Hi, I've seen a couple of external radar clients for Flightgear being developed right now. I think that these days, with the advent of Canvas and other improvements, it should be possible and desirable to have a realistic radar station inside Flightgear.
At the moment, I'm only concerned about radar ranges and interference of terrain obstructions, weather, ground clutter. For this purpose, I propose a template implementation of radar transceivers and transponders: It is not possible to provide a detailed terrain picture on every antenna rotation. Sampling all terrrain 360 degrees around the station would cripple performance. Thus, I would just take all positions of aircraft inside the nominal range and perform radio calculations on them, using larger sampling distances and simpler routines for aircraft above a treshhold flightlevel. If terrain around the antenna is obstructing the signal, or weather affects it, we can simulate that correctly. Transponder responses are also a candidate for the new radio code. Like in reality, it is possible to have radar contact but lose transponder id because of radio issues. Awaiting comments, Adrian ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Monitor your physical, virtual and cloud infrastructure from a single web console. Get in-depth insight into apps, servers, databases, vmware, SAP, cloud infrastructure, etc. Download 30-day Free Trial. Pricing starts from $795 for 25 servers or applications! http://p.sf.net/sfu/zoho_dev2dev_nov _______________________________________________ Flightgear-devel mailing list Flightgear-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/flightgear-devel
