* Paul Surgeon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2005-04-02 09:44]:
> Looks quite nice.
> An RV would be a nice addition to FG.
> A chap I know just finished building himself an RV-6 and it moves!
> About 145 knots at 50% power with a 160hp O320.
Thanks!
I'm modelling this on G-SEVN (See www.rvuk.flyer.co.uk)
I've been learning Blender and trying my hand at modelling an RV-7.
Progress has been slow due to work, family and the learning curve but
here are the results so far:
http://www.matthewlaw.plus.com/RV-7.jpg
I turned on sub surfaces on the fuselage for the render. The actual
model looks like thi
* Curtis L. Olson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2005-01-20 15:30]:
> 4. We need to do some work on the fgrun front end to make it more user
> friendly. Frederic and Bernie (and others?) have done a *lot* of great,
> difficult, and tedious work on this tool to bring it to where it is, but
> there are sti
Is anyone doing a gentoo ebuild? - I can submit one but it'll have to
wait until the weekend. If someone else can get one in quicker then
please do.
All the best,
Matthew
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* David Megginson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2005-01-06 15:00]:
> I experimented with stuff like that early on, but in the end, I found
> the most success just building my meshes by hand. For the fuselage, I
> usually start with a mesh square in front view, then I split edges and
> move vertices until I
On Thu, 6 Jan 2005 09:26:58 +, Matthew Law <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> > Hello again,
> > although my free time has been in short supply recently, I've been
> > plodding on with some Blender models. I've noticed a lot of the
> > tutoria
Hello again,
although my free time has been in short supply recently, I've been
plodding on with some Blender models. I've noticed a lot of the
tutorials available for blender use sub-surf techniques to get smooth
results on curvy forms like cars and aircraft. Can this be used for
FGFS models whi
I happened across this while looking for blender inspiration:
http://www.cgtalk.com/showthread.php?t=189884
Although the quality will not be seen in FGFS for a very long time, I
think you'll agree that this guy is very talented indeed!
All the best,
Matthew.
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Curt,
Given the budget and assuming the prices over this side of the pond
aren't too different to you, I'd go for something like this:
http://makeashorterlink.com/?N69123E0A
I like Gainward cards. They usually use better quality, slightly faster
RAM which allows them to be clocked up a little w
* Thomas Frster <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2004-12-17 10:20]:
> So giving the user a choice is probably the best way to go, i.e. using a
> QT-based one on Linux, a native Windows GUI on Windows, no GUI at all in a
> real simulator setting.
IMHO, there would be just as much work involved in creating a
I just tried this on a freshly updated CVS build:
Take off in the 172 (I used the c172r-3d) and climb to say, 2500'. Trim
the aircraft and with the wings level, pull the power back to idle.
Hold the nose up to allow the speed to decay and enter the stall. The
stall warner goes off as expected at
* Martin Spott <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2004-11-15 11:40]:
> David Megginson wrote:
>
> > Wow -- congrats! Have you decided on your first post-PPL
> > cross-country yet? Let us know in advance, and perhaps some of us
> > will try it in FlightGear as well.
>
> This is a pretty nice idea: Let's creat
After 18 months and 49 hours flying I finally passed my PPL skills test
today.
I can quite confidently say that I would never have tried flying at all
if it wasn't for the adventures of David M and a few other people on
these lists.
I'd also like to say a big thank you to everyone who has cont
Thank you all. I'm now making some progress on my model using the
measure, scale and extrude technique. It's not fit to be a flyable
model but it will make nice EGNF furniture for the moment :-)
Better to learn to taxy before you fly, eh?!
All the best,
Matthew.
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I'm having a Blender issue that I thought someone on this list might
know the answer to.
I'm trying to model some simple aircraft for use as 'airfield furniture'
in Blender. I have some 3-views to use but I can't find a sensible way
of having them available in Blender to use as a guide.
If possi
It's the same with forced landings. Making an approach into a field of
sheep is usually safe (my instructor has done it twice!). Making an approach
into cows probably isn't. They're not guaranteed to move out of the way
and in a small aircraft, hitting a cow would be bad :-)
A while ago, a gir
David Megginson wrote:
Has anyone ever seen beacons on a tall tower like that in real life?
I saw one at Eloy, AZ a few years ago when I was there skydiving. It
wasn't a very tall tower though - around 40ft or so I'd say.
