Re: [Flightgear-devel] EAA Sport Aviation - article

2003-09-07 Thread Erik Hofman
Alex Perry wrote: I don't recall seeing this go past previously; if it has, my apologies. I've just been reading the April 2003 issue of EAA's Sport Aviation magazine and pages 50 through 58 are a nice article titled Virtual Building about Flight simulation for the homebuilder by Chuck Bodeen.

Re: [Flightgear-devel] EAA Sport Aviation - article

2003-09-07 Thread Arnt Karlsen
On Sun, 07 Sep 2003 10:11:53 +0200, Erik Hofman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Alex Perry wrote: I don't recall seeing this go past previously; if it has, my apologies. I've just been reading the April 2003 issue of EAA's Sport Aviation magazine and pages 50

Re: [Flightgear-devel] EAA Sport Aviation - article

2003-09-07 Thread Erik Hofman
Arnt Karlsen wrote: On Sun, 07 Sep 2003 10:11:53 +0200, Erik Hofman wrote in message Any conclusion on FlightGear? ..a con is Microsoft is sponsoring EAA, so we have to beat MSFS where it hurts the most, on merits. ;-) We sponsor the EAA members directly, FlightGear is free. Erik

Re: [Flightgear-devel] EAA Sport Aviation - article

2003-09-07 Thread Matevz Jekovec
I don't recall seeing this go past previously; if it has, my apologies. I've just been reading the April 2003 issue of EAA's Sport Aviation magazine and pages 50 through 58 are a nice article titled "Virtual Building" about"Flight simulation for the homebuilder" by Chuck

Re: [Flightgear-devel] OT: Linux environments

2003-09-07 Thread Lee Elliott
On Saturday 06 September 2003 20:52, David Megginson wrote: Lee Elliott writes: I'm on Debian unstable too. Included in the problems I've experienced are incorrect panel icons that I can't corrected, problems with icons in some Gnome apps, panel entries loosing properties after

Re: [Flightgear-devel] OT: Linux environments

2003-09-07 Thread Lee Elliott
On Sunday 07 September 2003 00:18, Jon Stockill wrote: On Sat, 6 Sep 2003, Lee Elliott wrote: I've been using Gnome for years but I'm finding it increasingly idiotified and un-controlable, not to mention less reliable. The main problem I'm having is that with Gnome 1 I could use

Re: [Flightgear-devel] OT: Linux environments

2003-09-07 Thread Lee Elliott
Hello all, I'd just like to thank eveyone for their thoughts and opinions on this - I think I've got enough to get on with now so time to drop this OT topic, I think:) Ta all, LeeE . ___ Flightgear-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [Flightgear-devel] EAA Sport Aviation - article

2003-09-07 Thread kreuzritter2000
Am Sonntag, 7. September 2003 06:47 schrieb Alex Perry: I haven't seen an online version of the article anywhere yet though. Hm, i never heared of that magazin but i am interested into this article. Could someone ask them if they could send this article to the Flightgear Developer

[Flightgear-devel] How was I able to fly underground?

2003-09-07 Thread Ima Sudonim
I was flying with the fokker50 around dc. I attempted to land when suddenly I was underground and still flying. (The buildings where visible above me, the hud altitude info between -600 and -200 depending). I have a ppm file showing a screenshot, but it's 1.4 mb. Please email me if for any

Re: [Flightgear-devel] How was I able to fly underground?

2003-09-07 Thread Arnt Karlsen
On Sun, 7 Sep 2003 13:27:43 -0400, Ima Sudonim [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message [EMAIL PROTECTED]: I was flying with the fokker50 around dc. I attempted to land when suddenly I was underground and still flying. (The buildings where visible above me, the hud altitude info between -600 and

Re: [Flightgear-devel] two questions about new scenery

2003-09-07 Thread Curtis L. Olson
Ima Sudonim writes: Hi, Like the new scenery, but two questions: i) Will the new scenery be available via terrasync? On a clean build from 9/5/03, downloaded at 3 PM GMT, I'm getting some error messages with the new w080n030 from Friday with airport=KDCA. ii) Are these messages just

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Error in runways.dat.gz and basic.dat.gz

2003-09-07 Thread Curtis L. Olson
Bernie Bright writes: A MAR1 -15180 CNN Coprales Chasma: thick air ^^ This can't be the correct altitude! This is an error in the source data ... I'll report it to Robin. Curt. -- Curtis Olson HumanFIRST Program FlightGear Project Twin Citiescurt 'at' me.umn.edu

[Flightgear-devel] re: how was I able to fly underground

2003-09-07 Thread Ima Sudonim
the more I think about it, the more I like this new feature. I know it's non-realistic, but it's fun! Why not fly underneath the ground. Sometimes the shortest path is thru a mountain (euclidean geometry 2D vs. reimanian (sp?)spherical? Maybe as an option for those of us (ahem) who are still

[Flightgear-devel] Update on flying underground

2003-09-07 Thread Ima Sudonim
reproducible with --aircraft=fokker50-jsbsim in gdb or without, with hud or without Drop gear with 'g' while taxiing or while stopped on the runway or while landing with gear up (once I put the landing gear up on the fokker50, I can't get them down again). Can't reproduce it with 172 or dc3

[Flightgear-devel] Question about dc3

2003-09-07 Thread Ima Sudonim
How does one start the second engine in the dc3? Even using 2, spacebar only the first engine ever starts... It doesn't seem to work too well on one engine. Also when starting in the air, the engines are OFF. thanks! ima ___ Flightgear-devel mailing

Re: [Flightgear-devel] How was I able to fly underground?

