RE: [Flightgear-devel] JSBSim Airport Bug

[Norman V. <nh...@ca...>]

David Megginson writes:
>
>Tony Peden writes:
>
> > Yep, that's 3.28 ft, sorry about that.  The height of KSJC is about
> > 17m or 56 feet though.  IIRC, the first runway altitude passed in
> > to the FDM's has been correct in the past.
>
>I poked through the code a bit and ran a couple of gdb sessions, but
>didn't find anything helpful except for this: when the FDM is
>initialized, the first tile hasn't been loaded yet, so FlightGear has
>no idea what the current elevation is.  I wonder if this has something
>to do with making the tile manager threadable.

I believe the airport elevation is read from the airport database

Don't know if this is being used anywhere though

Norman