<miss-quote-seen-here-recently - "And before I'm pointed at FGSD, 'the-free-source', I've looked - but with almost no documentation it is not usable."
IMHO, if you can download the 100% of the 'free' SOURCE, you already have 100% of the 'free' 'documentation'? What more can you 'want' from the author? Only the source can 'perfectly' describe up-to-the-minute what-is-happening ... And beware, particularly in C++, it starts long before main() is called, and thus begins processing the much loved 'command line' given, if any ... Oh, 'documentation' can NOT be that dumbed-down-until- your-boss-can-understand-it wordings we all have to write sometimes, no matter how 'creative' the source ... like he can not even run /somepath/prog ?, which usually yields something, even if you do not understand the parameters requested ... It's the cry of those-that-dont-know to those-who-do-know to reveal their source some more somehow ... haha! :-)) ... wish we could ... /> As i see it ... and maybe i don't :-)) My 2c, anyway ... FG started using Robin's 'original' database, and generated scenery, and ILS systems, to match the runways and taxiways. DAFIF contains a 'limited' set of runways, and ILS systems, with *NO* taxiways ... This makes it unsuitable for any 'great' world-wide flight simulation program to adopt as the only source ... There has already been 'talk' of doing the massive re-gen necessary to, for instance, take in a 'new' default.apt, re-generated, perhaps using Robin's data, now incorporating DAFIF, where available, and maybe this will be 'soon'... matched with a new default.ils Curt put up recently ... But since this would probably change NOTHING in the default SFO scenery, and i do not have the band width to download 'lots' of others, freely available, then i am simply NOT affected... So, if you detect the current default.apt is +/- 2 feet, or perhaps as much as 500+ meters, in the case of Orly, and perhaps more with others, then understand the magnitude of the question, and answer. ... feel FREE, to download, and fly any scenery available, and you will find it ALL relatively consistent. Hence perhaps the funny part of - > !!!! WARNING !!!!! > FGFS is *NOT* a navigation tool > and *NOT* to be used as such Fly VFR and 'see' the scenery ... When i eventually do get the 'band width' i look forward to using the auto-download as i fly there feature, not available in every flight simulation ... Again, thank you to all those who participate, and make this one of the 'free-est' flight simulators available ... rgds, Geoff. PS: As for loading and graphically displaying, on top of each other, say FG default.apt, default.ils, DAFIFT files, and even X-Plane data, i have written the windows app. This is 'free' for viewing FUN. Contact me, and i will send a zip of the MS VS DSW project ... on an AS IS, no 'docs' promise, basis! But as to allowing some form of 'selection', and 'modification', of even a single line is a long way off, and then writing the approprate change file, and re-gen the scenery, etc - perhaps try FGSD for this!!! e-mail: to hotmail, with moniker of geoffmclane _______________________________________________ Flightgear-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.flightgear.org/mailman/listinfo/flightgear-devel
