Hi All, after a slightly longer than expected break from FlightGear, I started picking up coding again about a week or two ago. I am currently working integrating the AIModels based traffic system with an ATC system in which the user can also participate. It's going to be similar to the system that David Luff has been working on for a long time, and is basically intended to be a replacement of his AI/ATC code (in mutual agreement with David). In some respects it's also similar to the "ATC" system from FS2004. But, I will follow my own intuitions in implementing this system. The last weeks, I've been mainly working on getting reaquainted with the inner workings of FlightGear. Most specifically, finding out how the AI system actually worked and finding out how to read a keyboard command from a GUI dialog box.
Today, I had my first minor success by managing to let my own aircraft request permission for engine startup while parked at the B terminal at EHAM. I managed to re-use a lot of classes that were originally designed for AI use, and today's engine startup clearance was still accomplished through the AI system. (i.e., it was my AI copilot doing the talking. When it comes to user interactions, the next logical move will obviously be to block ATC transmissions that are initiated by the AI co-pilot, although it might be interesting to keep this as an option (see below). I still need to look at the details, but this should be quite doable. As a slightly unexpected bonus, today I realized that I can use all the relevant classes from the AIModels and traffic manager system here and set them up to reflect the user's aircraft in the AI world, without actually interfering with the AIModels and traffic manager subsystems. In doing so, I realize that there are some interesting future possibilities: 1) Let the AI system create a flight plan for the user aircraft and use this flightplan eiter for VFR or IFR flight planning 2) Let the ATC system handle the comm radio and let it serve as a virtual co-pilot. 3) Build a simple light-weight flight planner into FlightGear 4) Possibly a lot more that I haven't even thought of >From this initial success, it's probably still going to take a long road >before I have a fully fully functional system up and running, so it may take a >while before I will commit this to get. Nevertheless, I just wanted share this >minor triumph with you all and to give a quick heads up with respect to my >current flightgear whereabouts. Cheers, Durk ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Forrester Wave Report - Recovery time is now measured in hours and minutes not days. Key insights are discussed in the 2010 Forrester Wave Report as part of an in-depth evaluation of disaster recovery service providers. Forrester found the best-in-class provider in terms of services and vision. Read this report now! http://p.sf.net/sfu/ibm-webcastpromo _______________________________________________ Flightgear-devel mailing list Flightgear-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/flightgear-devel
