Hi, maybe I can raise some more attention to a specific bug, which keeps me from using FG properly. I have also heard a number of other people complaining. If I could vote, I'd like to vote for this issue to be the currently most annoying FlightGear bug: Scenery tiles keep disappearing (when flying a longer distances), http://code.google.com/p/flightgear-bugs/issues/detail?id=122
It's very disappointing when you approach your destination airport, have the runway in sight, and then when you get too close, *whoosh* it just disappears into a patch of blue sky. You can still try to land in the void - but it's certainly not much fun. You can keep flying - and then the scenery tiles sometimes reappear in the distance... To me this happens *very* often, feels like > 50% of all longer distance flights. I'm not sure about the minimum distance it takes to trigger, maybe about more than 60miles from the original airport. So this keeps me from flying longer navigation routes. I can stay within a limited area around my departure airport to avoid this. But circling in one area gets boring soon... It applies to all platforms: tracker issue was raised for mac, I see it on Linux, and during the Frankfurt ATC sessions I've heard several people complaining with Windows systems. The tracker mentions FG 1.9.1 and 2.0.0 - and I also see it with the latest GIT. Maybe not everyone sees this issues - or not with the same high probability. I'm willing to help with testing and also debugging. But I don't know much about the FG scenery and graphics system - and don't want to start from scratch on my own. So, please, any help on this bug, any hints on what I could check, which FlightGear modules could be related, any ideas on how to locate this issue are welcome. cheers, Thorsten ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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