All the best,
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David Megginson wrote:
I cannot reproduce it on my system:
fgfs [EMAIL PROTECTED] --aircraft=j3cub
I put on the parking brake (who'd have thought the J3 Cub had a
parking brake?) and tried moving all of the control surfaces. They
had no effect on the aircraft, either with the engine on or with
David Megginson wrote:
Andy Ross wrote:
Uh... YASim doesn't model wash effects, so there really isn't any
process by which a pure control input would generate force. Are you
sure you weren't just sitting in a stiff wind? Can anyone else
replicate this?
I cannot reproduce it on my system:
fgfs
> I see the same issue with elevator on the c172-3d-yasim but not
aileron. Again with the pa28-161 -looks to be about 5-10 deg judging by
the attitude from inside the cockpit...
Also, try side slipping any of the cessnas or the pa28. It seems that
in this flight regime the rudder seems to lac
David Megginson wrote:
That shouldn't be from my change -- can you do it with other YASim
planes?
I see the same issue with elevator on the c172-3d-yasim but not
aileron. Again with the pa28-161 -looks to be about 5-10 deg judging by
the attitude from inside the cockpit...
All the best,
Matt
Lee Elliott wrote:
Hello Matthew,
I don't know if it's just me but you seem to be posting everything twice.
That is, I seem to be getting two copies of everything you post. That doesn't
mean that you're necessarily posting everything twice, but it's a bit odd.
LeeE
Hi Lee,
I use thunderbird a
Arnt Karlsen wrote:
On Tue, 27 Jul 2004 14:09:24 +0100, Matthew wrote in message
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
I think my Vans RV-9 will have a diesel engine :-)
..you have a kit started? Which diesel?
Arnt,
I'm sending a reply off-list to prevent me getting seriously off-topic :-)
All the best
Arnt Karlsen wrote:
On Tue, 27 Jul 2004 14:09:24 +0100, Matthew wrote in message
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
I think my Vans RV-9 will have a diesel engine :-)
..you have a kit started? Which diesel?
Arnt,
I'm sending a reply off-list to prevent me getting seriously off-topic :-)
All the best
David Megginson wrote:
I've been frustrated with the tendency of the DC-3 (--aircraft=dc3) to
noseover during the takeoff and landing rolls, and of the J3 Cub
(--aircraft=j3cub) to nose over during wheel landings. I've fiddled
with the YASim files a lot in the past but have never found a good
David Megginson wrote:
Alex Perry wrote:
That's a point. Once the engine stutters/quits due to carb ice,
you have to make it take a while for the ice to go away again.
... and it takes quite a while ...
Once the engine quits, it's too late for carb heat, isn't it? If it's
only a partial blockag
David Megginson wrote:
I don't think we should disable any systems, period, but we can put
users by default in situations where carb icing is unlikely (i.e. a
clear, dry day). Once you get into situations where carb icing is
likely, users are going to be dealing with other problems like reduced
David Megginson wrote:
I don't think we should disable any systems, period, but we can put
users by default in situations where carb icing is unlikely (i.e. a
clear, dry day). Once you get into situations where carb icing is
likely, users are going to be dealing with other problems like reduced
Boris Koenig wrote:
wow, I am just about to notice how much work some people spend on really
resembling all the various aircraft subtleties properly ... didn't know
that so far, would definitely recommend to create some kind of summary
for each aircraft and place it as a textfile into each aircraft
Boris Koenig wrote:
wow, I am just about to notice how much work some people spend on really
resembling all the various aircraft subtleties properly ... didn't know
that so far, would definitely recommend to create some kind of summary
for each aircraft and place it as a textfile into each aircraft
Vivian Meazza wrote:
I think I would expect an engine running out of fuel to rapidly lose power
and wind down, not stop abruptly as it would if you opened the magneto
switches. I have to say that is based on motor racing rather than aviation
experience. Haven't tried it while airborne, and intend t
Curtis L. Olson wrote:
It sounds ok to me here on my sound blaster live hardware. Can you
hear the morse code beeps, marker beacons, or other sounds ok? Do
some aircraft sound ok, or do all of them sound this way?
Curt.
