Damn, I'm starting to feel rather uncomfortable asking all these
questions without actually contributing...
I've recently come across a website which promises to be a global
aviation simulation platform:
http://www.ivao.org/
You can connect as a pilot or air traffic controller, using TCP/IP
p
Wouldn't having a fixed-point type in Simgear be a better choice than
floats for these situations?
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David,
I'm not sure your thinking on this, but the "Reset" option has
disappeared. That's kind of nice if you want to do a complete reset
of everything.
Regards,
Curt.
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Bernie Bright writes:
> On Sat, 18 Jan 2003 12:39:32 -0500
> David Megginson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> > The new XML-configured menubar is now the default for FlightGear;
> > configure --with-old-menubar to get the old one (which I'll keep
> > around for now, until we're sure the new one is w
On Sat, 18 Jan 2003 12:39:32 -0500
David Megginson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> The new XML-configured menubar is now the default for FlightGear;
> configure --with-old-menubar to get the old one (which I'll keep
> around for now, until we're sure the new one is working OK).
>
> Please, everyone,
Ima,
I would use version 1.6 of plib. I have not been able to get the
latest CVS to build for me (there is a problem with the new joystick
code for MacOS X). The only other change I have is a minor tweak to
src/ssg/ssgVtxTable.cxx for some performance improvements.
I have never tried to buil
Here are the two modifications I had to make to get flightgear (just
updated from CVS) to build. The first one is for being able to specify
SimGear's location at the ./configure command line, and the second one
is to be able to link.
Cheers //Johan
? buildfixes.patch
Index: configure.ac
=
Is the new version of PLIB required or optional for the fg source
downloaded from cvs by the latest changes? Are there any changes to
the SL directory that are required by flightgear?
Also, does anyone know where I can find Atlas (specifically the atlas
viewer) binaries to work with fg? Or wh
Michael Basler writes:
>
> > That looks like it's just program output. Can you get a proper
> > backtrace in gdb or some other debugger?
>
> This would imply me knowing how to use it. I am not a programmer, just an
> ordinary poor physicist...
>
> I analyzed a core file with gdb once. However, FG
Curt, David
I already messed a bit around with gdb, but it always died. Mean issue was I
set --fg_root= instead of fg-root= :-(((
It now does run. However, after selecting the button in question, flightgear
never dies completely. Instead, it hangs infinitely. I had to kill it
manually.
The trace
Typically you run fgfs from within gdb.
Something like
bash$ gdb fgfs
gdb> run --fgfs-option1 --fgfs-option2
Then when you get a crash you can type:
gdb> where
To get a back trace.
Regards,
Curt.
Michael Basler writes:
> David,
>
> > That looks like it's just program output. Can you get
David,
> That looks like it's just program output. Can you get a proper
> backtrace in gdb or some other debugger?
This would imply me knowing how to use it. I am not a programmer, just an
ordinary poor physicist...
I analyzed a core file with gdb once. However, FG doesn't dump a core file
toda
I've added a new command to cycle a property through an enumerated
list of values. It looks like this:
property-cycle
/foo/bar
value1
value2
value3
If the current value is "value1", it will change to "value2"; if it is
"value2", it will change to "value3", and so on, wrappin
Michael Basler writes:
> One issue: When I make a selection from the Weather menu the dialog box
> opens as it should. However, after only pressing either OK or Cancel the
> simulator silently dies with a stackdump as follows:
>
> _
> token = OBJECT_BASE name = 94
Tony,
> > Anyone know any good ways of getting permission to get onto the flight
> > deck for a commercial flight? (I'm not thinking of box cutters, BTW.)
> > (Also, I'm not a pilot and don't know the crew.)
> It is illegal in the U.S. until after the flight.
It was legal in Germany before Septe
On Sat, 2003-01-18 at 09:19, Major A wrote:
> > > Sounds like a very reliable plane and/or company when the pilot has to
> > > ask an "ordinary" passenger for his ground speed...
> > > What would he do if no passenger had a GPS? Fly more carefully as he
> > > doesn't know how reliable his data is?
David,
here's a report from a guinea pig.
Recent CVS code including XML menu stuff compiles and runs fine on a
Windows/Cygwin system with GCC2.95. I am really glad someone started to work
on it. Hopefully, we can reduce the command line options to nearly zero.
We'll gratefully add the new menu en
Curtis L. Olson writes:
> One thing I'd like to have is a --disable-menu/--enable-menu option so
> that we can have the menu start off by default if we want.
Yes, I need to reinstate show/hide menu -- thanks for the reminder.
All the best,
David
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Tony Peden writes:
> > Altitude and rate of change of DME ought to work too ...
>
> That is assuming you are on a radial, of course.
... which is always the case with a Victor airway. You can also
discount altitude unless you're very close to the station, since the
difference between slant r
David Megginson writes:
> The new XML-configured menubar is now the default for FlightGear;
> configure --with-old-menubar to get the old one (which I'll keep
> around for now, until we're sure the new one is working OK).
>
> Please, everyone, give the new menubar a spin, and take a look at
> $FG_
Major A wrote:
>
> Anyone know any good ways of getting permission to get onto the flight
> deck for a commercial flight? (I'm not thinking of box cutters, BTW.)
