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+ | ===== Geographic Coordinates ===== | ||
+ | Aerofly FS uses a geographic coordinate system for the scenery. | ||
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+ | You can display coordinates of your aircraft position in the simulator by pressing Ctrl+F1. The location will be shown in the debug output overlay. | ||
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+ | Coordinates are defined in the format Lon/Lat. Altitudes or elevations are defined in meters. | ||
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+ | Lon - Longitude is positive towards East, negative towards West\\ | ||
+ | Lat - Latitude is positive towards North, negative towards South. | ||
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+ | ==== Finding the Geographic Coordinates ==== | ||
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+ | A small excursion to geographic coordinates... | ||
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+ | If you want to describe any position on earth in a unified system you may use geographic coordinates (as Aerofly FS 2 does). | ||
+ | We need 360 degrees to do a full circle, so the earth simplified as a bowl consists of 360 longitude lines. Longitude 0 is defined | ||
+ | It is half of a circle going from north pole to south pole. So lat +90 is the north pole, 0 is the equator line, -90 is the south pole. | ||
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+ | **Note** - Make sure that you take the sequence into account: Both ways **Lat/Lon** and **Lon/Lat** are common. (Aerofly FS 2 uses Lon/Lat so for example 10°E and 30°N and not the other way around!). | ||
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+ | * If you want to place an object at a certain position you may use this page for calculations: | ||
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+ | It displays Google map worldwide, so we can move and zoom into our desired position. Switch to Satellite, then click with the mouse to the favored point. This opens a window with the appropriate coordinates. | ||
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