On my system (gentoo, SB Live 128) I hear what sounds like the turbine
sa
The new UK CAA charts are coming out so I currently have last years
1:500,000 Southern England/Wales/NW France chart up for grabs. Shortly
to be followed by the Northern England/Scotland chart. I'll give these
away free to anyone here who is willing to cover the postage whether you
are UK-base
Arnt Karlsen wrote:
..be adviced the guys here torched me for suggesting redoing FG in C,
so I guess you by "C" really meant C++, no? ;-)
No I really did mean C :-) I'm not suggesting redoing anything, just
writing an app which may be useful to real pilots and FG pilots too.
AFAIK (and I d
I'm about to start writing something in C to calculate the heading
required to maintain a track and the resultant ground speed given a wind
vector. This is destined to be a simple flight planner for my Palm but
I'd like to make an interface to FG so that in theory you could save a
real flight
Lee Elliott wrote:
It sounds as though things went really well - round of applause to all
concerned. I wish I could have got up there, if only to visit but sadly,
there wasn't any way I could make it.
Ditto. I'll definitely try and be there next year.
Well done guys!
All the best,
Matt.
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Jon S Berndt wrote:
No, I don't think so, because the previous version worked. To be more
descriptive, I am redesigning the left hand side panel at the JSBSim
web site, because we have a different set of pages now in-place than
before, and because all the items were not previously viewable. Ea
Style sheet?
tried something like ?
All the best,
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tried something like ?
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anyone else having this problem?
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On Sat, 27 Mar 2004 10:17:00 -, Vivian Meazza
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
How do we handle fuel in lbs and account for Avgas/JP4?
Avgas and Jet A1 have different specific gravities. I can't remember what
the Sp.G of Jet A1 is but Avgas here is quoted as 0.7 - i.e. (0.7 x The
equivalent volu
On Thu, 25 Mar 2004 19:17:20 -0600, Jon Berndt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
I had the impression that AC3D was a free program, but after visiting
their
site I seem to be mistaken. True?
Jon
Some of the older non-Linux and non-win versions are free I believe.
All the best,
Matt
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On Tue, 23 Mar 2004 22:19:52 +, David Luff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
eg
one-zero-one-three-decimal-two
You can probably drop the decimal point for millibars.
This makes UK flying a lot more realistic now. Thanks :-)
All the best,
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On Tue, 23 Mar 2004 18:07:34 -0500, David Megginson
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
It's a (relatively) simple matter to make instruments calibrated in
millibars instead of inches of mercury; localizing dialog boxes will be
a bit trickier, though.
In general, I think that our policy should be to fo
On Tue, 23 Mar 2004 20:57:20 +, David Luff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
millibars or inches?
Can FG be set up to use millibars/Hecto Pascals for the Altimeter pressure
setting and imperial for the rest of the units as we use in the UK?
All the best,
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On Mon, 08 Mar 2004 21:52:04 -0500, David Megginson
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
And psychological warfare. From what I've read, the German flight crews
were much more frightened of the Spitfires (and British RADAR guidance
for interceptions made it look like there were many more planes than the
On Sun, 7 Mar 2004 11:29:38 -, Vivian Meazza
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Thanks for that pointer. Unfortunately, it's the wrong Mark - IX I think
from the canon armament, although some real expert will undoubtedly
identify
it instantly, and, more importantly, it doesn't show the underwing
arra
On Tue, 02 Mar 2004 18:53:34 -0500, David Megginson
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
It varies with throttle and mixture. At 75% power, mine indicates about
5 psi running lean of peak or about 7 psi running rich of peak. I don't
remember what it indicates in a full-rich, full-power climb.
Is it usua
On Sat, 21 Feb 2004 17:31:30 -0600, Curtis L. Olson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
This month's edition of PC Pilot (http://www.pcpilot.net) has a nice 6
page review of FlightGear. They include tons of screen shots and say a
lot of nice things. I *think* you can find PC Pilot in large bookstores
On Wed, 18 Feb 2004 13:55:40 -0600, Curtis L. Olson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
Hi, quick announcement ... baby! Amelia Esther, 8lbs 1oz, born 6:12am
this morning, less than 1 hour from first contraction to delivery. 12
minutes from arrival at the hospital to delivery. Everyone is doing
good.
