George Patterson wrote: > > Agreed. A couple of questions though > > Are the carrier capable aircraft fitted with sufficent radar for doing > this??
If you mean in the real world, They have incredible radar range. Remember that their main radar is located at about FL350. That tends to get you a pretty remote horizon. I'm sure they have other tricks as well. > > Alternatively, what about the idea of having the carrier following a > series of waypoints, returning to the first point after reaching the > last? This was discussed before, it would leave the carrier going downwind about half the time or more. In the real world the lack of headwind would prevent operations. That's why carriers have such big engines, it's not to get places fast. It's to make wind. Even though, a sufficient tailwind can reduce the relative wind to the point where air ops are dangerous. > > Another quick solution would be to have the position of the carrier > exposed in the internal properties. > Which would make it possible to see the carrier on radar, with the help of a little nasal scripting. Someday it would be nice if all ships and aircraft would register their position, TCAS transponder and cross section for this purpose. I was also thinking about how to do ground returns for radar navigation and clutter, but could not come up with any ideas except having a whole separate set of ground data with radar reflectiveness, but even that would be a horrible and bloated hack. Every engineer I know who deals with radar systems say their behavior is very complex. > Just a few possible ideas > > Josh _______________________________________________ Flightgear-users mailing list [email protected] http://mail.flightgear.org/mailman/listinfo/flightgear-users 2f585eeea02e2c79d7b1d8c4963bae2d
