I think that does the trick, thank!

Curt.

Andy Ross writes:
> Curtis L. Olson wrote:
>  > Andy Ross wrote:
>  > > Uh, stupid question: where do I stick the number?  I can't imagine
>  > > this is difficult to fix.
>  >
>  > Should be a breeze.
>  >
>  > Essentially you are assuming that the runway elevation field in the
>  > FGInterface structure is getting updated externally by FlightGear, but
>  > FlightGear treats everything from FGInterface on down as 'read only'.
> 
> Roger that; I think I get it now.  I don't have hardware at work to
> test against, but if someone is in a rush and wants to guinea-pig for
> a bit, the following patch to YASim.cxx should fix it.  Comments in
> JSBSim indicate that the scenery object is returning meters from MSL,
> but I didn't investigate far enough to be sure I got the units right.
> 
> Andy
> 
> RCS file: /var/cvs/FlightGear-0.7/FlightGear/src/FDM/YASim/YASim.cxx,v
> retrieving revision 1.8
> diff -u -r1.8 YASim.cxx
> --- YASim.cxx 24 Dec 2001 12:54:04 -0000      1.8
> +++ YASim.cxx 15 Feb 2002 17:39:14 -0000
> @@ -225,7 +225,11 @@
>       wind[0] = get_V_north_airmass() * FT2M;
>       wind[1] = get_V_east_airmass() * FT2M;
>       wind[2] = get_V_down_airmass() * FT2M;
> -    double ground = get_Runway_altitude() * FT2M;
> +
> +    // The ground elevation doesn't come from FGInterface; query it
> +    // from the scenery and set it for others to find.
> +    double ground = scenery.get_cur_elev();
> +    set_Runway_altitude(ground * FT2M);
> 
> -- 
> Andrew J. Ross                NextBus Information Systems
> Senior Software Engineer      Emeryville, CA
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