On Tuesday 24 February 2004 20:44, Erik Hofman wrote: > It is supported for airports that have ATC (sorry no AI traffic at > EHLE). But indeed Eelde has ATC support and therefore can handle ATC > traffic at the moment.
Cool! Wasn't Lelystad supposed to get ATC "real soon" about two years ago? I haven't been there since returning home last December, so I don't know what the situation is. > > I have followed an AI Cessna once but I lost in when it literally flew > through a mountain, so I guess it is distance limited. Hmm, I see. So that's a little too much emhasis on the A and a bit too less on the I part in AI, I guess :-). [Ironically, this reminds me that IIRC, one of the original design goals of FlightGear (in 1996-1997 or so) was to develop a realistic ATC subsystem that does take terrain elevation into account and not direct planes into mountains. ;-) Anyways, I'm just kidding. Nothing but compliments here. This is hard stuff to impliment.] Seriously though, so I understand that AI planes take-off and depart to undefined destinations or do they return? I couldn't really figure this out based on the code? Maybe I should follow a chessna taking off from Eelde, was there's not much chance of one of those crashing into a mountain. :-) > Robin Peel already has air corridors (airways) data for X-Plane which > probably could be used by FlightGear as well. I think it is DAFIF(T) > based so we can generate them ourselves also. That's interesting. I was always curious whether an airways database for flightgear existed or not. It would be an interesting exersize to plot these in Atlas, as this would be a good start to generate flight plans. > > > Unfortunately, I don't think we'd be able to use any of the project AI > > material, because their licence is pretty strictly freeware, and thus not > > compatible with the GPL. > > It might be worth a shot to convince them to use GPL (or less > restrictive) instead. Yes definitely. I might give it a shot and contact some of these people and find out what what their attitude towards GPL is. Cheers, Durk _______________________________________________ Flightgear-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.flightgear.org/mailman/listinfo/flightgear-devel
