Re: [Flightgear-devel] current bugs (hsi-fix)

2003-03-19 Thread Major A
http://members.verizon.net/~vze3b42n/newhsi.tar.gz actually works form mozilla if you right click on the link and then in the drop down menu select Save link target as then click save. But for some reason it does not work with the mozilla download manager. Actually, I've been using wget

Re: [Flightgear-devel] current bugs (hsi-fix)

2003-03-19 Thread Major A
http://members.verizon.net/~vze3b42n/newhsi.tar.gz actually works form mozilla if you right click on the link and then in the drop down menu select Save link target as then click save. But for some reason it does not work with the mozilla download manager. Great, works fine now. So the

Re: [Flightgear-devel] current bugs

2003-03-06 Thread Curtis L. Olson
Major A writes: Thanks Jim, things look a lot better now. I tried a flight today, from EDDF to KDTW, which should be well in the range of a fully loaded 747-400. I used full throttle to climb to FL290 first, then in steps up to FL410. Throttle was taken back so as to make the airspeed

Re: [Flightgear-devel] current bugs

2003-03-06 Thread Andy Ross
Curtis L. Olson wrote: My gutt feeling is that all the YASim jet's consume fuel faster than they should. The a4 can go about 150 miles before it runs out of fuel. I'm not a jet pilot though so maybe I'm doing something wrong. There's a tunable TSFC number that you can play with. The engine

Re: [Flightgear-devel] current bugs

2003-03-06 Thread David Megginson
Andy Ross writes: There's a tunable TSFC number that you can play with. The engine model isn't smart enough to vary fuel consumption with condition (real engines have variable TSFC's under different situations). But as long as the number used is correct for cruise there shouldn't be

Re: [Flightgear-devel] current bugs

2003-03-06 Thread Jim Wilson
Major A [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: Thanks Jim, things look a lot better now. I tried a flight today, from EDDF to KDTW, which should be well in the range of a fully loaded 747-400. I used full throttle to climb to FL290 first, then in steps up to FL410. Throttle was taken back so as to make the

Re: [Flightgear-devel] current bugs

2003-03-06 Thread Major A
My gutt feeling is that all the YASim jet's consume fuel faster than they should. The a4 can go about 150 miles before it runs out of fuel. I'm not a jet pilot though so maybe I'm doing something wrong. Hmmm. I've just taken that bird for a spin, I flew from EDDF to EDDM at airliner-style

Re: [Flightgear-devel] current bugs

2003-03-06 Thread Major A
This is probably obvious, but according to my study materials for the instrument rating, the efficiency of a jet engine depends on the temperature differential between its combustion and the outside air temperature -- that's why jets are very efficient flying near the tropopause at around

re: [Flightgear-devel] current bugs

2003-03-04 Thread David Megginson
Major A writes: Also, has anyone actually managed to fly a 747 from Europe to the US or the other way round? I just tried that, and first of all, I found it hard to get to a decent altitude (the autopilot keeps stalling it) at a decent speed -- or is 300kt IAS at 3ft normal for a 747?

Re: [Flightgear-devel] current bugs

2003-03-04 Thread Jim Wilson
Major A [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: Also, has anyone actually managed to fly a 747 from Europe to the US or the other way round? I just tried that, and first of all, I found it hard to get to a decent altitude (the autopilot keeps stalling it) at a decent speed -- or is 300kt IAS at 3ft

RE: [Flightgear-devel] current bugs

2003-03-04 Thread Tyson, Diarmuid
From memory, a 747-400, on a long haul flight would typically climb initially to somewhere around FL290-FL350. After a couple of hours of burning fuel, they would probably request somewhere from FL350-FL410. Reported cruise speed of anywhere from M.82 - M.86. Of course it's all highly variable

Re: [Flightgear-devel] current bugs

2003-03-04 Thread Jim Wilson
Major A [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: Oh, I meant higher to refer to the throttle, not altitude. I know FL300 is too low for long-haul flights, but I would have thought that you don't need more than 90% throttle during cruise. You don't. What I said was that 300kt IAS is cruise speed at