David Megginson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Martin Spott writes:
> > This is why I simply don't understand why they had to go. Would anyone be so
> > kind to give me an unbiased explanation ? Did Erik fail to follow
> > differentiation in the available land cover data or has anything else been
Martin Spott writes:
> David Megginson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > Martin Spott writes:
>
> > > This is why I simply don't understand why they had to go. Would anyone be so
> > > kind to give me an unbiased explanation ? Did Erik fail to follow
> > > differentiation in the available land cov
"Curtis L. Olson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Martin Spott writes:
>> The current state still does not make much sense to me,
> Originally we had 5 unique crop textures and 5 corresponding material
> property entries.
> On April 25, those 5 material property entries were pointed at 3
> nearly i
Michael Selig <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Earlier today I added an ornithopter model to
> FlightGear. The model simulates the full scale
> piloted C-GPTR ornithopter designed by Prof
> DeLaurier and his group at the University of
> Toronto Institute for Aerospace Studies (UTIAS).
This looks gre
At 6/5/03, Martin Spott wrote:
Michael Selig <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Earlier today I added an ornithopter model to
> FlightGear. The model simulates the full scale
> piloted C-GPTR ornithopter designed by Prof
> DeLaurier and his group at the University of
> Toronto Institute for Aerospace S
At 6/5/03, Frederic Bouvier wrote:
Michael Selig wrote:
> >cvs admin -kb
> >
> >Then run a cvs update to sync the flag on your local copy.
>
> Done. Thanks. And I think it all worked.
Thanks Michael, I can see the 3D model now.
While you're at it, you have add a dos file into CVS from a Linux
mac
At 6/4/03, Jim Wilson wrote:
Michael Selig <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
> So far, nothing is going on w/ a 3D cockpit. But if someone wants to do
> this, I have photos of the actual cockpit.
Great. Can you send them? Not sure how much I'll get done when, but I can
give it a start.
Yes, I can send
Michael Selig wrote :
> >I now have a program crash with this aero model. It appears that
> >Throttle_pct_input_ntime is used at uiuc_engine.cpp:88 before
> >being initialised at uiuc_menu_engine.cpp:160. On MSVC, default
> >values for uninitialized data is not 0, so it goes bezerk with a
> >negati
David Culp wrote :
>
> > just a note to say that I am in the process of modelling an
> > Airbus A320 :
> > http://perso.wanadoo.fr/frbouvi/flightsim/a320-fb-fgsd.png
Here is another one, with your flight model :
http://perso.wanadoo.fr/frbouvi/flightsim/a320-fb-fgfs-1.png
> Beautiful model Fred!
http://www.vis-sim.org/news_comm.asp?ref=4235
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> I am trying to animate the rudder but it seems that the property
> /surface-positions/rudder-pos-norm stay at 0.
My mistake. The FCS didn't have an aerosurface-scale for the rudder. In
fact, none of my models have it, so I'll have to add it to them all (thanks
for the catch). Here's the co
Frederic Bouvier wrote:
David Culp wrote :
just a note to say that I am in the process of modelling an
Airbus A320 :
http://perso.wanadoo.fr/frbouvi/flightsim/a320-fb-fgsd.png
Here is another one, with your flight model :
http://perso.wanadoo.fr/frbouvi/flightsim/a320-fb-fgfs-1.png
Very nice!
Erik Hofman wrote:
> >>>just a note to say that I am in the process of modelling an
> >>>Airbus A320 :
> >>>http://perso.wanadoo.fr/frbouvi/flightsim/a320-fb-fgsd.png
> >
> >
> > Here is another one, with your flight model :
> > http://perso.wanadoo.fr/frbouvi/flightsim/a320-fb-fgfs-1.png
>
> V
Matthew Johnson wrote:
Hi,
Just flying the B52 with all engines running, manually took her up to
10,000 feet, engaged autopilot to take her down to 1000 feet and to plot
a course back to KSF0.
Of course, minds do wander, so I messed with the cloud settings and
tried to make everything clear. Unf
Innis Cunningham wrote:
Having built the cvs version of FG under cygwin. I cannot see the
terminal at KSFO.
