TommyC81

Works beautifully! Great tool to aid the line-up for the runway, thanks a lot for taking the time to implement this!

CKAN update working fine now, thanks!

Thanks for the update!

Perfect, thanks for that, I'll have a look in the folder! And again, thanks for considering the changes!

Having given it some thought, and to keep things as simple as possible (until it catches on ), I'm actually going to suggest to go with the absolutely simplest of what I suggested earlier: Display the angle from your current position/altitude to the waypoint position/altitude. Angle must be based on lateral distance. Essentially just; arctan(altitude difference/lateral distance), possibly signed to indicate downward or upward slope. Text would be absolutely fine: "Angle to <WP>: -3.35" (Which would mean; the waypoint is laterally 3.35 degrees below your current altitude) An option to toggle the displaying of angle on/off: "Angle to target". If time permits; possibly add a text for for current velocity angle: "...the angle between the velocity vector and the plane perpendicular to gravity.." when the option to display "Angle to target" is enabled. If time permits; an icon that has more of a cross hair (a distinct center point) that the velocity vector can be lined up with more easily. Currently the "speedometer" one seems most useful for the purpose, but it's not ideal. That would also make it more universal, fit in with the current options and even quicker/easier to implement while making sure maintenance is virtually non-existent. Trying to figure out how much body curvature matters (or if I missed something obvious), but I think not for the purpose of this implementation (unless someone suggests otherwise?).

Hey and thanks for the response! This link might better describe the glideslope concept: http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Instrument_landing_system The red plane shows the glideslope. In its absolutely easiest form the following concept would help when descending to land: the waypoint is the anchor point for a configurable glideslope angle (this could be a setting that us general and not waypoint specific; toggle on/off and glideslope angle), if enabled, a text indication shows the nominal altitude (and/or the difference between actual and nominal altitude) that corresponds with the lateral distance to the waypoint and the configured glideslope angle. It would be a relatively simple trigonometric calculation. That should do the trick and help out in establishing a controlled descent towards any arbitrary waypoint, near or far. In a more fancy version, a graphical interface could depict the difference between actual and nominal altitude, and, to make it even more fancy, an inbound heading could be configured for the waypoint to allow for lateral guidance (as shown by the green plane in the link above). Thanks for considering! I'm happy with even the simplest type of help, or anything at all, your mod is already useful as is! :-) - - - Updated - - - Following up myself (it's a bit of a pain to write on the phone)... An even simpler implementation could be to simply indicate the angle from your current position/altitude to the waypoint position/altitude. Angle must be based on lateral distance. That way, nothing to configure even; arctan(altitude difference/lateral distance), possibly signed to indicate downward or upward slope. Text would be absolutely fine. Thanks again,

Great work on the mod! Here's a feature request; I do a bit of flying and since you can specify a way point location and altitude at any location, by adding an inbound heading and nominal glideslope angle you could have virtual landing system set up for any arbitrary point anywhere. I realize this would require some kind of interface as well. Just a suggestion. Thanks for great work on the mod as is, sent 5$ your way as a token of appreciation.

Hey ferram4, just registered to say thanks for the work you've done! 10$ sent your way as token of appreciation.