Re: [Flightgear-devel] Repeatable VASI light observations

2003-12-30 Thread Curtis L. Olson
Curtis L. Olson writes: I did some work this evening in simgear/flightgear to track some additional vasi positional information so that I can then compute the angle and correct color. This is a first stab and the result is a gross simplification of what really happens. There are some things

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Repeatable VASI light observations

2003-12-30 Thread Alan King
Curtis L. Olson wrote: This is high on my todo list, but it will involve a substantial amount of effort to do correctly. There is no trivial fix to be had here. Actually there's little need for a real, perfect system. I thought about making my own crude VASI, a row of red then a row of

[Flightgear-devel] Re: [Flightgear-users] Knoppix / NVIDIA / Flightgear / newbie questions

2003-12-30 Thread Ronny Standtke
I don't know if you're planning on adding the CVS version of FlightGear, but I committed a change which makes this possible from now on. Thats very nice of you. To test your changes I tried installing the cvs version of flightgear. First I installed the cvs version of simgear. After checking

Re: [Flightgear-devel] ATC Talk

2003-12-30 Thread Matthew Law
I agree with you totally. My sentiment was that there have also been many accidents caused by ATC talking in a foreign language (English) to another pilot who also doesn't speak English as a first language. The possible problems which can be introduced by a conversation in effect being

Re: [Flightgear-devel] ..why clustering, was:Knoppix / NVIDIA / Flightgear / newbie questions

2003-12-30 Thread Arnt Karlsen
On Tue, 30 Dec 2003 03:02:43 +0100, Arnt Karlsen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message [EMAIL PROTECTED]: ..are we triggerhappy at dawn? ;-) On Sun, 28 Dec 2003 18:42:49 +0100, Erik Hofman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Ronny Standtke wrote: This option does

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Repeatable VASI light observations

2003-12-30 Thread David Luff
Curtis L. Olson writes: Ok, I'm still up ... I was on a roll so I kept going. I just checked in one more round of changes that will properly color the upwind/downwind bars of the VASI and the 4 individual lights of the PAPI. This should be a significant improvement over what we had

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Re: [Flightgear-users] Knoppix / NVIDIA / Flightgear / newbie questions

2003-12-30 Thread David Luff
Ronny Standtke writes: I tried installing the cvs version of flightgear. First I installed the cvs version of simgear. After checking out the cvs version of flightgear I get this compilation error: tileentry.cxx:45:39: simgear/scene/tgdb/vasi.hxx: No such file or directory tileentry.cxx:

Re: [Flightgear-devel] ATC Talk

2003-12-30 Thread David Megginson
Matthew Law wrote: I agree with you totally. My sentiment was that there have also been many accidents caused by ATC talking in a foreign language (English) to another pilot who also doesn't speak English as a first language. That can often be a problem between a controller and pilot who *do*

Re: [Flightgear-devel] ATC Talk

2003-12-30 Thread Martin Spott
David Megginson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Matthew Law wrote: I agree with you totally. My sentiment was that there have also been many accidents caused by ATC talking in a foreign language (English) to another pilot who also doesn't speak English as a first language. That can often be

Re: [Flightgear-devel] ATC Talk

2003-12-30 Thread David Megginson
Martin Spott wrote: Do you have to pass an exam on the north American continent for operating the radio ? In Germay we have to own the Restricted Flight Radiotelephone Operator's Certificate (this is _not_ my translation, it's printed on the certificate itself :-) _before_ you are allowed to

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Output/Input of IGC files for FG

2003-12-30 Thread Pablo J. Rogina
This sounds interesting and useful. Feel free to email me about it offline, but it sounds like you just need to add a protocal module in $fgfs/src/Network/ (this is maybe growing into a slight misnomer, but that is where you'd want to put it.) Curt. OK. I think I have to add igc.cxx and igc.hxx

