Re: [Flightgear-devel] Translate linear model of Pioneer UAV to JSBSim?

um of two dimensions, but I might be wrong. Jon and Tony have talked about extending it to allow n-dimensional tables. It might be necessary to try to uncouple some of the data for now, though. All the best, David -- David Megginson [EMAIL PROTECTED] _

RE: [Flightgear-devel] UIUC planes below runway (current CVS)

currently in the base package, I see a C172 model above the runway (the wheels haven't sunken) but vibrating violently. All the best, David -- David Megginson [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ Flightgear-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.f

RE: [Flightgear-devel] General issues

bout to update the CVS to do so. Allt he best, David -- David Megginson [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ Flightgear-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.flightgear.org/mailman/listinfo/flightgear-devel

re: [Flightgear-devel] Models from a distance, getting it right

file, but I forgot to do so with the last one, so you couldn't see the rest of the plane through the spinning propeller. I'll be uploading a fix in a minute or two. All the best, David -- David Megginson [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ Flightgear-dev

RE: [Flightgear-devel] General issues

way. All the best, David -- David Megginson [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ Flightgear-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.flightgear.org/mailman/listinfo/flightgear-devel

[Flightgear-devel] ANN: "range" (LOD) animation

/acmodel.cxx so that the aircraft model has the same clip plane as the scenery in external view. It works on my computer, at least -- the plane can taxi in front of or behind objects and you see the right thing from the tower. All the best, David -- David Meggin

RE: [Flightgear-devel] General issues

l users, though. All the best, David -- David Megginson [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ Flightgear-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.flightgear.org/mailman/listinfo/flightgear-devel

RE: [Flightgear-devel] General issues

is supported in plib, we just need > to provide the different LOD models and specify the range for drawing > them.) That's in the CVS now. All the best, David -- David Megginson [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ Flightgear-devel mailing list

Re: [Flightgear-devel] YASim C172 idle

to the left that even full right rudder deflection cannot compensate. All the best, David -- David Megginson [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ Flightgear-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.flightgear.org/mailman/listinfo/flightgear-devel

RE: [Flightgear-devel] General issues

Jim Wilson writes: > Yes, I realize this. That is why I think we should try plugging externally > viewed model branches into the main scene graph. I've just did that before opening the message -- try the latest CVS and see if it's OK. All the best, David -- David

re: [Flightgear-devel] Purpose of the Next Release?

s to make FlightGear FPU-clean. Both are incremental rather than big-bang jobs. Any takers? All the best, David -- David Megginson [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ Flightgear-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.flightgear.org/mailman/listinfo/flightgear-devel

re: [Flightgear-devel] Windows Build Problem as of April 13

es everything to work just fine. Fixed. All the best, David -- David Megginson [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ Flightgear-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.flightgear.org/mailman/listinfo/flightgear-devel

RE: [Flightgear-devel] General issues

in/scene.cxx) containing all of the scene- and scenery-management code currently slopped into main.cxx. That would be a good place to add clip-plane configurability. If you want to take a shot at it, please go ahead. All the best, David -- David Megginson [EMAIL PROTECTED]

RE: [Flightgear-devel] General issues

to the second part. All the best, David -- David Megginson [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ Flightgear-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.flightgear.org/mailman/listinfo/flightgear-devel

RE: [Flightgear-devel] General issues

cockpit) into the main scene graph. All the best, David -- David Megginson [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ Flightgear-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.flightgear.org/mailman/listinfo/flightgear-devel

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Purpose of the Next Release?

cycle). All the best, David -- David Megginson [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ Flightgear-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.flightgear.org/mailman/listinfo/flightgear-devel

RE: [Flightgear-devel] General issues

ing the different > ssgRoots. It's possible, I searched for all the ssgSetNearFar calls, though, and couldn't find any hidden ones. All the best, David -- David Megginson [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ Flightgear-devel maili

