Howto:Implement a Vertical Situation Display in Nasal

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• Last updated: 01/2012
• Contributors: Omega95,

Objective

Implement a VSD (Vertical Situation Display) instrument using Nasal and XML.

Omega95's VSD instrument

Prerequisites

• Howto: Create a new Nasal module
• Howto: Create a new system in Nasal
• Howto: Create a new instrument in Nasal
• Howto: Terrain sampling in Nasal
• Howto: Processing route manager data in Nasal
• Howto: Working with AI and MP properties
• loopid loops, OOP, trigonometry

ToDo

• add XML markup
• add Nasal snippets (one by one)
• upload omega95's screen shots
• link to geo.nas

Code

# placeholder (Nasal)

# placeholder (xml)

External links

• http://www.boeing.com/commercial/aeromagazine/aero_20/vsd.html
• http://www.b737.org.uk/vsd.pps
• http://hoeprr.home.xs4all.nl/DreamHC/Download/B737_VSD_Briefing.pdf
• http://www.smartcockpit.com/data/pdfs/flightops/navigation/Vertical_Situation_Display_For_Improved_Flight_Safety.pdf
• http://human-factors.arc.nasa.gov/publications/Prevot-98-Vertical-Situation-Display-HCI-Aero98.pdf
• http://humanfactors.arc.nasa.gov/publications/Prevot-99-Vertical-Situation-Display-HCI1999.pdf
• http://www.humanfactors.illinois.edu/Reports&PapersPDFs/TechReport/05-10.pdf