Re: [Flightgear-devel] Aircraft positioning on the runway

[Arnt K. <ar...@ia...>]

On Tue, 19 Nov 2013 11:43:22 +0000, James wrote in message 
<77A...@ma...>:

> 
> On 19 Nov 2013, at 11:29, Tomash Brechko <tom...@gm...>
> wrote:
> 
> > I tried it and it works as expected.  By runway threshold we
> > actually meant the line where takeoff roll starts, so all
> > extensions are included.  In other
> > words /sim/airport/runways/start-offset-m is an offset from where
> > the aircraft starts by default.
> 
> Right. Last time this topic came up (when I was updating the apt.dat
> parsing), I asked about this, and displaced thresholds are relevant
> to landings. For takeoff, and hence initial position, you want to use
> all the paved area you can get. So an offset of 0 is really where the
> hard surface starts, and the start-offset-m is to stop the back of
> the aircraft being in the grass / localizer array :)
> 
> Kind regards,
> James

..would "holding at the closest possible holding line and 
cleared for immediate T/O after that red (AI) C172 on the 
runway" be an idea?  Should work even on wee grass strips
with no taxiways where you taxi on the runway.

-- 
..med vennlig hilsen = with Kind Regards from Arnt Karlsen
...with a number of polar bear hunters in his ancestry...
  Scenarios always come in sets of three: 
  best case, worst case, and just in case.