FlightGear Newsletter January 2015
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ATC-pie: New ATC Client Aircraft Documentation Generator Tool Scenery corner |
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Development news
New ATC client
A new ATC software for the FlightGear network has been announced on the forum, called ATC-pie. Any regular ATC or person with aviation background who wishes to participate in its beta-testing phase is invited to visit the brand new wiki page ATC-pie, where details can be found. It is programmed in Python3 for Qt5, so both platforms and the python3-qt5 bindings must be installed. That done, it is meant to work straight away, with no other resource to install or make/compile command to run. No need to install or update FlightGear, download scenery or fetch any external resource before it can run.
Aircraft documentation
A tool for generating documentation based on the aircraft available in FlightGear was announced on the forum. It parses it's checklists and renders a nice .PDF. It's possible for the aircraft developers to add additional information to the .PDF. The Boeing 777 series serves as an example. The documentation will be published on a central location, check out the new wiki page Documentation compiler for more information. More features for this generator are being suggested; any feedback is welcome!
Scenery Corner
TNCM Custom Scenery -- Flood Fixed
User:Legoboyvdlp has created a custom scenery that fixes the flood at TNCM. He requests that any of you that know of any other flooded airports please to notify him on his talkpage. Legoboyvdlp (talk) 18:04, 16 January 2015 (UTC) This custom scenery is available at https://github.com/legoboyvdlp/LegoTNCMScenery.
Slovenia
Slovenia is a small European country "on the sunny side of the Alps" User:Laserman added 3300 scenery objects, mostly power pylons but also 990 churches and 50 castles which look very nice on the hills and in the villages. Enable random buildings if your hardware can do it. screenshot: LJLJ
Suggested airports: LJCE, LJLJ, LJPZ
Suggested flight:
- takeoff from LJCE and explore the cities Krško, Brežice and Sevnica
- takeoff from LIPY and follow the coast to LJPZ