Vertical angle in procedures

[albar965]

Extract vertical angle for procedure legs.

For X-Plane, Navigraph and MSFS.

Add rate of descent for angles, glidepaths and glideslopes in progress.

Definition/Description: The “Vertical Angle” field defines the
vertical navigation path prescribed for the procedure. The
vertical angle should cause the aircraft to fly at the last coded
altitude and then descend on the angle, projected back from the
fix and altitude code for that fix at which the angle is coded.
Vertical Angle information is provided only for descending
vertical navigation. The angle is preceded by a “–” (minus
sign) to indicate the descending flight.

[Gulliver54]

Hi Alex,
Good idea.
If you have calculated the vertical descend angle can you also show the corresponding vertical decent rate?
Pe; 3° descend: 180kias is 900ft/min. 120kias is 600ft/min. descend rate.
I admit this is not 100% correct because the calculated speed for descend rate should be "Groundspeed". Perhaps you can use the groundspeed that's calculated and shown with "user aircraft"
So, maybe that is something to bare in mind.

[albar965]

Can do and display this in the progress tab. Groundspeed is always available this is no issue.
But first #768 has to be implemented since the progress tab is getting too crowded.

[albar965]

Spot the changes. 🙂
This needs an updated Navigraph database (not yet available) or X-Plane. Once released it will work with MSFS and the others too, of course.

[Gulliver54]

Hi Alex,
Great work, you even calculated "vertical speed" taking in account the deviation.
Question, does this calculation also works with "Created approach"? The required angle is available there too.

Is it possible to cram these 2 values (deviation and vertical speed) inside the little window "Flight plan Elevation..." also?
Required "angel 3" occupies 2 rows now. One row could be deleted imo.
Gradus

[albar965]

Great work, you even calculated "vertical speed" taking in account the deviation.
Question, does this calculation also works with "Created approach"? The required angle is available there too.

Thanks. The deviation was there before but angle and sink rate were missing. This works with all approaches since the value is calculated for the plan and shown throughout the whole descent phase. The yellow angles are required by a procedure (like an altitude restriction) and prescribe the flight path. Other angles are calculated and optional.

Is it possible to cram these 2 values (deviation and vertical speed) inside the little window "Flight plan Elevation..." also?
Required "angel 3" occupies 2 rows now. One row could be deleted imo.

Into the tooltip or as an aircraft label? Maybe both. The tooltip in the shot is also filled with debug information ([ ... ]) making it bigger than the release version. Will see.