Filter for available landing options

[Topgun505]

If this has not been mentioned yet it definitely needs to be implemented.

 

For all aircraft, give them an attribute. (Or flag, or whatever you call it these days in programming lingo). For helicopters they have a Helo tag. For fixed wing aircraft they have a Fixed tag. (And, for the Harrier, it will have both since it can do VTOL operations).

 

When an aircraft calls ATC for landing the system checks the attribute of the aircraft calling and it ONLY SHOWS THE AVAILABLE LANDING OPTIONS APPROPRIATE FOR ITS TYPE.

 

For helicopters (and the Harrier), since they can land anywhere, they will end up seeing everything on their list. FARPS, airfields, carriers, smaller ship landing pads, etc.

 

For fixed wing this will limit what you see in the list.

 

This is necessary because an aircraft carrier never sails alone. It always has a half dozen to a dozen plus ships screening for it. Currently when you are in a F/A-18C and try to call the Stennis to land you end up seeing EVERY SINGLE SHIP within close proximity, even though you can land on none of them aside from the Stennis. Such a flag would allow you to filter out all landing areas that you don't need to be seeing for fixed wing aircraft.

[Svend_Dellepude]

Another idea would be to let your radios decide what turns up or not depending on the frequency you dialed in and the radio in question.

Ie, if your have ATC dialed in on 1 and AWACS on 2, then AWACS will not show up on 1 just as ATC will not show up when you talk on radio 2.

[Schlomo1933]

i think that will be the best solution. Maybe gray all other out.

[Svend_Dellepude]

Preferably not appear.

[discwalker]

Filter out inappropriate ATCs for landing

if the manually set freq is forced to show

 

Sometimes not enough to filter out farp and ship ATCs to communicate with Stennis,

many shore bases can block the selection