TITLE: A Distributed System Interface for a Flight Simulator

ii ”Here’s To The Crazy Ones. The misfits. The rebels. The trouble-makers. The round pegs in the square holes....Because the people who are crazy enough to think they can change the world- are the ones who DO! ” Steve Jobs iv The importance of flight training has been realized since the inception of manned flight. In this thesis, a project about the interfacing of hardware cockpit instru-ments with a flight simulation software over a distributed system is to be described. A TRC472 Flight Cockpit was to be used while linked with Presagis FlightSIM to fully simulate a Cessna 172 Skyhawk aircraft. The TRC 472 contains flight input gauges (Airspeed Indicator, RPM indicator... etc.), pilot control devices (Rudder, Yoke...etc.) and navigation systems (VOR,ADF...etc.) all connected to computer through separate USBs and identified as HID’s (Human Interface Devices). These devices required real-time interaction with FlightSIM software; in total 21 device