Re: [Flightgear-devel] improving VOR indication (patch for navradio.cxx/hxx)

2008-08-29 Thread John Denker
On 08/28/2008 12:04 PM, Torsten Dreyer wrote: Here is a little patch that changes the behaviour of the VOR CDI and OFF-flag for indicators like the HSI when getting outside the range of the VOR station. The benefit is: - No more jitter for flag and needles That's not a benefit.

[Flightgear-devel] improving VOR indication (patch for navradio.cxx/hxx)

2008-08-28 Thread Torsten Dreyer
Here is a little patch that changes the behaviour of the VOR CDI and OFF-flag for indicators like the HSI when getting outside the range of the VOR station. Currently, when flying at a distance between the effective_range and twice the effective_range of a VOR station, the in-range property is

Re: [Flightgear-devel] improving VOR indication (patch for navradio.cxx/hxx)

2008-08-28 Thread Curtis Olson
Hi Torsten, Does this patch work with any aircraft and nav radio, or do the individual aircraft need to be updated to match. I did a quick test in the default c172 flying from SJC to SFO, but the SFO 28R ILS seemed to have rock solid needle response even on the ground at SJC (26+ miles away) and

Re: [Flightgear-devel] improving VOR indication (patch for navradio.cxx/hxx)

2008-08-28 Thread James Turner
On 28 Aug 2008, at 20:51, Curtis Olson wrote: Does this patch work with any aircraft and nav radio, or do the individual aircraft need to be updated to match. I did a quick test in the default c172 flying from SJC to SFO, but the SFO 28R ILS seemed to have rock solid needle response

Re: [Flightgear-devel] improving VOR indication (patch for navradio.cxx/hxx)

2008-08-28 Thread Curtis Olson
On Thu, Aug 28, 2008 at 3:03 PM, James Turner wrote: I suspect there's lots of debate over decay functions - Torsten's computation is cheap and seems reasonable, but I'll let people with more aeronautical experience comment in detail. However, the use of random() in the existing code is much