RE: [Flightgear-devel] [PATCH]Autopilot/newauto.cxx:resetelevator_trim on alt unlock

2003-06-08 Thread David Megginson
-flying through rough air. All the best, David -- David Megginson, [EMAIL PROTECTED], http://www.megginson.com/ ___ Flightgear-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.flightgear.org/mailman/listinfo/flightgear-devel

re: [Flightgear-devel] Re: Improved Weather

2003-06-08 Thread David Megginson
like that, both for the boundary layers and for the winds aloft. Does anyone know of a world-wide source for downloadable digital information on winds aloft? All the best, David -- David Megginson, [EMAIL PROTECTED], http://www.megginson.com

re: [Flightgear-devel] Re: Improved Weather

2003-06-08 Thread David Megginson
Melchior FRANZ writes: OK, I'll do that. How about values below metar station level? I'd just hold them constant. There will be pathological situations, like a station on a hill 5000 ft above a valley, but I don't know what else we can do for now. All the best, David -- David Megginson

RE: [Flightgear-devel][PATCH]Autopilot/newauto.cxx:resetelevator_trim on alt unlock

2003-06-08 Thread David Megginson
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[Flightgear-devel] RFC: Weather changes

2003-06-07 Thread David Megginson
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Re: [Flightgear-devel] [PATCH] Autopilot/newauto.cxx: reset elevator_trim on alt unlock

2003-06-06 Thread David Megginson
the autopilot leaves the trim where it is when disabled. That's what happens in real life as well -- if the plane is in turbulence, and the AP has to give up, it might leave the trim in a totally ridiculous position. All the best, David -- David Megginson, [EMAIL PROTECTED], http

re: [Flightgear-devel] 0.9.2 release is tagged ...

2003-06-05 Thread David Megginson
Curtis L. Olson writes: I just tagged the 0.9.2 release in CVS so I guess that's it. Any further changes will have to go into the next release. Congrats. So it's OK to make major changes now? All the best, David -- David Megginson, [EMAIL PROTECTED], http://www.megginson.com

re: [Flightgear-devel] A Blender question

2003-06-05 Thread David Megginson
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re: [Flightgear-devel] Re: [Flightgear-cvslogs]

2003-06-05 Thread David Megginson
several. All the best, David -- David Megginson, [EMAIL PROTECTED], http://www.megginson.com/ ___ Flightgear-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.flightgear.org/mailman/listinfo/flightgear-devel

RE: [Flightgear-devel] Re: [BUG]? input/keyboard:repeatabledepends on cpu clock

2003-06-05 Thread David Megginson
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Re: [Flightgear-devel] Re: [BUG]? input/keyboard: repeatabledepends on cpu clock

2003-06-05 Thread David Megginson
Jim Wilson writes: This isn't an OS and IMHO it isn't a pointless arguement. I really like the fact that the trim wheel control is more repsonsive on my faster computer. Try trimming with the mouse wheel -- it's much easier. All the best, David -- David Megginson, [EMAIL PROTECTED

RE: [Flightgear-devel] Property managersmMemory leaks

2003-06-05 Thread David Megginson
gets deleted and the refcount gets down to 0, the target node is deleted. All the best, David -- David Megginson, [EMAIL PROTECTED], http://www.megginson.com/ ___ Flightgear-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.flightgear.org/mailman

[Flightgear-devel] Crop textures

2003-06-04 Thread David Megginson
be getting messages a year from now asking why the farms look funny. All the best, David -- David Megginson, [EMAIL PROTECTED], http://www.megginson.com/ ___ Flightgear-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.flightgear.org/mailman/listinfo

[Flightgear-devel] Another pre-release consideration

2003-06-04 Thread David Megginson
, and let me know which ones are obviously out of trim (i.e. you need a lot of yoke just to keep them from rolling). All the best, David -- David Megginson, [EMAIL PROTECTED], http://www.megginson.com/ ___ Flightgear-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Crop textures

2003-06-04 Thread David Megginson
revert to? All the best, David -- David Megginson, [EMAIL PROTECTED], http://www.megginson.com/ ___ Flightgear-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.flightgear.org/mailman/listinfo/flightgear-devel

re: [Flightgear-devel] next release?

