Networked Flight Simulator Software?

* Richard Kaplan -- Thursday 28 October 2004 16:00:
Is there flight simulator software available which runs in a network
cofiguration whereby an instructor could establish training scenarios for
multiple students at one time?

Shouldn't be hard to do with FlightGear (which is Free & Open Source and can
be downloaded he http://www.flightgear.org/). It has HTTP and telnet
server capabilities built-in. You can connect to a running instance via
network and read and change basically all values from your telnet program
or web browser. You can also read out the current screen contents as JPEG
via HTTP right into your browser. All you need to do is write a simple
script/program that sends all property changes to several instances of
FlightGear, rather than just to one.

m.