FlightGear Newsletter June 2011: Difference between revisions

James started to work on extending [[navigation display]] (ND) functionality, which is important for many modern glass cockpits. A prototype version derived from the existing weather-rader instrument was created, and based on this a more complete, style-able version is being created which will appear in Git once the tree opens for new development. The instrument can display route, waypoint, navaid and traffic data, using symbols supplied by the panel developer, and with control over text labels and colors. The goal is to be able to approximate most real-world displays of this type closely, but not necessarily supporting every feature!

Longer term, James hopes to integrate the existing weather-rader instrument with the current environment code, and to create a similar instrument modelling the [[EGPWS]] terrain display layer, which can be selected in many navigation displays.