Putting on my aluminium foil hat, I'll point out that there are five combinations of VOR/DME/TACAN even before you decide whether it is going to be monitored locally and whether the earth has repeatable conductivity to act as a ground plane. These decisions change what gets physically installed ... it may be worth us having multiple models available.
On Fri, Jan 2, 2009 at 11:59 AM, Jon Stockill <li...@stockill.net> wrote: > John Denker wrote: >> Hi Folks >> >> FG puts a model of a VOR shack into the scenery in places where >> there is supposed to be a VOR shack. So far so good. >> >> The problem is, the model seems awfully small. It looks like >> it is about 5 meters in diameter. I've never seen one in RL >> that is that small. I've seen them sometimes with twice that >> diameter and more often with three times that diameter. If >> you want more data on this, measure some of them using Google >> maps / satellite view. >> >> These things are rather important if you want realism. In >> the vicinity of a VOR shack, in VFR conditions, pilots >> really should not be looking at the CDI needle; they >> should be looking out the window so they don't run into >> the idiot who *is* only looking at the CDI needle. >> >> Having an easily-visible VOR shack model helps with this. >> >> There are other useful uses for VOR shacks. >> >> Would somebody be kind enough to make a bigger model, or >> at least in the interim triple the diameter of the existing >> model? > > Send me a model, I'll update the database. > > AFAIK though ther eare currently 2 models in the db, and one at least > was modeled on a real VOR. > > Jon > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > _______________________________________________ > Flightgear-devel mailing list > Flightgear-devel@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/flightgear-devel > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ Flightgear-devel mailing list Flightgear-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/flightgear-devel
