xRadar

A cross-platform, open source radar client for the Vatsim network.

Features

In addition to being cross-platform, xRadar is intended to be highly customizable and is inspired somewhat by http://www.vim.org. It is designed with the philosophy that everything should be doable from the keyboard, and preferably no more than a couple strokes away.

For example, the current method of selecting aircraft is by pressing s followed by two letters (that appear next to the aircraft on the radar). Once selected, its flight plan may be opened and edited using the key sequence op.

xRadar supports the notion of "modes," with different key strokes available in different modes. Not much is done with this yet, but the support is there.

xRadar intends to be cross-compatible with existing radar files. It currently reads (most of) the .sct2 file format for displaying scenery.

Installation

xRadar is still under development, but you can play with it by cloning the repo and using leiningen. A function called testing is provided in the xradar.radar namespace that builds a radar view and ads some test aircraft, but you'll want to tweak it. It assumes a ZNY.sct2 file in a ~/VRC/Support directory.

License

Copyright © 2015 Daniel Leong

Distributed under the Eclipse Public License either version 1.0 or (at your option) any later version.