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The PILOT (Portable In-flight Landing Operations Trainer) software lived only on the HDD of the PGSCs (Payload/Portable General Support Computer). This photo shows Greg "Box" Johnson, the PLT of STS-125 taking his turn with the PILOT set up at the CDR station on Flight Day 11: https://spaceflight.nasa.gov/gallery/images/shuttle/sts-125/hires/s125e013050.jpgWell...... you know how a classic linker works, right? I think the one used for the PASS Software was called PILOT (DaveS might correct me)
Noteworthy is that PILOT uses its own RHC clone and not the actual orbiter RHCs as I have thought in the past.
Here's the earliest shot of PILOT I have managed to find: https://science.ksc.nasa.gov/mirrors/images/images/pao/STS67/sts67073.jpg
For STS-67 it was designated as Detailed Test Objective-(DTO)667.
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