During babysitting duty,

I got to see and play with Nate's new program he wrote for the flight simulator. What started out to be an aid for the intructor, while he has a student in the flight seat, turned out to be a marketing help while they visit and try to sell, at flight school conventions. Nate's project allows an iPad to synch with the simulator so the instructor can not only change weather conditions (wind, rain, temperature) but also introduce potentially disastrous 'failures' into the system (loss of hydraulics, flaps, electrical, etc) to see how the student handles it. The program allows an iPad to control the simulator, so merely by holding, tilting and moving the iPad, you can fly the simulator. I'm not explaining it well, or completely, but was fun to hold the iPad and fly the airplane, something that will get a lot of play and attention at the next convention they attend. I'm willing to help out if they encounter any problems....