Re: [Flightgear-devel] ADF / DME receivers, and ILS stations.

2009-06-21 Thread Martin Spott
James Turner wrote: > Okay, which leaves the other issue: ADF. Neither the generic adf.cxx > nor kr87.cxx search ILS stations. Looking at this PDF: > > > https://www.bendixking.com/servlet/com.honeywell.aes.utility.PDFDownLoadServlet?FileName=/static/brochures/pdf/kr87.pdf > > makes me

Re: [Flightgear-devel] ADF / DME receivers, and ILS stations.

2009-06-21 Thread William Earnest
James Turner wrote: > On 20 Jun 2009, at 14:42, Martin Spott wrote: > >> Yup - the "DME element of an [ILS,VORTAC,VOR-DME,NDB-DME]" is to be a >> separate entity in the 'nav.dat' file by definition, > > Okay, which leaves the other issue: ADF. Neither the generic adf.cxx > nor kr87.cxx search I

Re: [Flightgear-devel] ADF / DME receivers, and ILS stations.

2009-06-21 Thread James Turner
On 20 Jun 2009, at 14:42, Martin Spott wrote: > Yup - the "DME element of an [ILS,VORTAC,VOR-DME,NDB-DME]" is to be a > separate entity in the 'nav.dat' file by definition, Okay, which leaves the other issue: ADF. Neither the generic adf.cxx nor kr87.cxx search ILS stations. Looking at this PD

Re: [Flightgear-devel] ADF / DME receivers, and ILS stations.

2009-06-20 Thread Arnt Karlsen
On Sat, 20 Jun 2009 11:23:14 -0600, Ron wrote in message <1245518595.17997.167.ca...@ip120.jentronics.com>: > On Sat, 2009-06-20 at 13:42 +, Martin Spott wrote: > > James Turner wrote: > > > > > Addendum - looking at nav,dat, it contains DME entries for each > > > ILS, so that part at least

Re: [Flightgear-devel] ADF / DME receivers, and ILS stations.

2009-06-20 Thread Ron Jensen
On Sat, 2009-06-20 at 13:42 +, Martin Spott wrote: > James Turner wrote: > > > Addendum - looking at nav,dat, it contains DME entries for each ILS, > > so that part at least is unnecessary - [...] > > Yup - the "DME element of an [ILS,VORTAC,VOR-DME,NDB-DME]" is to be a > separate entity in

Re: [Flightgear-devel] ADF / DME receivers, and ILS stations.

2009-06-20 Thread Martin Spott
James Turner wrote: > Addendum - looking at nav,dat, it contains DME entries for each ILS, > so that part at least is unnecessary - [...] Yup - the "DME element of an [ILS,VORTAC,VOR-DME,NDB-DME]" is to be a separate entity in the 'nav.dat' file by definition, Martin. -- Unix _IS_ user frien

Re: [Flightgear-devel] ADF / DME receivers, and ILS stations.

2009-06-20 Thread James Turner
On 20 Jun 2009, at 12:21, James Turner wrote: > The comments (which look to have been copy-and-pasted, since there's > other comments which are identical in those functions) imply that both > the ADF and the DME code should be searching the ILS list as well as > the combined VOR/NDB list. Obvious

[Flightgear-devel] ADF / DME receivers, and ILS stations.

2009-06-20 Thread James Turner
Doing some further work on the navaid loading/search code, I've come across comments in adf.cxx search() and dme.cxx search() which raise a question. The comments (which look to have been copy-and-pasted, since there's other comments which are identical in those functions) imply that both