Ron Jensen > I noticed when I upgraded to fgfs 0.9.9 there seems to be support for > TACAN now, but I can't figure out how to get it to function. Does it > work? > > FlightGear/Navaids$ zgrep HIF nav.dat.gz > 12 41.120503 -111.963681 4806 11120 0.000 HIF Hill TACAN > 4 41.104047 -111.959581 4775 10990 152.980 IHIF KHIF 14 LLZ > 6 41.137167 -111.980497 4780 10990 280151.963 --- KHIF 14 GS > 8 41.149389 -111.990497 4560 0 151.963 --- KHIF 14 MM > > If I set the DME freq to 111.20 I can read the HIF TACAN DME. Looking > up that freq in TACAN_freq.dat yields channel 025Y: > > FlightGear/Navaids$ zgrep 11120 TACAN_freq.dat.gz > 025Y 11120 > > If I set the TACAN to 025Y near HIF /instrumentation/tacan/in-range > remains "false" > > Web sources suggest the TACAN at HIF is channel 49. > > If I set the TACAN to 049(X/Y) near HIF /instrumentation/tacan/in-range > remains "false" > > Found these pages: > http://microvoltradio.com/tacan.htm > http://www.angelfire.com/mb/amandx/vuhffreq.html > > I guess the numbers in TACAN_freq.dat are in 100s of KHz instead of 10s > of KHz like in nav.dat.gz. So channel 49X is 1,010.0 MHz not 101.00 MHz > like I was reading it at first. It seems the 111.20 MHz DME in > nav.dat.gz is correctly assosciated with TACAN channel 49X, and > FlightGear treats it like any other DME, which I guess it is. > > Is there a way in FlightGear to pull the DME freq from a TACAN channel? > > Is there a way to get data into /instrumentation/tacan/ ? >
You have to be using an ac with TACAN fitted - Hunter or Seahawk to get it to work, and select the TACAN channel through the pull-down menu - equipment - radio settings. If you still aren't getting any read-outs, let me know and I'll look into it further. Vivian ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Splunk Inc. Do you grep through log files for problems? Stop! Download the new AJAX search engine that makes searching your log files as easy as surfing the web. DOWNLOAD SPLUNK! http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid3432&bid#0486&dat1642 _______________________________________________ Flightgear-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/flightgear-users
