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It's quite common to want to start a flight simulator on a 5 or 7 or 10 mile approach so you can practice ILS landing. The start-offset-m value I believe was added later to account for the difference in aircraft sie. A starting position that works well to place the C172 at the end of the runway, might put the back half of the 747 off the end of the runway. | |||
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| url = http://sourceforge.net/p/flightgear/mailman/message/20171731/ | |||
| title = <nowiki>Re: [Flightgear-devel] Startup position offsets (fg_init)</nowiki> | |||
| author = <nowiki>Curtis Olson</nowiki> | |||
| date = Aug 25th, 2008 | |||
| added = Aug 25th, 2008 | |||
| script_version = 0.25 | |||
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Unfortunately, the addition of Presets has caused a plethora of problems and many regressions, including breaking support for [[Reset & re-init]], but also for saving/loading flights: | Unfortunately, the addition of Presets has caused a plethora of problems and many regressions, including breaking support for [[Reset & re-init]], but also for saving/loading flights: | ||