Re: [Flightgear-devel] Does FlightGear model eclipse?

2005-10-02 Thread Durk Talsma
On Monday 03 October 2005 06:37, George Patterson wrote: > On Sun, 2005-10-02 at 19:49 -0400, Ampere K. Hardraade wrote: > > There will be an eclipse tomorrow, and I was just wonder whether > > FlightGear has this modelled. > > http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/4299074.stm > > > > Ampere >

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Does FlightGear model eclipse?

2005-10-02 Thread George Patterson
On Sun, 2005-10-02 at 19:49 -0400, Ampere K. Hardraade wrote: > There will be an eclipse tomorrow, and I was just wonder whether FlightGear > has this modelled. > http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/4299074.stm > > Ampere > It should do as FlightGear models the path of both the sun and th

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Crash carnage

2005-10-02 Thread Curtis L. Olson
Eric Sorton wrote: Hi Curt, FMA Direct FS8 Receiver has serial output which can be used with their Windows software to view the current position of the control outputs. If they provide the protocol (or if it can be reverse engineered), you could simply read the output of the receiver on-board

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Crash carnage

2005-10-02 Thread Eric Sorton
On 9/24/05, Curtis L. Olson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > One thing we'd like to do that wouldn't be too technically difficult > would be to get a 2nd receiver on the same channel as the aircraft but > keep it on the ground. Pipe the servo outputs from the ground based > receiver into a little PIC

[Flightgear-devel] Does FlightGear model eclipse?

2005-10-02 Thread Ampere K. Hardraade
There will be an eclipse tomorrow, and I was just wonder whether FlightGear has this modelled. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/4299074.stm Ampere ___ Flightgear-devel mailing list Flightgear-devel@flightgear.org http://mail.flightgear.org/mai

[Flightgear-devel] Digitrak Autopilot 0.1.1

2005-10-02 Thread Steve Knoblock
I have a new version of the Digitrak autopilot ready. New is the ability to follow a FlightGear GPS course. If Waypoint0 and Waypoint1 are set in the GPG dialog, the aircraft will intercept and capture the source line. To get this to work, you will need to add a dialog to the GUI. It adds a butto

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Odd beige lines

2005-10-02 Thread Lee Elliott
On Sunday 02 Oct 2005 20:51, Alex Perry wrote: > In the southern california deserts, there are beige lines > wandering around the countryside that randomly cross the brown > road lines. The road layout makes sense, but I can't figure > out what the beige lines are supposed to be; their paths don't

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Re: Never ending story: Building SimGear CVS under Cygwin

2005-10-02 Thread Richard Harke
On Sun October 2 2005 10:39, Alex Romosan wrote: > Richard Harke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > freeglut is an alternative to glut, not to OpenGL mesa is an > > alternative to OpenGL but it does not have the performance required > > for FG Normally you need to get 3D accelerated drivers from the >

Re: [Flightgear-devel] A bugzilla somewhere???

2005-10-02 Thread Tobias Nielsen
sun, 02 10 2005 kl. 21:39 +0200, Erik Hofman wrote: > I hope you don't expect any reactions to these kind of accusations, > otherwise you might get disappointed. Okay, it sounded a lot worse than intended - i can easily see that now. i am sorry. I will assume that your primary bug tracking tool i

[Flightgear-devel] Odd beige lines

2005-10-02 Thread Alex Perry
In the southern california deserts, there are beige lines wandering around the countryside that randomly cross the brown road lines. The road layout makes sense, but I can't figure out what the beige lines are supposed to be; their paths don't match obvious landscape features. If they're supposed

Re: [Flightgear-devel] A bugzilla somewhere???

2005-10-02 Thread Erik Hofman
Tobias Nielsen wrote: ... Fixed, what's next? It lead me to think that code might get committed to the repository in a somewhat untested state - and might even continue to be so in released code... I hope you don't expect any reactions to these kind of accusations, otherwise you might get

[Flightgear-devel] FlightGearTools Version 1.0 now available

2005-10-02 Thread Georg Vollnhals
FLIGHTGEARTOOLS Version 1.0 for Win32 FlightGearTools is the startup for a tool collection for FlightGear under Win32. The first "page" is related to MAP, ATLAS and FlightGear+Atlas

[Flightgear-devel] A bugzilla somewhere???

