Dave is an Emeritus Prof. at the Univ. of Sheffield, and a Visiting Prof. at Cranfield and Queen Mary University. Research activities: flight simulation, computer graphics, and real-time computing.
The venerable BCPL procedural structured programming language is fast to compile, is reliable and efficient, offers a wide range of software libraries and system functions, and is available on several platforms, including the Raspberry Pi.
A Raspberry Pi 4B with Linux can solve the equations for a real-time nonlinear aircraft simulation, including the emulation of modern aircraft flight displays.