On 23 Sep 2008, at 20:26, Syd wrote: > So I gather your telling me I can't change my aircraft ? The gpws > issues > have been known for a long time , and I,m sure you well know that . > I wont post bugs here because of exactly this.... My past questions > were largely ignored , my minor patches were generally called crap , > and > the only way to get a real discussion going seems to be introducing a > mistake or a typo.... THEN watch the discussions fly !
The problem seems to be very bad in the case of the GPWS, because it's actually a very complex instrument, and the author (who seems to be ... absent?) clearly put in a lot of very accurate functionality, but almost no documentation. Because it's so complex, I assume it needs some accurate configuration to work with an aircraft - i.e the 'out of the box' defaults are not correct - which is entirely understandable. There also seems to be a lack of some reference installations in aircraft, and the code hasn't had much love - I've been bumping up against it doing my refactorings, but I think I'll take a step back, and look over it properly, since it seems no one else has in some time. Also, don't get me wrong - I have no problem with people coding up systems in Nasal, it's the right place for many, many such systems. And indeed, probably the right place for a simple radar-altitude-based GPWS with voice callouts. That's not what the Mk-VIII is - it's modelling all the clever modes (look-ahead, terrain clearing, approach, etc) and doing things like finding the nearest runway / localiser to identify which runway the aircraft is inbound too. It's a good case of a real-world instrument which makes sense to be in C++ (until machines get quite a bit quicker), but it needs some love, and some docs. So, I don't have a problem with a Nasal GPWS, but I'd far, far rather have some collaboration and help to get the Mk-VIII into a state where aircraft modellers can use it comfortably and correctly. > In the meantime , IRC is a much > freindlier , helpful place. But not a useable one for some of us - following the forums and here is enough work for me. Regards, James ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Moblin Your Move Developer's challenge Build the coolest Linux based applications with Moblin SDK & win great prizes Grand prize is a trip for two to an Open Source event anywhere in the world http://moblin-contest.org/redirect.php?banner_id=100&url=/ _______________________________________________ Flightgear-devel mailing list Flightgear-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/flightgear-devel
