When I was in the RAF Stationed at Thorney Island - an old Navigator Training School - I flew on navigational Final Test Flight Examination as Flight Instrumentation Engineer. An 8hour flight in a Vickers Varsity Thorney to Gibralter and back. Part of the navigation exercise to determine position and thus prove location by logging Lighthouses throughout the flight was an imperative to successfully passing out from the course. Each Lighthouse had a different (Morse Code I think) sequence of flashing lights I also believe there were static beacons as well as lighthouses.
On Fri, 2006-02-24 at 22:48 +0000, AJ MacLeod wrote: > On Friday 24 February 2006 22:26, Roberto Inzerillo wrote: > > Are lighthouses to be considered as interesting landmarks to VFR flight? > I would very much imagine so. > > > I ask that because I wonder if it could be nice to have 3d lighthouses > > (in the scenery) which emit pulsating light like the real ones. Of > > course this could be usefull if real pilots were used to that. Otherwise > > it could be just a nice addon to flightgear but not so interesting > > regarding the pilot's point of view. > > You should try flying around the coast of Britain in flightgear :-) > > There are a lot of lighthouses modelled... You can see where they are on the > flightgear scenery database website. > > Of course, the more the better, and different countries have different styles > of lighthouse which would be nice to include... > > Cheers, > > AJ > > > ------------------------------------------------------- > This SF.Net email is sponsored by xPML, a groundbreaking scripting language > that extends applications into web and mobile media. Attend the live webcast > and join the prime developer group breaking into this new coding territory! > http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid=110944&bid=241720&dat=121642 > _______________________________________________ > Flightgear-users mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/flightgear-users ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by xPML, a groundbreaking scripting language that extends applications into web and mobile media. Attend the live webcast and join the prime developer group breaking into this new coding territory! http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid=110944&bid=241720&dat=121642 _______________________________________________ Flightgear-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/flightgear-users
