On Fri, Dec 18, 2009 at 4:33 PM, Peter Brown <pe...@smoothwatersports.com>wrote:
> > > Worrying about GS service volume seems off-scale > unimportant relative to other issues. For starters, > Stansted has a reversible ILS. The code to handle > reversible ILSs in FG has been broken for years, and > actually got worse recently. > > The code to make it possible to fly at airports with > reversible ILSs has been available for a long time. > > From a user's point of view, and don't this wrong for I'm not sure of the > long term goals, but if success includes attracting users and retaining them > then the little details such as this will enhance that aspect more than some > other things. Realistic flight performance, including operations within the > airport radius are typically high in value to a user. > > This isn't to take the side of someone complaining about not getting the > glideslope at full volume until 7 miles, he should be well on his way with a > standard decent rate out of the turn point. I think the 10 mile minimum > should work fine, until it gets enhanced to extend to a "trickle out" point, > which is the ideal. (And often 20 miles) > > Is there a published list somewhere of the major issues that the developers > & contributors are striving to correct, enhance, add, etc? > In this particular case we are building a twin turbo prop simulator (Beech 1900) with a full cockpit, dual controls, and wrap around visual system (based largely on FlightGear.) Glide slope range is something the customer commented on, so that pushes it up my priority queue a bit. There are times when it makes sense to debate the customer's perceptions (gently show them why they are incorrect) but in this case I think 10nm is borderline, although upon further discussion, there were other aspects of what was going on that were indeed more important. So no, this isn't a drop dead issue, but at some point if we boost the default service volumes up by a few percent hopefully people won't get too bent out of shape? Curt. -- Curtis Olson: http://baron.flightgear.org/~curt/
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