by Hooray » Sun Oct 15, 2017 8:51 pm
once you have a list of lat/lon coordinates describing a flightplan, it would be relatively straightforward to modify tanker.nas to fly the corresponding route in a scripted fashion - obviously, that would not be using any FDM, and it would be agnostic to weather, terrain, scenery and other traffic - but it is do-able, and would not present that much work, especially not for someone already familiar with a JavaScript-like language (Nasal).
Basically, tanker.nas and the wiki is all you need - and of course a rainy weekend to come up with a prototype that you can share on the forum to get others interested in helping with that. And maybe a few more rainy weekends to refine the whole thing. But given what we have, and in the light of the well-known constraints of the hard-coded AI system implemented in C++, the scripted route is not such a bad idea - and there is quite a bit of existing code to be leveraged.