All the correct files (.stg and .ac)seem to be in the scenery folder.
If it is a Plib problem why would Plib handle the aircraft .ac files and
not the scenery .ac files.
The aircraft work f
Michael Selig <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
> I'd like people to try this out:
>
> In the preferences.xml, change the line:
>
> /orientation/heading-deg
> ... line 126, for chase view (view #2)
>
> to
>
> /orientation/gamma-horiz-deg
>
> and fly one of the uiuc planes. Go to the chase view and k
On 6/6/03 at 2:49 PM Innis Cunningham wrote:
>Having built the cvs version of FG under cygwin. I cannot see the
>terminal
>at KSFO.
>All the correct files (.stg and .ac)seem to be in the scenery folder.
>If it is a Plib problem why would Plib handle the aircraft .ac files and
>not
>the scenery .
Fred wrote:
> I have another problem: the model seems underpower and it is not able to
> take of with full throttle on the KSFO runway. It stall under 160knt and
> it arrives at the end of the runway at 175knt.
I've been having a problem with the JSBSim airplanes sometimes
have no fuel in them, ev
> As an interim solution, here is a turbine module that no longer checks if
> there is any fuel in the tanks. This turbine is always on, regardless of
> fuel state. The module goes in FlightGear-0.9.2/src/FDM/JSBSim/
>
> http://home.attbi.com/~davidculp2/FGSimTurbine.cpp
>
> I'll see if the JSBSi
Thanks Guys.
So any windows people managed to fix this.
Does it mean also if the file can be textured it will show?.
I would love to add some buildings but untill we get this little problem
sorted it will be a bit hard to see what I have built LOL.
Will look into it.
Cheers
Innis
Innis Cunningham writes:
>
> So any windows people managed to fix this.
> Does it mean also if the file can be textured it will show?.
> I would love to add some buildings but untill we get this little problem
> sorted it will be a bit hard to see what I have built LOL.
I haven't updated my files
> >Having built the cvs version of FG under cygwin. I cannot see the
> >terminal
> >at KSFO.
> >All the correct files (.stg and .ac)seem to be in the scenery folder.
> >If it is a Plib problem why would Plib handle the aircraft .ac files and
> >not
> >the scenery .ac files.
> >The aircraft work f
David Culp wrote :
> Fred wrote:
> > I have another problem: the model seems underpower and it is not able to
> > take of with full throttle on the KSFO runway. It stall under 160knt and
> > it arrives at the end of the runway at 175knt.
>
> I've been having a problem with the JSBSim airplanes som
Frederic BOUVIER wrote:
It (KSFO terminal) doesn't appear under Windows, only Linux. It appears to
No, No, I can see it untextured ( it has none ) with my MSVC build.
I don't have a special patch for that, just standard CVS.
It is a cygwin problem.
Actually, it starts to look like an uninitialize
On 6 Jun 2003 at 9:00, Norman Vine wrote:
> Innis Cunningham writes:
> >
> > So any windows people managed to fix this.
> > Does it mean also if the file can be textured it will show?.
> > I would love to add some buildings but untill we get this little problem
> > sorted it will be a bit hard to
> Actually, the better solution would be for us to fix it. Can you remind me
> when this bug was reported (if you recall)? I'll try to have a look at it
> in the very near future.
It looks like two bugs, which were discussed a month or two ago, although I
don't know if they were reported via an
So as to try and help with this problem.
On my system I have the 9.1 version of FG from the win binaries by Norman on
my E drive and the cvs build under cygwin on my H drive.
I have taken a copy of the scenery folder that contains the KSFO terminal
and put it in my win binaries version and the te
Jon Berndt wrote:
Actually, the better solution would be for us to fix it. Can you remind me
when this bug was reported (if you recall)? I'll try to have a look at it
in the very near future.
This is probably the conflicting initial fuel load problem between
FlightGear and JSBSim. It looks like
David Culp wrote:
It looks like two bugs, which were discussed a month or two ago, although I
don't know if they were reported via an official channel, partly because I'm
insecure enough in my coding ability to believe the problem is probably at my
end in every case.