> (Also, I'm not a pilot and don't know the crew.)
>
Before 9/11 it was no problem at all - just ask a passing stewardess.
After 9/11
On Sat, 2003-01-18 at 10:02, Tony Peden wrote:
> On Sat, 2003-01-18 at 09:50, David Megginson wrote:
> > Christian Mayer writes:
> >
> > > Sounds like a very reliable plane and/or company when the pilot has to
> > > ask an "ordinary" passenger for his ground speed...
> > > What would he do if
On Sat, 2003-01-18 at 09:50, David Megginson wrote:
> Christian Mayer writes:
>
> > Sounds like a very reliable plane and/or company when the pilot has to
> > ask an "ordinary" passenger for his ground speed...
> > What would he do if no passenger had a GPS? Fly more carefully as he
> > doesn
> If it was at night, then anything you saw was especially unreliable.
> Pilots have a hard time flying VFR at night even with a full view out
> the front, and everything you see looks different. You were probably
> just on the approach to 13L/R.
That would have taken us straight over the city,
Christian Mayer writes:
> Sounds like a very reliable plane and/or company when the pilot has to
> ask an "ordinary" passenger for his ground speed...
> What would he do if no passenger had a GPS? Fly more carefully as he
> doesn't know how reliable his data is?
The PC-12 is supposed to be a
Major A writes:
> That's what I thought, but the sky was clear and we could see all the
> lights on the ground.
If it was at night, then anything you saw was especially unreliable.
Pilots have a hard time flying VFR at night even with a full view out
the front, and everything you see looks diff
Major A writes:
> I guess the navigator never uses any of the old radar etc. equipment
> anymore...
The radar equipment is usually for weather, terrain, and traffic
detection, not for primary navigation.
All the best,
David
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The new XML-configured menubar is now the default for FlightGear;
configure --with-old-menubar to get the old one (which I'll keep
around for now, until we're sure the new one is working OK).
Please, everyone, give the new menubar a spin, and take a look at
$FG_ROOT/gui/menubar.xml and $FG_ROOT/gu
> > Sounds like a very reliable plane and/or company when the pilot has to
> > ask an "ordinary" passenger for his ground speed...
> > What would he do if no passenger had a GPS? Fly more carefully as he
> > doesn't know how reliable his data is?
>
> Captain: Hey, can you hold onto the yoke for
Christian Mayer writes:
>>
> Sounds like a very reliable plane and/or company when the pilot has to
> ask an "ordinary" passenger for his ground speed...
Or a savy customer relations staff that trains it's
crews to make the passengers feel important :-)
Norman
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Christian Mayer writes:
> David Megginson wrote:
> >
> > Curtis L. Olson writes:
> >
> > > Too bad they make you turn your gps off during the last few minutes
> > > of the flight. My little hand held garmin can pick up enough
> > > satellites to get a position if I hold it right up to the win
David Megginson wrote:
>
> Curtis L. Olson writes:
>
> > Too bad they make you turn your gps off during the last few minutes
> > of the flight. My little hand held garmin can pick up enough
> > satellites to get a position if I hold it right up to the window of
> > the aircaft. I was pretty
> > The only thing I can imagine is that it was a DME approach, and we did
> > a very gradual right turn in the last 10 minutes -- but that would
> > have required more room really. And there is no navaid in the right
> > place anyway. No way we could have turned left into 31R, that would
> >
Curtis L. Olson writes:
> Too bad they make you turn your gps off during the last few minutes
> of the flight. My little hand held garmin can pick up enough
> satellites to get a position if I hold it right up to the window of
> the aircaft. I was pretty amazed that it actually worked when I
Looks good now. No problem building with 1.6.
Best,
Jim
David Megginson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
> Major A writes:
>
> > I still get this:
> >
> > g++-2.95 -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I. -I../../src/Include -I../..
-I../../src -I/usr/local/SimGear/include -I/usr/X11R6/include
-DPKGLIBDIR=\"/
Major A writes:
> The only thing I can imagine is that it was a DME approach, and we did
> a very gradual right turn in the last 10 minutes -- but that would
> have required more room really. And there is no navaid in the right
> place anyway. No way we could have turned left into 31R, that wo
Erik Hofman writes:
> > I can find nothing anywhere else suggesting a new runway at Ferihegy.
>
> If there was any, it should be in the DAFIFT data.
Surprisingly, DAFIF doesn't seem to include Ferihegy.
All the best,
David
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> Too bad they make you turn your gps off during the last few minutes of
> the flight. My little hand held garmin can pick up enough satellites
> to get a position if I hold it right up to the window of the aircaft.
> I was pretty amazed that it actually worked when I tried it on my last
> flight
Major A writes:
> LOL...
>
> I can assure you it was the right airport, and given that no reversers
> and only little wheelbrake was used, the "runway" must have been quite
> long, certainly longer than the taxiway in that direction. The crew
> was quite professional, the landing was exceptionally
From: "Curtis L. Olson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Frederic Bouvier writes:
> > Hello,
> >
> > there are several corrupted files in my Windows CVS workspace,
> > presumably because these files were not tagged binary.
