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The Mission Computer and Symbol Generator (MCSG) is an extensible mini PC for use with non-essential airborne operations. It works with Microsoft Windows® embedded Operating Systems and may have optional applications such as image processing software for airborne or similar missions.
Why?
After completing a project taking 15 months with a team of developers, a different client with the same aircraft type required a similar course generated quickly. This required new visuals of the aircraft to be generated specific to the client’s branding on their aircraft. There are steps which can be implemented using built in tools from various software to reduce the amount of time taken to reproduce the visuals, but this still requires a large amount of time to recreate all the visuals. With such a large project a more manageable, flexible and efficient system is essential to provide the same high standard of quality in a shorter time period. The one click rendering solution described here was our answer to this problem.
Flash and I have a bit of a chequered history. Being of the ‘Authorware’ school of programming I have always struggled to translate my thoughts to the timeline based architecture of Flash where the item I’m looking for could be buried 6 layers deep inside a whole string of movie clips. Sure there are probably techniques to search for it, but in Authorware it would be just there in front of me, but I digress…
My previous forays into Flash have been pretty much as a ‘Pretty Picture’ tool. Simple animations, and software simulations involving making the cursor move across the screen and showing different screens. However, I had to use it properly, in Anger on one of my recent projects.
What is ILIAS?
Ilias is an open source learning management system. It is a complete system to be used on a web server to create, display and track many forms of e-learning/computer based training and also utilise many related web 2.0 technologies.