On Thu, 15 Apr 2004, Innis Cunningham wrote: > Hi Ernesto > I have set airports all over the world using the preferences.xml > file and have never had a problem. > When you set SVMI do you get any message on FG startup saying > it can't find the runway you selected. > If I don't set the correct runway I will see this message come up > and FG defaults to I guess the longest runway. > This is probably a longshot but have you checked that the runways > you are calling for are named the same in the FG database.If they > are then I am all out of ideas.
I think I wasn't clear in my explanation. If I startup with --airport-id=SVMI --runway=9, it works fine, with the same behaviour if I change preferences.xml. This airport has to runways, 9 and 8, defined in that order in the database. My comment is regarding the automatic initial runway selection when FlightGear starts on any given airport, that is, if I start with --airport-id=SVMI it starts on RWY26 which is not the "default" runway for that airfield. Why does it do that? Because it has a choice of runways and has picked the _reverse_ (is that appropiate?) of the _last_ one defined in the datbase. Another example is starting in SVFM; you'll be set on RWY29 by default, the "wrong" RWY for that airfield. The database has, of course, only one runway (11). I think the airport database should have some way to define the _default_ runway for an airfield when the user _doesn't_ select one explicitly. I'm suggesting the simple rule of picking the first runway. In this way, those who know a particular airfield can set up the appropiate "default" runway so that any user wanting to "try out" that airfield is automatically set-up on the "usually normal" runway. -- Ernesto Hern�ndez-Novich - On Linux 2.6.5 i686 - Unix: Live free or die! Geek by nature, Linux by choice, Debian of course. If you can't apt-get it, it isn't useful or doesn't exist. GPG Key Fingerprint = 438C 49A2 A8C7 E7D7 1500 C507 96D6 A3D6 2F4C 85E3 _______________________________________________ Flightgear-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.flightgear.org/mailman/listinfo/flightgear-users