Straight out of the manual:
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"Special VFR allows the relaxation by ATC, in certain circumstances, of some
restrictions to facilitate the operation of a flight without lowering the flight
safety to an unacceptable level. SVFR is usually applied by ATC in Class D or E
Control Zones, when weat
I'm going to have a look at the Air Navigation Order to check the accuracy of my
original post. As far as I know, without a IMC or IR a PPl is not permitted into the
kind of airspace which would be home to a airport the size of KSFO regardless of the
ceiling etc. SVFR does partially waive some
Well, the main difference here is the geography. There aren't many flights (possibly
non!) that I could do from my base airfield where a single leg of > 300 miles would
leave me still in the UK. I _will_ be going to France and the Netherlands but it's
extra expense and hassle that I don't want
I was sitting my RT Practical. It's a basic test of skill on the radio and ability to
request and act on clearances along a preset route etc. Hence the near failure for
not requesting SVFR into a zone at or before 15miles/5 min.
All the best,
Matt.
On 16:36 Wed 04 Feb , David Megginson wrote
No not yet. I have about 25hrs and need to sit the written exams for Flight Planning,
Nav, Met, Human Factors and Aircraft Technical. I have sat and passed RT written and
Practical and Air Law so far... Hopefully I'll get my PPL sometime later this year but
I'm in no rush really. Also, like C
There's also various scenarios of asymetric thrust - two running engines but one
running roughly or not developing as much power for a plethora of possible reasons.
These incidents have killed many pilots on take off as they think they have plenty of
power, and they do, but the situation easily
Well Done!
All the best,
Matt.
On 16:11 Wed 04 Feb , Ryan Larson wrote:
> I just got back from taking my Commercial Pilot, Airplane Multiengine
> Land checkride, and I am happy to say that I passed! Doing a single
> engine ILS down to minimums is lots of fun! I took the test in a Piper
> Az
Thanks! - it was my practical. I got 97% in the written :-D
Ironically, I almost failed for not requesting SVFR before the required 15 miles/5
mins to the zone boundary. Which was the subject of the original comment!
All the best,
Matt
On 12:57 Wed 04 Feb , David Megginson wrote:
> Congrats!
Hi Dave,
thanks for the info - I'll mess with the density and see what that yields. Do the AI
aircraft appear at small UK airfields?
I was planning on doing a basic collision detection between the AI aircraft and the
user aircraft. Initially not between AI planes until you were finished worki
I checked out the traffic at KEMT last weekend. Good job, Dave!
I went for a ride toward the mountains and came back a while later. It was just like
a busy Sunday at EGNF - I couldn't squeeze into the circuit anywhere. In real life
you don't get away with flying through the other guys to land
Thankyou all,
I passed btw :-)
All the best,
Matt
On 17:07 Tue 03 Feb , David Luff wrote:
> Good Luck!
>
> (Although you probably should have set off by the time this hits your inbox
> given the traffic in the UK these days!)
>
> Cheers - Dave
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Thanks :-)
I thought it was the hardest of all the exams so far and I just got through with 87.5%
(pass is 75%). Since you are under the JAA you will also have to learn the
semi-pointless and brain numbing Chicago convention stuff too...
I have my Radio Practical exam in a couple of hours :-/
> BTW, what does the 'S' stand for in 'No SVFR' that's printed next to KSFO
> and some other large international airports on the VFR charts?
In the UK it means 'Special VFR' and allows a pilot under VFR and in VMC conditions to
be guided to an airfield which is inside a control zone. You see it q
Hi Mally,
I wasn't aware that you were an MSFS developer and since I currently do a bit of
x-country practice in MSFS with the VisualFlight scenery I'd like to congratulate you
on an awesome job!
I for one would be elated to see a commercially available version of the getmapping
derived scener
The ones I have are from www.visualflight.co.uk and are about 20GBP per region. I
bought the regions aroung my airfield to help with VFR practice in MSFS but I'd like
to see them in FGFS much more :-) An extension script to rip these into FG for people
who have purchased the images would be us
I'm interested in how you did this as I thought of extracting the files from the MS FS
VFR scenery discs I have and somehow stitching it together for use in FGFS..?
In theory you should be able to get at the data as Reiser should still be able to give
you everything since the last time it wrote
That's pretty good scenery! Is that straight from TerraGear or ripped from the MS
Scenery add-ons?
All the best,
Matt.
