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
