
492 Chapter 24 • Simulating Flight
and realistic.We deliberately ignored many parameters that influence flight, like
the air density and mass of the aircraft, just to name a few.
Moving all the software on the PC is another possible radical approach.You
could place the RCX on the platform and control it via IR, piloting the plane
from a virtual cockpit on the screen of your PC.The software then informs the
RCX only about the expected actions the platform must perform.
And why not put a small video camera in place of the plane in order to view
on screen what you’d see if you were a LEGO figure inside the plane?
There are so many possibilities. Now it’s your ...