On 21 Dec 2009, at 16:33, Heiko Schulz wrote: > There were major changes on the GPS and Route-Manager since August (3 Months > ago already!) > > So this has affected the the use of the autopilot as well. > All aircrafts using the generic Autopilot-panel are affected, but not those > with an own written flightdirector like Syds Aircrafts (Citation Bravo works > perfect) or with own configured autopilots like the senecaII, c172p, PA24-250.
> True-Heading can be used with the DTO-Mode in the GPS-menu in the Menubar. > > I think James can tell more! The issue / feature here is that the route-manager code has 'always' (for years, at least) directly set /autopilot/settings/true-heading-deg based on its internal route-following logic. Personally I don't think it's a great feature, but people do use it (the route manager) in conjunction with the generic autopilot dialog to quickly navigate between waypoints. When I broke the feature by accident, it was noticed, and people asked for the feature back. As far as I know, the old route-manager code behaved much the same as my code does now - but it sounds as if you disagree? For the record, my perception is that entering a value in the generic autopilot dialog for 'true heading' has never worked, because the value would **always** be over-written by the route manager. What *has* changed is that the value now actually comes from the GPS code, not the route-manager. Both are equally 'generic' (just like the autopilot itself), it was just simpler from a code design perspective to handle the autopilot interaction in the GPS code, and keep the route-manager separated. Does this fit with what you're seeing? Regards, James ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Verizon Developer Community Take advantage of Verizon's best-in-class app development support A streamlined, 14 day to market process makes app distribution fast and easy Join now and get one step closer to millions of Verizon customers http://p.sf.net/sfu/verizon-dev2dev _______________________________________________ Flightgear-devel mailing list Flightgear-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/flightgear-devel
