Write Something in the Sky

skycaptain accepts a message, turns the glyphs into a path, and flies that path through a body’s atmosphere. The exhaust becomes the pen. Aerodynamics becomes the reviewer.

inside the guest

cd /mnt/gatOS/examples/skycaptain
cargo run --release

The example is useful because it joins several ordinary gatOS ideas:

• live body and atmosphere constants,
• local frame construction,
• a pure path planner,
• continuous attitude and throttle control,
• pause, warp, and stale-data gating,
• preflight checks that reject a craft whose minimum thrust cannot descend along the requested path.

Read the skycaptain README for craft selection, controls, and the exact flight model.

Bring a gentle engine

If minimum throttle exceeds local gravity by too much, every down-stroke is physically impossible. The program checks this before converting your tasteful word into an accidental ascent profile.