[Irinikus]

I happened to be doing some flying in the Langebaan area this week, where our central flying school is located, so Today before I left for Pretoria, I paid the Central Flying School a visit and took some pics of the retired dual-cockpit CPT (Cockpit Procedural Trainer) for what was known at the time that I did my Ab initio flying training as a Pilatus Astra (Now known as the PC-7 MKII).

When I was a student back in 2003, this system was still operational and was powered by an SGI Onyx Infinite Reality system (This was one of my first encounters with Silicon Graphics in the work place). Before it was retired, the Onyx was unfortunately replaced by a server containing P4 processors, hence I've just taken some pics of the CPT, The operators console (which is just as it was when the Onyx was in place) and the interface system.









All of the single cockpit CPT's were powered by Indigo2 IMPACT systems.

The new CPT's are far better systems, but unfortunately they don't contain any SGI hardware! :(