Can X-Plane be used as an actual Flight and Navigation Procedures Trainer (FNPT) level 1 flight simulator with Out The Window (OTW) visuals, separate Instructor Operation Station (IOS) and replica hardware?
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1there's the professional option when buying Xplane for setting up commercial simulator. Don't know how far it goes, or how far people have gone with it though. – falstro Feb 18 '15 at 09:24
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Can you possibly clean up your question and write out what OTW and IOS stand for? Not everyone will be familiar with these terms. More information might be required for users to answer your question, too. – SentryRaven Feb 18 '15 at 10:05
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I am sorry, OTW means Out the window - visual sceanery- 120-180 degrees horizontal field of view and 60 vertical field of View . IOS - Instructor operating station - where instructor controls the simulation – Rekha Venkatesh Feb 18 '15 at 10:09
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@RekhaVenkatesh and FNPT? – DeltaLima Feb 18 '15 at 11:11
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1related: http://aviation.stackexchange.com/questions/12634/how-close-is-x-plane-experience-to-real-flying – Federico Feb 18 '15 at 12:50
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Have you seen this question? The FAA seems to have levels A-D, so what is "level 1"? – Pondlife Feb 18 '15 at 14:03
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1@Pondlife see the wiki link in that answer: numbers are for FTD, letters for FFS. Also 1-3 is EASA, 4-5 is FAA – Federico Feb 18 '15 at 14:23
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@Federico Thanks, I didn't follow that link :-) – Pondlife Feb 18 '15 at 14:31
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1@Pondlife he applied the [tag:easa-regulations] tag, so FAA levels don't apply. – FreeMan Feb 18 '15 at 16:33
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FNPT is Flight navigation procedure trainer – Rekha Venkatesh Feb 19 '15 at 06:36
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Maybe.
From the page linked by falstro above:
These include the ability to use cylindrical and spherical projection (as found in large simulators), and the ability to drive real Garmin 1000, Garmin 430, Garmin 430 WAAS, Garmin 530, and Garmin 530 WAAS units.
Pictures are included of a particular setup. The large projection format allows all-around visuals. The simulator can drive real Garmin devices, not just replicas. They recommend this vendor for FAA approved hardware (and for $2,100 I would hope a yoke could be FAA certified).
You can use an IOS even with the personal license for the simulator, on the same computer or a separate one.
X-Plane also explains that only the complete hardware+software combination can be certified for use as an FAA approved flight simulator. So it may be easier to just buy a package from a company like PFC, which has the combination already certified. They offer BATD and AATD simulator setups that use X-Plane.
If you need more information, you can contact X-Plane via the link on the same site linked above. They do not keep track of what people use their professional licenses for, but they may be able to comment on what level of certification is achievable.
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To a limited extent, yes. Lower level devices such as an FNPT navigation trainer could be driven by an X-plane aerodynamic model and I believe some have achieved accreditation. For higher level devices such as the letter simulators, the issue is that the simulator model response must accurately match actual flight data. X-plane can get pretty good results from only a limited set of geometric data, however matching actual flight data is such a complicated multidimensional 3-D exercise that linearised assumptions are of very limited value.
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