2003-06-03 Thread David Megginson
about features vs. bugs and giving extra time to let things settle out. If I do all that, I won't have time to do a real release until probably July. I'm an early-and-often fan, so go for it. All the best, David -- David Megginson, [EMAIL PROTECTED], http://www.megginson.com

Re: [Flightgear-devel] FlightGear in a cave ?

2003-06-02 Thread David Megginson
Jim Wilson writes: I don't speak Netherlandic How about dutch? ;-) I'm pretty sure that the language is called Neanderthal, actually. All the best, David -- David Megginson, [EMAIL PROTECTED], http://www.megginson.com/ ___ Flightgear

re: [Flightgear-devel] Weird Orange Terrain

2003-06-02 Thread David Megginson
WillyB writes: I was flying around in the UFO and came accross this weird orange looking terrain. That's a red-and-white checked pattern for a missing texture. All the best, David -- David Megginson, [EMAIL PROTECTED], http://www.megginson.com

[Flightgear-devel] Ryans trip report

2003-06-02 Thread David Megginson
, it was a well-equipped retract with very up-to-date avionics (how many rentals have a Garmin 430?). Was it an Arrow or a 182RG, perhaps? FlightGear is going to get a lot more interesting once we model changing weather, turbulence levels, etc. All the best, David -- David Megginson, [EMAIL PROTECTED

RE: [Flightgear-devel] Property managersmMemory leaks

2003-06-02 Thread David Megginson
the SGPropertyNode is deleted. All the best, David -- David Megginson, [EMAIL PROTECTED], http://www.megginson.com/ ___ Flightgear-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.flightgear.org/mailman/listinfo/flightgear-devel

[Flightgear-devel] Trip Report and Pictures: CYOW-CYAM; CYAM-CYYB; CYYB-CYOW

2003-06-01 Thread David Megginson
windows, hazy air, and a need to concentrate on flying the plane (I didn't usually look through the viewfinder): http://www.megginson.com/private/2003-05-28-soo-trip/ All the best, David -- David Megginson, [EMAIL PROTECTED], http://www.megginson.com

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Trip Report and Pictures: CYOW-CYAM;CYAM-CYYB; CYYB-CYOW

2003-06-01 Thread David Megginson
to the stratosphere, where it spreads out into an anvil), and if you're underneath, you can see the heavy rain showers and possibly lightning. When you're IFR in IMC, you can fly into one with no warning and possibly tear your plane to pieces. All the best, David -- David Megginson, [EMAIL PROTECTED], http

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Trip Report and Pictures: CYOW-CYAM;CYAM-CYYB; CYYB-CYOW

2003-06-01 Thread David Megginson
Erik Hofman writes: Nice visual system! We'll get there. All the best, David -- David Megginson, [EMAIL PROTECTED], http://www.megginson.com/ ___ Flightgear-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.flightgear.org/mailman/listinfo

Re: [Flightgear-devel]

2003-06-01 Thread David Megginson
. A nice flight would be Toronto Island to Orillia and then along the 10,000 Islands, and around the top of Georgian Bay to Killarney, then a short hop over to Manitoulin Island. All the best, David -- David Megginson, [EMAIL PROTECTED], http://www.megginson.com

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Trip Report and Pictures: CYOW-CYAM;CYAM-CYYB; CYYB-CYOW

2003-06-01 Thread David Megginson
? Was this haze inversion and smog just moving away from cities, industry or large powerplants? I'm not sure why the pictures were so washed out, but at Jon's suggestion, I ran them through the Gimp and sharpened them up a bit. The revised versions are now online. All the best, David -- David

re: [Flightgear-devel] Property managersmMemory leaks

2003-05-31 Thread David Megginson
not needed. The hash table does not own the property node pointers, and trying to delete them twice will cause a segfault. All the best, David -- David Megginson, [EMAIL PROTECTED], http://www.megginson.com/ ___ Flightgear-devel mailing list [EMAIL

