Copied from -users, as I think this is of more interest to -devel --- Melchior FRANZ <> wrote: > MP pilots communicate all the time, not over slow email, but via > instantaneous irc://irc.flightgear.org/flightgear. They talked quite > a lot about this mysterious "sauviat" yesterday and the day before.
Having FG, The FG Server Map, and an IRC channel open sounds like a lot of real-estate (though I've never used IRC, so this is pure speculation). I'm sure this has been discussed before but... It would be very nice to have free-form text comms within FG itself, starting on the unicom frequency so the pilot can tune out if they wish. I guess we'd need to change the ATC display to be multi-line, then display the incoming messages there, and have a dialog for transmission. I don't know how we'd handle doing it over UDP - does anyone have a figure for the packet loss rate we typically get on the MP servers? I wonder whether we could just accept the ocassional loss of transmission (just like real life?) And it would neatly provide some hooks for MP human ATC function... -Stuart ___________________________________________________________ Yahoo! Messenger - NEW crystal clear PC to PC calling worldwide with voicemail http://uk.messenger.yahoo.com _______________________________________________ Flightgear-devel mailing list Flightgear-devel@flightgear.org http://mail.flightgear.org/mailman/listinfo/flightgear-devel 2f585eeea02e2c79d7b1d8c4963bae2d