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In early 2000, with my recording studio project slowing down and after a somewhat scary flight while on a business trip, I became interested in airplanes which led me to purchase Microsoft Flight Simulator. I learned that Microsoft had designed the Flight Simulator so programmers and airplane enthusiasts could create and add their aircraft to the game. I saw an opportunity to develop my Microsoft Flight Simulator add-on package and thus started Project OY-KGR.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Microsoft Flight Simulator Add-on Package – Scandinavian Airlines DC-9-41: Project OY-KGR<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

My project is based on the Scandinavian Airline Service DC-9-41 airplane OY-KGR. It has evolved from a general flight simulator to a much more sophisticated and graphically intense experience. Additionally, the project included the assistance of many flight simulator developers, pilots, and enthusiasts from around the globe.<\/p>\n\n\n

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Add-on Package – Scandinavian Airlines 2D Cockpit<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

My project has two main components: a 2D cockpit and a 3D cockpit with an external airplane model. The 2D cockpit comprises hundreds of computer-generated renderings and image files I had to create. The images range from the cockpit panel backgrounds to the flying instruments’ tiny needles. Using XML programming code, I merge all of the image files in real-time so that when the game runs, it gives the person playing the experience of sitting in a real DC-9 cockpit.<\/p>\n\n\n

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Add-on Package – Scandinavian Airlines 3D Cockpit and External Plane Model<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

The 3D cockpit is much more complicated to design than the 2D version. Therefore, using 3D modeling and animation software, I had to construct the entire cockpit. Additionally, the development process is time-consuming, and my only reference materials are photographs on the Internet. Most of those photographs could be of better quality, so careful analysis and planning are required when building certain features in the game environment. Below are screenshots of the 3D cockpit environment taken during game testing.<\/p>\n\n\n

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Microsoft Flight Simulator Add-on Package Project Comes to an End<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

My Microsoft Flight Simulator Add-on Package came to an unexpected and abrupt end one day. It all started after Boeing’s legal department contacted me. Subsequently, the person I spoke with had many questions about my flight simulator add-on package. They expressed “concern” that I could purchase official Boeing flight operation manuals and other technical documents online.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ultimately, they did not wholly object to my developing the project. But they wanted me to register it with their \u201ctoy\u201d and \u201clegal\u201d departments and pay a \u201clicensing fee.\u201d As a result, it was going to cost money, and more time, to continue with the project. It was their intellectual property that I had. Also, 9\/11 had just happened, and everyone was hyper-cautious about security, and projects like mine were coming under increased scrutiny. I heard reports that the terrorists involved in 9\/11 used Microsoft Flight Simulator to practice their attack plans.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Boeing representative explained that the airplane I was modeling was still in use worldwide. In the end, my hobby had become too complex. These developments with Boeing were also going to make it more financially costly. If 9\/11 had never happened, I doubt anyone would have cared about my project. Many ultra-realistic add-on plane packages already existed because what I was doing was part of the design of the Microsoft Flight Simulator. The entire project got more extensive than I cared to deal with, so I shelved project OY-KGR.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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My first love is the guitar, and I ran a small recording studio out of my home for a time while also playing guitar in a few bands. The computer soon became another outlet for creating art. With my computer skills and 3D modeling experience, I began to develop a sophisticated DC-9-41 add-on cockpit package for Microsoft Flight Simulator. The project focused on the Scandinavian Airline Service (SAS) DC-9 airplane OY-KGR. There was extensive programming and many computer-generated renderings and image files assembled in real-time when the game was running, giving the person playing the experience of sitting in a real DC-9 cockpit. A RENEWED LOVE OF ART In 2007 my wife, Jennifer, rekindled my zeal for drawing and painting. Her encouragement and support motivated me to create O'Keefe Arts and take up oil painting as a professional artist. Jennifer also enjoys creating art, and we are working together to promote the business and my paintings because of our shared love of art. I sell original works, accept commission work to create custom landscape paintings, and offer a variety of high-quality pigment prints, i.e., Giclee, reproductions of my artwork. (Websites: www.okeefe-arts.com and www.johnokeefe.net) John and Jennifer O'Keefe outside of the Museum of Natural History in Manhattan, New York, when he was thirty-seven years old Outside the Museum of Natural History (NYC) at 37 Years Old. My paintings have been well received in the art community, allowing my works to be displayed in prestigious exhibitions and art shows. In my home state of Connecticut, the Lyme Art Gallery, Mystic Arts Center, Cate Charles Gallery, and the Mill House Gallery have exhibited my artwork. My paintings have won awards, and I have been a featured artist in a group exhibition at the Lyme Art Association's \"17th Annual Associate Artists Exhibit\". In April of 2009, I was elected onto the board of directors of the Cheshire Art League in Cheshire, Connecticut, and I created and managed the league's website until the fall of 2011. Organizations that I belong to are Oil Painters of America, Lyme Art Association, The Salmagundi Club of New York City, Mystic Arts Association, Cheshire Art League (until 2011), and Landscape Artists International. In 2012, Jennifer and I created Painting Frames Plus, where people can purchase high-quality reproduction painting frames. 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