On 17 Aug 2008, at 18:53, John Denker wrote: > Yes, I'm sure there are plenty of people out there who are in the > habit > of shooting approaches without properly IDENTing the navaids. This > is a > common student mistake. Such people ought to thank us for > providing a > simulation that demonstrates how dangerous that behavior is. > >> Might need a global pref to enable the new behaviour, > > The old behavior is dangerously unrealistic. > No sane person would prefer it. > It doesn't make sense to preserve "compatibility" with something > that is > dangerously wrong.
Well, flight sims enable many things that are dangerous - and people use the sim in ways ranging from very realistic training devices to simply messing about for fun. So I'd want some wider agreement that modulating the use of ILS in this way doesn't cause confusion and/or problems. Anyway, I'm not about to make this change in the immediate time scale, but I'll keep it in my 'to consider' pile, and maybe support it as an 'opt-in' realism setting. (If people agreed, we could then make it opt- out). There's a few missing pieces of the puzzle to resolve first - notable an easy way to disable a Navaid. James ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Moblin Your Move Developer's challenge Build the coolest Linux based applications with Moblin SDK & win great prizes Grand prize is a trip for two to an Open Source event anywhere in the world http://moblin-contest.org/redirect.php?banner_id=100&url=/ _______________________________________________ Flightgear-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/flightgear-devel