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Help request

2003-05-31 Thread David Megginson
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[Flightgear-devel] re: [Flightgear-cvslogs] CVS: source/src/Systems system_mgr.cxx,1.8,1.9 vacuum.cxx,1.1,1.2vacuum.hxx,1.2,1.3

2003-05-27 Thread David Megginson
just over 4 inhg at idle and approaching 5 inhg at full throttle. Excellent. All the best, David -- David Megginson, [EMAIL PROTECTED], http://www.megginson.com/ ___ Flightgear-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.flightgear.org

[Flightgear-devel] re: [Flightgear-cvslogs] CVS: data/Navaids default.ils.gz,1.8,1.9

2003-05-27 Thread David Megginson
just guessing, of course, we should do the auto-correction. All the best, David -- David Megginson, [EMAIL PROTECTED], http://www.megginson.com/ ___ Flightgear-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.flightgear.org/mailman/listinfo

Re: [Flightgear-devel] re: [Flightgear-cvslogs] CVS: data/Navaids default.ils.gz,1.8,1.9

2003-05-27 Thread David Megginson
or FAA data should stand as-is, for example. For Robin Peel's data, we should fix things only when there is a known problem. All the best, David -- David Megginson, [EMAIL PROTECTED], http://www.megginson.com/ ___ Flightgear-devel mailing list

Re: [Flightgear-devel] re: [Flightgear-cvslogs] CVS: data/Navaids default.ils.gz,1.8,1.9

2003-05-27 Thread David Megginson
is (indirectly, through suppliers like Jepp) the basis for the GPS databases that GA and the airlines use. It might be interesting to look at some examples where the FAA and DAFIF data disagrees -- what are some of the most serious ones? All the best, David -- David Megginson, [EMAIL PROTECTED

re: [Flightgear-devel] architecture changes

2003-05-09 Thread David Megginson
have to make the 2D panel into a special kind of 3D extension that FlightGear plugs in somehow. All the best, David -- David Megginson, [EMAIL PROTECTED], http://www.megginson.com/ ___ Flightgear-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http

Re: [Flightgear-devel] OT: First Flight

2003-04-06 Thread David Megginson
the best, David -- David Megginson, [EMAIL PROTECTED], http://www.megginson.com/ ___ Flightgear-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.flightgear.org/mailman/listinfo/flightgear-devel

Re: [Flightgear-devel] OT: First Flight

2003-04-06 Thread David Megginson
for the next plib release before switching our model format over. All the best, David -- David Megginson, [EMAIL PROTECTED], http://www.megginson.com/ ___ Flightgear-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.flightgear.org/mailman/listinfo/flightgear

re: [Flightgear-devel] problem with a10cl-yasim -- elevator trim error at start

2003-04-05 Thread David Megginson
). All the best, David -- David Megginson, [EMAIL PROTECTED], http://www.megginson.com/ ___ Flightgear-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.flightgear.org/mailman/listinfo/flightgear-devel

Re: [Flightgear-devel] OT: First Flight

2003-04-05 Thread David Megginson
working on the caravan in 3DS Max - another behemoth of an app but hopefully I will get it finished this year. That would be a nice plane to add. We have one on the north field at CYOW, and it's a big monster of a single. All the best, David -- David Megginson, [EMAIL PROTECTED], http

