On Mon, 29 Dec 2003 16:07:22 -0300, "Pablo J. Rogina" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> In order to contribute, I've selected to provide FG with the ability > to read/write IGC files, a format developed by the International > Gliding Commission used mainly in flight recorders aboard sailplanes > in order to register the flight during a tournament. ..yes, yes, yes!!! ;-) > I´ve posted the same goal back in August 2002, but several personal > considerations made me unable to write the appropiate code. Now I'm > released from some obligatons, and hope to have enough time to indeed > complete this feature. > > I think allowing FG to read/write IGC files could provide some new > capabilities, to mention a few: > * Replay actual flights recorded with real flightrecorders: this will > allow pilots to review their flights from within FG, being able to > watch to the environment, the instruments, etc. that somehow could be > missed to them during the actual flight (as they´re busy trying to do > their best flight)* Record a simulated flight in whatever plane used > in FG and then visualize that flight in 3D through several available > commercial and also open source software (KFlog -www.kflog.org- or > GPLIGC karl.min.uni-bremen.de/kruegerh/GPLIGC/GPLIGC.html): ...was 404, try http://pc12-c714.uibk.ac.at/GPLIGC/GPLIGC.php > This add a new dimension (altitude) over plotting the course over a > map (using for example Atlas). ..on KFLog, do you read German? > * For flightrecorder manufacters, could allow using FG as a simulation > engine to test their recorders > > If you think the proposal is acceptable, I´ll start to work on it. Any > project leader/developer who I have to report to? ..Curt? -- ..med vennlig hilsen = with Kind Regards from Arnt... ;-) ...with a number of polar bear hunters in his ancestry... Scenarios always come in sets of three: best case, worst case, and just in case. _______________________________________________ Flightgear-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.flightgear.org/mailman/listinfo/flightgear-devel
