Position Aircraft In Air has been broken

[Hyde]

Position Aircraft In Air has been broken.
When I try to position using menu as
Distance 10nm
Altitude 3500ft
Airspeed 190kt
at KATL-27R with any aircraft even UFO.

Position does not change, heading always changed to 0deg.

This was introduced on flightgear change
e30c886 "Adjust runway startup position with MP enabled" by Mr. James Turner.

Funny thing is this happens only on my environment. I asked on mailing list but no one had the issue.
This might happen only on specific OS of mine, Fedora 24. I have 2PCs and both are same situation.
Could someone try to reproduce?
And James, can you fix this?

Thanks,
Hyde

[Hooray]

is this unlreated to the way you are starting/launching flighgear (qt launcher) ?

I am asking because we've seen a number of issues, and bugs, that slipped through because some people were using only the new launcher, while others were not using it at all - so that this is becoming a problem increasingly

[Hyde]

I'm using fgo.
And when I start from terminal as
/usr/local/bin/fgfs\
--aircraft=ufo\
--airport=KATL\
--fg-root=/home/hyde/work/FlightGear/flightgear-fgdata\
--fg-scenery=/home/hyde/Video3/Flightgear/terraGIT\
--runway=27R\
--fg-aircraft=/home/hyde/Video3/Flightgear/Aircraft\
--multiplay=out,10,mpserver01.flightgear.org,5000\
--callsign=N407DS\
--enable-real-weather-fetch\
--geometry=1400x800\
--prop:/sim/realism/false-radio-courses-enabled=false\
--prop:/instrumentation/pfd/utc-et-enabled=true\
--prop:controls/gear/tiller-enabled=true\
--enable-rembrandt\
--prop:sim/time/warp-easing=false

Issue still happens.
Yes, new launcher might output extra parameter.

[Hooray]

As far as I can tell, the information you mentioned in the first post is not sufficient to actually specify an actual position for the aircraft - i.e. altitude and distance would at best place you somewhere on a circle around the station/airport you used as the offset, you also need to specify an azimuth/bearing to specify the radial, i.e. where exactly on that circle you want to be - otherwise, the program (heuristics) would not know where you want to be placed.

[Hyde]

Isn't this enough?


It worked fine with this before that change.

[Alant]

It should be sufficient information for the normal "position in air" menu item. The distance is taken backwards along the runway direction., and the direction is taken as the runway direction.

That said, it works OK here at the moment with he current git version. However "position in air" was broken a week or so back, but that now appears fixed.

Alan

[Hooray]

Sorry, I see, you want the aircraft to be positioned 10 miles off from the corresponding runway - which should probably work (I never used it like this myself, but if you say it worked previously, it seems like a bug)

[Hyde]

This is eventually fixed by the flightgear change of 9/7 4294966 "Fix setting start offset with MP enabled."