Pablo J. Rogina writes: > I was following the FG evolution since a long time, and I´m now willing to > to get involved to Flightgear. I think is quite a project where I´m to be > able to merge two of my hobbies: aviation and computing. > > In order to contribute, I've selected to provide FG with the ability to > read/write IGC files, a format developed by the International Gliding > Commission used mainly in flight recorders aboard sailplanes in order to > register the flight during a tournament. > > I´ve posted the same goal back in August 2002, but several personal > considerations made me unable to write the appropiate code. Now I'm released > from some obligatons, and hope to have enough time to indeed complete this > feature. > > I think allowing FG to read/write IGC files could provide some new > capabilities, to mention a few: > * Replay actual flights recorded with real flightrecorders: this will allow > pilots to review their flights from within FG, being able to watch to the > environment, the instruments, etc. that somehow could be missed to them > during the actual flight (as they´re busy trying to do their best flight) > * Record a simulated flight in whatever plane used in FG and then visualize > that flight in 3D through several available commercial and also open source > software (KFlog -www.kflog.org- or GPLIGC > karl.min.uni-bremen.de/kruegerh/GPLIGC/GPLIGC.html): This add a new > dimension (altitude) over plotting the course over a map (using for example > Atlas). > * For flightrecorder manufacters, could allow using FG as a simulation > engine to test their recorders > > If you think the proposal is acceptable, I´ll start to work on it. Any > project leader/developer who I have to report to? > > Thanks in advance for your attention. > > Pablo J. Rogina
Hi Pablo, This sounds interesting and useful. Feel free to email me about it offline, but it sounds like you just need to add a protocal module in $fgfs/src/Network/ (this is maybe growing into a slight misnomer, but that is where you'd want to put it.) Regards, Curt. -- 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 _______________________________________________ Flightgear-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.flightgear.org/mailman/listinfo/flightgear-devel
