PAR approaches help!!

[Jarrett Michael Iovine 905]

Hey fellow VATSImmers,

 

Just downloaded Euroscope (coming from VRC) and was craving to try a PAR approach as an ATC at BIKF. Can you guys help me please? Been googling all over the place and found nothing, maybe someone has a link to a guide but How do I configure and setup vPAR properly with my sector file for Iceland? Is there something I have to add in the .sct file to make the PAR view work?

 

I managed to install the plugin properly and get to the New Precision Radar View, but I have no idea what to do from there.

 

Thanks in advanced!

 

-Best regards, Jóhann

[Stephan Boerner 945550]

The PAR plugin has nothing to do with vPAR. You can configure the plugin using the command ".par"

[Jarrett Michael Iovine 905]

Yeah thats what i meant, just the PAR plugin, not vPAR.

 

Yeah, hope that works, I'll try it out. Thanks for your help.

[Jarrett Michael Iovine 905]

Testing out some PAR approaches here in Keflavik and its running GREAT! Thanks for your help.. at least found one cool feature of Euroscope!

[Wycliffe Barrett]

Only one, there are a million my friend.

 

One of the coolest has to be the automated Voice ATIS

 

distance measuring tool

 

Alias

 

SMR plug ins

 

configurable tags, well configurable everything

 

The list goes on and on

[Johan Grauers]

You forgot the coolest one of them all:

If you want a new cool toy, all you've got to do is make a plug-in for it!

Plug-ins to ES but be the best thing since the ILS approach was invented

[Johan Grauers]

I'm borrowing this topic for a related question if that's ok with everyone? (otherwise we'll have to break this off into a new thread).

 

I just tried the PAR plugin, works like a charm!

But IRL in sweden distance is always given in KM, right now I have to convert the nautical miles to KM manually, any way to adjust the plugin so that the distance is shown in kilometers instead? I belive I can handle some simpler reprogramming of the plugin itself if someone points me in the right way (in other words can tell me how the distance ruler is defined in the plugin).

[Johan Grauers]

Anyone able to give me some hints with this?

[Gergely Csernak]

Johan,

 

In PrecisionApproachScreen.cpp file at line 121 there is a loop:

    // 1 NM ticks
   for ( int i = 0 ; i <= 20 ; i ++ )

This code draws 20 tick lines 1 NM distance from each other. The distance between the lines are simply width/20 (meaning width/20 is just 1 NM). As 1 NM is 1.852 kms I suggest you changing the loop from 20 to 40 and use the distance width/20/1.852 instead of just width/20. If you let all other things untouched then the planes will be shown where they are displayed now but the tick lines will show kilometers instead of miles.

[Johan Grauers]

Great! I'll test it out when I have a chans, thanks G

[Johan Grauers]

It seems C++ was a bit more diffrent from the programming I've done than I thought. Nontheless I've tried to modify the loop as you suggested, problem is that I can't see any change in t, he PAR screen (tried restarting ES and unloading and reloading the plugin, no diffrence).

 

This is what my loop now looks like

// 1 km ticks

for ( int i = 0 ; i <= 40 ; i ++ )

{

if ( i % 5 == 0 )

dc.SelectObject ( & pen1 ) ;

else

dc.SelectObject ( & pen2 ) ;

 

dc.MoveTo ( rect1.left + 5 + i * width / 20 / 1.852, middley - 10 ) ;

dc.LineTo ( rect1.left + 5 + i * width / 20 / 1.852, middley + 10 ) ;

}

 

I changed the loop leangth to 40 to get 40 lines instead of 20 (since a km is much less then a NM).

Then as I understand it the if loop is there to make every 5th line longer, so that's untouched.

 

Then I added /1.852, to make the distance between the lines less. Otherwise it's untouched. Does this seem right?