On 23:31 Wed 28 Jan , Erik Hofman wrote:
> But I must also admit that after looking at the new screen shots from
> Mat Churchill I might want to change my mind:
>
>
> h
Hi Curt,
I can be there for one of the days, possibly two if the accomodation isn't
too expensive. I can also bring my PC (17" TFT; Gentoo; Athlon 2500XP;
FGFS CVS and GeForce Ti4200-128 with pedals and joystick), but I'd need
help getting it and me there - I don't want to risk public transpor
Curt,
Let me check with the lady first :-)
All the best,
Matt.
On 09:28 Wed 14 Jan , Curtis L. Olson wrote:
> Martin Spott wrote:
> >"Curtis L. Olson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >
> >
> >>FlightGear has been offered free .org booth space and a possible speaker
> >>slot at the Linux User
As David said, there is very little adverse yaw from aileron input on modern aircraft
designs. Now, I have no experience of anything but Cessnas but on an A320 for
example, I would be surprised if the aileron input required to perform say, a 20 deg.
bank turn would require *any* rudder input at
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 transla
Hi Prabhu,
Please read and digest the docs on the flightgear website and the documentation on
scenery editing at the simgear website (see the link to simgear from the flightgear
site) before getting started. If you still have questions there are plenty here who
will help once you've read the d
On 03:15 Mon 29 Dec , Ivo wrote:
> Or we could have multiple people around the world recording the sentences,
> so we'll hear the right accent when approaching for example New Delhi or
> Mexico City or Frankfurt. Maybe even bilingual, though I don't know if they
> use their native language (
How do I export the trim position and IAS to a serial port?
I'd like to use these values to drive some stepper motors which crudely simulate
control load and trim effects.
All the best,
Matt.
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A merry xmas and a happy new year.
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On 02:34 Fri 19 Dec, Ivo wrote:
> Also check:
>
> http://baron.flightgear.org/pipermail/flightgear-devel/2003-December/023555.html
>
> After adding the runway manually, you could use TaxiDraw to add the
> taxiways.
>
> As for the bug I mentioned in that thread, David Luff sent me a
> debug-ena
To my detriment I haven't been following past discussions on scenery editing. I would
like to add the missing 18/36 runway to EGNF. I have gunzipped the runways.dat file
and found the following line for EGNF:
R EGNF 06 53.316990 -1.196100 60.00 1476 118 NAVNN 00 0
On 00:42 Fri 19 Dec , Matthew Law wrote:
> What are the fields? I'm guessing at some here:
Sorry. I just found the doc on the FGFS site. I've got to start RTFMing more often :-)
All the best,
Matt
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On 14:52 Thu 18 Dec , Alan King wrote:
> Also I'm assuming the yoke on most planes has a bit more throw than
> +-2", but that's about the limit of what's practical with my current
> hardware so it'll probably do ok. I could get 6" travel or so max, just
> gets a bit more trouble to do.
I
On 12:42 Thu 18 Dec , Alan King wrote:
> Rudder pedals. Been a while since I was at the controls in a Cessna
> etc, how much control throw is normal? With a one foot seperation
> between the pedals 4" seems like a lot, maybe too much. Currently have
> 2" in and 2" out for the 4" total,
On 14:53 Tue 16 Dec , Erik Hofman wrote:
> >Kool Sites are informative, weird, stylish, offbeat or unique
>
> So, what exactly is the FlightGear site?
I'd go for Informative, stylish, and unique ;-)
All the best,
Matt
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On 18:08 Fri 05 Dec , [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> I have a Geforce 4 Ti 4200 and this card works perfectly with flightgear under
> Linux.
Me too. Using the latest drivers i still see the sky flash from blue to black
occasionally...
All the best,
Matt
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On 22:13 Tue 02 Dec , David Culp wrote:
> I brought my son to work for a day, and he had a wonderful time.
>
> http://home.comcast.net/~davidculp2/kidsday.jpg
At least he didn't have to hold on for much longer :)
All the best,
Matt
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On 09:56 Tue 02 Dec , Curtis L. Olson wrote:
> This is something that has been considered, but it will be a massive
> amount of work to do this and preserve all the existing functionality.
