FS9 gives location in the upper left hand corner ALT Z in degrees and minutes to 4 decimal places. I find this can leave your aircraft object placement off considerably. If you add this line under the [MAIN] header in the cfg file it will read out in degrees, minutes, and seconds to four places. Much more precise. DISPLAY_FRACTIONAL_MINUTES = 0.
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Hi, Terry
You are correct, those coordinates shown in the FS2004 in Slew mode are rather crude.
I use what I think is a very simple method to get the position of the aircraft to up to 13 decimals.
I use ExcBuilder to give me the position. ExcBuilder is a "one-pony-show" prorgamme that makes exclusion rectangles, freeware, that takes no space at all, and reads the position of the aircraft in FS2004 and allows you to, then, copy and paste the coordinates somewhere else.
Please note I didn't ask you WHY you need this, as it is none of my business, but pretty much all the tools that locate objects onto FS (by generating a bgl) do the same thing as ExcBuilder.
Please let me know if this helps.
Fern
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You are correct, those coordinates shown in the FS2004 in Slew mode are rather crude.
I use what I think is a very simple method to get the position of the aircraft to up to 13 decimals.
I use ExcBuilder to give me the position. ExcBuilder is a "one-pony-show" prorgamme that makes exclusion rectangles, freeware, that takes no space at all, and reads the position of the aircraft in FS2004 and allows you to, then, copy and paste the coordinates somewhere else.
Please note I didn't ask you WHY you need this, as it is none of my business, but pretty much all the tools that locate objects onto FS (by generating a bgl) do the same thing as ExcBuilder.
Please let me know if this helps.
Fern
fernmarques@yahoo.com
Hi Fern,
I like to place my flyable aircraft into the position where I want the object aircraft placed then copy the coordinates into SAAM. But the numbers FS9 gives me can misplace the object by 10+'. With the numbers I get now, showing seconds, everything is fine. Just wanted to pass the info on to anyone else who could make use of it.
I like to place my flyable aircraft into the position where I want the object aircraft placed then copy the coordinates into SAAM. But the numbers FS9 gives me can misplace the object by 10+'. With the numbers I get now, showing seconds, everything is fine. Just wanted to pass the info on to anyone else who could make use of it.
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