[Flightgear-devel] Silly " Error in ground network" messages - Was Time to divorce X-plane??

[Alasdair C. <al...@bt...>]

On 13/05/14 12:53, Durk Talsma wrote:
> 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
>
Thank you for the response, Durk.  I do not currently have AI-traffic or 
log-level explicitly defined in .fgfsrc
But top of my wish-list is that developers responsible for spurious and 
ridiculous error messages
should be subjected to "Death by a Thousand Paper-cuts".
But I really love you all, and thank you for your efforts in making my 
life a wee bit more bearable.

I shall next (in the fashion of "Grumpy-Old-Men") be complaining about the
"Flat Bottom Clouds You Make This Rocking World go Square".
An fg-grumpy-user blog anyone?
> -- 
> Kind regards,
>
> Alasdair