Re: [Flightgear-devel] FlightGear Review (was: Which aircraft to include in v0.9.9?)

2005-11-13 Thread Thomas Förster 
Am Samstag 12 November 2005 02:05 schrieb George Patterson:
> On Fri, 2005-11-11 at 16:13 +0100, Thomas Förster wrote:
> > A slightly outdated version of FlightGear is installed for Suse via
> > Yast and via Apt for Debian. For the newest release you have to
> > compile the source code yourself [1]. For Mandrake 10.2, Fedora Core 3
> > and the newest version 5.10 of Ubuntu packets exist for the current
> > release 0.9.8 of FlightGear. The packets may be found here [2].
>
> Last sentence of this paragraph should be "The packages may be found
> here [2]."

Sure. I was quite brain dead after having spent a whole afternoon on this. 
Must have slipped through the proof reading. Thanks.

Thomas

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Re: [Flightgear-devel] FlightGear Review (was: Which aircraft to include in v0.9.9?)

2005-11-12 Thread Vassilii Khachaturov 
Maybe some German-speaking user could point the reporters to Atlas
for the moving map solution they describe as absent (and to the new
Pigeon's map!)

V.


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Re: [Flightgear-devel] FlightGear Review (was: Which aircraft to include in v0.9.9?)

2005-11-11 Thread George Patterson 
On Fri, 2005-11-11 at 16:13 +0100, Thomas Förster wrote:
> A slightly outdated version of FlightGear is installed for Suse via
> Yast and via Apt for Debian. For the newest release you have to
> compile the source code yourself [1]. For Mandrake 10.2, Fedora Core 3
> and the newest version 5.10 of Ubuntu packets exist for the current
> release 0.9.8 of FlightGear. The packets may be found here [2]. 

Last sentence of this paragraph should be "The packages may be found
here [2]."



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George Patterson


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Re: [Flightgear-devel] FlightGear Review (was: Which aircraft to include in v0.9.9?)

2005-11-11 Thread Thomas Förster 
> If someone needs translation into another language, you might try to
> translate the web page using google translation.  www.google.com/language_tools?hl=en>
>
> The english language version is here:
>
>  user.de%2Fausgabe%2F2005%2F11%2F070-flightgear%2F&langpair=de%
> 7Cen&hl=en&safe=off&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&prev=%2Flanguage_tools>

Google somehow only translated the first part into a very crude translation.
So here is a better one (hand crafted ;-), other German speakers can probably 
correct me if I am wrong somewhere):

Flying With FlightGear

High Above

--
UFO's over San Franscisco? With the free flight simulator FlightGear you leave 
this earth -- if needed in an UFO. Validate your free ticket here. Kristian 
Kißling, Jörg Luther
---

README
This article instructs you on the usage of the free flight simulator 
FlightGear and highlights its strong and weak points compared to its 
commercial competitors.

Despite the so called low fare airlines, flying is an expensive hobby. This is 
even more true for piloting a plane yourself. A (hobby [sic!]) pilots training 
costs thousands of Euros, a visit in a professional full flight simulator 
comes at 200 to 300 Euro. No surprise, a lot of flight enthusiasts turn their 
PC into a cockpit: But even for flight sims for your own living room you have 
to spend 20 to 30 Euro -- extensions like additional models or detailed 
scenery excluded. This sums to a nice amount over time.

On the other hand you can get the free flight simulator FlightGear platform 
independent and at no cost (Figure 1). Technically not in the same league 
like current commercial  competitors, it is steadily developed further and 
with lots of features seems to be close to reality.

FIGURE 1

((1)) A Cessna passing the Golden Gate Bridge of San Francisco in the free 
flight simulator Flightgear.

Check-in

A slightly outdated version of FlightGear is installed for Suse via Yast and 
via Apt for Debian. For the newest release you have to compile the source 
code yourself [1]. For Mandrake 10.2, Fedora Core 3 and the newest version 
5.10 of Ubuntu packets exist for the current release 0.9.8 of FlightGear. The 
packets may be found here [2].
To install FlightGear, you will need a 3D driver for your graphics card, since 
you will surely spare the bucking (TF not sure it's the right translation) 
without it. Install FlightGear via the respective packet manager.
The console plays an important role: unlike other flight simulators you define 
parameters of the program before the start. With different options you 
determine for example the start position, the type of aircraft or the local 
time at the departure location. A typical start line is:

fgfs --enable-fullscreen --aircraft=ufo --airport-id=KJFK 
--start-date-lat=2005:09:09:12:00:00 --enable-auto-coordination 

Now have a look to the single options: --enable-fullscreen turns on the 
fullscreen mode, for --aircraft you choose the UFO, departure aerodrome is 
John-F.-Kennedy airport (JFK) near New York.

---
UFO: One of the less realistic aircraft in FlightGear. The UFO is fast, never 
crashes and provides a handy way to explore the scenery.


Every airport worldwide possesses an ICAO code, which you can query at this 
website [3].


ICAO: ICAO stands for International Civil Aviation Organisation, which assigns 
airport codes to international airports.


Your first flight does not start at JFK though: FlightGear by default only 
starts in the vicinity of San Franscisco. Other regions of the world can be 
downloaded from the FlightGear Website [4]: How to install such addons you 
can read in the box "Extending FlightGear".

=
Extending FlightGear

The FlightGear  world is divided into 10x10 degrees quadrants. In the basic 
version you only get one such tile around Los Angeles, the rest of the world 
consists of water. With the right extension files [4], you get scenery for 
the rest of the world too.

FIGURE 2
((2)) If you like to fly to a new airport or region, first you must download 
and install the right scenery tiles.

The download of so called scenery tiles causes tremendous download volumes: A 
single tile comes at around 80MB; flightgear.org provides the whole world 
scenery on 3 DVD for purchase. We have put the Middle European region onto 
the attached CD.
The region consists of the four tiles from 0°E 50°N (e000n50.tgz) to 10°E 40°N 
(e010n40.tgz). Not only Germany but also Benelux, Denmark, the south of 
Scandinavia, large parts of France and Italy as well as the Balcan area come 
into your reach.
To install the scenery, copy the archives from the CD depending on your 
distribution into the Scenery or Scenery/Terrain subdirectories and unpack 
with the command tar -xvzf e0*. In a similar manner proceed with other 
downloaded FlightGear sce