Re: [Flightgear-devel] YASim C172 idle

with the JSBSim C172, but the effect was never so pronounced in the first place. All the best, David -- David Megginson [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ Flightgear-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.flightgear.org/mailman/listinfo/flightgear-devel

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Purpose of the Next Release?

re wrong. We have no way to know what does and doesn't work with MSVC, so patches are essential. Please send patches/files to Curt or me for most of the FlightGear and SimGear tree. Send them to Andy Ross for YASim, and to Tony Peden or Jon Berndt for JSBSim. Curt, John Check, and I can ha

[Flightgear-devel] Request for Help: 3D Stuff

the plane first, and only then to test above in case we're underground. Thanks, and all the best, David -- David Megginson [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ Flightgear-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.flightgear.org/mailman/listinfo/flightgear-devel

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Propeller-cloud on FreeBSD 4.5 -stable andRadeon VE

es to SimGear. Actually one of the patches is no longer necessary -- simply updating to the local plib CVS will give you a translucent propeller disk. You still need to patch to get smoothing, though. All the best, David -- David Megginson [EMAIL PROTECTED] __

re: [Flightgear-devel] Notice Upcoming Property changes

onfusion. Granted that not every view is from inside an aircraft, but we'd be more consistent this way. All the best, David -- David Megginson [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ Flightgear-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.flightgear.org/mailman/listinfo/flightgear-devel

re: [Flightgear-devel] Notice Upcoming Property changes

quot; Yes, that's a bit of a nasty problem any way we do it. All the best, David -- David Megginson [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ Flightgear-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.flightgear.org/mailman/listinfo/flightgear-devel

re: [Flightgear-devel] Notice Upcoming Property changes

ll the best, David -- David Megginson [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ Flightgear-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.flightgear.org/mailman/listinfo/flightgear-devel

re: [Flightgear-devel] Propellor graphics

Are you sure you have installed the new plib and linked with it? Is anyone else using the newest CVS plib getting an opaque propeller disk? Thanks, David -- David Megginson [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ Flightgear-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Propellor graphics

too slow ... Actually, the propeller spins at *exactly* the reported RPM. The trouble is that you see only snapshots of its position as determined by framerate, and the positions are usually creeping one direction or another. All the best, David

re: [Flightgear-devel] Propellor graphics

at had happened. A new checkin is on the way. All the best, David -- David Megginson [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ Flightgear-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.flightgear.org/mailman/listinfo/flightgear-devel

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Propellor graphics

Frederic Bouvier writes: > You forgot to correct your model to avoid the "cutting" propeller disc ! What do you mean, exactly, by a "cutting" disk? All the best, David -- David Megginson [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ Flight

re: [Flightgear-devel] 'Problems' in yesterday CVS

ference I'd expect between ground speed (HUD) and indicated airspeed (panel) at that altitude with no winds, since indicated airspeed differs from true airspeed by about 2% for every 1,000ft ASL: 156 / (1 + (0.02 * 12)) = 156 / 1.24 = 125.8 All the best, David -- David Megginson [EMAIL P

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Propellor graphics

Frederic Bouvier writes: > > What do you mean, exactly, by a "cutting" disk? > > We can see the interior of the c172 when viewing the front of the > plane in the external view Right -- I forgot to edit the ac file. I'll check in the fix right now. Al

RE: [Flightgear-devel] 'Problems' in yesterday CVS

round to providing a property for it for external > use??? No, it was working and now its gone. I agree that the aero effects are there -- there must be a problem in JSBSim.cxx. All the best, David -- David Megginson [EMAIL PROTECTED] _

re: [Flightgear-devel] Panel not updating

7;m not sure I committed them, and I don't think they touched the text stuff anyway. The text instruments use sprintf, so maybe something has screwed up the library somehow. All the best, David -- David Megginson [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ Flightge

re: [Flightgear-devel] Installing only changed header files

;s one caveat -- if SimGear or plib changes only in the cxx files, you will have to remove the FlightGear binary to force a relink. All the best, David -- David Megginson [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ Flightgear-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.flightgear.org/mailman/listinfo/flightgear-devel

re: [Flightgear-devel] latest cvs changes

VFR training, and probably for many types of IFR training as well. All the best, David -- David Megginson [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ Flightgear-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.flightgear.org/mailman/listinfo/flightgear-devel

