Melchior FRANZ wrote: > We have /position/altitude-agl-ft in the property tree (-0.1946648994 ft). > But what the (old) HUD code uses for "RadioAltimeter" is > > /position/altitude-ft - /position/ground-elev-ft = 6.202537 > > Clearly, the 6 ft make more sense than any negative number. What why > is altitude-agl-ft wrong? I'd need the 6.202537 in the property tree. > How would I call it? /position/correct-altitude-agl-ft, or what? :-} > > m. > > > /position/altitude-agl-ft = -0.1946648994 > /position/altitude-ft = 4527.586407 > /position/ground-elev-ft = 4521.38387 >
Could this have been introduced early on as a hack to compensate for a difference between the wheel contact point and some aircraft reference point higher up on the aircraft structure? It looks pretty suspect to me. Curt. -- Curtis Olson http://www.flightgear.org/~curt HumanFIRST Program http://www.humanfirst.umn.edu/ FlightGear Project http://www.flightgear.org Unique text: 2f585eeea02e2c79d7b1d8c4963bae2d _______________________________________________ Flightgear-devel mailing list Flightgear-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/flightgear-devel