Re: [Flightgear-devel] OT: First Flight

2003-04-05 Thread David Megginson
might find that the lack of a UV editor makes life fairly difficult. All the best, David -- David Megginson, [EMAIL PROTECTED], http://www.megginson.com/ ___ Flightgear-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.flightgear.org/mailman/listinfo

re: [Flightgear-devel] Re: Random Fun

2003-04-05 Thread David Megginson
David Culp writes: This is a step towards random failures too? A failure manager is on my TODO list. All the best, David -- David Megginson, [EMAIL PROTECTED], http://www.megginson.com/ ___ Flightgear-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http

re: [Flightgear-devel] possible bug in model code or plib

2003-04-04 Thread David Megginson
Jim Wilson writes: Can we bypass this by doing our own ac loader in simgear? I guess I need to understand better what the optimization gives us. Essentially nothing. All the best, David -- David Megginson, [EMAIL PROTECTED], http://www.megginson.com

[Flightgear-devel] Random Fun

2003-04-04 Thread David Megginson
climate change will catch up with us first). All the best, David -- David Megginson, [EMAIL PROTECTED], http://www.megginson.com/ ___ Flightgear-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.flightgear.org/mailman/listinfo/flightgear-devel

[Flightgear-devel] It's not a bug: tumbling AI in the C172

2003-04-04 Thread David Megginson
it by setting the /instrumentation/attitude-indicator/config/tumble-flag property to false in your $HOME/.fgfsrc. All the best, David -- David Megginson, [EMAIL PROTECTED], http://www.megginson.com/ ___ Flightgear-devel mailing list [EMAIL

re: [Flightgear-devel] OT: First Flight

2003-04-03 Thread David Megginson
to that point I didn't feel so crowded any more. Now, will she hate me when I sell the car to pay for the lessons...?! Make sure she gets at least 25-50% of the proceeds for something *she* wants (and save a bit of a reserve for the transit passes). All the best, David -- David Megginson

[Flightgear-devel] Tumbling attitude indicator

2003-04-03 Thread David Megginson
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re: [Flightgear-devel] possible bug in model code or plib

2003-04-03 Thread David Megginson
with a single surface is lost. Unfortunately, Steve is not willing to accept a patch to change this behaviour. All the best, David -- David Megginson, [EMAIL PROTECTED], http://www.megginson.com/ ___ Flightgear-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http

re: [Flightgear-devel] Question on tuesday's preferences.xml update

2003-04-02 Thread David Megginson
Jim Wilson writes: The magnetos are now defaulted to position 2 (Left) instead of 0 (Off). Was that intentional? Is there anything else in global preferences not mentioned in the log? Is that not where they used to be? If not, we can put them back. All the best, David -- David

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Question on tuesday's preferences.xml update

2003-04-02 Thread David Megginson
Jim Wilson writes: No, they were at 0, which is what makes sense. Ah -- they must have been set to 2 in the individual aircraft config files, then. All the best, David -- David Megginson, [EMAIL PROTECTED], http://www.megginson.com

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Question on tuesday's preferences.xml update

2003-04-02 Thread David Megginson
already. All the best, David -- David Megginson, [EMAIL PROTECTED], http://www.megginson.com/ ___ Flightgear-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.flightgear.org/mailman/listinfo/flightgear-devel

[Flightgear-devel] [OT] The End of Python

2003-04-01 Thread David Megginson
will no doubt write a Punctuation programming language, using only the characters [EMAIL PROTECTED]*() (above 0-9 on the U.S. keyboard), as a pure act of spite to try to split the Perl community. All the best, David -- David Megginson, [EMAIL PROTECTED], http://www.megginson.com

[Flightgear-devel] Rearranged /controls/ properties

2003-04-01 Thread David Megginson
similar)? 3. Switches --- Note that Curt's electrical system has a /controls/switches subtree, while the recent rewrite has a /controls/lighting subtree. We need to choose one or the other. All the best, David -- David Megginson, [EMAIL PROTECTED], http://www.megginson.com

Re: [Flightgear-devel] [OT] The End of Python

2003-04-01 Thread David Megginson
Jonathan Polley writes: I am waiting for the programming language for amateur radio operators, Morse. There is nothing like programming in dots and dashes! .. -.. --- -. - --. . - .. - All the best, David -- David Megginson, [EMAIL PROTECTED], http://www.megginson.com

