$bear

[Merik Nanish 1184142]

In VRC, you can use the $bear function to get the bearing of aircraft A from point B. For instance, if aircraft A is 20 miles south of waypoint B on a bearing of 180, $bear(B) will give you "S" for south.

 

This is suitable for situations were you want to radar identify an aircraft via text. A command like radar contact $dist($1) miles $bear($1) of $1 at $alt will quickly turned into something like "radar contact 22 miles south of JFK at FL220".

 

In EuroScope, $bear gives you the numeric bearing, and in the opposite direction (from aircraft to the point, not from point to aircraft). Therefore, the aforementioned use is not possible.

 

I was wondering if anyone has already found/developed a solution for this. If not, I would try to write a plugin for it. I would also like to ask Gergely to add another function in the next version of ES, that does exactly that, because it is very handy.

[Gergely Csernak]

I saved it.