Byline: David Dewitte

Oct. 1--Rockwell Collins has agreed to dismiss a lawsuit against a rival supplier of flight simulation systems for pilot training over the unauthorized use of its copyrighted images and models.

Rockwell Collins announced the settlement with Texas-based RediFun Simulation over the weekend.

Under the settlement, RediFun agreed to pay a license fee to Rockwell Collins for the inadvertent use of ten copyrighted Rockwell Collins digital models on its demonstration software. The amount to be paid was not disclosed.

The settlement agreement said that the unauthorized images came to RSI from an outside vendor that had copied them. It said RSI ...