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Flap positions

tion? There might be an easier approach. All the best, David -- David Megginson [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ Flightgear-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.flightgear.org/mailman/listinfo/flightgear-devel

[Flightgear-devel] Non-linear animations

rbose but nice and explicit. All the best, David -- David Megginson [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ Flightgear-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.flightgear.org/mailman/listinfo/flightgear-devel

[Flightgear-devel] Re: [Flightgear-cvslogs] CVS: FlightGear/src/Model TODO,NONE,1.1 README,1.1,1.2

> animation for blinking aircraft lights included in the above? No -- I haven't quite decided how that animation should work. Billboards are 2D objects that rotate towards the viewer -- they're especially useful for modelling t

re: [Flightgear-devel] OT: USB yoke and pedals?

t -- you can bind them to anything you want. I can send you my bindings when you have them working. All the best, David -- David Megginson [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ Flightgear-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.flightgear.org/mailman/listinfo/flightgear-devel

Re: [Flightgear-devel] PLIB

vid -- David Megginson [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ Flightgear-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.flightgear.org/mailman/listinfo/flightgear-devel

[Flightgear-devel] RFD: Future of the instrument panel in the 3D cockpit

are the hardest part -- could be reused on the 3D side. All the best, David -- David Megginson [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ Flightgear-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.flightgear.org/mailman/listinfo/flightgear-devel

Re: [Flightgear-devel] RFD: Future of the instrument panel in the3D cockpit

. Note (to others) that I am not suggesting that we dump the 2D panel -- as Alex has mentioned, it's fine for IFR practice. All the best, David -- David Megginson [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ Flightgear-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.flightgear.org/mailman/listinfo/flightgear-devel

re: [Flightgear-devel] Windoze exe for 0.7.10

ginson.com/flightsim/plib-smoothing.dif http://www.megginson.com/flightsim/plib-transparency.dif FlightGear just looks an awful lot better with them than without them. All the best, David -- David Megginson [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ Flightgear-devel

Re: [Flightgear-devel] RFD: Future of the instrument panel in the 3D cockpit

think that a fresh start with the 3D code might make sense. All the best, David -- David Megginson [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ Flightgear-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.flightgear.org/mailman/listinfo/flightgear-devel

RE: [Flightgear-devel] RFD: Future of the instrument panel in the 3D cockpit

ux users (seem to have) switched to XFree86 4.0, which included DRI support for Voodoo3 and better. All the best, David -- David Megginson [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ Flightgear-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.flightgear.org/mailman/listi

Re: [Flightgear-devel] RFD: Future of the instrument panel in the 3D cockpit

ey are at present, except that you'd use real-world measurements (meters) rather than idealized screen coordinates. All the best, David -- David Megginson [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ Flightgear-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.

Re: [Flightgear-devel] RFD: Future of the instrument panel in the 3Dcockpit

have done it; to see what actually happens, take a look at FGLayeredInstrument::draw in src/Cockpit/panel.cxx -- the z-position is actually incremented by 0.01 for each successive layer. All the best, David -- David Megginson [EMAIL PROTECTED]

RE: [Flightgear-devel] General issues

src/Main, leaving only truly main ones like options.[ch]xx, globals.[ch]xx, and fgfs.[ch]xx. All the best, David -- David Megginson [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ Flightgear-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.flightgear.org/mailman/listinfo/flightgear-devel

re: [Flightgear-devel] property viewer segfaulting

eneral|math|event|aircraft|autopilot|io|clipper|network' (string)") at puFont.cxx:64 64if ( glut_font_handle != (GlutFont) 0 ) All the best, David -- David Megginson [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ Flightgear-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTE

Re: [Flightgear-devel] UFO FDM is Running! (was: "Enhanced" Magic Carpet)

