Re: [Flightgear-devel] Weekly CVS Changelog Summary: SimGear
On Sunday 08 April 2007 07:00, Curtis L. Olson wrote: > 2f585eeea02e2c79d7b1d8c4963bae2d > > - > Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT > Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share > your opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys-and earn cash > http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV > ___ > Flightgear-devel mailing list > Flightgear-devel@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/flightgear-devel Empty? Surely there were changes to both Simgear and Flightgear this week. -- Roy Vegard Ovesen - Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys-and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV ___ Flightgear-devel mailing list Flightgear-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/flightgear-devel
Re: [Flightgear-devel] carrier landing bug (osg only)
On Sunday 01 April 2007, Csaba Halász wrote: > In fg/osg if you successfully catch a wire during carrier landing fg > "freezes": no screen updates whatsoever. > I have traced this bug to FGGroundCache::get_wire_ends(). > Looks like during the rewrite to use overloaded operators a mistake > was made in the pivotoff calculation. > > The original version (rev 1.17): > > sgdVec3 pivotoff; > sgdCopyVec3(end[k], wires[i].ends[k]); > sgdSubVec3(pivotoff, end[k], wires[i].rotation_pivot); > > Next version (rev 1.18): > > SGVec3d pivotoff = end[k] - wires[i].rotation_pivot; > > Note that at this point end[k] is still uninitialized. > The correct code imho would be: > SGVec3d pivotoff = wires[i].ends[k] - wires[i].rotation_pivot; > > Diff attached, comments welcome. Good catch. Diff applied. Thanks! Greetings Mathias - Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys-and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV ___ Flightgear-devel mailing list Flightgear-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/flightgear-devel
Re: [Flightgear-devel] OT: First solo cross-country
--- Ralf Gerlich wrote: > Hi all, > > in the well-established tradition of reporting one's milestones on the > way to a license I would like to give a short account on my first > cross-country solo, which I flew today. > > As a reminder: I am currently undergoing training for what is called in > Germany a sports pilots license (SPL) for aerodynamically controlled > microlights. I had started this training pretty exactly a year ago and > my practical exam is coming near (last week of April). What has taken me > so long? Lack of time! (Martin has been nagging me the past months to > finally get done with it! ;-) Congratulations Ralf! It sounds like it was a wonderful flight and a very special milestone away from the circuit. I can't imagine what it must be like to fly into such a large airport in a microlight. Presumably you have to be paranoid about wake vortexes? Good luck with your practical exam. -Stuart ___ New Yahoo! Mail is the ultimate force in competitive emailing. Find out more at the Yahoo! Mail Championships. Plus: play games and win prizes. http://uk.rd.yahoo.com/evt=44106/*http://mail.yahoo.net/uk - Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys-and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV ___ Flightgear-devel mailing list Flightgear-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/flightgear-devel
Re: [Flightgear-devel] OT: First solo cross-country
Hi Stuart! Stuart Buchanan wrote: > --- Ralf Gerlich wrote: >> Hi all, >> >> in the well-established tradition of reporting one's milestones on the >> way to a license I would like to give a short account on my first >> cross-country solo, which I flew today. >> >> As a reminder: I am currently undergoing training for what is called in >> Germany a sports pilots license (SPL) for aerodynamically controlled >> microlights. I had started this training pretty exactly a year ago and >> my practical exam is coming near (last week of April). What has taken me >> so long? Lack of time! (Martin has been nagging me the past months to >> finally get done with it! ;-) > > Congratulations Ralf! > > It sounds like it was a wonderful flight and a very special milestone away > from the circuit. I can't imagine what it must be like to fly into such a > large airport in a microlight. Presumably you have to be paranoid about > wake vortexes? As I said, it's merely a large airport for a microlight. Friedrichshafen was estabilished early in the 20th century, originally as a place for the training of Zeppelin-crews, became an airfield for the German Airforce in WWII and in the post-WWII-era had been used in parallel for a small range of civil scheduled flights and by the French Air Force personell, which was stationed in southwestern Germany in the post-WWII-occupation phase. Due to the army past, the airfield already had quite a long runway. After the French troops had left, the airport was restructured as a civilian regional airport, which is now used by a few scheduled airline flights (mostly medium sized turboprops of a local airline and two daily Ryanair B737 flights). So yes, in comparison with your local grass strip, Friedrichshafen is a large airport. However, most of the airline flights happen in a short timeframe early in the morning and in the evening. Therefore even though there is a fair amount of airline traffic, you seldomly come across an airliner landing or taking off directly ahead of you. However, if that event occurs, it might happen that a just-landed Dash-8 has to wait in front of a taxiway intersection just to let you pass. ;-) At least I haven't noticed any wake vortex paranoia yet ;-) It's also an advantage to learn flying on such an airport - even though most of the training takes place on nearby uncontrolled airfields: No nervousness when coming to a controlled airfield. > Good luck with your practical exam. Thank you. Cheers, Ralf - Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys-and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV ___ Flightgear-devel mailing list Flightgear-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/flightgear-devel
