On 17 Aug 2008, at 17:13, jj wrote: > There has been some discussion on another group (in X-Plane) > concerning > old radio range navigation. There is some interest in being able to > do > the radio range orientations and navigation. > > This would require setting up a data base of the old range locations > and > beam directions as well as the ability to recieve them on Low Freq > receivers. That data might be hard to come by. > > It would be slick to be able to do this in the older airplanes. Is > anyone interested in taking on such a project?
I'm definitely not volunteering taking this on, but it's not *such* a large amount of work. As I can see it, the tasks are - assemble the data in some format - get it into FG, alongside the existing navaids (there's also the potential to attach service dates to the existing navaids, so they could be disabled prior to a certain date) - write a new kind of instrument (probably copying or subclassing navradio.cxx or adf.cxx) which does the range / detection math, and drives the appropriate output props (needle deflections or audio generation or whatever) - write the GUI for such an instrument. Each of those is a pretty straightforward step, that I can see - not trivial, but fairly self-contained. 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
