re: [Flightgear-devel] spot landings

[David Megginson]

Alex Perry writes:

  This coming Saturday is the annual safety competition for San Diego and,
  as one of the organizers, I've been thinking about the spot landings task.
  It occurs to me that FGFS should be able to do that really well, except
  the touchdown report is minimal.  How much hassle would it be, to have
  the existing gear message (to console) report the (u,v) and name of the
  texture which the wheel hit, or some other relative-to-runway numbers ?
  That would enable sim pilots to fly TnG series, with automatic scoring.

It should be possible to specify a lat/lon and then get the distance
and bearing of first wheel contact.  In fact, given sufficient update
frequency, you might even be able to do this with an external program
(poll the WOW property).


All the best,


David

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[Flightgear-devel] spot landings

[Alex Perry]

This coming Saturday is the annual safety competition for San Diego and,
as one of the organizers, I've been thinking about the spot landings task.
It occurs to me that FGFS should be able to do that really well, except
the touchdown report is minimal.  How much hassle would it be, to have
the existing gear message (to console) report the (u,v) and name of the
texture which the wheel hit, or some other relative-to-runway numbers ?
That would enable sim pilots to fly TnG series, with automatic scoring.

PS. Anybody interested in turning up at KRNM with an airplane is welcome;
feel free to contact me for details of the actual event and competition.

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