Template talk:Infobox aircraft

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Aircraft Ratings

This issues of having an aircraft rating system have been previously discussed at lengths, see Formalizing_Aircraft_Status.

This unsigned comment was added by ‎MILSTD (Talk | contribs) 21:57, 3 June 2009 (UTC)

Infobox Parser

It would give more control over the infobox if we had the parser installed. http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/ParserFunctions#.23if: --Sek

I agree. By the way, we seem to have lost our abilities to upload files. Can we get that back? -Ampere 00:28, 12 June 2006 (EDT)

Uploads should be working again - not sure how I missed that. The parser extension is also now installed. Hellosimon 01:17, 12 June 2006 (EDT)

The parser functions don't seem to work. Can anyone confirm? -70.48.6.31 21:59, 12 June 2006 (EDT)

The parser functions still aren't working. For example: gives me this instead:

See the template.

-Ampere 15:43, 17 June 2006 (EDT)

The extension is installed - see Special:Version, but the installation page for the extension reports that #if is broken with 1.6.x. Hellosimon 11:44, 19 June 2006 (EDT)

Suggestion: Field for aircraft's name in FlightGear in the Info box.

I think it would be good to have a field in the info box for the aircraft's name(s) in FlightGear (i.e. the ones used with --aircraft=<name>). These are not seldom short and a bit cryptic, hence (IMHO) not suitable as the displayed main name of the aircraft or as the page name. Nice work with the new info box template, btw! --AndersG 18:29, 24 October 2007 (EDT)

I can do, just tell me how to name it. What's IMHO? Btw, thanks for your compliment. --Gijs 16:33, 25 October 2007 (EDT)

What to name it is a bit tricky. Maybe it could have the label --aircraft= in a displayed box and the "property" could perhaps be called fgname? Some aircraft have several names/-set files too, can one make the info box cope with that? --AndersG 17:44, 25 October 2007 (EDT)

I've give it a try (see an example here: Boeing 737). Is this what you mean? --Gijs 15:42, 26 October 2007 (EDT)

Close, but I was aiming for "--aircraft" where FG Name is now and just 737-300 in the other column of the displayed box. (Or just remove --aircraft -- I think most people will be able to figure out that FG Name is what you use with the --aircraft command line parameter.) --AndersG 09:32, 27 October 2007 (EDT)

Suggestion: development hangar field

With more aircraft developers having their own GIT repository, or their own development hangar, would it be a worthwhile having a Template:Development URL link just below the Template:Download link that usually points to a stable release.

Scotth1 12:06, 19 October 2010 (UTC)

Added! Thanks for the suggestion!
Gijs 08:13, 20 October 2010 (UTC)

Suggestion: Cockpit image and version number

"openflight" suggested at the forum that every aircraft page at the wiki should have the aircraft version number and a cockpit image, so why not include it in the aircraft infobox?

I do not know where the cockpit image would fit best, but he pointed to the Aerostar article (permalink) as an example of what he would like to see, in essence with the aircraft image at top of the infobox and the cockpit image at the bottom. Johan G 03:30, 21 January 2012 (EST)

Ready icons broken WIP.png Fixed

{{Ready}} is no longer called from {{Infobox aircraft}}. The Ready icons seems to have been deleted by accident (diff). I'm not really sure on how to put them back, but I think I'm going to try anyway, as I have just tried to tidy them up by creating a separate category for them and added the latest one to {{Ready}}.

Johan G (Talk | contribs) 03:56, 16 September 2012 (EDT)

I do not really dare to mess up all the aircraft infoboxes. —Johan G (Talk | contribs) 04:20, 16 September 2012 (EDT)
Good news! I have fixed the template on a special testing page (User:Red_Leader/Sandbox/Infobox_Aircraft) (diff). I have done some testing on both my own sandbox and the C172p page. I would be happy for someone to check and then implement these changes. —Red Leader (talk, contribs) 17:03, 26 October 2014 (UTC)
That looks rather ok to me. As it does not seem to break any functionality feel free to implement it by adding your changes to the "live" template. :-)
Johan G (Talk | contribs) 18:33, 26 October 2014 (UTC)
Thanks for taking care of fixing this. Nevertheless, I quite agree with Johan's comment a little lower on this page: " I think that the icons preferably should be a bit smaller". It would be nice to fit them into the infobox, similar to the status indication stars. Right now they are somewhat lost in space.
Gijs (talk) 16:41, 27 October 2014 (UTC)
OK Gijs, making them smaller would be trivial; it's just a matter of setting a picture's size. I'll do it in minute. There's one annoying bug I've detected though. On aircraft pages that use the template without any ready icons (the Harrier is an example), there is some extra whitespace that appears. I don't know yet how to fix though.
Red Leader (Talk | contribs) 17:32, 27 October 2014 (UTC)
Right, that's a possibility, but what Johan and I meant is an icon that is smaller by design. The star for example is present on all ready-icons, but doesn't have any meaning. A small pictogram without any text (apart from an alt/hover text) that is different for each category (dual control, bombable etc.) would make it possible to place several of these icons within a small space, like the infobox. Somewhat similar to the "Used on these elements" icons at http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Highway
I've fixed the spacing issue; you uncommented a white line ;-)
Gijs (talk) 19:41, 27 October 2014 (UTC)
Thanks for fixing it. I see what you mean now. I'll investigate it at some point.
Red Leader (Talk | contribs) 22:01, 27 October 2014 (UTC)

Supported/used aircraft features

Will be extending this to also show:

  • interactive tutorial support
  • Aircraft Checklists support
  • Route Manager support
  • Canvas use
  • standard/custom autopilot
  • IFR equipped cockpit/aircraft

This unsigned comment was added by Hooray (Talk | contribs) 18:24, 30 November 2013‎ (UTC)

I have been thinking of this a few times since I found that the Ready icons was not used any more, see #Ready icons broken above. I think that the icons preferably should be a bit smaller, like 24 or 32 px square, to fit in more features in a smaller space. This is a bit down on my to-do list though. A small start could be listing the features as a bullet list in small text.
Johan G (Talk | contribs) 18:05, 1 December 2013 (UTC)

Bullet lists and the fgname parameter

Regarding this edit summary and this edit. The thing with bullet lists are that the asterisks have to be the first character on a new line.

Trying to change that for the fgname parameter I run into another problem: The preceding and following <tt> and </tt> tags puts the aircraft name on a new line. This will look ugly for all aircraft, yet for now I have kept it.

Johan G (Talk | contribs) 05:10, 19 May 2015 (EDT)