I just commited some minor tweaks to the hitlist/tilemgr code which
seems to make the ground interesection code very robust.

As a test, I was able to land the yf23 on the *lower* level of the bay
bridge (I hit the opening at about 140-150 kts) touched down, braked
to taxi speed, and continued to taxi the entire lenght of the bridge
(again doing this on the *lower* level.)

There are some opportunities for further optimizing the ground
intersection code, and Norman has done a lot of prep work on this, but
the optimized stuff doesn't always get the right answer so we need to
hammer on it a bit more and figure out why.  It's probably worth doing
since I see up to 200-300% improvement in the amount of time spent in
the ground intersection code.  And aside from drawing graphics, this
is our biggest bottleneck, but it obviously has to give the right
answer out the other end.

Anyway, try to keep the 747 on the top level of the bridge only (and
if anyone wants to disable the ability to fly under bridges because
they don't want to see people training to do stupid/illegal/unsafe
things, it is a very easy code tweak to remove ...)

Regards,

Curt.
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Curtis Olson   HumanFIRST Program               FlightGear Project
Twin Cities    curt 'at' me.umn.edu             curt 'at' flightgear.org
Minnesota      http://www.flightgear.org/~curt  http://www.flightgear.org

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