In a message dated 25/05/2007 08:49:22 GMT Daylight Time,
gwinsk@xxxxxxx writes:
Frank,
If you want to try it, it's viewable at:
http://www.homepages.mcb.net/gwinsk/vspeed.xml
Just view it and then do a file save as vspeed.xml, or as
vspeed.txt
Gerry Winskill
Gerry,
Thank you for that, I've had a quick look, essentially it needs
constants for each aircraft, being low weight, high weight, and Vspeed
arrays.
Using the actual weight it selects a point in the Vspeed range
corresponding to the position in the weight range, e.g. if the weight
is 50% of the way up the range, the result will be an average of
the Vspeed high weight and low weight values.
It then adjusts the given results for the outside temperature and the
altitude.
The gauge only opreates in take-off mode, which it sets on if the
aircraft is on the ground, and its speed is over 40kts, and its speed
is increasing.
How much more useful it would be if you could put the constants into
the aircraft.cfg file, rather than the gauge XML code, as you could
use the same gauge in all aircraft.
I don't think its a 2 minute development project!
Frank T.
