Dear Durk Can I get a copy of your development code of the smooth landing process? I was looking for the same since long.
Cheers Prof. Rao --- On Sun, 8/29/10, Durk Talsma <d.tal...@xs4all.nl> wrote: > From: Durk Talsma <d.tal...@xs4all.nl> > Subject: [Flightgear-devel] Arrivals > To: "FlightGear developers discussions" > <flightgear-devel@lists.sourceforge.net> > Date: Sunday, August 29, 2010, 6:18 PM > Hi All, > > Thanks to the combination of vacation and a record amount > of rainfall in the > last four days, I've been able to rework a major section of > the AI traffic > code. One of the weakest aspects of the AI traffic system > was that aircraft > never performed a reasonable approach, but basically just > plummeted out of the > skies, only to pretend making a reasonable landing (and > usually ending up > several miles short of the runway). > > The new code generates a more realistic approach path, and > ensures that > arrivals will start almost instantly after program start. > The approach paths > are set up in such a way that aircraft will be lined up > with 90 seconds of > flight time (or more) between them. This is done by using > small changes in > length of the final approach path, combined with an > approach controller / > pilot that commands small changes in descent speed, to > ensure that each > aircraft will arrive at the final approach fix at the > slotted time. > > Note that there are still a few issues remaining, but I'm > planning to fix > those later (most notably, there's still a rather sharp > drop onto the runway > at the end of the landing phase, but I'll work on that > later. > > I'm planning to push this onto gitorious towards late > afternoon / early > evening today. I'd like to let it run for a few more hours, > and still need to > remove a couple of dozens of debug messages, but other than > that, I think that > the code is ready for more general testing. > > Please let me know if you find any issues (once committed). > I'm currently > having vacation, so I should be able to address any issues > withing reasonable > time. > > Cheers, > Durk > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Sell apps to millions through the Intel(R) Atom(Tm) > Developer Program > Be part of this innovative community and reach millions of > netbook users > worldwide. Take advantage of special opportunities to > increase revenue and > speed time-to-market. Join now, and jumpstart your future. > http://p.sf.net/sfu/intel-atom-d2d > _______________________________________________ > Flightgear-devel mailing list > Flightgear-devel@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/flightgear-devel > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Start uncovering the many advantages of virtual appliances and start using them to simplify application deployment and accelerate your shift to cloud computing http://p.sf.net/sfu/novell-sfdev2dev _______________________________________________ Flightgear-devel mailing list Flightgear-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/flightgear-devel