> >
> > Among them :
> >
> > /Docs/getstart.pdf
> > /Docs/FGShortRef.pdf
> > /src
> > I can find nothing anywhere else suggesting a new runway at Ferihegy.
>
> Landing on taxiways or even at the wrong airport is not completely
> without precident.
LOL...
I can assure you it was the right airport, and given that no reversers
and only little wheelbrake was used, the "runway" m
David Megginson writes:
> Major A writes:
>
> > > > Anyone know of a new runway at LHBP (Budapest Ferihegy), or where I
> > > > can find more up-to-date information about it?
> > >
> > > Depending on how good your Hungarian is, you can try this:
> > >
> > > http://www.bud-airport.hu/
>
Frederic Bouvier writes:
> Hello,
>
> there are several corrupted files in my Windows CVS workspace,
> presumably because these files were not tagged binary.
>
> Among them :
>
> /Docs/getstart.pdf
> /Docs/FGShortRef.pdf
> /src-libs/metakit-2.4.3.tar.gz
> /src-libs/zlib-1.1.4.tar.gz
>
> Could
David Megginson wrote:
Major A writes:
> > > Anyone know of a new runway at LHBP (Budapest Ferihegy), or where I
> > > can find more up-to-date information about it?
> >
> > Depending on how good your Hungarian is, you can try this:
> >
> > http://www.bud-airport.hu/
>
> Thanks, my
James Turner writes:
> Just wanted to provide some ideas based on the Fly! Taxiways Editor
> (which is an excellent tool, once you get over the learning curve..).
> Basically, you can import an airport diagram (bitmap), and define the
> lat/lon of two points on it (usually the start and end of m
James Turner wrote:
Incidentally, if anyone fancies doing up EHAM (Amsterdam Schipol), I
could try and get some shots of that too, though similar issues apply.
I've got a copy of schiphol in VRML. but since the author never
responded on my request to be able to use it in FlightGear I never kne
David Megginson writes:
>
> Charles Puffer writes:
>
> > An old nautical saying. meaning if you have the right of way you have to
> > worry about the other guy stopping while if you do not have the right of
> > way all you have to worry about is stopping.
>
> Fortunately, a Skyhawk or Cherok
Charles Puffer
> >
> warning historical quotes and smugness alert ---
>
> "It is a privilege to be burdened and a burden to be privileged."
>
> An old nautical saying. meaning if you have the right of way you have to
> worry about the other guy stopping while if you do not have the right of
>
Hello,
there are several corrupted files in my Windows CVS workspace,
presumably because these files were not tagged binary.
Among them :
/Docs/getstart.pdf
/Docs/FGShortRef.pdf
/src-libs/metakit-2.4.3.tar.gz
/src-libs/zlib-1.1.4.tar.gz
Could someone with write access remedy these problems ?
Charles Puffer writes:
> An old nautical saying. meaning if you have the right of way you have to
> worry about the other guy stopping while if you do not have the right of
> way all you have to worry about is stopping.
Fortunately, a Skyhawk or Cherokee at proper taxi speed can stop
almost
David Megginson wrote:
James Turner writes:
> Hmm, having said it's pointless, it occurs to me it may have
> safety-training implications for pilots to teach them there's other
> things besides aircraft they need to watch out for. I'll leave such
> considerations to the real pilots though.
James Turner writes:
> Hmm, having said it's pointless, it occurs to me it may have
> safety-training implications for pilots to teach them there's other
> things besides aircraft they need to watch out for. I'll leave such
> considerations to the real pilots though.
They're supposed to yi
James Turner writes:
> Actually, I'll be flying into KSFO at the start of march (going to GDC
> again), so I can easily get snap away .. the problem is I'm unlikely to
> get good shots out the window of a 747, hopefully some good elevation
> ones of the terminal after touch-down though. It
Major A writes:
> > > Anyone know of a new runway at LHBP (Budapest Ferihegy), or where I
> > > can find more up-to-date information about it?
> >
> > Depending on how good your Hungarian is, you can try this:
> >
> > http://www.bud-airport.hu/
>
> Thanks, my Hungarian is fine, but
That looks pretty similar to what I've been aiming for (screenshot of
current progress at http://www.nottingham.ac.uk/~eazdluf/taxidraw.jpg
- and
yes I know its currently windoze only - its just a fast prototype
proof-of-concept and I'll port it to a multiplatform toolkit if it
works).
It woul
On Saturday, January 18, 2003, at 12:44 am, David Megginson wrote:
Michael Basler writes:
as an interim report, the guy with the FS98 add-on KSFO scenery did
not
answer until now (but mail did not bounce either). I'll stay tuned,
but
doubt he will... it's just been so long ago and he did ne
Curtis L. Olson wrote:
David Megginson writes:
Jon S Berndt writes:
> Child: "Mommy!"
> Daddy: "She's not here."
> Child: "Daddy!"
> Mommy: "He's not here, either."
> Child: ... ... <> ... snore
20 years and $50,000 later:
Therapist: So why do you think you have this pathological fear of
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