[Flightgear-devel] A bit of a mess

2003-04-01 Thread David Megginson
| xargs grep /controls/mixture and so on. I find 62 references to /controls/throttle alone. I am willing to help. All the best, David -- David Megginson, [EMAIL PROTECTED], http://www.megginson.com/ ___ Flightgear-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Rearranged /controls/ properties

2003-04-01 Thread David Megginson
(it directly controls propeller speed, not pitch). All the best, David -- David Megginson, [EMAIL PROTECTED], http://www.megginson.com/ ___ Flightgear-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.flightgear.org/mailman/listinfo/flightgear-devel

Re: [Flightgear-devel] A bit of a mess

2003-04-01 Thread David Megginson
zillions of property names this morning, mainly in the base package. Try a new checkout. All the best, David p.s. cd $FG_ROOT find . -name '*.xml' -print | xargs etags -- David Megginson, [EMAIL PROTECTED], http://www.megginson.com/ ___ Flightgear

RE: [Flightgear-devel] Rearranged /controls/ properties

2003-04-01 Thread David Megginson
years or so. With a constant-speed prop, the governor will attempt to maintain a constant RPM across a range of throttle settings by constantly varying the propeller pitch. All the best, David -- David Megginson, [EMAIL PROTECTED], http://www.megginson.com

Re: [Flightgear-devel] debugging output

2003-04-01 Thread David Megginson
that uses the property /sim/log-level with an integer value. However, in fg_props.cxx, FlightGear also uses /sim/logging/priority /sim/logging/classes with string values (I added those a long time ago). I'm not sure how the two interact. All the best, David -- David Megginson, [EMAIL

[Flightgear-devel] re: [Flightgear-cvslogs] CVS: FlightGear/src/Controls controls.cxx,1.5,1.6

2003-04-01 Thread David Megginson
, FGControls::set_mixture)); // and so on ... } All the best, David -- David Megginson, [EMAIL PROTECTED], http://www.megginson.com/ ___ Flightgear-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.flightgear.org/mailman/listinfo/flightgear

Re: [Flightgear-devel] debugging output

2003-04-01 Thread David Megginson
event aircraft autopilot io clipper network You can also use one of the values all or none. All the best, David -- David Megginson, [EMAIL PROTECTED], http://www.megginson.com/ ___ Flightgear-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http

Re: [Flightgear-devel] controls-bind()

2003-04-01 Thread David Megginson
Erik Hofman writes: Is there still no replacement function to do this kind of operation in a C++ string? strstream would do the trick, but not all compilers support it yet. All the best, David -- David Megginson, [EMAIL PROTECTED], http://www.megginson.com

re: [Flightgear-devel] Meigs Field Closed by Mayor Daley

2003-03-31 Thread David Megginson
mayor of New York or San Francisco, or you might see the Chrysler Building or Alcatraz coming down next. Note especially that this was done in the middle of the night with no prior notice -- even the FAA didn't know until after the fact. All the best, David -- David Megginson, [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: [Flightgear-devel] major frame rate drop?

2003-03-30 Thread David Megginson
(instead of updating manually), we can set it up to update, say, every 2 seconds instead of every frame. All the best, David -- David Megginson, [EMAIL PROTECTED], http://www.megginson.com/ ___ Flightgear-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http

re: [Flightgear-devel] squared tag in joystick files

2003-03-30 Thread David Megginson
, David -- David Megginson, [EMAIL PROTECTED], http://www.megginson.com/ ___ Flightgear-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.flightgear.org/mailman/listinfo/flightgear-devel

Re: [Flightgear-devel] major frame rate drop?

