Alex Perry writes: > This coming Saturday is the annual safety competition for San Diego and, > as one of the organizers, I've been thinking about the spot landings task. > It occurs to me that FGFS should be able to do that really well, except > the touchdown report is minimal. How much hassle would it be, to have > the existing gear message (to console) report the (u,v) and name of the > texture which the wheel hit, or some other relative-to-runway numbers ? > That would enable sim pilots to fly TnG series, with automatic scoring.
It should be possible to specify a lat/lon and then get the distance and bearing of first wheel contact. In fact, given sufficient update frequency, you might even be able to do this with an external program (poll the WOW property). All the best, David -- David Megginson, [EMAIL PROTECTED], http://www.megginson.com/ _______________________________________________ Flightgear-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.flightgear.org/mailman/listinfo/flightgear-devel
