Paul Deppe writes: > Glideslope beams are designed to be 1.4 degrees "tall", that is, +/- 2 dots > (full scale) deviation on the gauge is equal to +/- 0.7 degrees glidesope > deviation, or 0.35 degrees per dot. This is the same for all standard > ILS's. > > The localizer beam width is designed to produce +/- 2 dots deviation at +/- > 700 feet deviation from centerline at the runway threshold. The localizer > scale sensitivity in degrees per dot is therefore a function of the distance > from the threshold to the localizer antenna.
Ok, we were way off. We don't handle changing the 'cone' shape depending on the position of the transmitter relative to the threshold, but that's something that wouldn't hurt to put on the todo list todo some day. Curt. -- Curtis Olson IVLab / HumanFIRST Program FlightGear Project Twin Cities [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Minnesota http://www.menet.umn.edu/~curt http://www.flightgear.org _______________________________________________ Flightgear-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.flightgear.org/mailman/listinfo/flightgear-devel
