RE: [Flightgear-devel] Two different problems with c172p and c172r

2006-04-08 Thread Jon S. Berndt
> Thanks for the file. It fixed the seg fault. > But C172R seems to suffer the same lower-than-RL max RPM as C172P (2200 > vs 2400), and as such cannot climb at the expected rate. > Do they share some engine spec file that may have been modifed recently? > Yavuz Onder I don't think so. I've got

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Two different problems with c172p and c172r

2006-04-08 Thread Yavuz Onder
Ron Jensen wrote: On Sat, 2006-04-08 at 17:23 -0400, Yavuz Onder wrote: Hi, Failing to get the performance I need from C172P, I decided to try C172R, it seg faulted with this output: ~/ob/FlightGear-0.9/source$ fly --aircraft=c172r --airport=LSTS --runway=14 Model Author: Unk

RE: [Flightgear-devel] A4F problem

2006-04-08 Thread Vivian Meazza
Fred > This is what I am getting with CVS today ( --aircraft=a4f ) : > > Failed to load submodel: Failed to open file > at i:/FlightGear/cvs/fgfsbase/Aircraft/a4/Models/strop.xml > Failed to load aircraft from Aircraft/a4/Models/a4f-blue.xml > (Falling back to glider.ac.) > /FlightGear/cvs/f

RE: [Flightgear-devel] A4F problem

2006-04-08 Thread Vivian Meazza
Fred > > This is what I am getting with CVS today ( --aircraft=a4f ) : > > Failed to load submodel: Failed to open file > at i:/FlightGear/cvs/fgfsbase/Aircraft/a4/Models/strop.xml > Failed to load aircraft from Aircraft/a4/Models/a4f-blue.xml > (Falling back to glider.ac.) > I haven't change

[Flightgear-devel] [PATCH] Re: UIUC FDM

2006-04-08 Thread Pigeon
> It's possible to disable the UIUC and other esoteric FDMs entirely at > the configure stage, IIRC. I looked at FG's configure briefly and I do not see how. Anyway, here's a patch attempting to "new" AIRCRAFT only when it's needed. A brief test using the ornithopter versus the defau

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Two different problems with c172p and c172r

2006-04-08 Thread Ron Jensen
On Sat, 2006-04-08 at 17:23 -0400, Yavuz Onder wrote: > Hi, > > Failing to get the performance I need from C172P, I decided to try > C172R, it seg faulted with this output: > > ~/ob/FlightGear-0.9/source$ fly --aircraft=c172r --airport=LSTS > --runway=14 > Model Author: Unknown >

[Flightgear-devel] Two different problems with c172p and c172r

2006-04-08 Thread Yavuz Onder
Hi, I am running CVS, I have updated today (Apr 8 ~ 16:30 EDT). Gentoo Linux, with a Radeon 7500 64 Meg video card. I have been trying to fly off LSTS runway 14. This place is deep in a valley surrounded by gorgeous mountains. I needed to gain altitude a.s.a.p. So, I set 10 degree flaps, re

[Flightgear-devel] A4F problem

2006-04-08 Thread Frederic Bouvier
Hi, This is what I am getting with CVS today ( --aircraft=a4f ) : Failed to load submodel: Failed to open file at i:/FlightGear/cvs/fgfsbase/Aircraft/a4/Models/strop.xml Failed to load aircraft from Aircraft/a4/Models/a4f-blue.xml (Falling back to glider.ac.) -Fred -- Frédéric Bouvier http://

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Re: Taxiway signs, howto?

2006-04-08 Thread Martin Spott
Robicd wrote: > * Completely revised airport data file (apt.dat) that will allow > many new features, such as smoothly-curved taxiways, polygonal aprons, > airport boundary fences, enhanced taxiway markings (centre lines and > lights, edge lines), taxiway signs, and many other goodies." A

Re: [Flightgear-devel] UIUC FDM

2006-04-08 Thread Vassilii Khachaturov
> I probably don't know enough about UIUC's or in fact any FDMs' > internals and so I can't say whether this is a lot of memory for a FDM > or not. But having 117mb of memory allocated (or committed) at startup > (this is even before main(), btw), regardless of what aircraft/FDM is > being used

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Re: [Flightgear-users] Stalls

2006-04-08 Thread David Megginson
On 08/04/06, Lee Elliott <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > The right way to do it, IMHO, is with the turbulence input, as > > that's what the stall buffet is, after all: turbulence over > > the wings due to flow separation. Modify the number based on > > the current AoA, probably with a little Nasal

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Re: Mapserver interface

2006-04-08 Thread Martin Spott
"Curtis L. Olson" wrote: > Also there isn't 100% agreement on what is a 'lake' and what is > 'ocean'. So if you use GSHHS for land/ocean and vmap0 for lakes and > rivers, you lose things like lake washington in seattle because GSHSS > thinks it's a lake, vmap0 thinks it's part of the ocean, so

