--- Roy Vegard Ovesen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> 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. It appears that the code needs to be updated to be consistent with recent changes in navigation/airport files. > > > > 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. Yes, I see they are in fix.dat > > > 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. > At the moment, I don't have enough knowledge about FG or XML to make these changes. But I'll see if I can learn how :-) Cheers, Mike > -- > Roy Vegard Ovesen > > _______________________________________________ > Flightgear-users mailing list > [email protected] > http://mail.flightgear.org/mailman/listinfo/flightgear-users > 2f585eeea02e2c79d7b1d8c4963bae2d > __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com _______________________________________________ Flightgear-users mailing list [email protected] http://mail.flightgear.org/mailman/listinfo/flightgear-users 2f585eeea02e2c79d7b1d8c4963bae2d
