How can I spawn in an Object in relation to my Aircraft

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Hi there, I’m a scenery developer and I’m very new to development in this field. I’m trying to spawn in a stationary object a few meters away from my aircraft, which is toggled by some externel app, or in-sim.

I’d really appreciate if someone could help me get started.

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Calculate the relative position based on your aircraft‘s current position, the desired bearing and distance.

The required trigometric math is relatively straight-forward to implement: the haversine formula calculates the distance between two given points on a (perfect) sphere, the inverse formula calculates a relative point, given a source point, distance and bearing:

https://www.vcalc.com/wiki/vCalc/Haversine+-+Distance

I had implemented those formulae myself, but replaced them by using:

https://geographiclib.sourceforge.io/C++/doc/index.html

In fact, I am placing „formation aircraft“ relative to the user aircraft, so for some C++ usage example code you may also have a look at:

Specifically:

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Thank you sir, much appreciated!