Re: [Flightgear-devel] lightning tacan

[Nick W. <ni...@li...>]

On Friday 06 April 2007 12:03:39 Melchior FRANZ wrote:
> Committed.
>
> * Melchior FRANZ -- Friday 06 April 2007:
> > Unfortunately, two developers boycott the plib branch, and someone
> > else has to do their work. Very annoying!
>
> While true, this wasn't the cause here. (I had suspected a
> connection to the interpolation table bug that someone only
> fixed in fg/osg. I have ported it meanwhile, though.)
>
> The reason was yet again plib's traditional animation "feature",
> which breaks animations when objects are wrongly forced into
> subbranches.

OK, I know people think I am seeing things, but I just sussed out what is 
going on.

How many people *actually* tested the TACAN and located the tanker aircraft 
with it, rather than just sit in the cockpit and see the needle/gauges work?

Here is what happens for me.  The TACAN works, but it doesn't locate the 
aircraft (tanker) - the dial just seems to swing around in a circle depending 
what direction I fly in.

Test flying around KSFO it actually is locked on to a TACAN at KSFO!  So the 
dial is always it pointing to KSFO (and obviously as I follow the TACAN 
needle thinking I was tracking the tanker, as soon as I flew over KSFO the 
needle done a swift 180deg turn).  I replicated this is the Seahawk too.

As first I thought it was saying the tanker hadn't yet taken off, but the 
actual aircraft is flying and I can refuel once I locate it.

Nick