Low bank angle in KML replays

[Acanthos]

Describe the bug
When having imported a Generic KML with track data, the bank angle of the aircraft seems insufficient, as if SkyDolly isn't looking ahead enough in the kml data points to realize if the turn is indeed through a larger heading (necessitating a greater amount of roll to be commanded).

Expected behavior
When aircraft are making large heading changes (be it level flight or not) the bank angle being greater would better enable formation keeping of anyone trying to fly formation with that kml aircraft.

Application version:
only tested on versions up to v0.16.3

Additional context
The idea of downloading kml aircraft tracks and then using them in the sim to fly with has super potential but aside the inevitable jittery movement the bigger issue for me is the insufficient roll angle to match the turns being made. Cheerz

[till213]

Hello,

Thank you for raising this issue!

Yes, the current bank angle calculation is merely a "placeholder" and currently based on the assumption that the maximum bank angle of an A320 type of aircraft would be 25 degrees.

I definitively want to improve this, also refer to discussion that evolved out of another issue here:

#135 (comment)

In fact, I intend to improve various other aspects of the "flight augmentation" for imported flights:

• Equidistant spline curve parameterisation
• Configurable "events" (such as gears/flaps/... up/down, perhaps based on selectable "aircraft profiles")
• Properly calculated bank angle (based on current estimated velocity and curve radius, given GPS positions with timestamps)
• More "straight" (less curvy, due to spline interpolation) flight paths, specificaly for "sparsely sampled paths"
• And most importantly: proper alignment (probably with some "interactive wizard dialog") onto the ground