Docking and Odometer systems

 

The one and only purpose of this module is to enable you to build docking and odometer system macros for your scenery. Some basic tools such as the Cube, Polygon, Sign and others are also included to facilitate your work.

This is a view of the main panel.
Program files from this Addon and the main Nova program are not compatible at all since 4 new tools have been added. In other words a file saved using this Addon program will be impossible to load with the main Nova program.

You could also use this program to exclusively build the docking system files only or save this file as a structure and use the main Nova program to add all the other components of the entire module.

 

Docking systems are visual aids to help taxiing aircraft on the tarmac. The docking panel must be placed in a perfect perpendicular position at 90 degrees to the taxiline heading in order to give a correct reading of the aircraft position.

The docking panel altitude must conform with the type of aircraft to be parked on the tarmac for a perfect reading of the signals from the cockpit.

The final approach to the finger gate position must be made in cockpit view mode only. All other view positions such as top view or spot plane view will not work properly and will give you the wrong readings. Of course you normally do pilot from the cockpit - not from outside of it!

 

How it works:

The docking system and the odometer system work the same way. One helps to align the taxiing aircraft at the right position on the tarmac and the other displays the distance of the aircraft to the panel and/or odometer position.

The distance from the panel to the aircraft will never be the distance between the panel and the aircraft nose.
This distance will normally be close to the length of the aircraft divided by two and/or the distance between the front wing ends to the panel position.
You will soon realize this distance will require some testing in your scenery to get the correct setting.

Your panel may be placed at 1 meter from the stop position or at any other distance such as 20. This means that this distance must be added to the total for the final aircraft position setting.

The system will verify at different intervals the alignment of the aircraft and the closer the aircraft is to the panel the narrower this path will be.

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