On Friday 06 April 2007 02:39:24 Csaba Halász wrote: > Hello! > > Nick had some trouble with the tacan on the lightning, so I had a peek at > it. Worked for me all right. However, the instrument needle works as if it > were a fixed compass card indicator, which it isn't. So there should be an > additional rotation applied to adjust for the a/c heading. Patch attached. > > Please check before commit. Pretty please? ;) > > I also have some issues: > 1) The lightning even has an ILS instrument but I could not find a > DME. Have I overlooked it? > 2) How do you check if the tacan/vor/adf/whatever radio transmitter is > in range? A digital display could go blank, but an instrument needle > must point somewhere. Shouldn't there be an indicator light or > something? Or is it just left to the pilot to listen for the morse > code? > 3) In the lightning rmi and hsi animations there are a couple of > interpolation tables for identity transformation. Do they have any > purpose?
OK, I still have issues with the Lightning TACAN. I was getting angry in IRC last night, as NOBODY ever sees the issues I do. Now, to recap. To get 'refueling_demo' to work (not refueling_demo_1/_2), I had to <!-- --> out the demo in preferences.xml, and in lightning-set.xml change the <ai> line to read from: <scenario>refueling_demo_1</scenario> to: <scenario>refueling_demo</scenario> All well and good. I now have a tanker circling over KSFO, and I can refuel with it! BUT the TACAN green needle always points in the vertical direction. Looking at the property browser, instrumentation/tacan/in-range is always false. Plus the AI aircraft has no TACAN channel-id? So, looking at the data/AI/refueling_demo.xml, I see it doesn't have a channel-id? But adding a channel-id still didn't work... but then changing call-sign from 'ESSO 2' to 'ESSO1' did! - <callsign>ESSO 2</callsign> + <callsign>ESSO1</callsign> + <TACAN-channel-ID>040X</TACAN-channel-ID> Now in this scenerio the green needle works, although I am still not sure what it is telling me... that is another issue, I think. Nick ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys-and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV _______________________________________________ Flightgear-devel mailing list Flightgear-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/flightgear-devel