Dave Perry writes: > This is really a question. > > I live near Jeffco (KBJC) half way between Denver and Boulder, CO and > often shoot practice ILS approaches in fgfs in this area. The new > scenery, etc., make Jeffco much more realistic from the air. There used > to be a huge hump in the middle of 29R (the main ILS runway). It > appears that significant smoothing has been done. Thanks! > > Question: What is the source of the nominal field elevations used to do > the smoothing? The field elevation on KBJC approach plates is 5670. > The approach end of 29R is now at 5545 (in fgfs with the new scenery) > and increases to about 5580 at the other end. With the smoothing, there > are now high and steep hills between the runways and the taxiways. It > appears that if the whole airport was raised 90 feet, it would fit the > surrounding elevations much better.
This is strange that the whole airport is set below ground ... I'll have to play around with that and see if I can figure out what is going on. Curt. -- Curtis Olson HumanFIRST Program FlightGear Project Twin Cities curt 'at' me.umn.edu curt 'at' flightgear.org 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