Re: [Flightgear-devel] ATC Talk

2003-12-30 Thread Matevz Jekovec
Ivo wrote: On Monday 29 December 2003 00:48, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: One question, do we allready have an ATC text file with all the necessary ATC talk sentences and airport names so that someone who can speak english quite well can record them to *.wav files? Or we

[Flightgear-devel] ATC talk - languages

2003-12-30 Thread Alex Perry
From: Matthew Law [EMAIL PROTECTED] My sentiment was that there have also been many accidents caused by ATC talking in a foreign language (English) to another pilot who also doesn't speak English as a first language. It's a lot worse than that, for simultaneous use of languages, actually.

[Flightgear-devel] joystick hat sensitivity doesn't work

2003-12-30 Thread Matevz Jekovec
Last times (might be nasal's fault maybe?) when editing the $fgfs/data/Input/Joysticks/Default/joystick.xml and setting the View elevation property to step type=double7.0/step (in order to increase the hat speed), there is no difference. The hat doesn't behave different anymore. I have MS

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Latest ATI related problem...

2003-12-30 Thread Lee Elliott
On Monday 29 December 2003 16:26, Simon Hollier wrote: On Sat, 2003-12-27 at 16:50, Lee Elliott wrote: Ta for the info. I got the 'feeling thet something changed' - I should have a look at the cvs logs but I'm not sure what to look for, or in which package. Live an' learn eh? ;)

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Repeatable VASI light observations

2003-12-30 Thread Jon Stockill
On Tue, 30 Dec 2003, David Luff wrote: Curtis L. Olson writes: Ok, I'm still up ... I was on a roll so I kept going. I just checked in one more round of changes that will properly color the upwind/downwind bars of the VASI and the 4 individual lights of the PAPI. This should be a

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Latest ATI related problem...

2003-12-30 Thread Simon Hollier
On Tue, 2003-12-30 at 13:53, Lee Elliott wrote: Is that on XFree86 V4.3? I'm still using 4.2 here as there aren't any official 4.3 packages for Debian yet. I might try the development stuff, if I can find it:) LeeE Lee, I'm running XFree86 out of cvs : XFree86 Version 4.3.99.15 on top

[Flightgear-devel] aero tag

2003-12-30 Thread Paul Surgeon
I'm not sure if this is an FG or JSBSim tag but why can't I specify an aero tag with a hyphen in it like most of the other tags? Example : aero737-800/aero I'm keep getting this if I use a hyphen in the file name : JSBSim startup beginning ... aero does not exist (you may have mis-typed the

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Repeatable VASI light observations

2003-12-30 Thread David Megginson
Jon Stockill wrote: Yeah, fantastic - I've just had chance to try it out - it looks great, and really shows up how bad my flying is :-) It might not be as bad as you think -- following a VASIS (or a glidescope) gives an awfully low approach for a small plane. All the best, David

Re: [Flightgear-devel] aero tag

2003-12-30 Thread Erik Hofman
Paul Surgeon wrote: I'm not sure if this is an FG or JSBSim tag but why can't I specify an aero tag with a hyphen in it like most of the other tags? Example : aero737-800/aero The directory name containg the configuration file must match the configuration file exactly: e.g.

Re: [Flightgear-devel] ATC Talk

2003-12-30 Thread kreuzritter2000
On Tuesday 30 December 2003 17:50, Matevz Jekovec wrote: Heh, besides, you'll have English with Slovenian accent when entering Slovenian airspace, is that cool or what! :). - Matevz Yes, that sounds great. :) Best Regards, Oliver C. ___

Re: [Flightgear-devel] joystick hat sensitivity doesn't work

2003-12-30 Thread Andy Ross
Matevz Jekovec wrote: Last times (might be nasal's fault maybe?) when editing the $fgfs/data/Input/Joysticks/Default/joystick.xml and setting the View elevation property to step type=double7.0/step (in order to increase the hat speed), there is no difference. The hat doesn't behave different