John Denker wrote: > Hi Folks > > FG puts a model of a VOR shack into the scenery in places where > there is supposed to be a VOR shack. So far so good. > > The problem is, the model seems awfully small. It looks like > it is about 5 meters in diameter. I've never seen one in RL > that is that small. I've seen them sometimes with twice that > diameter and more often with three times that diameter. If > you want more data on this, measure some of them using Google > maps / satellite view. > > These things are rather important if you want realism. In > the vicinity of a VOR shack, in VFR conditions, pilots > really should not be looking at the CDI needle; they > should be looking out the window so they don't run into > the idiot who *is* only looking at the CDI needle. > > Having an easily-visible VOR shack model helps with this. > > There are other useful uses for VOR shacks. > > Would somebody be kind enough to make a bigger model, or > at least in the interim triple the diameter of the existing > model?
Send me a model, I'll update the database. AFAIK though ther eare currently 2 models in the db, and one at least was modeled on a real VOR. Jon ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ Flightgear-devel mailing list Flightgear-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/flightgear-devel
