Re: [Flightgear-devel] best way to remotely control flight gear?

[Arnt K. <ar...@c2...>]

On Tue, 14 Jul 2009 20:39:34 +1000, Eli wrote in message 
<COL...@ph...l>:

> 
> Hi
> I am new to flight gear, but am using it in a multiple flight vehicle
> simulation system for my thesis, this system will be used to research
> aerial search patterns. To do this I need to be able to control
> flight gear from the search algorithm, running on a separate machine.
> I was wondering what would be the best approach to achieve this? I
> have had a look on the web site/wiki and found out about the telnet
> interface to the property tree (also, is there info on the syntax of
> each variable in the property tree?) and thought that the route
> manager accessed through telnet would be able to solve my problems,
> but as far as I could see the route manager only allows for pre set
> waypoints, such as airports, i was hoping to be able to input
> co-ordinates (latitude and longitude) and have the auto pilot fly
> between these. Any help would be greatly appreciated!! 

..you control your "autopilot's flight path" "adding new waypoints 
to the flight plan", or "(re)moving them to change the flight plan", 
as far as I remember the advice I got here on "sim flights to KOSH" 
under e.g. this NOTAM: http://airventure.org/flying/notam2009.pdf

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