Various questions

[Matthew Reeve 914466]

Pardon me if any of these have been asked before.

 

1) The route from Manchester to Parma is HON UN859 BALAN UN859 BCN UW7 LORES: This is fine but there are two BCNs, one in south Wales, one somewhere a long way further down the route. ES though draws the route through HON fine, but then it draws BCN next, and it is nowhere near the route. Does anyone have any ideas, because I keep getting RAM warnings on these and it keeps trying to hand off to the wrong sector.

 

2) I really like the playback system, very handy for watching traffic patterns. However as it skips frames it gets quite jumpy. Is there any way it could play any smoother, such as in 4x mode playing four radar returns in one second rather than every fourth?

 

3) Can the simulator use playback files to create traffic, or does anyone have a quick tool for converting the aircraft in a playback file into the correct format for the simulator?

 

4) Is there the possibility of using information such as [Mod - Happy Thoughts]igned SID/STAR in our aliases, or editing the default aliases?

 

5) Is there any chance of using joystick buttons for our PTTs?

 

6) Is there any possibility of this being compiled in Linux?

[Stephan Boerner 945550]

1) ES has no way to know which one it is supposed to use. I think it always takes the first one in the sct, so try to change the order of the entires in the sectorfile.

 

3) not yet, but it is already requested.

 

4) no, but it is an interesting idea for a new variable. I already requested an editor for the standard texts generated for text pilots.

 

5) There was a way for VRC doing that by using an external program that [Mod - Happy Thoughts]igns keyboard-macros to the joystick. I never used it, but the description should be somewhere here in this forum or in the VRC forums on metacraft.com

[Matthew Reeve 914466]

1) I think it always takes the first one in the sct, so try to change the order of the entires in the sectorfile.

Well I only have one in the file! The other is Barcelona VOR, not even in my SCT file so it's not trying to draw it. The route is fine through the UK, it just then tries to draw a point much later on which happens to have the same name as one in the UK, but it thinks it's a route error and instead of drawing all of the way to the edge of my airspace it thinks the route is a mistake and goes straight from HON to BCN.

 

5) There was a way for VRC doing that by using an external program that [Mod - Happy Thoughts]igns keyboard-macros to the joystick.

That's my current solution... I'm just thinking it can't actually be too difficult to add a joystick listener to the keyboard listener.

[Stephan Boerner 945550]

If the route is outdated and an airway or waypoint doesn't exist any more, ES only uses the points/airways it knows. That might result in a strange route prediction.

 

Is it intentional that the airway is used twice in the route? If this was correct, there would be no need for BALAN and the second UN859. Another cause might be an outdated airway.txt

[Gergely Csernak]

Matthew,

 

1 - There are some piece of code that in case more than two points are found with the same name the closer should be selected. But there might be problems like Stephan wrote. I will test the HON UN859 BALAN UN859 BCN UW7 LORES.

 

2 - I think it is a good idea. We can change it.

 

5 - I already received request to use the mouse middle button too.

 

6 - Unfortunately not too much. EuroScope is built on top of MFC that does not exists on other systems (I guess).

[Nikita Kapko 1015297]

Good day!

 

"Various questions" it is a good name!

 

I have 2 questions about coordination:

 

1. can I coordinate altitude without point coordination? When I try it - I cant . Aircraft has vector due clouds and tunderstorm and it approaching to sector border not over any fix/NDB. I want to coordinate exit altitude. But Matias data TAG dont allow me to do it without activation of point coordination. Maybe I do something wrong?

1. I am approach. when aircraft located in my sector and I want coordinate exit point I cant use point located in my sector. And as ES identified - point located on border of my sector (border goes throught this point) cant be used for coordination. Its try?

 

As I understand, outgoing coordination is maded not for standart coordination but for non standart coordination?

[Matthew Gunn 964355]

1) Perhaps there is a way of taking account of the airway and fixes out of the sector file so that once left it doesn't try to redraw a route back into the sector.

 

Working with the self-training simulator I am having difficulties getting the take-off button to work with an aircraft at the runway hold. Any suggestions?

[Stephan Boerner 945550]

@Niko:

 

1. if Matias tag doesn't allow it (I don't use it myself, so I don't know), you can either build your own tag family which supports this, or you can use the Sector Exit / Sector Inbound List. (XFL/PEL)

 

2. I'm not sure if I correctly understand the problem. Coordination is supposed to happen with everything non-standard outside your sector. You don't need to coordinate anything inside your sector, unless either the point is outside your sector, or it's an altitude that lies above or below your sector. If the point you are trying to coordinate is inside your sector, even if it's just for a few milimeters, there is no need for ES to coordinate this.

 

@all:

Personally I think it would be better if You would create own topics instead of highjacking other people's "various questions"-topics. That would make it easier to keep track of which questions were already answered and which aren't.

[Gergely Csernak]

Niko,

 

Point 1 is true: You can only coordinate with defining a point and an altitude. Only these two parameters are to define a coordination. At least I was learned this from the real world controllers.

 

Point 2: Stephan is right. If you select a point that is inside your sector (if it is in the border then it is just a pure accident if it is inside or not). When the COPX point is defined then all points after that can be coordinated even if they are still inside your sector, but for not defined points the must be outside.

 

Matthew,

 

Please, recheck if your runway definition is correct and if the planes are really between these points. The hold may be too far away. Taxi them into the RWY.