Re: [Flightgear-devel] YASim prop changes

2004-05-19 Thread Innis Cunningham
Hi Jim The other day you were saying about Jon do a JSBSIM fdm well there is one over at JSBSIM but I have done a separate one that will drop into FG if you are interested.If not no problems. Cheers Innis _ Personalise your phone with

Re: [Flightgear-devel] fgfs Seg Faults

2004-05-19 Thread Frederic Bouvier
Frederic Bouvier wrote: > David Culp wrote: > > > > > > Nope, didn't help. > > > It seems like the problem starts when all flightplan objects reach their > > > destination. > > > > > > I'm not getting segfaults here, but I do see that the AI objects are not > > binding to properties properly. When

RE: [Flightgear-devel] YASim prop changes

2004-05-19 Thread Vivian Meazza
> -Original Message- Jim Wilson wrote: > Andy Ross said: > > > Jim Wilson wrote: > > > It'd be great if someone else could look at the P51D fdm. > I'm lost. > > > Flight dynamics is neither my area of expertise or interest. The > > > only reason I did it in the first place is I ha

Re: [Flightgear-devel] fgfs Seg Faults

2004-05-19 Thread Frederic Bouvier
Frederic Bouvier wrote: > > try this patch : > > No, it is not so simple. begin() is a special case where we can't do -- > > Try the one below I am a bit noisy today, sorry. It isn't easy to debug by doing one test every 15 min. The patch below should make it. The iterator needed to be post-d

RE: [Flightgear-devel] YASim prop changes

2004-05-19 Thread Jon Berndt
> Hi Jim > The other day you were saying about Jon do a > JSBSIM fdm well there is one over at JSBSIM but > I have done a separate one that will drop into > FG if you are interested.If not no problems. I was doing one ... still have it in-work. Kept running into things I wanted to fix and add in t

RE: [Flightgear-devel] YASim prop changes

2004-05-19 Thread Innis Cunningham
Hi Jon "Jon Berndt" writes I was doing one ... still have it in-work. Kept running into things I wanted to fix and add in the code and getting distracted. I was using DATCOM to help with aero tables. Now we are close to having aero tables generated with DATCOM+ directly (thanks to Bill Galbraith

RE: [Flightgear-devel] YASim prop changes

2004-05-19 Thread Jon Berndt
> Yes I know I downloaded it and used it. Didn't know about the monitoring > file you were outputing from it, ended up with a 400meg file, good thing > I had it on the big drive(LOL). Oops! :-) I really ought to turn these off by default. In fact, the OUTPUT section is destined to be removed fro

RE: [Flightgear-devel] YASim prop changes

2004-05-19 Thread Innis Cunningham
Hi Jon "Jon Berndt" writes > What I am most curious about is how easy it was to take off. Yes pretty good it comes up on to the front wheels after about 200 meters and lifts off at about 120mph with no flap.Dont know if they used flap on these A/C on t/o. I guess someone here will know. It is cer

Re: [Flightgear-devel] YASim prop changes

2004-05-19 Thread Andy Ross
Vivian Meazza wrote: > Performance: max = 437mph at combat emergency power at 25000ft, > 413mph at 15000ft, 395mph at 5000ft, cruising speed 362mph, > climb rate 3475 ft/min. Service ceiling 41,900ft. How much is combat emergency power? The trick is getting the actual numbers right, is it possib

Re: [Flightgear-devel] YASim prop changes

2004-05-19 Thread Jon S Berndt
On Wed, 19 May 2004 07:06:04 -0700 Andy Ross <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Vivian Meazza wrote: Performance: max = 437mph at combat emergency power at 25000ft, 413mph at 15000ft, 395mph at 5000ft, cruising speed 362mph, climb rate 3475 ft/min. Service ceiling 41,900ft. I just ordered a copy of the

RE: [Flightgear-devel] YASim prop changes

2004-05-19 Thread Vivian Meazza
> -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of > Andy Ross > Sent: 19 May 2004 15:06 > To: FlightGear developers discussions > Subject: Re: [Flightgear-devel] YASim prop changes > > > Vivian Meazza wrote: > > Performance: max = 437mph at combat

Re: [Flightgear-devel] YASim prop changes

2004-05-19 Thread Andy Ross
Jon S. Berndt wrote: > Please do. It will be interesting to see what kind of relationship > there is between F-15D numbers and P-51D numbers, and how you relate > the two ... Heh, oops. :) For folks who didn't get the joke in my typo: the manual I ordered is a post-war one for the "North American F

