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Changing tower view location

  • Makale

I just got this question via email:

Can we please have the ability to move the tower view to the physical location of the tower in the scenery? This worked up to FS9 but was 'broken' in FS9. Pre FS9 if I wanted to make a video recording on my landing I could place the tower view over the phyisical tower, play the video back and watch the landing. In FS9 this is not possible as the tower view seems locked at departure airport.

First, I'd prefer if folks would just comment on the blog posts. All you need to do is sign up. As for the answer, you can do this in FS9. In fact, we didn't change that from FS8. What did change was the default camera behavior. It now 'follows' you as you fly away from the departure airport. It used to stay stuck at the airport, which was not very helpful on transatlantic flights. <g>

 

To change the location manually just open the Map dialog (select Map from the World menu) and click the Tower radio button. You can now change the loaction by typing directly into the edit boxes or by dragging the tower icon with the mouse.

 

Now, the current feature does have some drawbacks. First, it rarely defaults to the actual location of a control tower, if the airport has one. It just picks an arbitrary location 'near' the runway, which may be obstructed by trees, buildings, etc. Second, wouldn't it be cool if the tower view automatically switched to the destination airport so you wouldn't have to change the location by hand? Oh, and what about...

 

Well, I'll leave it to your imagination to think about how else it might be enhanced, if we were to do such a thing.

Comments

  • Anonymous
    July 25, 2005
    For the ideas, it looks surely great. Why not a "fly-by" view?

    May I imagine?
    Region specific Autogen. Define some specific autogen textures for certain areas. And increase the ground texture resolution...

    By the way, thank you so much. More than 12 years of flightsimming, and I still love FS.
  • Anonymous
    July 26, 2005
    This might not be the best venue to post a small request, but here it goes... There are many Flight Sim users that arew a bit color challenged (Color Blind), is there a way we can or will be able to in the future change the color of the CROSS MARK in the world view to something different from RED.... can we have an option to allow us to choose the color that is easier for us to see.

    While I know many might laugh at this suggestion, beleive me for us that have this problem it is not a laughing matter.. :) If this can not be done, well at least thank you for reading this request.

    Jim
  • Anonymous
    April 09, 2006
    That is an issue that has annoyed me no end.

    If I select the tower view then that's exactly what I want: to see my plane landing or departing as seen from the tower at that particular airport. I don't want the tower to follow me, mind you.

    If I want to be see myself flying over the lands I choose spot view - obviously.
    If you catch me using tower view on a transatlantic flight you can take fs2004 away from me. I will then be officially too stupid to fly.

    thank you
    /boo

    - all your polygons are belong to us
  • Anonymous
    August 31, 2006
    Was Du nicht willst, dass man Dir tu', das fug auch keinem andern zu.Wenn Du es schon machen musst, dann kannst Du es auch gleich richtig machen.
  • Anonymous
    July 24, 2007
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