Dynamic Models Based Virtual Reality Flight Simulator

Abstract

Flying has become a lifestyle for numerous people, everywhere human’s mobility has become very high. Now, a lot of people has gone flying with airplane. However, only a few people have flown airplane personally. In the digital era, the emerging of mobile virtual reality that are cheap and more portable gives a great chance to build low cost flight simulator that can give any user a good flying experience. In this paper, it is presented an application of virtual reality to build a flight simulator which is based on flight dynamics of an airplane. A simple flight dynamic model in Unity 3D (game engine that supports physics and virtual reality technology) is developed in order to create an almost real flight simulator prototype with high fidelity.