2003-09-07 Thread Erik Hofman
Ima Sudonim wrote: I was flying with the fokker50 around dc. I attempted to land when suddenly I was underground and still flying. (The buildings where visible above me, the hud altitude info between -600 and -200 depending). I have a ppm file showing a screenshot, but it's 1.4 mb. Please

Re: [Flightgear-devel] re: how was I able to fly underground

2003-09-07 Thread Arnt Karlsen
On Sun, 7 Sep 2003 15:55:39 -0400, Ima Sudonim [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Arnt wrote: On Sun, 7 Sep 2003 13:27:43 -0400, Ima Sudonim ima.sudonim at verizon.net wrote in message 96D4E014-E158-11D7-A2A4-00039398B344 at verizon.net : I was flying with

re: [Flightgear-devel] Question about dc

2003-09-07 Thread Ima Sudonim
I tried ~ but it still only seems to start the first (left) engine on the dc3... Imaa Message: 10 Date: 07 Sep 2003 22:38:17 +0100 From: Christopher S Horler [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [Flightgear-devel] Question about dc3 To: FlightGear developers discussions [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Question about dc

2003-09-07 Thread Ivo
On Monday 08 September 2003 00:29, Ima Sudonim wrote: I tried ~ but it still only seems to start the first (left) engine on the dc3... ~ never worked for me either. I turn on the parking breaks (shift-B) and start the engines one by one with the middle mousebutton, clicking on the black

Re: [Flightgear-devel] By god, we're good!

2003-09-07 Thread Jim Wilson
David Megginson [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: In FlightGear, I just paused in the middle of a climb out from Brampton (NC3) towards the Simcoe VOR (YSO). I'm nursing the climb, trimming the 172's nose down to 85 kias to keep the engine cool and settling for 600 fpm through 4500 for 5000 ft. I

[Flightgear-devel] Re: flying underground

2003-09-07 Thread Ima Sudonim
HTML thing? Perhaps when I copied and pasted from http://baron.me.umn.edu/pipermail/flightgear-devel/2003-September/021038.html to try to continue the thread? My Mail program doesn't use html (os x.2 mail 1.2.5). I have in the past used outlook to post to the group (mea culpa). Now my outlook

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Question about dc3

2003-09-07 Thread Jim Wilson
Ima Sudonim [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: How does one start the second engine in the dc3? Even using 2, spacebar only the first engine ever starts... It doesn't seem to work too well on one engine. Also when starting in the air, the engines are OFF. thanks! ima When I you hit the two,

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Question about dc

2003-09-07 Thread David Culp
Even using 2, spacebar only the first engine ever starts... Are you using shift-2? That selects the second engine. Also, try shift-G to raise the wheels. Dave -- David Culp [EMAIL PROTECTED]

[Flightgear-devel] Re: scenery update feedback

2003-09-07 Thread Dave Perry
This is really a question. I live near Jeffco (KBJC) half way between Denver and Boulder, CO and often shoot practice ILS approaches in fgfs in this area. The new scenery, etc., make Jeffco much more realistic from the air. There used to be a huge hump in the middle of 29R (the main ILS

Re: [Flightgear-devel] By god, we're good!

2003-09-07 Thread David Megginson
Jim Wilson writes: Owners of low-wing planes are manly? H...so what are bi-plane owners then? You made that one too easy. All the best, David ___ Flightgear-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED]

[Flightgear-devel] Dutch Scenery (was: Re: Height of buildings)

2003-09-07 Thread Ivo
On Friday 05 September 2003 02:41, Jim Wilson wrote: This is really has nothing to do with ac3d, but in flightgear 1 unit = 1 meter. So if you make a tower 100 units tall in ac3d it'll be 100m tall in flightgear. Thanks Jim, this really helped me. I wasn't sure how things related to

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Re: scenery update feedback

2003-09-07 Thread Curtis L. Olson
Dave Perry writes: This is really a question. I live near Jeffco (KBJC) half way between Denver and Boulder, CO and often shoot practice ILS approaches in fgfs in this area. The new scenery, etc., make Jeffco much more realistic from the air. There used to be a huge hump in the middle

[Flightgear-devel] Re: flying underground

2003-09-07 Thread Arnt Karlsen
On Sun, 7 Sep 2003 20:52:51 -0400, Ima Sudonim [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On Sunday, September 7, 2003, at 07:21 PM, Arnt Karlsen wrote: On Sun, 7 Sep 2003 17:43:06 -0400, Ima Sudonim [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Arnt, Thank