_Over the mountains in Slovakia_

[SeniorSKY]

is a flight simulator which uses Vulkan API, developed by [@pmathia0].

As an aerospace engineering student, Peter has always been interested how

a flight simulator works under the hood.

The development of SeniorSKY started as a hobby project during university

studies.

SeniorSKY uses real-world elevation data with 1 arc

second precision and can render the whole globe in real dimensions.

During the flight, the terrain tiles are loaded dynamically based

on real GPS coordinates of airplane, with a decreasing level of detail

further from the camera. This is achieved using a combination

of a terrain-quad-tree and GPU tessellation.

SeniorSKY also implements basic rendering of sky, atmosphere and fog.

To be able to simulate a flight, the application temporarily integrates 3rd party

flight dynamics engine called JSBSim. Meanwhile, development of own, custom

flight dynamics is already in progress.

[SeniorSKY]: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLMmaJuk-D7iaObZyhyvc83tNwpx3ghzkY

[@pmathia0]: https://twitter.com/pmathia0