TCAS

[Matthew McColl]

Upon downloading the Epic Victory V.2, and relighting my love for this nippy jet on PE. I now can't get enough of it.
Due to my impatience I decided to try a flight on IVAO, today instead of waiting for y'all 'muricans (Your slang doesn't work for me ) to wake up and begin today's PE session.

During my flight I encountered several other aircraft and discovered that the new TCAS on the EVIC is phenomenal. There is the standard blip with altitude and direction info on the ND, but there is also a blip that appears on the PDF (As an overlay to the attitude indicator) which changes colour (Yes, coloUr ) in accordance to the severity of the encounter. I assume this is to help in IMC conditions when Marcus' traffic alerts are no use, but then again, when are th- no, let's not go there. Hehe.

Anyway, I was wondering if we are indefinitely stuck with no TCAS on PE, or if there is a way for the traffic to act like those on IVAO and VATSIM so they trigger TCAS.

Regards,
A brit.

[Matthew McColl]

Here:

[Ryan B]

I'm not sure but I really like their aircraft - I just wish it had IAP's. I know Aerobask is working on an update with SIDS/STARS which well be cool.

Also there's not a lot of publication on cruise speeds, VMO etc.

[ridikamus]

I'm not sure but I really like their aircraft - I just wish it had IAP's. I know Aerobask is working on an update with SIDS/STARS which well be cool.

Version 2 of the Epic Victory has SIDS, STARs, TCAS, and touch screen capabilities in the Skyview. It was released a few days ago. The same package will be coming to the Epic E1000 "soon".

[Matthew McColl]

I'm not sure but I really like their aircraft - I just wish it had IAP's. I know Aerobask is working on an update with SIDS/STARS which well be cool.

Version 2 of the Epic Victory has SIDS, STARs, TCAS, and touch screen capabilities in the Skyview. It was released a few days ago. The same package will be coming to the Epic E1000 "soon".

When you say soon, you mean within 12-17 days.

[Keith Smith]

Anyway, I was wondering if we are indefinitely stuck with no TCAS on PE, or if there is a way for the traffic to act like those on IVAO and VATSIM so they trigger TCAS.

There are plans to re-enable TCAS, either through the current TCAS mechanism (limited to however many 'other aircraft' are enabled in xplane multiplayer), or through a separate mechanism.

[Matthew McColl]

YAY, thanks Keith

[Ryan B]

I'm not sure but I really like their aircraft - I just wish it had IAP's. I know Aerobask is working on an update with SIDS/STARS which well be cool.

Version 2 of the Epic Victory has SIDS, STARs, TCAS, and touch screen capabilities in the Skyview. It was released a few days ago. The same package will be coming to the Epic E1000 "soon".

Well I missed that sweet. But they did not include IAP's? That is pretty much the bread and butter of glass cockpits/GPS. Still I'll have to check it out

[Matthew McColl]

I'm not sure but I really like their aircraft - I just wish it had IAP's. I know Aerobask is working on an update with SIDS/STARS which well be cool.

Version 2 of the Epic Victory has SIDS, STARs, TCAS, and touch screen capabilities in the Skyview. It was released a few days ago. The same package will be coming to the Epic E1000 "soon".

Well I missed that sweet. But they did not include IAP's? That is pretty much the bread and butter of glass cockpits/GPS. Still I'll have to check it out

They do have IAPs, just not that detailed, as they have to work on a 'waypoint-based system', i.e every part of the route should have a waypoint to correspond with it; it cannot make custom waypoints/ turns like holds, etc.

I believe the GTN in the Panthera is the have this capability, though.

[skiselkov]

There are plans to re-enable TCAS, either through the current TCAS mechanism (limited to however many 'other aircraft' are enabled in xplane multiplayer), or through a separate mechanism.

Big thumbs up for that. I'm working on an open-source TCAS II v7.1 implementation that'll be available to any plane dev for integration (or as a stand-alone plugin, I plan to do some rendering tricks to shove the TCAS overlay into existing 3D cockpits). Really, all that's needed is a few datarefs, e.g. in the form of:

Code: Select all

libxplanemp/aircraft/xpdr_mode[0..100] int (0=stby, 1=mode A, 2=mode C)
libxplanemp/aircraft/lat[0..100] float
libxplanemp/aircraft/lon[0..100] float
libxplanemp/aircraft/elev[0..100] float

The edits should be fairly easy to do.