Patch 4.10 - Development Updates by Daidalos Team

[MikkOwl]

Isn't it possible to just do triangulation from a single beacon to know one's position? Taking two measurements from the same beacon at an interval instead of using the bearing from two different beacons.

1. Fly a steady heading
2. Measure bearing to beacon
3. Take that bearing minus 180 degrees, and draw a line on the map from the beacon outwards.
4. Fly for a determined while longer (maybe 3 minutes and 15 seconds - knowing exactly how far we have traveled in our straight line).
5. Repeat steps 2 and 3.
6. We now know three angles (all). First is our heading and the bearing to the beacon at the time of measurement one. Second is the same but at measurement two. Third is the two different bearings from the beacon to our positions of the two measurements. And we also know the length of one side of the triangle - our own distance traveled between measurement one and two.

http://www.mathsisfun.com/algebra/tr...triangles.html

We can use the law of sines to find out the lengths (distance) between our aircraft and the beacon at measurement one and two), which are the two missing sides of the triangle.

When those are revealed, we have our triangle drawn on the map, showing our distance from the beacon at the two measurements and the path our aircraft flew.