On 3/3/04 at 7:08 PM Jorge Van Hemelryck wrote:
>On Wed, 03 Mar 2004 11:06:57 +0000 >David Luff wrote: > >> I can think of a number of improvements. The first, and one which would >> also help the voice output, is that many of the airport names pulled >> automatically from the DAFIF are far too long - for instance >"Metropolitan >> Oakland International Tower" should almost certainly be simply "Oakland >> Tower". I'll go through these and try to manually change as many as >> possible to what seems right - in fact I'll run a script to remove >> "International" from all of them. Some of them are tricky though - >should >> "Brisbane Archerfield" be "Brisbane Tower" or "Archerfield Tower". I'm >> guessing the latter since there's also a Brisbane International. What >> about "Burbank Glendale Pasadena" - that could be any of the three! If >> real life pilots, or those who otherwise know definately, could send me >> corrections for their favourite airports that would be great. There >would >> be a double benefit here - less length of message to read, and less of it >> going off the edge of the screen. > >Hi David, > >Actually, what pilots are supposed to do, at least in France, is use the >part of the name that is written in bold face on the charts (national >ones). On Jeppesen IFR charts, it looks like we're supposed to use the >name written in slightly larger characters, at the top of the chart, >above the rest of the name of the airport. That should work most of the >time. > Ah, excellent idea. I see that tower names are on the taxiway diagrams on AOPA's website, which covers a large number of US airports. Cheers - Dave _______________________________________________ Flightgear-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.flightgear.org/mailman/listinfo/flightgear-devel
