From: Ralf G. <rge...@kn...> - 2006-03-09 20:50:47
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Hi, David Megginson schrieb: > Here's another one -- the DME is no longer working unless the DME is > associated with a VOR. That's a big problem for anyone who uses > FlightGear for IFR practice (since DMEs are often associated with > localizers or used standalone). > > I remember fixing this one once or twice in the past when people broke > it, so I'll volunteer to take another run at it before the release. > Does anyone have any suggestions about recent changes that might have > broken it? It's also possible, of course, that it's an instrument > configuration problem, and not in the core FlightGear engine at all. The problem may be that Robin changed the nav.dat format to contain two DME-types instead of only one (http://x-plane.org/home/robinp/Nav810.htm) There's no difference between the types except their type number and the fact that for one the frequency is displayed in X-Plane's maps while for the other it is not. Cheers, Ralf |