On Tuesday 16 August 2005 15:21, Mike Rawlins wrote: > Hi, > > In the past I've used the autopilot to fly between > 5-letter GPS waypoints. IIRC, I would enter waypoints > using menu or waypoint file and engage/disengage using > <ctrl>-H. Lately when I enter a 5-letter GPS waypoint > a message is issued in my shell window which reads: > > Failed to find STELR in basic.dat.gz > Failed to find MAILS in basic.dat.gz > Failed to find YARNN in basic.dat.gz
IIRC basic.dat.gz used to hold the airport data. Now airport data is in apt.dat.gz. GPS fixes are (and AFAIK have always been) in fix.dat.gz. So those messages don't make much sense. > > as examples. However, a lat/lon pair do appear > alongside waypoint name in the pop-down waypoint menu, > so it could be that the right coordinates are being > accessed. I guess that they are naturally not found in basic.dat.gz but found in fix.dat.gz. > Maybe I just need to engage the waypoint > tracker in the autopilot? I don't believe the KAP-140 > is used to do this (?) The KAP140 in the C172 is connected to the navradio and the directional gyro. By altering the autopilot config file you should be able to connect it to the GPS instead, and input GPS fixes through the GPS GUI. -- Roy Vegard Ovesen _______________________________________________ Flightgear-users mailing list [email protected] http://mail.flightgear.org/mailman/listinfo/flightgear-users 2f585eeea02e2c79d7b1d8c4963bae2d
