Plan-zakalawe

Task List

Short term

• Improve airport-search performance for the release

Core properties and subsystems

• Support state-machines and some stateful expression in XML, to assist in building complex autopilots.
• Work with Thorsten to re-write re-init to be a normal sim-startup
• USB-HID support, support for more HID devices
  • Add a hidapi backend to event-input code
  • Write a loader to use existing joystick configs with event-input
  • Remove PLIB JS dependency
• Migrate Nasal geo.Coord to be implemented in C++, and hence agree with SGGeodesy functions for courses, distances and so on.

Data / deployment

• Finish libSvn replacement code
• Support a list of 'hangar' repositories and synchronising aircraft from them
• Investigate making other optional base-package data be dynamically loaded

GUI / renderer

• Adapt the 2D panel code to build Canvas nodes
• Adapt the HUD code to build Canvas nodes - horrible task, but needs to be done

GPS / FMS / Route-planning

• Make a 'GPS receiver' instrument which models the physical GPS instrument
• Make an 'IRS' instrument which models an inertial reference platform
• Make a radio-positioning module (DME triangulation)
• GPS Restructuring
  • Make the current 'GPS' instrument use a selectable position source - sim position, GPS, or INS.
  • Break the C++ GPS into various discrete modules, which can be selected or combined from Nasal
  • Bug-fix the various LNAV path controllers (DME arcs, DME intercepts)
  • Move many current C++ GPS functions to Nasal (searching for waypoints, etc)
  • Make a VNAV module for FMS use (compute climb and descent profiles)

Using the above, more real-world GPS and FMC units can be created with Nasal to combine C++ core modules.

NAV Display

• Port to use the Canvas internally