Re: [Flightgear-devel] New re-arranging and styling for the QtLauncher

[geneb <ge...@de...>]

On Mon, 30 Jan 2017, Jim Harris wrote:

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> From: wki...@gm... [mailto:wki...@gm...]
> Sent: Monday, January 30, 2017 11:20 AM
> To: fli...@li...
> Subject: Re: [Flightgear-devel] New re-arranging and styling for the
> QtLauncher
>
> On 01/30/2017 11:08 AM, Jim Harris wrote:
>>> Why do we need a web UI anyway?
>
>> so you can watch or control the craft from another machine or device... i
> use it to show off to relatives and friends and let them watch my flight
> from their location which may be >hundreds of miles away...
>
> Please explain to me exactly *WHY* I might want friends and relatives
> hundreds of miles away to watch while I use a Cessna 172p to plow a field?
> (Or, alternately, make HUGE dents in asphalt runways, if I get that close to
> the airport before burying the nose!)

I suspect the most common use is to use it as an instructor station 
without having to write a custom, external interface.

g.

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