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Robert Black wrote: > On Thursday 12 July 2007 07:14, AnMaster wrote: >> Hm that sounds good but how would it handle "out of ordinary situations", >> such as all engines out landing for some plane when there are several other >> planes waiting to land and so on (called priority landing iirc, but I'm not >> an expert on this), if the system should handle such situations the menu >> would have to be both long and complex. >> >> Also how would it handle if some mp aircrafts ignore it, should it try to >> "redirect" traffic to other runways then? >> >> Different types of aircrafts need different minimum runway length. Where it >> is possible to land a j3cub it may not be possible to land a Concorde. ;) >> >> Would the ATC only handle in air traffic, or "route" aircrafts on taxiways >> too? Is it even possible to find the names of the taxiways in FlightGear? >> >> >> Regards, >> AnMaster >> > I was talking about Live ATC with human controllers but they have brought up > automated ATC. Two different but compatible areas. > Normally you are not going to have random AI traffic when ATC is active. But > as Stewart mentioned machine cotrolled AI traffic would work and that is > another whole area but a great one. > > Well, in any case "the menu system" would have to be extensive in any case to handle situations like telling ATC that the pilot will be landing with one engine out or that they request priority landing due to being almost out of fuel and many other such situations. Another related issue is what i think is called area controller, that is ATC that doesn't handle an airport but all the air traffic in a larger area. Would that be possible in fg? Regards AnMaster -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.7 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFGllOvWmK6ng/aMNkRChpGAKDI+Ie6Y+V0V24uZZPWy/GquS4zKgCfRyHv dxKCRZU2bMF7Gndxf5vHiGU= =1/c1 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by DB2 Express Download DB2 Express C - the FREE version of DB2 express and take control of your XML. No limits. Just data. Click to get it now. http://sourceforge.net/powerbar/db2/ _______________________________________________ Flightgear-devel mailing list Flightgear-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/flightgear-devel
