bah, nevermind... it only does it if i'm really close (i was going from snohomish to seatac).
----- Original Message ----- From: "John Pearson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "FlightGear user discussions" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Saturday, October 23, 2004 2:53 AM Subject: Re: [Flightgear-users] Re: approaching airport > using dme seems easy enough, but its a pain to have to open the internal > property browser and browse to /radios/dme to see the distance. > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Melchior FRANZ" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Sent: Saturday, October 23, 2004 2:36 AM > Subject: [Flightgear-users] Re: approaching airport > > > > * John Pearson -- Saturday 23 October 2004 11:01: > > > Is there any way I can have flightgear warn me when i get within > > > like 30 miles of the airport? Or is there an easy way to see the > > > distance from you to the airport? > > > > Depends on what you consider "easy". It would be relatively easy for > > an external (Perl?) script/program to read out the position and > > search for the nearest airports. I had something similar running. > > It put big, colored balloons over the next five airports. (This > > was an experiment for interpolating METAR provided weather data > > between them.) --> http://members.aon.at/mfranz/marker.jpeg > > > > m. > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Flightgear-users mailing list > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > http://mail.flightgear.org/mailman/listinfo/flightgear-users > > 2f585eeea02e2c79d7b1d8c4963bae2d > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Flightgear-users mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://mail.flightgear.org/mailman/listinfo/flightgear-users > 2f585eeea02e2c79d7b1d8c4963bae2d > _______________________________________________ Flightgear-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.flightgear.org/mailman/listinfo/flightgear-users 2f585eeea02e2c79d7b1d8c4963bae2d