Can you test if this file f
Innis Cunningham wrote:
So as to try and help with this problem.
On my system I have the 9.1 version of FG from the win binaries by
Norman on my E drive and the cvs build under cygwin on my H drive.
I have taken a copy of the scenery folder that contains the KSFO
terminal and put it in my win bin
> Somehow, using combinations of the above methods, I've managed to get
> airplanes running with a fuel load that is randomly empty. And a couple
> times I've managed to get a fuel load approaching infinity. Users
normally
> only notice when the FGSimTurbine reacts badly to a zero-fuel condition
Erik Hofman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Innis Cunningham wrote:
>> Having built the cvs version of FG under cygwin. I cannot see the
>> terminal at KSFO.
> It might have to do something with the fact that the terminal building
> is untextured. Plib seems to have some problem with untextured obj
Get into an aircraft with autopilot (preferably one with 2D panel, e.g.
the c182), climb to some safe altitude, then switch the autopilot to
altitude lock. Now pitch up or down manually and watch the elevator
trim go to the opposite direction. While it is off, unlock the altitude.
The elevator trim
Melchior,
Going with the principle of least surprise, I prefer the current
behavior. If I'm flying along with the autopilot and everything is
nice and trimed out, then I disable the autopilot, with your patch I
could suddenly be catestrophically out of trim. I'd rather the
autopilot leaves the t
Melchior FRANZ wrote:
> Get into an aircraft with autopilot (preferably one with 2D panel,
> e.g. the c182), climb to some safe altitude, then switch the
> autopilot to altitude lock. Now pitch up or down manually and watch
> the elevator trim go to the opposite direction. While it is off,
> unloc
* Curtis L. Olson -- Friday 06 June 2003 17:38:
> Going with the principle of least surprise, I prefer the current
> behavior. If I'm flying along with the autopilot and everything is
> nice and trimed out, then I disable the autopilot, with your patch I
> could suddenly be catestrophically out of
* Andy Ross -- Friday 06 June 2003 17:48:
> This is actually the way real aircraft work.
Ahh, OK. Then please forget both patches. Hey, I can't always be right. ;-)
m.
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At 6/6/03, Jim Wilson wrote:
Michael Selig <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
> I'd like people to try this out:
>
> In the preferences.xml, change the line:
>
> /orientation/heading-deg
> ... line 126, for chase view (view #2)
>
> to
>
> /orientation/gamma-horiz-deg
>
> and fly one of the uiuc planes. Go
On Fri, 6 Jun 2003, Andy Ross wrote:
> And you're exactly right that this can be dangerous. There was a
> Airbus that crashed in (I think) Taiwan a few years ago for exactly
> this reason. The pilot had accidentally put the autopilot into
> "go-around" mode, so it was trying to climb. He had to
From: Melchior FRANZ <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Get into an aircraft with autopilot (preferably one with 2D panel, e.g.
> the c182), climb to some safe altitude, then switch the autopilot to
> altitude lock. Now pitch up or down manually and watch the elevator
> trim go to the opposite direction. While
Very good idea ! As it's one of the planes I fly, I might get hold of some
data too, and perform a few tests in flight...
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Jorge Van Hemelryck wrote:
Very good idea ! As it's one of the planes I fly, I might get hold of some
data too, and perform a few tests in flight...
Are you sure your passengers are going to like it when you do some
flight tests?
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Curtis L. Olson writes:
> Going with the principle of least surprise, I prefer the current
> behavior. If I'm flying along with the autopilot and everything is
> nice and trimed out, then I disable the autopilot, with your patch I
> could suddenly be catestrophically out of trim. I'd rather
> Jorge Van Hemelryck wrote:
> > Very good idea ! As it's one of the planes I fly, I might get hold of some
> > data too, and perform a few tests in flight...
>
> Are you sure your passengers are going to like it when you do some
> flight tests?
