Subject: ITP: ffgo -- a launcher for flightgear Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Markus Wanner <mar...@bluegap.ch>
* Package name: ffgo Version: 1.12.5 Upstream Author: Florent Rougon * URL: http://frougon.net/projects/FFGo/ * License: GPL 3+ with OpenSSL exception Programming Lang: Python (3) Description: powerful graphical launcher for FlightGear FFGo is a fast and simple way to start a FlightGear session. Like other such applications (e.g., FGRun, FGo!, FGx), FFGo allows one to easily select the aircraft, airport, scenario, etc. One thing that distinguishes it from other such applications is the text window allowing one to write any other, more advanced command line options that will be passed to FlightGear. This is similar, but much more convenient and powerful, to editing the .fgfsrc configuration file. The main difference in power compared to editing .fgfsrc or using FGo! comes from FFGo's use of CondConfigParser to process the user's configuration. In addition to this, FFGo offers: * an easy setup (Preferences dialog); * convenient selection of aircraft and startup airport or carrier; * possibility to choose between identically-named aircrafts based on which directory they are stored in (using tooltips in the aircraft list); * easy selection of startup runway or parking position, offering startup locations from apt.dat if there is no groundnet-defined parking position for the selected airport; * detailed airport, runway, helipad and parking tooltips. Airport tooltips show things such as airport type (land airport, seaplane base or heliport), latitude, longitude, elevation, number of land runways, water runways, helipads, magnetic variation... Runway/helipad tooltips show runway type, length and width, surface type, magnetic as well as true heading, etc. Parking tooltips show similar information as runway tooltips, plus maximum aircraft radius, reserved airline codes... Note: MagneticField from the geographiclib-tools package is needed for magnetic data. * easy consulting of METAR data for the nearest station relatively to the selected airport (if any); * a powerful Airport Finder dialog allowing one to easily find airports using various criteria: distance to a chosen, “reference airport”; number of land runways, water runways, or helipads; length of the longest or shortest runway in the airport, etc. The table of results displays, among others, the distance and bearings between the reference airport and each “result airport”. It can be sorted according to any column with a simple click on the column header. * a GPS Tool dialog allowing one to find the distance, initial and final bearings for the shortest path between two given airports. The dialog also computes the flight duration for a given ground speed, and vice versa. * easy selection of one or more scenarios, allowing one to browse the description of each available scenario; * realtime preview of the arguments that will be passed to fgfs (FlightGear) if the “Run FG” button is pressed; * the possibility to copy to the clipboard a shell command that is equivalent to what FFGo will do if the “Run FG” button is pressed; * the option to translate fgfs' --parkpos option into the corresponding combination of --lat, --lon and --heading options. This is useful when the --parkpos option is broken in FlightGear; * easy viewing and saving of FlightGear output (log); * automatic FFGo + FlightGear log saving and rotating. * ability to read and merge an arbitrary number of in-scenery-paths, uncompressed or gzip-compressed apt.dat files (compliant with a feature introduced in FlightGear 2016.4.0). Kind Regards Markus Wanner
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