On Friday 04 April 2003 08:57, David Luff wrote: > On 4/3/03 at 9:16 PM Jonathan Gardner wrote: > >All I can say is "wow!" Flying from KEMT and seeing other planes taxiing > >and flying around was a bit of a jolt. Makes fgfs a little less like > >The Langoliers. ;-) > > Thanks! > > At the moment the one other plane in the sky doesn't really display much > intelligence in respect to avoiding the user. It won't enter the runway > whilst the user is still on it, but even that doesn't work if you leave the > runway and return. It flies a very tight pattern and often catches me up > and overtakes on the second circuit! I'm working on getting it to extend > its pattern when a plane in front is flying a looser pattern, and to > go-around if the user sits on the runway whilst it's landing. > > Although currently limited to KEMT, in theory one should be able to drop in > another *.taxi file (logical description of the taxiway/runways/parking) to > fgfsbase/ATC for any given airport, and have an AI plane appear there and > fly a couple of circuits. In practice, I haven't documented the format > I've used, and it's shortly to change to importing the output from Bernie's > taxiway editor. Once that is done users should be able to get a plane to > appear at any airport. Of course, I'm sure that will show up some so-far > unfound bugs!! > > The plane does communicate with ATC to a certain extent - you can listen in > on KEMT ground on 125.9, and tower on 121.2. > > What's the Langoliers? > > Cheers - Dave > > > _______________________________________________ > Flightgear-users mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://mail.flightgear.org/mailman/listinfo/flightgear-users
Well hey! This sounds cool :)) I flew from there just now but didn't see any other aircraft. I missed something I think... how do I get the other aircraft into fgfs? I see in the ATC dir the data for it ... but didn't see the other plane. Re's WillyB _______________________________________________ Flightgear-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.flightgear.org/mailman/listinfo/flightgear-users
