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Navaid reach in FG...

Postby jcomm » Fri Feb 24, 2012 10:13 am

I am about to test the new v2.6 :-)
Having been away from flightsims for quite a while, I was trying to find out what is new in this great platform.
Regarding radio navigation, I wonder if VOR/TACAN/DME reach is modelled acccording to reality including "reach furhter the higher you fly", or even "lign of sight" propagation for non-Doppler devices, or weather / land-water interference on wave propagation?
In RL there is an inverted top like pattern for this sort of radio navigation.

Is this modelled in FG 2.6 ?
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Re: Navaid reach in FG...

Postby stuart » Thu Mar 01, 2012 11:47 pm

I know that someone has been spending some time simulating general radio signal propagation, to account for scenery etc. but I don't know what state that is in. You may want to search the -devel mailing list.

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Re: Navaid reach in FG...

Postby Hooray » Fri Mar 02, 2012 12:57 pm

stuart wrote in Thu Mar 01, 2012 11:47 pm:I know that someone has been spending some time simulating general radio signal propagation, to account for scenery etc. but I don't know what state that is in. You may want to search the -devel mailing list.

http://www.mail-archive.com/flightgear- ... 33688.html
http://www.mail-archive.com/flightgear- ... 34983.html
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Re: Navaid reach in FG...

Postby adrian » Fri Mar 02, 2012 2:07 pm

http://wiki.flightgear.org/Radio_propagation
It will be integrated pretty soon, probably before 2.8.0
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Re: Navaid reach in FG...

Postby jcomm » Fri Mar 02, 2012 3:11 pm

Great links! Thx!
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