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Custom location files for Endless ATC · By startgrid

Excellent work and just a couple of tweaks if possible.

A topic by daculp created Nov 14, 2023 Views: 103 Replies: 2
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The ability to customize is excellent; especially the new routing abilities on arrival and departures.  Really enjoyable to play.

About the only thing I have noticed is that the aircraft type 6 (light, single engine) enter at the same altitudes as the jets and climb and descend at the same rates.  The "example" instructions say the descent rates can be adjusted but so far, I have been unable to do so.  100 FPM  min and 500 FPM max descending is about right for a light aircraft but nothing I enter seems to override the default.

The only other thing is that  light aircraft enter the airspace at the same altitude as the jets.  Normally, unpressurized light aircraft would enter below 10,000 and jets above them.  Small points in an otherwise great effort.   Thank you!

Developer

The range for 'descent rate' is 300 to 6000 fpm. It determines the maximum rate the plane type can attain during a descent (although it will descend faster when 'expediting'). So a setting of 300 to 500 fpm should work fine; lower values will be constrained to 300.

The 'descentaltitude' is indeed the same for all plane types. The idea is that it avoids conflicts with lower planes, keeping the gameplay more simple. For the default airports, the descentaltitude is set below 10.000 so it's not really an issue there. To work around this game limitation, you could perhaps keep the descentaltitude below 10.000, but also add a (higher) custom altitude to the 'entrypoints'. Light aircraft will still be constained by the descentaltitude, while other aircraft enter higher.

I hope this helps, thanks for the feedback!

OK, I will set a custom altitude at the entry points and try that.  Thanks for the tip.