On Thursday 20 April 2006 18:59, NATHANIEL HOMIER wrote: > Does anybody know the closest airport to Mt. Everest and the > true heading at takeoff to reach Everest. I want to fly > around Everest. On a related note how does a person find > airports and their identifiers outside of the United States. > I use http://www.airnav.com to find airports and their > identifiers in the US.
The nearest airport to Everest is Kathmandu Tribhuvan, ID VNKT. I can't remember the exact heading but IIRC it's only a little north of East. Everest, Lhotse and Nuptse are identifiable, with Everest being represented a bit better than the other two (I think it's about 1000ft low, judging by the fly-overs I've done). The khumbu glacier isn't very well represented, last time I looked but when you consider the range of elevations, combined with the resolution of the elevation data that's not too surprising. I've always found the entire region (above 20k ft) covered in snow, so it seems that the land cover data FG uses is correct here - no need to use winter textures;) LeeE ------------------------------------------------------- Using Tomcat but need to do more? Need to support web services, security? Get stuff done quickly with pre-integrated technology to make your job easier Download IBM WebSphere Application Server v.1.0.1 based on Apache Geronimo http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid=120709&bid=263057&dat=121642 _______________________________________________ Flightgear-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/flightgear-users