Alex Perry writes: > Are you going to do an interior view ? Do flying saucers have windows? All the best, David -- David Megginson [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ Flightgear-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.flightgear.org/mail

Re: [Flightgear-devel] UFO FDM is Running! (was: "Enhanced" Magic Carpet)

Curtis L. Olson writes: > Here after doing a full cvs update -d of the base package and the fgfs > source, I'm seeing a C172 in the external view with --fdm=ufo Try --aircraft=ufo All the best, David -- David Megginson [EMAI

[Flightgear-devel] re: [Flightgear-cvslogs] [PATCH] Re: CVS: FlightGear/src/Controls controls.cxx,1.18,1.19

ay. I will change controls.cxx to set a default parking brake value in the constructor, though, just for consistency. All the best, David -- David Megginson [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ Flightgear-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.fli

Re: [Flightgear-devel] UFO FDM is Running! (was: "Enhanced" Magic Carpet)

Arnt Karlsen writes: > ..how about the one that came down in Roswell, NM? ;-) That's in the Smithsonian now, isn't it? All the best, David -- David Megginson [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ Flightgear-devel mailing list [EMAIL PR

re: [Flightgear-devel] Heading error in A/P mode

level turns at cruise power (2200RPM) and <20deg bank -- I put my foot on the rudder pedal to keep the instructor happy, but the ball doesn't move much either way. A full-power climbing turn is another story, of course. All the best, David -- David Megg

re: ..why C++ and not C?, was: [Flightgear-devel] View Oddity Between MagicCarpet and JSBSim

mless blob while the C++ programmers need only average skill. In the end, I think we end up with a bigger talent pool this way. All the best, David -- David Megginson [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ Flightgear-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.flightgear.org/mailman/listinfo/flightgear-devel

Re: [Flightgear-devel] View Oddity Between MagicCarpet and JSBSim

. We might as well adapt the same terminology. All the best, David -- David Megginson [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ Flightgear-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.flightgear.org/mailman/listinfo/flightgear-devel

[Flightgear-devel] RFD: Cessna 172R or 172M/N/P?

t does everyone else think? Would you all be happy to see the tach calibrated to 2700 rather than 2400, and lose 100RPM when you switch on carb heat? All the best, David -- David Megginson [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ Flightgear-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.flightgear.org/mailman/listinfo/flightgear-devel

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Possible virus alert

below. All the best, David -- David Megginson, [EMAIL PROTECTED], http://www.megginson.com/ MS OUTLOOK USERS: Due to serious security problems, please do *not* add this address to your address book, a

[Flightgear-devel] Trees, alpha, and the sky

ugh transparent parts. Any hints? This model is light-weight enough that we could build fairly large groves, at least near airports. All the best, David -- David Megginson, [EMAIL PROTECTED], http://www.megginson.com/ ___ Flightgear-devel mail

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Trees, alpha, and the sky

o have more variety in tree shapes and types without overloading our (not-yet-defined) texture budget. What about overhead? Should I plop one more rectangle on the top? You don't usually look straight down from a plane, but it will happen during aerobatics. All the best, David -- David Me

re: [Flightgear-devel] File reorg

t/c172/Aero/uiuc/ but I doubt I'll get many takers.) 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] RFD: Cessna 172R or 172M/N/P?

pilots on this list and it would be valuable to hear more from them. 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] Trees, alpha, and the sky

Jon Berndt writes: > can you use a sphere? That's a lot of triangles for each tree. All the best, David -- David Megginson, [EMAIL PROTECTED], http://www.megginson.com/ ___ Flightgear-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECT

Re: [Flightgear-devel] File reorg

h a plane named the "Aero" (well, there's the Avro Arrow, but that only sounds similar). All the best, David -- David Megginson, [EMAIL PROTECTED], http://www.megginson.com/ ___ Flightgear-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://ma

Re: [Flightgear-devel] RFD: Cessna 172R or 172M/N/P?