2003-03-30 Thread David Megginson
David Luff writes: OK, that's it!!! - ATC did *not* break TuxRacer ;-) Are you sure? All the best, David -- David Megginson, [EMAIL PROTECTED], http://www.megginson.com/ ___ Flightgear-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http

re: [Flightgear-devel] squared tag in joystick files

2003-03-30 Thread David Megginson
? There have been instances where I have wanted to do this, but I don't think it worked. It's doable, but complicated. Let me know what you're thinking of. All the best, David -- David Megginson, [EMAIL PROTECTED], http://www.megginson.com

[Flightgear-devel] YASim and Windmilling

2003-03-29 Thread David Megginson
for modelling an engine-out in a twin. All the best, David -- David Megginson, [EMAIL PROTECTED], http://www.megginson.com/ ___ Flightgear-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.flightgear.org/mailman/listinfo/flightgear-devel

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Re: [Jsbsim-devel] MSFS Aircrafts

2003-03-28 Thread David Megginson
response at higher deflections. I'm not sure that I understand the problem. As soon as you move the control, it is no longer at zero and will get a gradually increasing response. All the best, David -- David Megginson, [EMAIL PROTECTED], http://www.megginson.com

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Re: [Jsbsim-devel] MSFS Aircrafts

2003-03-28 Thread David Megginson
Major A writes: Yes, but wouldn't it be better to have at least a small amount of control around the centre? You do. Unlike a dead zone, this approach has no location where moving the joystick will not produce some kind of input. All the best, David -- David Megginson, [EMAIL

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Re: [Jsbsim-devel] MSFS Aircrafts

2003-03-27 Thread David Megginson
not be pleased either. All the best, David -- David Megginson, [EMAIL PROTECTED], http://www.megginson.com/ ___ Flightgear-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.flightgear.org/mailman/listinfo/flightgear-devel

re: [Flightgear-devel] P-51 ADF

2003-03-27 Thread David Megginson
and the double needle points to the station tuned in nav-radio #2. Are you thinking of an RMI? All the best, David -- David Megginson, [EMAIL PROTECTED], http://www.megginson.com/ ___ Flightgear-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http

re: [Flightgear-devel] P-51 ADF

2003-03-27 Thread David Megginson
-- with primitive equipment and no navigator, the pilot workload would be fairly high, and two needles would help a lot for triangulating a position (especially if the pilot would otherwise have to reach behind the seat to change frequencies). All the best, David -- David Megginson, [EMAIL

re: [Flightgear-devel] Landing Spotlight in Flightgear (I made it!!)

2003-03-26 Thread David Megginson
the light down 30 deg from the horizontal, gave it a narrow width and maybe a 100 ft range, and made it fairly dim, you wouldn't be too far off. All the best, David -- David Megginson, [EMAIL PROTECTED], http://www.megginson.com/ ___ Flightgear

[Flightgear-devel] Solution: nose-heavy YASim aircraft

2003-03-26 Thread David Megginson
/ control-setting axis=/controls/mixture[0] value=0.75/ control-setting axis=/controls/elevator value=0.1/ /cruise I recommend that other people designing YASim flight models try something similar. All the best, David -- David Megginson, [EMAIL PROTECTED], http://www.megginson.com

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Solution: nose-heavy YASim aircraft

2003-03-26 Thread David Megginson
the elevator property solved the problem. I don't know why it wasn't trimming for 0 elevator/elevator trim. All the best, David -- David Megginson, [EMAIL PROTECTED], http://www.megginson.com/ ___ Flightgear-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Solution: nose-heavy YASim aircraft

2003-03-26 Thread David Megginson
wheel in cruise and set that value as a control input to the cruise configuration. That's very helpful -- thanks. Note that the small planes I've flown tend to use a bit of forward (nose-down) trim in cruise, not nose-up. All the best, David -- David Megginson, [EMAIL PROTECTED], http

[Flightgear-devel] re: [Jsbsim-devel] MSFS Aircrafts

2003-03-26 Thread David Megginson
, and MSFS, and we'd end up with a much bigger pool of contributors. Hmm. Maybe I'll start on that. All the best, David -- David Megginson, [EMAIL PROTECTED], http://www.megginson.com/ ___ Flightgear-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http