>
> Erik
If he flies for Aeroflot, they may not not
Melchior FRANZ writes:
>
> Get into an aircraft with autopilot (preferably one with 2D panel, e.g.
> the c182), climb to some safe altitude, then switch the autopilot to
> altitude lock. Now pitch up or down manually and watch the elevator
> trim go to the opposite direction. While it is off, unlo
Gene Buckle wrote:
Jorge Van Hemelryck wrote:
Very good idea ! As it's one of the planes I fly, I might get hold of some
data too, and perform a few tests in flight...
Are you sure your passengers are going to like it when you do some
flight tests?
If he flies for Aeroflot, they may not notice the
On Fri, 6 Jun 2003 10:27:39 -0700 (PDT)
Gene Buckle <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
If he flies for Aeroflot, they may not notice the
difference. *gd&r*
You guys are scaring me. ;-)
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> On Fri, 6 Jun 2003 10:27:39 -0700 (PDT)
> Gene Buckle <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >
> >If he flies for Aeroflot, they may not notice the
> >difference. *gd&r*
>
>
> You guys are scaring me. ;-)
>
You've obviously never seen an Aeroflot flight before. :)
When they first started flying into KS
D Luff wrote:
> On 6 Jun 2003 at 9:00, Norman Vine wrote:
>
> > Innis Cunningham writes:
> > >
> > > So any windows people managed to fix this.
> > > Does it mean also if the file can be textured it will show?.
> > > I would love to add some buildings but untill we get this little problem
> > > so
> I once witnessed an Aeroflot jet on approach to KSEA that had an
> alignment problem actually horse the jet into a 45 degree bank, haul it
> about a quarter mile to the west to get on the right approach. Freaked me
> out on the ground just watching it. I don't want to think about what
> those
Actually, I've flown on Aeroflot on several occasions, including domestic
lines (Moscow-Novosibirsk), and the flight has always been OK. What I
would say is that these pilots probably have a lot of merit trying to fly
these aircraft when the company doesn't always have enough money for
decent maint
You know, many people get wrong ideas about test flights. Most of the
time, it's about keeping most parameters as stable as possible, while
watching and noting down the rest of them. The flights during which you
explore the corners of the flight envelope are not all that common. Or
it's just becaus
Major A writes:
> Reminds me of my flight into Bologna last year in one of go's (now
> Easyjet) latest 737-300s -- there was a period of about 10 minutes
> when we never flew straight. But they eventually managed to get the
> thing aligned, and we did fly the last couple miles in a straight
> line.
This just happened twice:
... blah blah ...
cvs server: Updating Aircraft/UIUC/beech99-v1/doc
cvs server: Updating Aircraft/UIUC/fkdr1-v1-nl
cvs server: Updating Aircraft/UIUC/marchetti-v1
cvs server: Updating Aircraft/UIUC/ornithopter
Terminated with fatal signal 9
Re's .. WillyB
On Friday 06 June 2003 01:14 pm, Gene Buckle wrote:
> Fortunately, he either noticed or was notified in time find the OTHER big
> concrete bit he needed to land on.
Once or twice a year someone lands on the wrong
airport/runway/taxiway/concrete. What's most amazing is that this happens
even in
WillyB writes:
> This just happened twice:
>
> ... blah blah ...
> cvs server: Updating Aircraft/UIUC/beech99-v1/doc
> cvs server: Updating Aircraft/UIUC/fkdr1-v1-nl
> cvs server: Updating Aircraft/UIUC/marchetti-v1
>
> cvs server: Updating Aircraft/UIUC/ornithopter
> Terminated with fatal signal
> Reminds me of my flight into Bologna last year in one of go's (now
> Easyjet) latest 737-300s -- there was a period of about 10 minutes
> when we never flew straight. But they eventually managed to get the
> thing aligned, and we did fly the last couple miles in a straight
> line...
Most likely
> > This just happened twice:
> >
> > ... blah blah ...
