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#1843 Allow MP CTR control by making 100 NM limit variable
Hello,
ATC-pie r8 has just opened an en-route centre control mode allowing to centre the radar anywhere and to change the map and radar ranges. I think the MP env. would benefit from CTRs able to control wider ranges than 100 NM, especially given how little populated the network is. But to do so we need a "range" value in the FGMS packets, holding a float NM distance value of how far the client wishes to collect traffic back from the server.
As I have already proposed here [1] and here [2] to keep the whole thing backward compatible, we could quite simply package it as a property. But the proper thing would actually be to place this value in the position data, not as a property. Alternatively, we could use a different message type to set that value, but in both latter cases it will create a little more work.
Any feelings about this?
Cheers.
Michael
(ATC-pie developer)
[1] https://sourceforge.net/p/fgms/feature-requests/34
[2] http://forum.flightgear.org/viewtopic.php?f=18&t=28668#p274708
I upvoted this because I think it is definitely worthy of discussion. My general opinion is that I favor the approach that best emulates real world ATC.
Possibly, fit that value in one of the long-deprecated and ignored fields of the header data?
Fixed according to https://forum.flightgear.org/viewtopic.php?p=312877#p312877