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+/* Copyright (C) 2013 VATSIM Community / contributors
+ * This Source Code Form is subject to the terms of the Mozilla Public
+ * License, v. 2.0. If a copy of the MPL was not distributed with this
+ * file, You can obtain one at http://mozilla.org/MPL/2.0/. */
+
+#ifndef BLACKCORE_SIMULATOR_H
+#define BLACKCORE_SIMULATOR_H
+
+#include <blackmisc/avaircraft.h>
+#include <QObject>
+
+namespace BlackCore
+{
+    /*!
+     * Interface to a connection to a ATC voice server for use in flight simulation.
+     *
+     * \warning If an INetwork signal is connected to a slot, and that slot emits a signal
+     *          which is connected to an INetwork slot, then at least one of those connections
+     *          must be a Qt::QueuedConnection.
+     *          Reason: IVoiceClient implementations are not re-entrant.
+     */
+    class ISimulator : public QObject
+    {
+        Q_OBJECT
+    public:
+
+        //! \brief Simulator connection
+        enum Status
+        {
+            Not_Connected,
+            Connected
+        };
+
+        //! \brief Constructor
+        ISimulator(QObject *parent = nullptr) : QObject(parent) {}
+
+        //! \brief Destructor
+        virtual ~ISimulator() {}
+
+        //! \brief Are we connected to the simulator?
+        virtual bool isConnected() const = 0;
+
+        /*!
+         * \brief Return user aircraft object
+         * \return
+         */
+        virtual BlackMisc::Aviation::CAircraft getOwnAircraft() const = 0;
+
+    signals:
+        //! \brief Emitted when the connection status has changed
+        void connectionChanged(bool value);
+
+        /*!
+         * \brief Emitted when new a new data object of the user aircraft is received
+         * \param aircraft
+         */
+        void ownAircraftReceived(BlackMisc::Aviation::CAircraft aircraft);
+    };
+
+} // namespace BlackCore
+
+#endif // BLACKCORE_SIMULATOR_H