On Mon, 2005-11-07 at 18:31 +1300, Dene Maxwell wrote: > Hi, > As a newbie to FG I would like to add a view. > > I am from New Zealand ( for those of you who don't know New Zealand, > Wellington the capital, is 41 19.19S 174 48.9E.) the flying > environment in Australasia consists of trips of variably between 500 > and 1,500 Nm. > > Due to the distances involved I like the Fairchild A10 Thunderbolt. Is > has a good cruise speed (300kts), great autopilot, good low speed > landing charateristics. My heart felt thanks to the developer of the > A10. > > I am developing a utility program in VB6 for setting up a flight plan. > At the moment it assumes ideal weather conditions. I know there are > plenty of these on the 'net but I have low spec hardware and dialup > internet so a small intranet based utility suits me ( yes i'm > re-inventing the wheel but with my flavour mags(;->). It also displays > aerodrome templates in PDF format along with Nav and Com information. > > In relation to the thread, I would love to be able to contribute to > the FG ethos. I have some programming experience (Windows, Visual > Basic 6) and have downloaded "Blender" for 3d modelling. I would like > to provide added detail for some of the aerodromes around New Zealand, > just things like runways, terminal buildings, surrounding roads, Nav > Aids, Com etc. I feel modelling aircraft is a bit ambitious at the > moment, but would love to know where the ADF is on the A10 :-) When > I've finished "Flight Planner" I will be asking for help in the above > aims.
Dene, This would be excellent program to have for plotting a flight plan. Perhaps if it could output a text file which is then read when FlightGear starts. I'm not sure what this file format is but I believe it is very straight forward. from the output of "fgfs --verbose --help" > --flight-plan=file Read all waypoints from a file If I recall correctly, the pilots of a modem jumbo don't necessarily enter the flight plan but that is either keyed in but airline staff as it helps to eliminate mistakes and shortens the shift for the pilot. However, to help us, could you consider releasing the source code as GPL or another Open Source license as it means that someone can "borrow" your algorithms and make a Gtk or Qt library based version which is cross platform between operating system. I'm sure I'm not the only one that looks forward to seeing your progress, but not wanting to put any pressure on you. :-) George Patterson _______________________________________________ Flightgear-users mailing list Flightgear-users@flightgear.org http://mail.flightgear.org/mailman/listinfo/flightgear-users 2f585eeea02e2c79d7b1d8c4963bae2d
