One note on using route manager - in a 12/13 CVS - if includes the departure airport as a waypoint automatically. If you "activate" it on the ground it will move past it on the takeoff roll and proceed to the next waypoint. If you don't activate it until in the air it will circle back to the departure airport as the first waypoint.
Peter On Dec 21, 2009, at 12:17 PM, James Turner wrote: > > On 21 Dec 2009, at 16:33, Heiko Schulz wrote: > >> There were major changes on the GPS and Route-Manager since August (3 Months >> ago already!) >> >> So this has affected the the use of the autopilot as well. >> All aircrafts using the generic Autopilot-panel are affected, but not those >> with an own written flightdirector like Syds Aircrafts (Citation Bravo works >> perfect) or with own configured autopilots like the senecaII, c172p, >> PA24-250. > >> True-Heading can be used with the DTO-Mode in the GPS-menu in the Menubar. >> >> I think James can tell more! > > The issue / feature here is that the route-manager code has 'always' (for > years, at least) directly set /autopilot/settings/true-heading-deg based on > its internal route-following logic. Personally I don't think it's a great > feature, but people do use it (the route manager) in conjunction with the > generic autopilot dialog to quickly navigate between waypoints. When I broke > the feature by accident, it was noticed, and people asked for the feature > back. > > As far as I know, the old route-manager code behaved much the same as my code > does now - but it sounds as if you disagree? > > For the record, my perception is that entering a value in the generic > autopilot dialog for 'true heading' has never worked, because the value would > **always** be over-written by the route manager. > > What *has* changed is that the value now actually comes from the GPS code, > not the route-manager. Both are equally 'generic' (just like the autopilot > itself), it was just simpler from a code design perspective to handle the > autopilot interaction in the GPS code, and keep the route-manager separated. > > Does this fit with what you're seeing? > > Regards, > James > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Verizon Developer Community > Take advantage of Verizon's best-in-class app development support > A streamlined, 14 day to market process makes app distribution fast and easy > Join now and get one step closer to millions of Verizon customers > http://p.sf.net/sfu/verizon-dev2dev > _______________________________________________ > Flightgear-devel mailing list > Flightgear-devel@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/flightgear-devel ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Verizon Developer Community Take advantage of Verizon's best-in-class app development support A streamlined, 14 day to market process makes app distribution fast and easy Join now and get one step closer to millions of Verizon customers http://p.sf.net/sfu/verizon-dev2dev _______________________________________________ Flightgear-devel mailing list Flightgear-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/flightgear-devel
