On Thursday 17 September 2009 10:15:02 am Vivian Meazza wrote: > > --airport=EGNM, then you will see an AIAircraft (B737 in Easyjet livery) > rise vertically off the ground and eventually disappear. > > The relevant code seems (Durk's) seems to be: > > AIAircraft line # 416 > > if (getGroundElevationM(SGGeod::fromGeodM(pos, 20000), alt, 0)) > tgt_altitude_ft = alt * SG_METER_TO_FEET; >
Just to add two cents: I've seen more or less similar behavior in recent versions of FlightGear, but only in cases where two or more AIAircraft got on top of each other for one reason or the other (i.e. at airports with no or insufficient parking. Each successive call to getGroundElevation would put the lowest aircraft on top of the other, and slowly the pairs/triplets/whatever would climb up in the air. Interestingly, a recent update to the heading calculation library functions inadvertently broke the distance keeping code, and made aircraft deliberately taxi on top of each other. Combined with the ground elevation problem, this gave some pretty spaced out visuals ... :-) The distance keeping code is fixed now, except for a (hopefully) minor problem with the distance to user controlled aircraft, which is still on my TODO list. IIRC, I ran flightgear with the EHAM scenery last week, and didn't notice anything unusual. Unfortunately, I'm extremely busy right now, so I can't be of much help at the moment, but I might have a look at EHAM as well as EGNM, just to see whether I can replicate the problem. Cheers, Durk ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Come build with us! The BlackBerry® Developer Conference in SF, CA is the only developer event you need to attend this year. Jumpstart your developing skills, take BlackBerry mobile applications to market and stay ahead of the curve. Join us from November 9-12, 2009. Register now! http://p.sf.net/sfu/devconf _______________________________________________ Flightgear-devel mailing list Flightgear-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/flightgear-devel