Re: [Flightgear-devel] YASim prop changes

2004-05-19 Thread Lee Elliott
On Wednesday 19 May 2004 01:18, Jim Wilson wrote: > > Does this help? > > http://www.geocities.com/copeab/Vehicles/P51D_Mustang.htm > > The WWII Hawkers were out performed by the P51D at least in terms of speed > and ceiling. I'm not sure about the Sea Fury but if it was faster it was > likely by

Re: [Flightgear-devel] making instrument scales with MetaPost

2004-05-19 Thread Roy Vegard Ovesen
On Tuesday 18 May 2004 19:09, Melchior FRANZ wrote: > Andy has once posted a method to create instrument scales using Perl to > output PostScript commands. While I like Perl, I'm not good at PS, so I > tried an alternate approach: MetaPost. > > MetaPost is a spin-off of MetaFont, which was designed

[Flightgear-devel] How to get cesna to follow a set of way points.

2004-05-19 Thread Seamus Thomas Carroll
I went out of town for a coulple of weeks and looking through my list of emails i dont think a recieved a response to the question below. I would like the cesna to be able to follow a set of waypoints but due to the new autopilot this no longer seems to be a possiblity. Any thoughts on how i w

[Flightgear-devel] P51D performance

2004-05-19 Thread Jim Wilson
This is the response I receieved from Reg Urschler on the question about the top speed of the P51-D. (His is the name that is painted on the cockpit bubble's rim of our P51-D 3D model). Unfortunately this doesn't really answer the question, but actually I think that the link I posted yesterday an

Re: [Flightgear-devel] making instrument scales with MetaPost

2004-05-19 Thread Josh Babcock
Roy Vegard Ovesen wrote: On Tuesday 18 May 2004 19:09, Melchior FRANZ wrote: Andy has once posted a method to create instrument scales using Perl to output PostScript commands. While I like Perl, I'm not good at PS, so I tried an alternate approach: MetaPost. MetaPost is a spin-off of MetaFont, whi

Re: [Flightgear-devel] YASim prop changes

2004-05-19 Thread Jim Wilson
Andy Ross said: > Vivian Meazza wrote: > > Performance: max = 437mph at combat emergency power at 25000ft, > > 413mph at 15000ft, 395mph at 5000ft, cruising speed 362mph, > > climb rate 3475 ft/min. Service ceiling 41,900ft. > > How much is combat emergency power? The trick is getting the actua

Re: [Flightgear-devel] making instrument scales with MetaPost

2004-05-19 Thread Jim Wilson
Melchior FRANZ said: > Andy has once posted a method to create instrument scales using Perl to > output PostScript commands. While I like Perl, I'm not good at PS, so I > tried an alternate approach: MetaPost. > > MetaPost is a spin-off of MetaFont, which was designed to create the fonts > for Te

Re: [Flightgear-devel] How to get cesna to follow a set of way points.

2004-05-19 Thread Jim Wilson
Just change the autopilot back to the "generic" version in the *-set.xml file. This was answered within the last couple of weeks but maybe it was someone else asking the same question. Best, Jim Seamus Thomas Carroll said: > I went out of town for a coulple of weeks and looking through my lis

[Flightgear-devel] RFD: JSBSim Cessna 172p stability patch

2004-05-19 Thread David Megginson
Coming back to the (default) JSBSim Cessna 172p after spending a couple of months flying the YASim pa28-161, I find the 172 extremely slippery, far too much for a trainer. While the Cherokee tends to feel more stable in flight than a 172 (i.e. it has more roll, pitch, and yaw damping), the 172

RE: [Flightgear-devel] RFD: JSBSim Cessna 172p stability patch

2004-05-19 Thread Jon Berndt
> Coming back to the (default) JSBSim Cessna 172p after spending a couple of > months flying the YASim pa28-161, I find the 172 extremely slippery, far too > much for a trainer. While the Cherokee tends to feel more stable in flight > than a 172 (i.e. it has more roll, pitch, and yaw damping), the

RE: [Flightgear-devel] RFD: JSBSim Cessna 172p stability patch

2004-05-19 Thread Jon Berndt
For comparison: > I've made a patched-up file that allows the 172p to handle much more > realistically, but I'm not willing to upload it to CVS yet, because I'm not > sure that I've done the right thing. To keep the 172 from wallowing, I > increased the roll damping coefficient (Clp) from -0.484

RE: [Flightgear-devel] RFD: JSBSim Cessna 172p stability patch

2004-05-19 Thread Jon Berndt
> The Navion has > > Clp = -0.410 > Cmq = -9.960 > Cnr = -0.125 > > ... Given these numbers I'd suspect that if there is a problem, perhaps we need to review our MoI's. Jon ___ Flightgear-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.flightgear.o