is 180HP and injected. People _will_ want both versions in future > so we may as well keep all the information we collect carefully separate. That sounds good. I suspect that the lift and drag coefficients are going to differ between the two. All the best, David --

RE: [Flightgear-devel] Trees, alpha, and the sky

st, 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] Trees, alpha, and the sky

Marcio Shimoda writes: > What function draws the sky and the tile? The sky is drawn in SimGear -- see simgear/sky/dome.cxx. It's not integrated with the SSG graph, and that may or may not be part of the problem. All the best, David -- David Megginson, [EMAIL PROTECTE

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Trees, alpha, and the sky

uess it's time for 3D clouds. 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] Mouse wheel as trim wheel

indows as well. 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] Propeller animation speed fix

" name it sometimes goes by. That confusion is my fault. For the FDMs use a multiloop with the number of iterations to run; the general subsystems use a dt for elapsed time in milliseconds. This needs some architectural repair and documentation. All the best, David -- David Me

RE: [Flightgear-devel] Propeller animation speed fix

apsed_ms) ? I don't see any harm in sticking with the integer value, but I agree that a better name, proper documentation, and some debugging is essential. All the best, David -- David Megginson, [EMAIL PROTECTED], http://www.megginson.com/ __

[Flightgear-devel] Billboard animation

tree has only 4 vertices, but requires a transformation based on the view matrix. Norm: which do you think would be more efficient for a forest of, say, 500 trees? All the best, David -- David Megginson, [EMAIL PROTECTED], http://www.megginson.com/ __

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Billboard animation

Erik Hofman writes: > > Norm: which do you think would be more efficient for a forest of, say, > > 500 trees? > > I would say, billboarded spherical trees handled as particles. I don't understand 'particles'. All the best, David -- David M

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Billboard animation

the same transformation? That wouldn't work, because each tree has to turn to a slightly different angle to face the camera, and each has to rotate about its own centrepoint. All the best, David -- David Megginson, [EMAIL PROTECTED], http://www

[Flightgear-devel] Gusting winds

nd I find that it messes up my landings just like to real thing. To get winds from 270 @ 15kt gusting to 25kt, try fgfs --wind=270@15 --prop:/environment/params/gust-wind-speed-kt=25 To use this, you'll need to configure --with-new-environment. All the best, David -- David

re: [Flightgear-devel] Extra GCC warnings

n "-pedantic" is used, and can be inhibited with -Wno-long-long. > This bunch of warnings came out four times.] Unfortunately, stdint.h uses long long as well, so it will probably also trigger the warning. Ouch. Any suggestions? I'll leave the others to the appropriate code

[Flightgear-devel] ANN: Smart pointers for properties

it works, it should go a long way towards improving our ability to handle properties. Thanks, Frederic. All the best, David -- David Megginson, [EMAIL PROTECTED], http://www.megginson.com/ ___ Flightgear-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] h

[Flightgear-devel] In progress: delta time and other subsystem changes

void FGSubsystem::suspend () void FGSubsystem::resume () bool FGSubsystem::is_suspended () const Subsystems can check in their update() methods whether they are suspended or not and act accordingly; update() will still be invoked in either case. All the best, David -- David Megginson, [

[Flightgear-devel] dt changed to seconds

sting, but there are probably some hidden problems. I'd appreciate it if everyone could give the changes a good workout. All the best, David -- David Megginson, [EMAIL PROTECTED], http://www.megginson.com/ ___ Flightgear-devel mailing list [

re: [Flightgear-devel] Re: dt changed to seconds

, YASim.cxx, or JSBSim.cxx to see how it's done. The problem didn't show up before because main.cxx always passed '1' as the value of multiloop. All the best, David -- David Megginson, [EMAIL PROTECTED], http://www.megginson.com/ __

re: [Flightgear-devel] Re: dt changed to seconds

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re: [Flightgear-devel] Re: dt changed to seconds

time of 0.1 seconds, instead of running the equations of motion once with a 0.1 second time slice, it will run them 12 times, each with a 0.0083 second time slice. That makes the movement of the plane much smoother and more realistic. All the best, David -- David Megginson, [EMAIL PROTE

re: [Flightgear-devel] Linux IDE

Christian Mayer writes: > Oh, BTW, EMACS and VI/VIM are no option for me (vim is greqat to change > a file, but not to have a overview over a big project) What kind of an overview do you need? All the best, David -- David Megginson, [EMAIL PROTECTED], http://www.meggins

