[Flightgear-devel] Re: Bypass FG Physics and Draw

[ima . sudonim]

Does this mean that we would have the ability to save and load flight 
data so as to reproduce, say, a taxi, take off, pattern and landing at 
KSFO or another airport automatically (i.e., as a demo or as a training 
exercise).  Perhaps a short flight around the SF area also showing off 
the new scenery?

Could we ship such flights around scenic areas (Mount Ranier, Crater 
Lake, the Grand Canyon) for new users in the base package or as 
downloadables off of flightgear.org?

How big would such files be? How much data needs to be kept, how much 
can be calculated on the fly?  Do weather conditions need to be saved 
also?

Would flights around scenic areas be done better as flight plans with 
waypoints or tied into this new playback method somehow?

Can this playback tool be used as a training method for new simulator 
pilots?

If we are not saving a real recorded flight, perhaps we can use a 
similar method to extract either entire flights or the last XX number 
of seconds of a flight to save to disk for later replay?

MS FlightSimulator has an extensive tutorial that involves pre-saved 
flights which the users can break into at certain points in the 
flights. How difficult would it be to add something similar to FG and 
where would one begin (if no one is already working on something like 
this).

Thanks!
Ima
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