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* detailed airport, runway, helipad and parking tooltips. Airport tooltips show things such as airport type (land airport, seaplane base or heliport), latitude, longitude, elevation, number of land runways, water runways, helipads, magnetic variation... Runway/helipad tooltips show runway type, length and width, surface type, magnetic as well as true heading, etc. Parking tooltips show similar information as runway tooltips, plus maximum aircraft radius, reserved airline codes... (note: The [http://geographiclib.sourceforge.net/html/MagneticField.1.html MagneticField] program from [http://geographiclib.sourceforge.net/ GeographicLib] is needed for magnetic data) | * detailed airport, runway, helipad and parking tooltips. Airport tooltips show things such as airport type (land airport, seaplane base or heliport), latitude, longitude, elevation, number of land runways, water runways, helipads, magnetic variation... Runway/helipad tooltips show runway type, length and width, surface type, magnetic as well as true heading, etc. Parking tooltips show similar information as runway tooltips, plus maximum aircraft radius, reserved airline codes... (note: The [http://geographiclib.sourceforge.net/html/MagneticField.1.html MagneticField] program from [http://geographiclib.sourceforge.net/ GeographicLib] is needed for magnetic data) | ||
* easy consulting of METAR data for the nearest station relatively to the selected airport (if any); | * easy consulting of METAR data for the nearest station relatively to the selected airport (if any); | ||
* a ''Pressure Converter'' dialog to convert between inches of mercury (inHg) and hectopascals (hPa) | * a ''Pressure Converter'' dialog to convert between inches of mercury (inHg) and hectopascals (hPa); | ||
* a powerful Airport Finder dialog allowing one to easily find airports using various criteria: distance to a chosen, ''reference airport''; number of land runways, water runways, or helipads; length of the longest or shortest runway in the airport, etc. The table of results displays, among others, the distance and bearings between the reference airport and each “result airport”. It can be sorted according to any column with a simple click on the column header. | * a powerful Airport Finder dialog allowing one to easily find airports using various criteria: distance to a chosen, ''reference airport''; number of land runways, water runways, or helipads; length of the longest or shortest runway in the airport, etc. The table of results displays, among others, the distance and bearings between the reference airport and each “result airport”. It can be sorted according to any column with a simple click on the column header. | ||
* a GPS Tool dialog allowing one to find the distance, initial and final bearings for the shortest path between two given airports. The dialog also computes the flight duration for a given ground speed, and vice versa. | * a GPS Tool dialog allowing one to find the distance, initial and final bearings for the shortest path between two given airports. The dialog also computes the flight duration for a given ground speed, and vice versa. | ||
* easy selection of one or more scenarios, allowing one to browse the description of each available scenario; | * easy selection of one or more scenarios, allowing one to browse the description of each available scenario; | ||
* realtime preview of the [[Command_line_options|arguments]] that would be passed to fgfs (the FlightGear executable) if the ''Run FG'' button were to be pressed; | * realtime preview of the [[Command_line_options|arguments]] that would be passed to fgfs (the FlightGear executable) if the ''Run FG'' button were to be pressed; | ||
* easy display of the output of ''fgfs --help --verbose'' for the selected FlightGear version | * easy display of the output of ''fgfs --help --verbose'' for the selected FlightGear version (''Help → Show available fgfs options''); | ||
* the possibility to copy to the clipboard a shell command that is equivalent to what FFGo would do if the ''Run FG'' button were to be pressed; | * the possibility to copy to the clipboard a shell command that is equivalent to what FFGo would do if the ''Run FG'' button were to be pressed; | ||
* the option to translate fgfs' ''--parkpos'' option into the corresponding combination of ''--lat'', ''--lon'' and ''--heading'' options. This behavior can be enabled using the ''Fake the --parkpos option'' checkbox found in the Miscellaneous tab of the Preferences dialog. It is useful when the ''--parkpos'' option is broken in FlightGear (which is unfortunately the case in FlightGear 2016.1.1 and in the ''next'' branch of [[FlightGear Git|FlightGear's Git repository]] as of March 2016); | * the option to translate fgfs' ''--parkpos'' option into the corresponding combination of ''--lat'', ''--lon'' and ''--heading'' options. This behavior can be enabled using the ''Fake the --parkpos option'' checkbox found in the Miscellaneous tab of the Preferences dialog. It is useful when the ''--parkpos'' option is broken in FlightGear (which is unfortunately the case in FlightGear 2016.1.1 and in the ''next'' branch of [[FlightGear Git|FlightGear's Git repository]] as of March 2016); | ||
* easy viewing and saving of FlightGear output (log); | * easy viewing and saving of FlightGear output (log); | ||
* automatic FFGo + FlightGear log saving and rotating. | * automatic FFGo + FlightGear log saving and rotating; | ||
* complete German translation, complete French translation except for the help file ([https://github.com/frougon/FFGo/blob/master/ffgo/data/help/help_en en], [https://github.com/frougon/FFGo/blob/master/ffgo/data/help/help_fr fr]), other translations currently outdated (English is the language FFGo is written in, thus it is obviously complete, and not a translation ''per se''). | |||
== Screenshots == | == Screenshots == | ||