> > cvs server: Updating Aircraft/UIUC/beech99-v1/doc
> > cvs server: Updating Aircraft/UIUC/fkdr1-v1-nl
> > cvs server: Updating Aircraft/UIUC/marchetti-v1
> >
> > cvs server: Updating Aircraft/UIUC/ornithopter
> > Terminated with fatal si
> > Reminds me of my flight into Bologna last year in one of go's (now
> > Easyjet) latest 737-300s -- there was a period of about 10 minutes
> > when we never flew straight. But they eventually managed to get the
> > thing aligned, and we did fly the last couple miles in a straight
> > line...
>
Major A writes:
> You could tell the crew wasn't the most experienced in the world from
> the amateurish announcements of the captain, BTW.
On my last flight from LA to MSP the pilot announced that the flight
would take 1 hour and 14 minutes (normally a 3.5 hour flight.)
I thought to myself, "uh
Same for me, is there some way to recover from that, other than by
deleting the UIUC directory ?
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> Last thing on the cockpit voice recorder:
>
> Captain: oh look, my gyro has tumbled.
> CoPilot: look, my gyro has tumbled too.
>
> Or the ever popular:
>
> "Hey, watch this!"
Last thing on the A320's CVR: "Hey, what's this bloody plane doing
again?"
Andras
=
> My wife and I were flying Vangaurd airlines (now defunct?) into Kansas
> city (on a 737) a couple years ago and on *very short* final the pilot
> made us all temporarily weightless to get back down on the glide slope
> quickly. Recent x-rays show that my wife's fingernails are still
> embeded i
I'm moving cvs over to the faster server ... you may experience some
temparary outages during the transition, please be patiet!
Thanks,
Curt.
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Curtis L. Olson writes:
> I'm moving cvs over to the faster server ... you may experience some
> temparary outages during the transition, please be patiet!
Ok, cvs should now be moved over to the faster/bigger server. You
shouldn't hopefully see any differences (other than hopefully a
possible pe
On Fri, 6 Jun 2003 21:16:25 +0100,
Major A <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
>
> > My wife and I were flying Vangaurd airlines (now defunct?) into
> > Kansas city (on a 737) a couple years ago and on *very short* final
> > the pilot made us all temporarily weightless to
Nice to see the 0.92 release made it on to flightsim.com quickly.
Although it's dominated by FS2002, any publicity is good publicity as
they say.
Regards,
Matt.
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On Saturday, June 7, 2003, at 12:45 am, matthew Law wrote:
Nice to see the 0.92 release made it on to flightsim.com quickly.
Although it's dominated by FS2002, any publicity is good publicity as
they say.
Though this is a slippery slope, what about avsim.com? (Which I
consider to be marginally h
The cvs server move seemed to fix it here.
No problems this last time I updated.
Thanks Curt
Re's
WillyB
On Friday 06 June 2003 12:01, Curtis L. Olson wrote:
> WillyB writes:
> > This just happened twice:
> >
> > ... blah blah ...
> > cvs server: Updating Aircraft/UIUC/beech99-v1/doc
> > cvs
On Sat, 7 Jun 2003 01:29:56 +0200,
Arnt Karlsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
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> On Fri, 6 Jun 2003 21:16:25 +0100,
> Major A <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
>
> >
> > > My wife and I were flying Vangaurd airlines (now defunct?) into
> >
Hi All
I have downloaded a 737-300 model EX FS98 and have got it to show thanks to
David Megginson and Wolfram Kuss's wise words.
Has some got a model about ready if not do you want this one when I get it
Teaked.
Also if there are people here who are working on FDM's for other A/C types
that the
Michael Selig <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
> I have tried essentially what you mentioned. Here's specifically what I
> used in the uiuc-set.xml file:
>
>
>
> /orientation/gamma-horiz-deg
>
>
>
> The outcome is that this gets ignored while the value in the
> preferences.xml f
At 6/7/03, Jim Wilson wrote:
Michael Selig <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
> I have tried essentially what you mentioned. Here's specifically what I
> used in the uiuc-set.xml file:
>
>
>
>
/orientation/gamma-horiz-deg
>
>
>
> The outcome is that this gets ignored while the value in th
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