Talk:Aircraft checklists: Difference between revisions

'''Hooray:''' Based on the end user feedback we've seen on the forums, the autostart feature is another popular (read: important) thing for new users [http://flightgear.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=25&t=19836#p182372]. And that's obviously something else which isn't currently standardized: autostart is implemented in a custom fashion for each aircraft. But using the new checklist system, it would probably even be possible to streamline the implementation of autostart features, simply by providing the raw, properties/scripts, that need to be processed in order to do an autostart. That would mean that autostart could be implemented on top of the checklist system, because it would also use a common/shared XML file that exactly describes how to perform an autostart step-by-step. These steps would then be detailed in the checklist itself - but given that not just the human-readable descriptions are provided, but also the simulator-related actions to perform, an autostart feature could be automatically provided for aircraft that have a full checklist implemented. At that point it would even be possible to add a button to each checklist item to interactively view the necessary step, and perform them just by clicking a button, including other checklists (landing, go-around etc). According to the git logs, [[User:Zakalawe]] has recently added state machine support - so that adding an autostart framework on top of the checklists system would seem feasible.