On Friday 07 December 2001 4:15 pm, you wrote: > Things have been moving pretty quickly lately so I want to describe > one particularly useful change in case anyone missed it. > > With the latest cvs code and base package you can now use a set of top > level config files to start up FlightGear with various preselected > panels, aircraft, flight dynamics codes, etc. > > Here's what we currently have available in cvs (it's pretty trivial to > copy and modify one of these to create your own combinations.) > > fgfs --aircraft=c172 <-- the default c172 with JSBSim > fgfs --aircraft=c172-ifr <-- the same c172 but with an ifr panel > fgfs --aircraft=X15 <-- Jon's JSBSim X-15 > fgfs --aircraft=c310 <-- David's JSBSim Cessna 310 > > fgfs --aircraft=c172-yasim <-- YASim version of the Cessna 172 > fgfs --aircraft=c310-yasim <-- YASim version of the c310 > fgfs --aircraft=747-yasim <-- YASim 747 > fgfs --aircraft=a4-yasim <-- YASim A-4 Skyhawk > > fgfs --aircraft=c172-larcsim <-- Tony's larcsim c172 > > So for instance if you want to try Andy's YASim 747 model, and check > out his alternate (blade element-ish) approach to modeling the flight > dynamics, just run "fgfs --aircraft=747-yasim" and you'll get the > right fdm code, and the right aerodynamics configuration, etc. > Currently we don't have a 747 panel so perhaps someone out there might > see this as an opportunity to jump in and start working on one. :-) >
Anybody willing to take Curt up on this can contact me for a copy of a cockpit foldout. I have glass and analog versions. If nobody wants to contribute, I can back burner the 310 stuff I have queued and concentrate on this instead. > In the last week or so we have received a *lot* more goodies to play > with. Also if you haven't been following along, the new sound effects > add alot. We have wind noise, ground rumble, a stall horn, and tire > squeak on touch down. > > I really appreciate all the hard work so many people have been putting > in. It's starting to become a challenge to keep up with all the > changes! If we could knock off a couple of the remaining annoyance > bugs in JSBSim and YASim (those bugs that aren't necessarily high > priority, but are things an average person will immediately notice and > ding us for) then I would be tempted to roll out the 0.7.9 release > soon. (I'm thinking specifically of the startup-onground sinking into .... At last years winter LWCE I mentioned a 747 glass cockpit as something in the future to a reporter. I have a rudimentary full screen PFD that up until the advent of OpenGC I was gonna cram on before this years event. It would be a good thing to have in 0.7.9. What sort of time frame are you thinking of? TTYL J > the ground and spinning slowly bug in JSBSim and the accelerating > backwards on the ground in YASim.) > > Regards, > > Curt. _______________________________________________ Flightgear-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.flightgear.org/mailman/listinfo/flightgear-devel
