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John Denker (talk | contribs) (airport lighting in daytime) |
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If the version number hasn't been released yet, that means that the fix is in CVS (this makes life easier maintaining the page - status doesn't have to be changed each release) | If the version number hasn't been released yet, that means that the fix is in CVS (this makes life easier maintaining the page - status doesn't have to be changed each release) | ||
==== '''0.9.8- Linux and perhaps Windows | ==== '''0.9.8- Linux and perhaps Windows crashes when specifiying --lon or --lat''' ==== | ||
This version of flightgear an issue with starting coordinates that are lie on the bounchardary before tiles or coordinates. | This version of flightgear an issue with starting coordinates that are lie on the bounchardary before tiles or coordinates. | ||
Workround: Specify the latitude as a slight offset to what you require. Eg instad of --lon=16 make it --lon=16.0001 The difference visually is next to nothing. :-) | Workround: Specify the latitude as a slight offset to what you require. Eg instad of --lon=16 make it --lon=16.0001 The difference visually is next to nothing. :-) | ||
==== Multiple bugs in the location-in-air popup ==== | |||
The location-in-air popup turns off the magnetos and extends | |||
the landing gear. Some pilots and flight instructors | |||
deem this to be undesirable behavior, especially if all | |||
they are trying to do is relocate from one airborne position to | |||
another. | |||
Similarly, it strongly perturbs the throttle setting, | |||
aileron trim, elevator trim, rudder trim, | |||
view angles, PoV position, and who-knows-what else. | |||
Again, people who know about airplanes consider this to | |||
be undesirable behavior. | |||
There is also a tendency to place the aircraft into | |||
dangerous unusual attitudes, and other bugs too numerous | |||
to mention. | |||
Evidently, though, there is at least one person who likes | |||
things the way they are. Code that would have fixed these | |||
bugs was rejected. For details see the flightgear-devel | |||
mailing list archives. | |||
==== ident from phantom DME ==== | ==== ident from phantom DME ==== | ||
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localizers have DME). | localizers have DME). | ||
==== Airport lighting in | ==== Airport lighting in poor weather ==== | ||
The code in tileentry.cxx turns on airport lights according to | The code in tileentry.cxx turns on airport lights according to | ||
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In real life, there are many circumstances where airport lights, | In real life, there are many circumstances where airport lights, | ||
including approach lights, are turned on during the day. | including approach lights, are turned on during the day. At tower airports, the lights are turned on during bad weather -- including weather that | ||
are turned on during bad weather -- including weather that is only | is only slightly bad -- and also turned on if requested by the pilot. For | ||
slightly bad -- and turned on if requested by the pilot. For | |||
details, see [[http://www.faa.gov/ATPUBS/ATC/ATC.pdf FAA Order 7110.65p]]. | details, see [[http://www.faa.gov/ATPUBS/ATC/ATC.pdf FAA Order 7110.65p]]. | ||
The absence of lighting during | At non-towered airports, the lights are usually pilot-controlled, | ||
via radio. | |||
The absence of lighting during daytime in poor weather detracts | |||
significantly from the realism, because it affects both the | significantly from the realism, because it affects both the | ||
legality and the practicality of performing instrument approaches | legality and the practicality of performing instrument approaches | ||
under such conditions. | |||
== Fixed Bugs == | == Fixed Bugs == | ||