[1.0.7] Top of Descent

[Tom Stian]

Hello

As you can see on the picture. I should be at FL250 at DOMAL, but the T/D is after that waypoint. So had to skip VNAV for descent this time

FL250 at DOMAL was added manually during flight.

 

IXEG_FMS_debug.txt

[Litjan]

Hi Tom,

thanks for the report!

Jan

 

[tkyler]

1 hour ago, Tom Stian said:

As you can see on the picture. I should be at FL250 at DOMAL, but the T/D is after that waypoint.

Hey Tom, yea, this is something that we need to fix, but is a pardigm shift with what we current have in place.   The real aircraft use a method called, "step integration" in order to calculate route profiles and accurate predictions on this level require access to reams of aircraft data that we don't have access to.   We use a 'approximated' route, that only considers straight lines between the waypoints for most calculations, BUT we draw the symbols on the magenta because they look funny when they're not on the route (as sometimes happens).

I do want to move all the calculations to be relative to the magenta route, but that requires a modified data structure that I have to integrate into refactored code......BUT when we do, that is when I really expect things to start getting better.   

-tkyler