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pierr3 / vSMR

EuroScope Plugin to simulate the NOVA 9000 A-SMGCS system on VATSIM
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How to tell if an aircraft is squawking mode Charlie or not? #88

Closed migte closed 3 years ago

migte commented 3 years ago

What would be the way for me to verify a user is on mode C? I can't find any identifiers within the scope.

kusterjs commented 3 years ago

https://github.com/pierr3/vSMR/wiki/Approach-window

migte commented 3 years ago

Well this doesn't really help me because I am running ground at an airport that utilizes ASDE-X on all taxiways as ground. (So mode C.)

Someone mentioned to me a diamond and X symbol over the yellow aircraft. I haven't had the chance but I was going to check that out later to see what that symbology stood. Will report back.

migte commented 3 years ago

Ok, so there is obviously no documentation on what the specific symbols mean, but I find that a diamond over an aircraft means mode C. As a suggestion to the developer, this is extremely hard to see on heavy aircraft due to their larger size on the scope and the contrast of the colors (although it is just fine on normal sized aircraft.) Could this possibly be enlarged?

LeoChen98 commented 3 years ago

it might be more obvious to set another color for those mode C aircraft?

migte commented 3 years ago

Something like that, or perhaps just enlarge the current diamond to be visible on heavy aircraft rather than being the same size. I can't quite understand how this application is laid out (nor do I speak this language) so I don't know how difficult it would be to do something like that.