ELITE now offers high resolution external visual systems.
Visual motion can add tremendous value to flight training. Improved 3D weather generation incorporates realistic portrayal of phenomena such as fog and haze, allowing pilots to acclimatise to the vagaries of flying under marginal IFR conditions. Students can practice taxi and basic visual navigation skills, unusual attitude IMC recovery and climb through an overcast to VFR on top, or negotiate a difficult landing in reduced RVR.
ELITE GenView and RealView use satellite and digital elevation model (DEM) data to provide terrain features, waterways, rivers, roads and railways. Even real-time movement and display of the sun and moon are presented. Both systems are capable of multiple scenery channels (views) that can collectively provide a 150° plus panoramic view.
What is the difference between GenView and RealView?
The DEM and 3D weather in both is the same. The difference lies in the quality of texture rendering. GenView uses generic scenery texturing with co-incident visual and navigation databases, including all airports found in the standard ELITE program. RealView is a customised visual database product using detailed satellite imagery and enhanced runway environments. Due to the level of detail, RealView areas are generally much smaller than GenView. The advantage of RealView is the ability to offer custom features to accommodate a wide range of specialised VFR and IFR requirements. Both RealView and GenView feature the importation of real time METAR data into the simulator (internet connection required).
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| RealView visual scenery database's visual clues include a 100m digital elevation model with ground collision detection, runway markings, approach lights, fog, haze, ceiling and visibility, clouds and day-to-night transition. RealView uses real life satellite images (25m resolution or better), thus making it one of the best visual systems on the market. Available RealView areas:
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| GenView visual scenery database's visual clues include ground collision detection, runway markings, approach lights, fog, haze, ceiling and visibility, clouds and day-to-night transition. GenView covers large areas, in most cases whole countries. GenView uses generic textures combined with a 1000m DEM.
Available GenView areas:
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