David Megginson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > Michael Selig writes: > > > That would be nice, but even something simple that puts the viewpoint 200 > > ft above the runway behind the aircraft would be great to start with. That > > view is a help when building and testing the new aircraft models. It also > > makes the sim well-primed for R/C use. > > We have a center lon/lat/alt for every airport. For small airports, > unfortunately, that's often the runway center, but it should still be > useful as a starting tower location until we have better data. > Was thinking that an interesting solution to this might be to calculate a point that is 200 meters in front of the plane, 100 meters to the right of the plane and 50 meters AGL and call that "tower view" when there is no defined tower within a reasonable distance (say 2km) of the craft. Reset it when you switch to "towerview".
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