On Tuesday 18 January 2005 19:28, Paul Surgeon wrote: > I just find it frustrating when I start up a nice aircraft to find out that > there no way to navigate the thing across open oceans. > I don't think real world pilots use a magnetic compass to navigate where > VOR's and NDB's don't live.
You can use the GPS. You can add a GPS driven HSI to your favorite aircraft 2D panel, like this: <instrument include="../../Instruments/hsi-bk-hi.xml"> <name>GPS driven HSI</name> <params> <gs-needle>/instrumentation/gps/wp/alt-deviation-ft</gs-needle> <vor-needle>/instrumentation/gps/wp/wp[1]/course-error-nm</vor-needle> <radial-selected-deg>/instrumentation/gps/wp/wp[1]/desired-course-deg</radial-selected-deg> <to-flag>/instrumentation/gps/wp/wp[1]/to-flag</to-flag> <vor-in-range>/instrumentation/gps/serviceable</vor-in-range> <has-gs>/instrumentation/gps/serviceable</has-gs> <heading-deg>/instrumentation/gps/indicated-track-true-deg</heading-deg> <autopilot-heading-deg>/instrumentation/gps/tracking-bug</autopilot-heading-deg> </params> <x>264</x> <y>-25</y> <w>115</w> <h>115</h> </instrument> The CDI is bound to to waypoint2 (wp[1]), the to-waypoint. You can set it in the GPS Settings dialog from the Equipment menu. Note that the compass rose shows true tracking. -- Roy Vegard Ovesen _______________________________________________ Flightgear-devel mailing list Flightgear-devel@flightgear.org http://mail.flightgear.org/mailman/listinfo/flightgear-devel 2f585eeea02e2c79d7b1d8c4963bae2d