ABSTRACT
Throughout the history of flight simulator technology there have been periods of revolutionary change followed by periods of incremental improvements. The last period of revolutionary change came with the introduction of microprocessor technology and the rapid growth in computational power it made available. Much of flight simulation technical developments since then have been incremental in nature with small, but significant enhancements in visual display, motion platform, sound simulation and other areas. Some advancements in flight simulation are more noteworthy than others because they serve as a foundation for major improvements in the value of flight simulation for training and research. In this chapter, some notable advances in technology are examined which are now being used in flight simulators or have the potential to be used in the future. These technologies generally were not developed for flight simulators, but for other, often unrelated, purposes.
