Another duplicate, sorry.

Edited December 14, 20214 yr by JSmith2112

15 hours ago, holland786 said:

So let's see what the problem is with what you are suggesting:

- Humans have rights and freedom. We do not decide what people do with their lives and devs are not employees hired to work on this project.

- Devs can work on whatever they want for whatever reason they want. Telling people to drop what they are doing and work on something else will cause most to just leave.

- Not everyone has the knowledge / expertise required to work on everything **you** want prioritized. In fact, forcing people not familiar with the area of work to start contributing to that certain feature can even slow down things. As one of the devs on the FMS, we spent months researching IRL software design to implement things like VNAV. Explaining all this to other devs would only delay things.

So: Devs leave, less features get worked on, and VNAV doesn't progress more or maybe even goes slower. Everybody loses.

 

Hello - i recognise your profile from the FMS branch of the FBW discord channel where I’ve been admiring your progress.

 

Can I ask whether eventually you will implement DME ARC TO FIX (AF) leg type? PMDG have never done it properly at least so far as I am aware so i always assumed it was  too challenging for the limits of the sim - but looking at the incredibly intricate trigonometry you have pulled off so far, I wonder if this leg type is now within reach?

 

best,

 

tim 

Edited December 14, 20214 yr by tfm

2 hours ago, Watsi said:

When is it coming?

Due to the community-driven nature of our projects, we do not enforce delivery timelines on our volunteer developers. We value high-quality, polished releases over frequent and quickly-released ones, which means some features might take time to land in a publicly-available build. Rest assured that our developers and contributors are working hard on making every FlyByWire project as bug-free and feature-complete as possible, but that we are not able to provide release dates or estimates for a certain feature/fix.

 

Regarding the VNAV discussion: it has become kind of a meme by now. I smile everytime I see "VNAV when?". Maybe we should think about never releasing it... (duck and cover) 😂

I was asking about the ETA for the original announcement you made, not the VNAV useless discussion 😄 but thank you for the reply

3 hours ago, Watsi said:

We value high-quality, polished releases over frequent and quickly-released ones

My hope for Christmas: MS/Asobo, please take due note!.

Btw, FBW thanks so much!

Edited December 14, 20214 yr by edpatino

1 hour ago, dmarques69 said:

I was asking about the ETA for the original announcement you made, not the VNAV useless discussion 😄 but thank you for the reply

I know. I just answered on two different topics in the same post... 🙂

Printing on paper? Do we really need to kill more Forest than we presently are? 🙂

15 hours ago, cavaricooper said:

@Watsi

Could you please ask the team to look into www.pushover.net for this update?  It is simply BRILLIANT and saves a couple of trees to boot 😉

Ta- C

 

17 minutes ago, Adrian123 said:

Printing on paper? Do we really need to kill more Forest than we presently are? 🙂

To be absolutely fair, IIRC a lot of (all?) paper comes from tree farms, or designated area's where we plant trees specifically for the purpose of being cut down, and because these trees are often rapidly grown and younger, they actually sequester a lot more greenhouse gases than regular forests of far larger sizes. (They also don't return these gases back to the atmosphere due to rot or forest fires)

Fun read if you're bored: https://www.fs.fed.us/rm/pubs_other/rmrs_2011_mckinley_d001.pdf

Sounds like a justification for forest destruction. 😉 With today's digital media, why print on paper. Sounds archaic. Is that not the purpose of the cockpit EFB?

Edited December 14, 20214 yr by Adrian123

6 minutes ago, Adrian123 said:

Sounds like a justification for forest destruction. 😉 With today's digital media, why print on paper. Sounds archaic. Is that not the purpose of the cockpit EFB?

There are easy solutions for this problem: Either you buy recycled paper only or even better: you use old sheets of paper with the backside page being blank to print your OFPs or METARs on it 😉😉

 

I needed to buy fresh white copy paper like ten years ago for the last time and I've used old letters or documents from studying, which were printed mostly on just one side, since then.

16 minutes ago, Adrian123 said:

Sounds like a justification for forest destruction. 😉

There are 3 tree farms within 20 miles of me. They've got pretty big lots, but I wouldn't call them forests. 😉

Good thing is paper is the highest recycled material at 70% of 46 MILLION tons of waste. But that still leaves 13 MILLION tons going into landfills. US only!

Edited December 14, 20214 yr by Adrian123

3 hours ago, tfm said:

an I ask whether eventually you will implement DME ARC TO FIX (AF) leg type? PMDG have never done it properly at least so far as I am aware so i always assumed it was  too challenging for the limits of the sim - but looking at the incredibly intricate trigonometry you have pulled off so far, I wonder if this leg type is now within reach?

Hi, yes, we are planning to do AF legs in an upcoming update. The difficult part is the turn prediction into and out of the leg, but we plan to do some work on that.

5 hours ago, holland786 said:

Hi, yes, we are planning to do AF legs in an upcoming update. The difficult part is the turn prediction into and out of the leg, but we plan to do some work on that.

Brilliant!

 

T