Graphics

Flairtex has in-depth knowledge into schematic graphic development which first occurred on a Saudi A300 Airbus simulator. This Airbus had twenty five complex schematics that showed system status so that an Instructor could see the system configuration. Systems handled were the likes of hydraulics, pneumatics, flight controls, Tyre Burst, Engine Control, Electrical Systems. They were all extensive and needed to be thoroughly tested, initially by the Flight Crew Operational manual and then by a pilot.

Instructor Stations in Flight Simulators encompasses 50% of the total delivered software, it is a huge system. Eight years of solid experience of design, implementation and testing went into this field of development, with customer liaising to the direct customer satisfaction came about with the following airlines; Federal Express, Flying Tigers, SAS, Westlands. Some of the many systems that were controlled from the Instructor Station were System Resets, Position Resets, Freeze Resets, Record/Replay, Power Fail, Maintenance & Test, Initial Conditions, Malfunctions & Linear Function Interpolations.

Whilst busy in the commercial arena, Flairtex was engaged with a couple of Radar projects, one up at GEC Marconi and the other with the Thales Group. These were exciting state of the art projects and provided a great challenge using a mix of x-windows and open-GL, with a mix of C++ and Ada working on a Mission suite, networking with TCP interfaces and Porting from Unix to NT.

Moving away from the technicalities of simulation technology Flairtex gained commercial graphic design with the use of converting a dataflex application with the use of Visual Basic. VB provides a quick RAD generic windows vector environment, the clients database was huge and as such wanted vast amounts of menus and functions The database side of things were handled with an ADODB interface to a MS SQL Server 6.5 database system.

The graphics presented for Vintners website were handled via Elemental's Drumbeat, once used forever smitten, at the time it was the best and quite ingenious in the way the IDE was organized, Macromedia bought and then blended the Drumbeat facilities into the Dreamweaver line. Dreamweaver MX is the Best and it really is a case of What you see is what you get. Most of the animation graphics are done using Macromedia Fireworks and Flash MX.

Flairtex built a GUI application to control the network test tool for the Thales corporation, it was written in VC++ using MFC extensions based around a list view class. It was multi-threaded and allowed for concurrency between TCP/UDP services running on distant machines. The results would then be displayed on the GUI application.