Hi, I'd like to draw attention to some recent additions to the Scenery DB, done by Julien Nguyen - he's added various tall buildings around Canary Wharf and the City, so that the (steep, tricky) approach to London City 09 is now rather nice - give it a go! (Unfortunately the Thames and nearby docks are not in the correct place, but the next global scenery build will fix that).
(Google will find you the official approach plate, it's a procedure-turn approach almost directly over the London Eye and Shard - having flown it in real-life a few weeks ago, the top of the Shard is 600' below the starboard wing and it looks a lot closer than that!) Combined with previous work from others central London is looking quite good now; there's a few tricky buildings which stand out as missing (st pauls, tower of london, buckingham palace, waterloo railway station) if anyone likes modelling challenges. (A sensible-polygon St Pauls will be awkward in particular I expect) Oh, and if you haven't visited Hong-Kong or Shanghai recently (I hand't), Julien is doing great work in both those locations (and more besides). Now, would any like to make the A318 rated for steep (5.5 degree) approaches, and then I can try British Airway's non-stop to JFK from London City? :D (On there London -> JFK direction they have to stop at Cork to fill up on fuel, the A318 just can't carry quite enough and meet take-off requirements at EGLC) Regards, James ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Precog is a next-generation analytics platform capable of advanced analytics on semi-structured data. The platform includes APIs for building apps and a phenomenal toolset for data science. Developers can use our toolset for easy data analysis & visualization. Get a free account! http://www2.precog.com/precogplatform/slashdotnewsletter _______________________________________________ Flightgear-devel mailing list Flightgear-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/flightgear-devel
