Re: [Flightgear-devel] Time to divorce X-plane??

[Durk T. <dur...@gm...>]

On 13 May 2014, at 13:42, Alasdair Campbell wrote:

> Before putting this matter to sleep forever, can anyone advise (if 
> related) why I get crazy messages like:
> 
>  Error in ground network. Failed to find first waypoint: 0 at EIDW
> 
> while I am at a Scottish Airport EG**  ?
> 
> I have googled and grepped my heart out, but get just zillions of messages
> including this phrase, totally irrelevant.
> 

It's been a while since I worked on this, but: You probably have AI traffic enabled. The AI traffic system tries to initialize all traffic within a certain range, initialize traffic at airports properly if groundnets are available. IIRC, this is done for a range of 200 NM surrounding your startup airport. Though this is not immediately relevant, having traffic initialized within this range has a couple of advantages. It may allow you to tune in to more distant tower / ground / etc. frequencies and get realistic ATC chatter, as well as the fact that by the time you arrive at a neighboring airport, you've had the chance to encounter some traffic enroute, as well as the fact that some realistic patterns have established. 

I did think, however, that this particular message, which occurs when a ground net for one of these distant airport cannot be found, was of relatively low priority. At least I don't recall seeing it in recent flights. Did you change the default loglevel setting? 

HTH,
Durk