[Flightgear-devel] MiG-15

2006-06-23 Thread Curtis L. Olson
Hey! I just committed Lee's latest MiG-15 to cvs and updated the aircraft download page. This thing has a neat easter egg, forward ejected flare thingies. They are immensely cool looking! There were 2 P-80's buzzing KSFO a few minutes ago, I'm not sure what happened to them. :-) Curt. --

Re: [Flightgear-devel] helicopters...

2006-06-23 Thread syd & sandy
Hi Maik , I had designed a Sikorsky 76C , but its collecting dust on a 'save' CD somewhere Looks like I can dig it up again soon ? Cheers, Syd Using Tomcat but need to do more? Need to support web services, security? Get stuff done quickly with pre-integrated technology to make your job easie

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Helicopter: First Impressions

2006-06-23 Thread Josh Babcock
Martin Spott wrote: > Josh Babcock wrote: > >> I like your todo list. I would just suggest one more thing. If you look >> at a helo from behind, the rotor disk will be canted slightly to one >> side in straight and level flight. The side force offsets the side force >> of the tail rotor to prevent

Re: [Flightgear-devel] VOR facility models

2006-06-23 Thread Steve Knoblock
> There actually is not one "European VOR", they also differ in shape at > different locations. I'm fine with having different models of VOR Looking at various photos on the web, the facilities in Europe appear to favor large open steel frameworks, possibly with a small building underneath with a

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Flightgear-devel Digest, Vol 2, Issue 105

2006-06-23 Thread Melchior FRANZ
* Steve Knoblock -- Saturday 24 June 2006 01:37: ["signature theft"] > didn't realize it was your own, not one of those sayings floating around > the net. I had put it in there for the benefit of some coworkers at the > university to see if they would comment on it and left it in there. I'm sure h

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Flightgear-devel Digest, Vol 2, Issue 105

2006-06-23 Thread Steve Knoblock
> yes, and your signature is a blunt copy of mine. I herewith kindly > ask you to create one of your own. > > Martin. Sorry, didn't realize it was your own, not one of those sayings floating around the net. I had put it in there for the benefit of some coworkers at the university to

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Incidence in YASim

2006-06-23 Thread Lee Elliott
On Friday 23 June 2006 15:57, Andy Ross wrote: > Lee Elliott wrote: > > I've been looking in to the INCIDENCE control-axis in YASim > > and although it's there and appears to function, it appears > > to be normalised and I can't see what angle it's normalised > > to - 90 deg, 360 deg ? > > I'd have

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Helicopter: First Impressions

2006-06-23 Thread Martin Spott
Josh Babcock wrote: > I like your todo list. I would just suggest one more thing. If you look > at a helo from behind, the rotor disk will be canted slightly to one > side in straight and level flight. The side force offsets the side force > of the tail rotor to prevent sideslip. In FG, instead of

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Helicopter: First Impressions

2006-06-23 Thread Josh Babcock
Melchior FRANZ wrote: >>> Yes, there is an R22, and Josh works on a CH53. Both not in CVS. )The >>> R22 probably won't ever.) >>> >> good (more helicopters) and bad (not in cvs) > > I'm confident that the CH53 will be submitted for cvs. :-) Yes, the Sea Stallion will be in CVS as soon as I

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Helicopter: First Impressions

2006-06-23 Thread Josh Babcock
Maik Justus wrote: >> Missing: >> -Downwash >>-Effect on stabs >>-Effect on rotor itself >>-Effect on ground (ground effect) >> -Engine (The needed power is calculated, but very simplified (i.e. a >> autorotation is not possible now) , but the rotor now accelerates in 5 >> sec and ho

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Helicopter: First Impressions

2006-06-23 Thread Melchior FRANZ
* Maik Justus -- Saturday 24 June 2006 00:29: > Melchior FRANZ schrieb: > > Look into Mathias' ground cache. This should make it quite easy to > > get the necessary altitudes quickly. > I will have a look on this. Is this used in yasim? Yes. It's use to get "cheap" terrain intersections for the g

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Helicopter: First Impressions

2006-06-23 Thread Maik Justus
Hi Melchior, Melchior FRANZ schrieb: * Maik Justus -- Friday 23 June 2006 23:42: Hello all, ... - ground effect Look into Mathias' ground cache. This should make it quite easy to get the necessary altitudes quickly. I will have a look on this

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Helicopter: First Impressions

2006-06-23 Thread Melchior FRANZ
* Melchior FRANZ -- Saturday 24 June 2006 00:12: > Yes, there is an R22, and Josh works on a CH53. Both not in CVS. )The > R22 probably won't ever.) The R22 is available here: http://www.geocities.com/flightgearproject/ Don't know if it still works with current cvs, though. m. Using Tomcat but

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Helicopter: First Impressions