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Re: AP messed up? agl-hold vs. terrain-follow

2006-04-08 Thread Lee Elliott
On Friday 07 April 2006 07:56, Melchior FRANZ wrote: > * Lee Elliott -- Friday 07 April 2006 00:31: > > now all we need from everyone else is a decision on > > 'agl-hold' vs. 'terrain-follow'. > > Okay. I flipped a coin, and agl-hold won! :-P > > No, seriously: If nobody objects I will tomorrow sw

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Re: [Flightgear-users] Stalls

2006-04-08 Thread Lee Elliott
On Friday 07 April 2006 00:19, Andy Ross wrote: > [redirecting to flightgear-devel] > > Lee Elliott wrote: > > However, I think this could faked very convincingly already > > in YASim and probably in JSBSim too, simply by playing with > > mass distribution depending on conditions (anyone want to >

[Flightgear-devel] Re: Taxiway signs, howto?

2006-04-08 Thread Melchior FRANZ
* Robicd -- Saturday 08 April 2006 15:33: > "Enhancements to the X-Plane airport and nav-aid data [...] > taxiway signs, and many other goodies." That's good news. FYI: I'm in the progress of improving the signs, and half finished even. I have lighted signs with proportional fonts. (Not just a sq

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Re: Mapserver interface

2006-04-08 Thread Curtis L. Olson
Martin Spott wrote: Pigeon wrote: FG's scenery (0.9.10) is generated using the landmass, and as you can see from the above link, there are rather big differences between the landmass and the coastline/swbd, especially with the main island (the one that looks like a frog). This is

Re: [Flightgear-devel] YOU CAN HELP!

2006-04-08 Thread Chris Metzler
On Sat, 08 Apr 2006 09:15:20 -0400 Josh Babcock wrote: > > http://jrbabcock.home.comcast.net/flightgear/ch53e/progress/progress.html > > This poor, unsupported young aircraft model, like many in the third > world, has a grim future. It faces poverty, disease, and lack of any > good FlightGear rota

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Re: Taxiway signs, howto?

2006-04-08 Thread Robicd
Chris Metzler wrote: My main holdup in making them available (other than the missing characteristics named above) has been my being unsure of the best, uh, "deployment method." ... Automated generation would be fine, except for the fact that fgfs doesn't know about taxiway designations Hi C

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Re: Mapserver interface

2006-04-08 Thread Martin Spott
Pigeon wrote: > FG's scenery (0.9.10) is generated using the landmass, and as you > can see from the above link, there are rather big differences between > the landmass and the coastline/swbd, especially with the main island > (the one that looks like a frog). This is a major difficulty that

[Flightgear-devel] YOU CAN HELP!

2006-04-08 Thread Josh Babcock
http://jrbabcock.home.comcast.net/flightgear/ch53e/progress/progress.html This poor, unsupported young aircraft model, like many in the third world, has a grim future. It faces poverty, disease, and lack of any good FlightGear rotary wing FDM. But it doesn't have to be that way. For an annual don

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Re: Mapserver interface

2006-04-08 Thread Frederic Bouvier
Pigeon wrote : > Very nice indeed! > > Allow me to ask a maybe more terragear related question here. > > > http://document.ihg.uni-duisburg.de/cgi-bin/mapserv40?mode=browse&layer=landmass_default&layer=gshhs_coastline&layer=swbd&zoomdir=0&zoomsize=2&imgxy=300.0+300.0&imgext=113.841666+

[Flightgear-devel] Re: Mapserver interface

2006-04-08 Thread Pigeon
Very nice indeed! Allow me to ask a maybe more terragear related question here. http://document.ihg.uni-duisburg.de/cgi-bin/mapserv40?mode=browse&layer=landmass_default&layer=gshhs_coastline&layer=swbd&zoomdir=0&zoomsize=2&imgxy=300.0+300.0&imgext=113.841666+22.030833+114.341666+22.

[Flightgear-devel] UIUC FDM

2006-04-08 Thread Pigeon
In the progress of testing the FG live cd (under qemu), I discovered a rather interesting behavior of the UIUC FDM. (My) qemu by default ram size to be 128mb. When I was trying to run fgfs, it gave me an exception of std::bad_alloc and then terminated. After having some hints from Melchio

[Flightgear-devel] Mapserver interface

2006-04-08 Thread Martin Spott
"This still is not heaven; but it is outside hell" :-) In my desperate attempt to throw some usability at my mapserver I made my first attempts writing some lines of PHP: http://mapserver.flightgear.org/ You're invited to make use of this mapserver if you're uncertain about the landcover data

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Graphics load

2006-04-08 Thread Ralf Gerlich
Hi, Ralf Gerlich schrieb: In the custom scenery I can only fly with 800x600 or with random objects deactivated at 1280x1024. In the latter case I get around 12-18fps, in the former case it drops down to 6fps at times. I noticed that the customised scenery tends to produce not only more - whi