2005-10-02 Thread Tobias Nielsen
Ive might have a few bugs to report to report to Flightgear - but don't you have a BugZilla or something alike i can report in? Is there a Documentation repository as weel i can checkout from cvs in order to examine the code structure a bit? I have just subscribed to your devel group in order to

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Adding Reverse thrust to the b1900d

2005-10-02 Thread Arnt Karlsen
On Sun, 2 Oct 2005 13:10:35 -0400, Ampere wrote in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > > If I want to bind it to the throttle instead, can I make the idle > > position to cut in at about 10% of the range of the stick with the > > reverser starting to kick in below that point. > Bad idea. You don't

[Flightgear-devel] Re: Never ending story: Building SimGear CVS under Cygwin

2005-10-02 Thread Alex Romosan
Richard Harke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > freeglut is an alternative to glut, not to OpenGL mesa is an > alternative to OpenGL but it does not have the performance required > for FG Normally you need to get 3D accelerated drivers from the > vendor of your video card, Nvidia or ATI, for example.

[Flightgear-devel] Re: CVS: data/Navaids TACAN_freq.dat.gz, NONE, 1.1

2005-10-02 Thread Alex Romosan
Erik Hofman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Frederic Bouvier wrote: >> Nevertheless, this file should be binary for us Windows users. In fact, it is >> (now ?), but carrier_nav.dat.gz isn't and is corrupted for me. >> reminder : >> cvs admin -kb carrier_nav.dat.gz > > It was added without the -kb fl

[Flightgear-devel] Re: Adding Reverse thrust to the b1900d

2005-10-02 Thread Melchior FRANZ
* Melchior FRANZ -- Sunday 02 October 2005 19:01: > * George Patterson -- Sunday 02 October 2005 18:34: > > can I make the idle position to cut in at about 10% of the range > > of the stick with the reverser starting to kick in below that point. > I think that it should be up to joystick driver au

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Adding Reverse thrust to the b1900d

2005-10-02 Thread Ampere K. Hardraade
On October 2, 2005 12:34 pm, George Patterson wrote: > 1. The Citation has a keystroke bound to the reverse thrust (backspace I > think code: 127). > > If I want to bind it to the throttle instead, can I make the idle > position to cut in at about 10% of the range of the stick with the > reverser s

[Flightgear-devel] Re: Adding Reverse thrust to the b1900d

2005-10-02 Thread Melchior FRANZ
* George Patterson -- Sunday 02 October 2005 18:34: > If I want to bind it to the throttle instead, can I make the idle > position to cut in at about 10% of the range of the stick with the > reverser starting to kick in below that point. This would make idling the throttle during flight next to im

[Flightgear-devel] Adding Reverse thrust to the b1900d

2005-10-02 Thread George Patterson
The B1900d seemes to have thrust reversers fitted, but the best example of the cockpit si http://www.pookiedom.com/b1900d/inspiration.htm If I'm totally wrong and this is a bad example of a cockpit mockup, please let me know. :-) I'd be happy to implement this but not sure what it requires. I'm th

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Never ending story: Building SimGear CVS under Cygwin

2005-10-02 Thread Sergio
Richard Harke a écrit : freeglut is an alternative to glut, not to OpenGL mesa is an alternative to OpenGL but it does not have the performance required for FG Interessant : in this case, is there a way to get a better OpenGL as this from Mesa ? I'm very interesting, and i explain me : on S

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Re: CVS: data/Navaids TACAN_freq.dat.gz, NONE, 1.1

2005-10-02 Thread Frederic Bouvier
Erik Hofman a écrit : Frederic Bouvier wrote: Nevertheless, this file should be binary for us Windows users. In fact, it is (now ?), but carrier_nav.dat.gz isn't and is corrupted for me. reminder : cvs admin -kb carrier_nav.dat.gz It was added without the -kb flag but remembered it had t

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Never ending story: Building SimGear CVS under Cygwin

2005-10-02 Thread David Luff
On 02/10/2005 at 04:21 Georg Vollnhals wrote: >Hi Dave, >I installed *all* Cygwin stuff after I got the first errors some time >ago because I did not really know what I need. >I reinstalled it all now before trying again > Graphics (one of many entries, but this should it be) > 2.2.0-1 169k

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Re: CVS: data/Navaids TACAN_freq.dat.gz, NONE, 1.1

2005-10-02 Thread Erik Hofman
Frederic Bouvier wrote: Nevertheless, this file should be binary for us Windows users. In fact, it is (now ?), but carrier_nav.dat.gz isn't and is corrupted for me. reminder : cvs admin -kb carrier_nav.dat.gz It was added without the -kb flag but remembered it had to be so I issued the comma

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Re: CVS: data/Navaids TACAN_freq.dat.gz, NONE, 1.1

2005-10-02 Thread Frederic Bouvier
Selon Andy Ross <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Alex Romosan wrote: > > hmm, there seems to be a lot of junk in this file: > > Actually, this file is in fact a gzipped tar file containing a > single TACAN_freq.txt file. Is that intended? Nevertheless, this file should be binary for us Windows users. In f