugh).

I have a fancy new g940 on its way which will allow easier management of engine failures and theres nothing worse than a failure you are expecting as its just not the same, although I am grateful that all my in-flight engine failures have been expected - because they are simulated.

Well back to the topic. Is this possible and if so how do I go about setting it up? What software will I need to do it?

cheers,
Cameron

[creator2003]

{ Project Magenta Instructor Station } goggle this it sound like what you need ,try looking at there other listings aswell for other controller features there is another more mainstream addon at the simmarket too which does failures aswell in FSX

[Timmo]

QUOTE (morrisman1 @ Apr 15 2011,10:00 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>

Righto, I have an idea. It would be rather neat to be able to trigger failures remotely at my will from another computer on the network. Is this possible and how would it be done. It would have to be capable of doing it with add-on aircraft like the realair duke or carenado seneca. Every now and then one of my flying buddies is over and has a play on the simulator and id like to give them a surprise test of their training to see how quickly they remember it in a surprise situation (evil laugh).

I have a fancy new g940 on its way which will allow easier management of engine failures and theres nothing worse than a failure you are expecting as its just not the same, although I am grateful that all my in-flight engine failures have been expected - because they are simulated.

Well back to the topic. Is this possible and if so how do I go about setting it up? What software will I need to do it?

cheers,
Cameron

And a cool idea it is too!

(bear with me here )I was thinking further along this approach (i.e. the idea of removal of 'control' of simulation events) and realised that, since a simulator can be thought of as 'reality + extra layers of control, then the less layers of control, the more realistic a simulation becomes.

The idea of 'Control' is one layer of immersion- In real life you only have partial control of an aircraft- It can fail at any time without warning and that is what makes real life flying so exciting. In a simulator, you know that when a failure is coming because you planned it. If you want to quit in the simulator, you can.

When real life flying you can't just hit 'escape' to stop- You need to be sure that you can cope with anything to get the aircraft down safely.

So along with remote control of failures I wonder how much more exciting flightsim would be if we couldn't press escape? If everytime you 'played it' you had start cold and dark, fly, and then shut down at the end.
It would be an interesting test but would require a simulator so believable that the pilot wouldn't realise they couldn't just open the door and step out- Kinda like the Matrix a bit.

[morrisman1]

Just dowloaded the demo but it looks a little hardcore for what I was wanting. Instructor station looks more suited to a professional simulator and the computer out to the side which the supervising instructor uses to set up the lesson.

That sort of thing as far as failures go but something a little on the less serious scale. Something iPhone based would be mint but I dont think there is such an app.