Tower Problem

[ukvoodoo]

Hi Noisy

Tried to search the forum for this error but the search engine wouldn't let me search as Tower was too common a word

My problem goes that I

Load a new Tower View


Edit the Tower view to change the height by 10ft or set to Aircraft option




And the Tower view fires me miles away from where it was



Happens with all FS-Recorder versions

[DCA996]

My guess is this is because your aircraft's current location is not the original locatoin where the fstower is active, ie. the last world/airport that you selected or was associated with a saved flight you may have selected.

To make it active where you are choose the airport and place yourself there, then selet tower to check. Then when you create a new FSR Tower view it will fistly be in the same location as the FSTower. You can then move this as you wish to get the height a GPS coordinates to suit.

[noisy]

Hi,

My guess is this is because your aircraft's current location is not the original locatoin where the fstower is active, ie. the last world/airport that you selected or was associated with a saved flight you may have selected.

No, it has nothing to do with default FS tower location.

I just checked it, and it's a bug in the latitude/longitude conversion routines. It occurs only for coordinates between 0 and 1 degrees west or south (sign gets lost in the deg/min and deg/min/sec formats as the degrees field is zero).

I fixed it, until the next release you can use this workaround:
Switch lat/lon format to degrees only and change longitude from east back to west (or north to south for latitude).

[ukvoodoo]

Thanks Noisy ill give it a go and report back the results

[ukvoodoo]

Well I tried different things and all the same outcome

I can create new Tower views no problem but as soon as I try edit any value it just puts the Camera miles away from where it is even if the Coordinates are exactly the same as a camera already in place

I'm stumped

[noisy]

As I wrote, if the position is between 0 and 1 degrees west, you have to

• click the button right of the position to change the format to degrees only (no minutes and seconds fields)
• after that 'W' should have changed to 'E' due to the bug, change it back to 'W' and click OK.

I will soon release the fixed version.

[ukvoodoo]

As I wrote, if the position is between 0 and 1 degrees west, you have to

• click the button right of the position to change the format to degrees only (no minutes and seconds fields)
• after that 'W' should have changed to 'E' due to the bug, change it back to 'W' and click OK.

I will soon release the fixed version.

I tried that still nothing, tried this too

This is the aircraft co-ordinates where the tower will be


This is the data I input ( can you see anything else wrong )


no matter what I write in the above section its the same outcome


It may well be a fault that cant be fixed and i'll have to wait for the new version release

[noisy]

N53° 10.70' W0° 31.13' is not the same as N53.1070° W0.3113°!

One degree is 60 minutes, so you get:
53° 10.70' = 53 + 10.70/60 = 53.1783°
0° 31.13' = 31.13/60 = 0.5188°
So the coordinates are N53.1783° W 0.5188°.

If you use the 'Set to Aircraft' button after you switch to degrees only format, then you should see these values.