Re: [Flightgear-devel] TrafficGear?

2004-02-28 Thread Jorge Van Hemelryck
On Fri, 27 Feb 2004 17:27:27 + David Luff wrote: > That sounds like a good plan. It could get very complicated very quickly! > In the vicinity of an airport, figuring out the other arrivals and > departures shouldn't be too tricky, but if the user is flying an airway in > the middle of the U

Re: [Flightgear-devel] TrafficGear?

2004-02-27 Thread David Luff
On 2/25/04 at 8:34 PM Durk Talsma wrote: >On Wednesday 25 February 2004 11:17, David Luff wrote: > >I'll had a quick glance at the code yesterday, but couldn't really figure >out >how it worked, given the time I had. So do you consider generating AI >traffic >that starts on the ground (i.e. pa

Re: [Flightgear-devel] TrafficGear?

2004-02-25 Thread David Luff
On 2/25/04 at 8:34 PM Durk Talsma wrote: >On Wednesday 25 February 2004 11:17, David Luff wrote: >> In addition to Atlas, there is also another open-source flight planner >for >> MSFS, called 'Nav'. It's written in MFC for windows only, but I was >> wondering how much work it would be to port t

Re: [Flightgear-devel] TrafficGear?

2004-02-25 Thread Durk Talsma
On Wednesday 25 February 2004 11:17, David Luff wrote: > The code to generate the random AI lives in AIMgr.cxx in the ATC directory. > At the moment they get generated between 6 and 25km or so from the airport > and then arrive and land, either staight-in or via a downwind entry > depending on di

Re: [Flightgear-devel] TrafficGear?

2004-02-25 Thread Durk Talsma
On Wednesday 25 February 2004 00:28, David Megginson wrote: > > In other words, while the air carrier thing is neat, it's probably not the > first priority -- it would be like concentrating on busses or tractor > trailers instead of cars when adding AI traffic to a highway simulator. > The air ca

Re: [Flightgear-devel] TrafficGear?

2004-02-25 Thread Josh Babcock
Erik Hofman wrote: David Luff wrote: On 2/24/04 at 8:44 PM Erik Hofman wrote: I have followed an AI Cessna once but I lost in when it literally flew through a mountain, so I guess it is distance limited. Well that's just great, the first person to notice that AI planes fly though mountains co

Re: [Flightgear-devel] TrafficGear?

2004-02-25 Thread Erik Hofman
David Luff wrote: On 2/24/04 at 8:44 PM Erik Hofman wrote: I have followed an AI Cessna once but I lost in when it literally flew through a mountain, so I guess it is distance limited. Well that's just great, the first person to notice that AI planes fly though mountains comes from Holland!!! ;-

Re: [Flightgear-devel] TrafficGear?

2004-02-25 Thread David Luff
On 2/24/04 at 8:44 PM Erik Hofman wrote: > >I have followed an AI Cessna once but I lost in when it literally flew >through a mountain, so I guess it is distance limited. > Well that's just great, the first person to notice that AI planes fly though mountains comes from Holland!!! ;-) Cheers

Re: [Flightgear-devel] TrafficGear?

2004-02-25 Thread David Luff
On 2/24/04 at 9:41 PM Durk Talsma wrote: >On Tuesday 24 February 2004 20:44, Erik Hofman wrote: > >> It is supported for airports that have ATC (sorry no AI traffic at >> EHLE). But indeed Eelde has ATC support and therefore can handle ATC >> traffic at the moment. > >Cool! Wasn't Lelystad suppo

Re: [Flightgear-devel] TrafficGear?

2004-02-24 Thread David Megginson
Durk Talsma wrote: Last weekend, I ran across a project on the internet called project AI: http://www.projectai.com/ which aims at generating realistic AI traffic paterns for Microsoft FlightSim 200[24]. Basically, the project aims at 1) creating real-world airline schedule databases; b) Creati

Re: [Flightgear-devel] TrafficGear?

2004-02-24 Thread Durk Talsma
On Tuesday 24 February 2004 20:44, Erik Hofman wrote: > It is supported for airports that have ATC (sorry no AI traffic at > EHLE). But indeed Eelde has ATC support and therefore can handle ATC > traffic at the moment. Cool! Wasn't Lelystad supposed to get ATC "real soon" about two years ago? I

Re: [Flightgear-devel] TrafficGear?

2004-02-24 Thread Erik Hofman
Durk Talsma wrote: Hey Folks, So, I was wondering if a project like this would be interesting for FlightGear. I was already pleasantly surprised when I discovered AI airplanes, at a local Dutch airport (EHGG) when demonstrating FlightGear to a friend last week, so I assume that FlightGear can

[Flightgear-devel] TrafficGear?

2004-02-24 Thread Durk Talsma
Hey Folks, Last weekend, I ran across a project on the internet called project AI: http://www.projectai.com/ which aims at generating realistic AI traffic paterns for Microsoft FlightSim 200[24]. Basically, the project aims at 1) creating real-world airline schedule databases; b) Creating reali