>
> Massive might be slightly overstated, but it probably means tearing
> everything down and rebuilding
On Fri, 2003-11-28 at 17:46, Julian Foad wrote:
> Matthew Law wrote:
> >
> > Speaking of which, would it be possible to change the texture above a
> > certain height AGL? We could have a texture with more detail for low
> > altitudes and a shinier, more gaussian t
> One of the problems with these type of photographs is the fact that they
> cover a very small area. When using these for textures you would end up
> with a hight degree of very annoying repetitiveness.
>
> Another problem is the fact that they aren't shot straight down, making
> the textures
On 18:49 Tue 25 Nov , Erik Hofman wrote:
> >So 75x75 textures of these types of surfaces are required, then? I might
> >have a go at these during my attempts at modelling EGNF. Are there any
> >restrictions to the making of textures that I need to be aware of oether
> >than size and color d
On 14:48 Thu 27 Nov , Jon Stockill wrote:
> I remember seeing the army display team at RAF Waddington a couple of
> years ago - 4 gazelle & 1 lynx all lined up in the hover, then the lynx
> pilot backflipped the aircraft out of the lineup. The first time you see
> it you really can't believe wh
On 10:47 Thu 27 Nov , Erik Hofman wrote:
> Yeah, but then you'd get a fight over which flag is put in first and
> which flag is shows just for 0.1 usec (e.g. the last flag) ...
>
> Erik
Maybe randomise the order ?
All the best,
Matt
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On 07:50 Thu 27 Nov , Martin Spott wrote:
> The first is correct, the latter is not (see above). Pilots love this
> helicopter because of his outstanding manouverability. It's even
> capable of doing serious aerobatic - up to inverted flying (AFAIR with
> a modified gear box lubrication),
Chec
Given the difficulty of getting in and out of a 152 on the ground it's
probably impossible at our circuit height of 800ft to survive a bailout.
A larger aircraft at 1000ft and reasonable speed, say 100kts, would be
quite survivable. The key is the airspeed. You'd get a far faster
deployment at 1
Congratulations, Lee! Will you be carrying on and getting a glider license?
Turbulence sucks: when I'm flying, I usually try to climb out above
it. Turbulence often means thermals and updrafts, though, so I
imagine that soaring types actually go looking for it. The gusts
disappear usually a few
I've dabbled with a couple of model helicopters, owned a couple of model
heli sims and flown an R22 for 15 minutes.
A better description for the un-initiated would be 'like juggling water
with forks' IMO. Far more difficult than a C152 ;-)
Cheers,
Matt.
On Wed, 2003-10-08 at 12:44, Richard Byt
> Yes, towards the end of February we are expecting a little bundle of
> joy. :-)
We are expecting our second child on April 30th. I share your thoughts
too, Curt!
Best wishes,
Matt.
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> Am I correct when I say :
> Slat are in front of the wing,
Yes, but they can be on the trailing edge where the terms 'slat' and
'slot' can be used interchangeably. Generally in the UK they refer to
them as 'leading edge slats'. Most modern aircraft include the 'slots'
within the flap design (s
C-152
Pilatus Turbo Porter
C-208 Grand Caravan
Maule MX-7
None of which are in a demonstrable state, but I hope to publish the 152 and
Porter by the end of the year.
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I thought I'd share this with the list since to replicate it in FGFS would be
very cool for training purposes!
I experienced my first bout of real fear yesterday doing my second hour of
solo circuits. I was operating from 06/24 and after a precautionary couple
of circuits with my instructor he
There has been some chat of late about shadows. I don't really understand the
issues reagarding shadows in flightgear/plib. Can anyone briefly let me in
on why they are so difficult and what are the issues with implementing them
in FlightGear?
Also, what are people's views on having a GPS act
Alex Perry wrote:
> Congratulations. What are you training in ?
Thanks! Mostly 152's but I've done a couple hours in a 150 too.
> From: David Megginson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>
> > For me, the first solo cross-country was the best part of training.
> > First solo was an important moment, of course,
David Megginson wrote:
> I'm curious -- your airport is a very short grass strip, but it has a
> control tower?
Yes, but is still a Radio only airfield with no ATC. The tower is a small
affair that I'm sure isn't capable of observing the entire circuit since it's
800ft AAL and downwind extends beh
I'll try to keep this short since it is OT but...
I did my first solo this evening after almost 13hrs.
After a few touch and go's and practice forced landings he asked me to come
to a full stop and said "I'm fed-up of flying with you so I'm going to sit
in the tower for your last circuit." I wo
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