eeftychiou / bluesky

The open source air traffic simulator

BlueSky - The Open Air Traffic Simulator

BlueSky is meant as a tool to perform research on Air Traffic Management and Air Traffic Flows.

The goal of BlueSky is to provide everybody who wants to visualize, analyze or simulate air traffic with a tool to do so without any restrictions, licenses or limitations. It can be copied, modified, cited, etc. without any limitations.

Please send suggestions, proposed changes or contributions through GitHub, preferrably after debugging it and optimising it for run-time performance.

##Some features of BlueSky:

• Written in freely available, ultra-simple-hence-easy-to-learn, multi-platform language Python 2.x (using the numpy and pygame libraries) with source
• Contains open source data on navaids, performance data of aircraft and geography
• Global coverage navaid and airport data
• Contains simulations of aircraft performance, flight management system (LNAV, VNAV under construction), autopilot, conflict detection and resolutions and airborne separation assurance systems
• Compatible with BADA 3.x data
• Compatible wth NLR Traffic Manager TMX as used by NLR and NASA LaRC
• Traffic is controlled via user inputs in a console window or by playing scenarion files (.SCN) containing the same commands with a time stamp before the command ("HH:MM:SS.hh>")
• Mouse clicks in traffic window are use in console for lat/lon/heading and position inputs

Want to contribute? Great!

BlueSky is still under heavy development. We would like to encourage anyone with a strong interesting in ATM and/or Python to join us. Please feel free to comment, criticise, join, and contribute to this project.