[Flightgear-devel] Re: [Jsbsim-devel] MSFS Aircrafts

2003-03-26 Thread David Megginson
, or just the specific representation of it in the config files? I know that Microsoft (for example) has not been able to enforce IP rights over their file formats. Besides, if our data were GPL'd, we'd have to prove that we had the right to do that in the first place. All the best, David -- David

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Re: [Jsbsim-devel] MSFS Aircrafts

2003-03-26 Thread David Megginson
as far as changing locomotive shapes slightly to make rip-off models look really bad. That's why I prefer public domain even to open source -- people spend way too long worrying about that kind of thing. All the best, David -- David Megginson, [EMAIL PROTECTED], http://www.megginson.com

re: [Flightgear-devel] GPS and Linux

2003-03-25 Thread David Megginson
, or whatever, will make this easier, I can move to that. Here are the scripts to get waypoints into and out of a Magellan 315/320: http://www.inet.bg/~zezo/mag/ All the best, David -- David Megginson, [EMAIL PROTECTED], http://www.megginson.com

re: [Flightgear-devel] RE: Flying in the UK

2003-03-25 Thread David Megginson
how your first flight goes. All the best, David -- David Megginson, [EMAIL PROTECTED], http://www.megginson.com/ ___ Flightgear-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.flightgear.org/mailman/listinfo/flightgear-devel

[Flightgear-devel] Dutch posting

2003-03-24 Thread David Megginson
house) and for helping to liberate the Netherlands at the end of the war. The result of all this is that we're not all that inclined to make Dutch jokes. All the best, David -- David Megginson, [EMAIL PROTECTED], http://www.megginson.com

re: [Flightgear-devel] I am iterested in contributing as a flightgear developer

2003-03-23 Thread David Megginson
interested in extending our current database of navaids, fixes, airports, and ATC frequencies -- feel free to contribute anything that's missing. There's more as well, including scripting, but this should make a good start. All the best, David -- David Megginson, [EMAIL PROTECTED], http

re: [Flightgear-devel] I want to contribute

2003-03-23 Thread David Megginson
my resume, attached to this message.) Welcome. Please feel free to spend some time looking over the code you're interested in helping with, and to post any questions you have to this list. All the best, David -- David Megginson, [EMAIL PROTECTED], http://www.megginson.com

re: [Flightgear-devel] Disabling the 3D Panel

2003-03-22 Thread David Megginson
, because the airplane around you is part of the scene graph instead of a flat picture stuck in front of it. You can toggle the 3D model with the /sim/view/internal property (false to disable the 3D model). All the best, David -- David Megginson, [EMAIL PROTECTED], http://www.megginson.com

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Screenshots: Curt's scenery improvements

2003-03-21 Thread David Megginson
days ago I hadn't known that the Canadian data were available. All the best, David -- David Megginson, [EMAIL PROTECTED], http://www.megginson.com/ ___ Flightgear-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.flightgear.org/mailman/listinfo

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Architectural questions

2003-03-20 Thread David Megginson
and relative orientations for each lifting surface. Then, if the right wing were producing more lift than the left, you would have a left roll; if the right wing were also producing more drag, you would have a right yaw; and so on. All the best, David -- David Megginson, [EMAIL PROTECTED], http

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Architectural questions

2003-03-20 Thread David Megginson
engines are faking it just as much as YASim is -- they just generally have more complete data to start with. All the best, David -- David Megginson, [EMAIL PROTECTED], http://www.megginson.com/ ___ Flightgear-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Architectural questions

2003-03-20 Thread David Megginson
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RE: [Flightgear-devel] Architectural questions

2003-03-20 Thread David Megginson
of surfaces. All the best, David -- David Megginson, [EMAIL PROTECTED], http://www.megginson.com/ ___ Flightgear-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.flightgear.org/mailman/listinfo/flightgear-devel

