Matthew Law <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:

> Maybe I'm misunderstanding this, but shouldn't windsock placement be
> automatic and defined from the airport scenery?
> 

At one point we breifly discussed a rules based way of placing windsocks.  It
actually isn't all that complex, but it needs to be coded.   Basically you'd
have to put one near the end of each runway and just one in the middle at
short fields (off to the side of course, or we'd have a sock in the way).  I
wouldn't necessarily bother placing it at all rendered airports, but rather
just calculate the placement for the airport you are taking off from, at the
same time the take off position and tower positions are calculated.

This would probably be more reliable than trying to maintain data.  You could
always have the function check for data (if accurate positions are known) and
only generate positions when the predefined data is absent.

Best,

Jim

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