From: curt <curt>
Date: Wed, 9 Jun 2004 20:21:18 +0000 (+0000)
Subject: DME units report a distance based on the assumption that the ground station
X-Git-Url: https://git.mxchange.org/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=6c8f7fab01375b0204c5759d8ae75fe99d4da5e1;p=flightgear.git

DME units report a distance based on the assumption that the ground station
will delay it's reply by 50ms.  The ground station can change it's reply delay
to trick the airborn dme unit into reporting a distance that is offset from
the true distance by some constant value.  In FG we model this by subtracting
a fixed distance from the actual distance.

It is thus possible in our implimentation for the displayed distance to become
negative.  This patch clamp DME distance to a minimum value of 0.00 so it can
never go negative.
---

diff --git a/src/Cockpit/dme.cxx b/src/Cockpit/dme.cxx
index f8e40efd3..fb416fcaa 100644
--- a/src/Cockpit/dme.cxx
+++ b/src/Cockpit/dme.cxx
@@ -161,6 +161,9 @@ FGDME::update(double dt)
             station = Point3D( x, y, z );
             dist = aircraft.distance3D( station ) * SG_METER_TO_NM;
             dist -= bias;
+            if ( dist < 0.0 ) {
+                dist = 0.0;
+            }
 
             current_time.stamp();
             long dMs = (current_time - last_time) / 1000;
diff --git a/src/Instrumentation/dme.cxx b/src/Instrumentation/dme.cxx
index f9d186ca1..5aea2a8ba 100644
--- a/src/Instrumentation/dme.cxx
+++ b/src/Instrumentation/dme.cxx
@@ -128,7 +128,11 @@ DME::update (double delta_time_sec)
         _last_distance_nm = distance_nm;
 
         _in_range_node->setBoolValue(true);
-        _distance_node->setDoubleValue(distance_nm - _transmitter_bias);
+        double tmp_dist = distance_nm - _transmitter_bias;
+        if ( tmp_dist < 0.0 ) {
+            tmp_dist = 0.0;
+        }
+        _distance_node->setDoubleValue( tmp_dist );
         _speed_node->setDoubleValue(speed_kt);
         _time_node->setDoubleValue(distance_nm/speed_kt*60.0);