Vodka Flyers

Could you correct the version in the TOC? It's currently listed as:

## Interface: 31000

and should be:

## Interface: 30100

to avoid showing as out-of-date. Thanks.

well this addon is PERFECT for what i needed. The "Bomb them again" achievement is very hard to do when your trying to curve and fly around to bomb them, and keep landing due to poor pitch angle. This fixed that and i got the achievement today thanks to your addon WOOOO.

I had a thought about showing altitude, but not sure if it is possible.

If you mount up at sea level (on a beach somewhere) then fly at a certain pitch for a cetain time period you could triangulate to calculate altitude.

eg, You fly at 45 degrees for 10 seconds travelling at 10meters per second. You've covered 100m diagonally upwards. You have the length of one side (100m) and two angles, 45 degrees you flew at and 90 degrees, as is you where stood directly beneath your end location.

Therefore: Altitude = 100 x Sin45 / Sin90 = 70.71 / 1 = 70.71 meters high.

If you could record a base altitude a sea level when you first load the addon it could then be possible to have a constantly updating altitude.

This depends on how pitch is calculated and also if pitch can be shown when walking or on a ground mount. If thats not possible then it wouldn't calculate altitude changes on foot, so if you landed then ran down a hill and took off again, you would be lower than the Alt read out.

Just a thought!

I support this request - would be incredible to see altitudes.

Just a couple of thoughts on how to do this:
As the altitude value is needed mostly for estimating the fall damage and other fall-related things, the sea level taken as a basis is useless and in fact will be just a feature "for fun". So for the sake of usability I think it would be better to have altitude counted not from a sea level, but from the terrain surface. Developing Toecheese ideas, we will need only the terrain grid database added (i think it can be extracted from game files). Then, starting from the point of leaving the ground, basing on fly angle and speed (there are some addons which show speed out there) we can know current vertical distance from terrain surface.
The only problem is to gather surface grid data, i think, and if this can be solved - the whole idea seems doable. As i said, i hope it can be extracted from game data, but if not - we can find here volunteers to walk both flyable continents with a theodolite =) or a theodolite-like addon ;) Anyone even vaguely familiar with principles of geodesic survey can understand me)

Sorry for my bad English,
if something is unclear i can write it in other words, though i think the idea is pretty banal and straightforward.
Gendi, please tell us if this can be done.

Gendi, both Toecheese's and mine posts are telling that we CAN actually calculate altitude with the information that we currently have in our posession. You just don't want to bother with calculations, our you didn't read whole posts, or you don't want to make all calculations because you think that Blizz will add some altitude-measuring means to API?

This is cool, useful and non-obtrusive but there when you need it. (There are times when flying you can't tell up from down because of darkness or effects filling up the screen.) Also useful for flying long distances when you need to set a level flight so you wont slowly auger in. Thanks!

Thanks for this mod; I find it to be a huge help!

I dont really think it matters if your flying exactly level and i think people can tell if their flying up or down or not...no offense of course you took time into this not saying it was a waste of time im sure someone out there would want it. 10 million players for WoW someones bound to want it. Good job though.

what's this ?