2006-06-23 Thread Melchior FRANZ
* Maik Justus -- Friday 23 June 2006 23:42: > Hello all, Woohoo ... welcome back! :-) > now want to fix some of the "missings" in the helicopter simulation. Wow, excellent news. Bah, who needs sliced bread ... > And a very big thank you to Melchior for the great Bo105. You are welcome. It

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Helicopter: First Impressions

2006-06-23 Thread Maik Justus
Hello all, after a long period of absence on business and family I now want to fix some of the "missings" in the helicopter simulation. But first I have to say thank you to all of you, because of the great development of flightgear in the last three years. And a very big thank you to Melchior

Re: [Flightgear-devel] About mailing list

2006-06-23 Thread Josh Babcock
yue xianf wrote: > Hi sir, > > How can I delete my email address from the list, Because every day I recieve > a lot of email. > But i don't want those email anymore. I tried many times, but didn't > succeed, > > Very appeciate your help > > Clifford > > Flightgear-devel mailing list > Flightg

[Flightgear-devel] About mailing list

2006-06-23 Thread yue xianf
Hi sir, How can I delete my email address from the list, Because every day I recieve a lot of email. But i don't want those email anymore. I tried many times, but didn't succeed, Very appeciate your help Clifford Using Tomcat but need to do more? Need to support web services, security? Get

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Updating VOR facility models

2006-06-23 Thread Josh Babcock
Martin Spott wrote: > Steve Knoblock wrote: > >> That would not solve the regional variation. The current model does >> not necessarily look like European VOR facilities or exactly like US >> facilities. > > There actually is not one "European VOR", they also differ in shape at > different locati

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Updating VOR facility models

2006-06-23 Thread Martin Spott
Steve Knoblock wrote: > That would not solve the regional variation. The current model does > not necessarily look like European VOR facilities or exactly like US > facilities. There actually is not one "European VOR", they also differ in shape at different locations. I'm fine with having differe

[Flightgear-devel] Updating VOR facility models

2006-06-23 Thread Steve Knoblock
Although I am deep in redoing my nasal coding for the digitrak autopilot and awaiting Vivian's compass/gyro code, partly to relieve frustration with autopilot coding, I started work on improved VOR facility models with the hope they might replace the current generic model where appropriate. I made

[Flightgear-devel] Meeting in France; Was: general FSweekend info Nov 2006

2006-06-23 Thread Martin Spott
Durk Talsma wrote: > Looks interesting indeed. I'll probably send out an inquiry to find out what > it would take to organize something there. Would there be any interest from > other fellow Dutch and/or German flightgear developers to participate? While we are at it: At least two of us will at

Re: [Flightgear-devel] [Fwd: general FSweekend info Nov 2006]

2006-06-23 Thread Martin Spott
Martin Spott wrote: > Lelystad has a nice airfield with friendly staff - and a great > cafe/restaurant nearby (with a strange name that I can't remember ) "Flantua's" ! Martin. -- Unix _IS_ user friendly - it's just selective about who its friends are !

Re: [Flightgear-devel] [Fwd: general FSweekend info Nov 2006]

2006-06-23 Thread Martin Spott
"Curtis L. Olson" wrote: > This is again the Biggest International Flightsimulator > weekend in the World > > Again this great Flightsim event will be in the Aviodrome Aviation > museum at Lelystad airport. > in the weekend of 4 & 5 November 2006. Lelystad has a nice airfield with

Re: [Flightgear-devel] [Fwd: general FSweekend info Nov 2006]

2006-06-23 Thread Durk Talsma
On Friday 23 June 2006 17:08, Curtis L. Olson wrote: > This looks like it could be an interesting event if anyone is in the > neighborhood. Does anyone want to look into organizing a FlightGear > presence there? > > Curt. Looks interesting indeed. I'll probably send out an inquiry to find out wh

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Incidence in YASim

2006-06-23 Thread Andy Ross
Lee Elliott wrote: > I've been looking in to the INCIDENCE control-axis in YASim and > although it's there and appears to function, it appears to be > normalised and I can't see what angle it's normalised to - 90 > deg, 360 deg ? I'd have to look at the code to check, but I can guarantee you that

Re: [Flightgear-devel] [RFC] HUD

2006-06-23 Thread Melchior FRANZ
* Mathias Fröhlich -- Monday 19 June 2006 19:19: > I have also removed the functions that are very most likely slower than the > libm implementations from the header. Concerning that float_to_int() thingy: what I really wanted was to get rid of it in Cockpit/, where stuff like that just doesn't b

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Landcover-DB Mapserver update

2006-06-23 Thread Martin Spott
Martin Spott wrote: > Please enjoy the latest update to the Landcover Mapserver and the > underlying database. Visit: > > http://mapserver.flightgear.org/ > > enter the ICAO identifier of your favourite airfield and explore > our landcover data. As a by-product I added a function to calc