RE: [Flightgear-devel] Architectural questions

2003-03-20 Thread David Megginson
Tony Peden writes: How would we specify the characteristics of each of those surfaces? Do you mean the position/orientation, the shape, or the aerodynamic behaviour? All the best, David -- David Megginson, [EMAIL PROTECTED], http://www.megginson.com

re: [Flightgear-devel] FGControls

2003-03-20 Thread David Megginson
because of the tradeoffs between typing and browsing. For the typists, it's best to keep the tree as flat as possible; for the browsers, it's best to keep the tree nodes as uncluttered as possible. Those two goals are mutually exclusive. All the best, David -- David Megginson, [EMAIL

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Screenshots: Curt's scenery improvements

2003-03-20 Thread David Megginson
. :-) In the meantime, there is 3 arcsec SRTM data for Canada and Mexico, so we can join the club. All the best, David -- David Megginson, [EMAIL PROTECTED], http://www.megginson.com/ ___ Flightgear-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.flightgear.org

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Screenshots: Curt's scenery improvements

2003-03-20 Thread David Megginson
., but the 3 arcsec data covers all of North America, as far as I can see. All the best, David -- David Megginson, [EMAIL PROTECTED], http://www.megginson.com/ ___ Flightgear-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.flightgear.org/mailman

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Flying in the UK

2003-03-20 Thread David Megginson
in summer as well, probably with a Tiger Moth. You can do this without any flying license. Really? In Canada, you need a license even for an ultralight or a glider. All the best, David -- David Megginson, [EMAIL PROTECTED], http://www.megginson.com

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Screenshots: Curt's scenery improvements

2003-03-20 Thread David Megginson
that that's not necessary using the vmap0 data, since the world land mass is already split up into manageable chunks. The Great Lakes and major North American rivers are also in the right place with vmap0, but that's another discussion. All the best, David -- David Megginson, [EMAIL PROTECTED], http

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Screenshots: Curt's scenery improvements

2003-03-20 Thread David Megginson
Frederic Bouvier writes: from my understanding : 360 degres = 44000km 1 degre = 122.22km 1 minute = 2.037km 1 second = 0.033km Let's keep it simple. 1 minute of latitude is one nautical mile -- that's its definition. All the best, David -- David Megginson, [EMAIL PROTECTED

RE: [Flightgear-devel] Architectural questions

2003-03-20 Thread David Megginson
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re: [Flightgear-devel] Teaser

2003-03-19 Thread David Megginson
Jim Wilson writes: Here's a shot of the p51d as is so far. http://www.spiderbark.com/fgfs/p51dshot7.png Just finished (most of) the exterior texturing. Very nice. All the best, David -- David Megginson, [EMAIL PROTECTED], http://www.megginson.com

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Flying in the UK

2003-03-19 Thread David Megginson
like a great resource. All the best, David -- David Megginson, [EMAIL PROTECTED], http://www.megginson.com/ ___ Flightgear-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.flightgear.org/mailman/listinfo/flightgear-devel

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Flying in the UK

2003-03-19 Thread David Megginson
of the training won't be). At the Ottawa Flying Club, you can get a 30-minute intro flight in a Cessna 150 for CAD 49.00, which is about EUR 32.00. You cannot even get lunch for that in London or New York. All the best, David -- David Megginson, [EMAIL PROTECTED], http://www.megginson.com

re: [Flightgear-devel] Multiplayer support and 3D HUD

2003-03-19 Thread David Megginson
anybody object to including these into the code? Now that Erik is the newest sucker^H^H^H^H^H^Hco-maintainer, feel free to send him patches to him as well as Curt and me. Curt prefers complete files and I prefer diffs -- what will Erik choose? All the best, David -- David Megginson, [EMAIL

re: [Flightgear-devel] key binding question

2003-03-19 Thread David Megginson
don't include any duplicate values in the cycle. All the best, David -- David Megginson, [EMAIL PROTECTED], http://www.megginson.com/ ___ Flightgear-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.flightgear.org/mailman/listinfo/flightgear-devel

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