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Linux IDE

o anything you want extremely fast (I've amazed customers during onsite visits by making complex changes to large programs or document collections in less than a minute where they'd budgetted days for the work). All the best, David -- David Megginson, [EMAIL PROTECTED], http://www.me

re: [Flightgear-devel] Build Error with BalloonSim

t to build with WEATHERCM. 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] Man-Made obstructions

y right through a tree or tower if you try. 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] Build Error with BalloonSim

EATHERCM is defined. That means that they weren't being set before when FG_NEW_ENVIRONMENT was defined. Personally, I wasn't aware that the balloon sim was even working (it wasn't a year ago), but I'd be happy to patch the file so that it works with or without FG_WEATHERCM

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Linux IDE

ill in Unix (as Curt mentioned later in his message). 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] Environment subsystem status

l 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] FDMs and external atmosphere

weather reports like the ATIS, for icing, and who knows what else. 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] FDMs and external atmosphere

of modelling thunderstorms (and other weather phenomena) needs to be done for either weather subsystem. All the best, David -- David Megginson, [EMAIL PROTECTED], http://www.megginson.com/ ___ Flightgear-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http:

RE: [Flightgear-devel] FDMs and external atmosphere

value (0:1) to FGEnvironment. Ditto for YASim (i.e. I'll add it as soon as *any* FDM supports turbulence). By the way, one of my more immediate goals is adding variable winds as a complement to gusting winds. I might also add variability for up/down drafts. All the best, David -- David

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Environment subsystem status

ot pascals, and the airspeed will be in knots (or possibly statute mph), not kph -- using SI internally will force a lot of conversions. I'm sure that there exist SI aircraft panels somewhere, but I have not yet seen photos of any in general aviation. All the best, David -- David Megginso

[Flightgear-devel] Proposed Environment Property Reorg

e Jon is promising support RSN. Thanks, 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] FDMs and external atmosphere

much harder to have FlightGear figure them out itself, but it might still be doable. All the best, David -- David Megginson, [EMAIL PROTECTED], http://www.megginson.com/ ___ Flightgear-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.flightge

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Environment subsystem status

ed to SI for fuel, and when the fuel gauge became U/S, the copilot took a dipstick measurement and used the wrong calculation. All the best, David -- David Megginson, [EMAIL PROTECTED], http://www.megginson.com/ ___ Flightgear-devel mailing

Re: [Flightgear-devel] plotting/logging tool

Alex Perry writes: > Actually storing the data to file is already supported in FGFS, I believe. Yes, it is. See docs-mini/README.logging in the FlightGear source distribution. All the best, David -- David Megginson, [EMAIL PROTECTED], http://www.megginson.

Re: [Flightgear-devel] FDMs and external atmosphere

al, but we'd have to sample over a wider area to know if we're looking at a ridge or just a little bump. All the best, David -- David Megginson, [EMAIL PROTECTED], http://www.megginson.com/ ___ Flightgear-devel mailing list

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Environment subsystem status

eceiver and satellite comm link will be required for flight in any controlled airspace). Making the GPS display into the primary flight instrument will make it much easier to switch to SI, and ATC clearances coming digitally over a satellite link can be converted automatically to any units. All t

[Flightgear-devel] [off topic] Babylonian finger counting

iddle third (between the two knuckles) of each finger for 5-8, and the bottom third for 9-12. I'm not sure how they combined the second hand with that, but I think that they used only whole fingers there, giving the ability to count from 0-60 on their fingers alone. All the best,

[Flightgear-devel] ANN: improved cloud support

line option. Enjoy, 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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