Re: [Flightgear-devel] ATC and radio signal attenuation

2011-09-06 Thread Adrian Musceac
On Monday, September 05, 2011 20:01:29 Durk Talsma wrote: > > I'm a little pressed for time this week, so I have to keep my response a > little on the short side. In essence, I think that this would be any > extremely cool feature to have. Do you already have a working copy that > you would consid

Re: [Flightgear-devel] ATC and radio signal attenuation

2011-09-05 Thread Martin Spott
Adrian Musceac wrote: > I have started to implement radio signal attenuation into the ATC subsystem, > with the goal to later move this to it's own location. I'm pretty certain that future will show us many possible uses for a generic implementation (just think of FGCom). Nice to hear about it,

Re: [Flightgear-devel] ATC and radio signal attenuation

2011-09-05 Thread Alex Perry
If you know the phone number of the ATC facility, you should be able to enter it into a popup that looks like a satphone and communicate with them without the attenuation constraint. Oh, and extend the ATC dialog to understand "say phone number" and "on landing call" interactions. On Mon, Sep 5,

Re: [Flightgear-devel] ATC and radio signal attenuation

2011-09-05 Thread Durk Talsma
Hi Adrian, > > So far, only ground to AI aircraft and AI aircraft to ground is implemented, > as part of the FGATCController class. > This system, if proven functional, should probably be split into a separate > module and applied to all comunication, including player-to-ground and player- >

Re: [Flightgear-devel] ATC and radio signal attenuation

2011-09-04 Thread Adrian Musceac
On Sunday, September 04, 2011 17:09:43 Torsten Dreyer wrote: > Hi Adrian, > > this all sounds very interesting and not only for AI Aircraft but also > for the navigation radios. I am currently refactoring the navradio code > and I'd really like to have a better propagation model than our current

Re: [Flightgear-devel] ATC and radio signal attenuation

2011-09-04 Thread Torsten Dreyer
Am 04.09.2011 14:15, schrieb Adrian Musceac: > I have started to implement radio signal attenuation into the ATC subsystem, > with the goal to later move this to it's own location. > I have chosen the Irregular Terrain Model (ITM) developed by Longley-Rice in > the 70's for several reasons: [..] Hi