Flight Simulation Software

About the Author

David Allerton obtained a BSc in Computer Systems Engineering from Rugby College of Engineering Technology in 1972 and a Postgraduate Certificate in Education (PGCE) in Physical Education from Loughborough College of Education in 1973. He obtained his PhD from the University of Cambridge in 1977 for research on hardware simulation of differential equations and then worked in the UK aerospace industry, developing software for embedded systems. He was appointed as Lecturer in the Department of Electronics at the University of Southampton in 1981 and was promoted to a Senior Lectureship in 1987. He moved to the College of Aeronautics at Cranfield University as Professor of Avionics in 1991, establishing the Department of Avionics. In 2002, he was appointed to the Chair in Computer Systems Engineering at the University of Sheffield. He has been an Emeritus Professor of the University of Sheffield since 2009 and is currently a Visiting Professor at Cranfield University and Queen Mary University of London.

Professor Allerton has developed flight simulators at the universities of Southampton, Cranfield and Sheffield and is a past member and Chairman of the Royal Aeronautical Society’s Flight Simulation Group. He has served on the UK Foresight Panel for Defence and on the Aerospace and National Advisory Committee for Avionics and the Committee for Synthetic Environments. In 1998, he was awarded a major grant by the Higher Education Funding Council for England (HEFCE) ...