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TCAS
Posted: Mon Sep 05, 2016 6:47 am
by 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.
Re: TCAS
Posted: Mon Sep 05, 2016 6:51 am
by Matthew McColl
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Re: TCAS
Posted: Mon Sep 05, 2016 6:23 pm
by 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.
Re: TCAS
Posted: Mon Sep 05, 2016 7:27 pm
by ridikamus
Ryan B wrote: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".
Re: TCAS
Posted: Tue Sep 06, 2016 6:06 am
by Matthew McColl
ridikamus wrote:Ryan B wrote: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.
Re: TCAS
Posted: Tue Sep 06, 2016 10:53 am
by 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.
Re: TCAS
Posted: Fri Sep 09, 2016 12:59 pm
by Matthew McColl
YAY, thanks Keith
Re: TCAS
Posted: Fri Sep 09, 2016 1:59 pm
by Ryan B
ridikamus wrote:Ryan B wrote: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
Re: TCAS
Posted: Fri Sep 09, 2016 3:29 pm
by Matthew McColl
Ryan B wrote:ridikamus wrote:Ryan B wrote: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.
Re: TCAS
Posted: Thu Sep 15, 2016 11:28 am
by skiselkov
Keith Smith wrote: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:
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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.