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Implementing VNAV support in FlightGear (view source)
Revision as of 00:07, 3 December 2013
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In comparison with other flight simulators, FlightGear has been lacking support for simulating VNAV features found on many modern aircraft since day one. | In comparison with other flight simulators, FlightGear has been lacking support for simulating VNAV features found on many modern aircraft since day one. | ||
So far, the general consensus has been that it simply isn't yet possible in FlightGear to properly implement VNAV because VNAV depends on having access to | So far, the general consensus has been that it simply isn't yet possible in FlightGear to properly implement VNAV because VNAV depends on having access to an aircraft-specific performance database to provide the proper pitch/thrust changes to make certain altitude/speed constraints, which boils down to a lack of support by the FDMs (JSBsim/YaSim) actually. | ||
As an open source project, we do not have access to the corresponding flight data or such a performance database, and even if we did, we probably couldn't easily use said data due to its proprietary nature. | As an open source project, we do not have access to the corresponding flight data or such a performance database, and even if we did, we probably couldn't easily use said data due to its proprietary nature. | ||
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== VNAV == | == VNAV == | ||