Re: [Flightgear-devel] P-38L-Lightning

2007-06-30 Thread Detlef Faber
Hello Gerard, very nice Aircraft indeed Am Freitag, den 29.06.2007, 23:07 +0200 schrieb gh.robin: > On Fri 29 June 2007 21:55, Martin Spott wrote: > > "gh.robin" wrote: > > > On Fri 29 June 2007 19:02, Martin Spott wrote: > > > > Woohooo, did anyone try putting this baby into a low-speed stall ?

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Aircraft design idea: Cirrus Jet

2007-06-30 Thread Martin Spott
"Ampere K. Hardraade" wrote: > On June 29, 2007 01:44:27 pm Curtis Olson wrote: > > I got to see it a day earlier, even before the folks that have > > plunked down $100k to get on the waiting list got to see it ... but all the > > employees got to see it before me. > I'm more interested in those g

Re: [Flightgear-devel] fun with nasal & ai

2007-06-30 Thread Melchior FRANZ
* Melchior FRANZ -- Friday 29 June 2007: > http://members.aon.at/mfranz/ai.nas [1.7 kB] > > It's a bit faster, too, although 8.7 seconds for EHAM/parking.xml > is still a lot (was 12.8 before). And that comes from bad Nasal code, not from the c(++) expat/EasyXML parser code, which is very fast

Re: [Flightgear-devel] P-38L-Lightning

2007-06-30 Thread Nick Warne
On Saturday 30 June 2007 09:11:36 Detlef Faber wrote: > very nice Aircraft indeed Speaking of which, here is a very interesting story: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/low/scotland/highlands_and_islands/6245802.stm Nick -- Free Software Foundation Associate Member 5508

Re: [Flightgear-devel] [off list] patch for control lockingbyautopilot

2007-06-30 Thread tmpargolf
An airliner some years ago crashed into the Everglades in Florida because the autopilot was unknowingly disengaged by accidental knee pressure on the Yoke as the pilot was getting out of his seat. Specs showed that the minimum 45 pounds pressure required was faulty. The aircraft had been in a h

[Flightgear-devel] automake test

2007-06-30 Thread Hans Fugal
In the plib branch, diff -r 131a68f9fb0c autogen.sh --- a/autogen.shFri Jun 29 15:34:40 2007 + +++ b/autogen.shSat Jun 30 07:50:40 2007 -0600 @@ -2,7 +2,7 @@ OSTYPE=`uname -s` MACHINE=`uname -m` -AUTO_MAKE_VERSION=`automake --version | head -1 | awk '{print $4}' | sed -e 's/

Re: [Flightgear-devel] P-38L-Lightning

2007-06-30 Thread gh.robin
On Sat 30 June 2007 10:11, Detlef Faber wrote: > Hello Gerard, > > very nice Aircraft indeed > > > > > > Woohooo, did anyone try putting this baby into a low-speed stall ? > > > > > Make sure to gain enough altitude before ! > > > > > > > > yes it is given to stall at 91 kt, the model with that "c

Re: [Flightgear-devel] [off list] patch for control lockingbyautopilot

2007-06-30 Thread John Denker
On 06/30/2007 09:52 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > An airliner some years ago crashed into the Everglades in Florida > because the autopilot > was unknowingly disengaged by accidental knee pressure on the Yoke as > the pilot > was getting out of his seat. Specs showed that the minimum 45 pounds

Re: [Flightgear-devel] [off list] patch forcontrol lockingbyautopilot

2007-06-30 Thread tmpargolf
Those are complex issues about disengaging autopilot. Your comments helped me to understand why the FG aircraft sometimes does gyrations when disengaging the VOR NAV setting Ctrl-N. I'll try setting the controls to neutral before hitting Ctrl-N to disengage. Tom - Original Message

Re: [Flightgear-devel] [off list] patch for control lockingbyautopilot

2007-06-30 Thread Hans Fugal
Nice explanation. As a non-novice non-expert with a plain old joystick, I would prefer that when I engage the autopilot that the autopilot does its thing and my (untouched) joystick doesn't fight with it. Otherwise the autopilot is useless. So ignoring the joystick seems like the right thing to do

Re: [Flightgear-devel] [off list] patch forcontrol lockingbyautopilot

2007-06-30 Thread Vivian Meazza
John Denker > Sent: 30 June 2007 17:16 > To: FlightGear developers discussions > Subject: Re: [Flightgear-devel] [off list] patch forcontrol > lockingbyautopilot > > Note that there are four stages of sophistication among FG users: > a) Using the keyboard for primary flight control; > b) U

Re: [Flightgear-devel] patch for control locking by autopilot

2007-06-30 Thread John Denker
On 06/30/2007 02:21 PM, Hans Fugal wrote: > Nice explanation. :-) > What would happen if the yoke > movements were additive to the autopilot, similar to how they are > additive to the current trim settings Interesting question; see below. > (and indeed the autopilot changes trim settings).

[Flightgear-devel] Patch for auto-apation of scenery object elevation to ground level

2007-06-30 Thread Sebastian Bechtold
Hello. As a very first attempt to contribute to the flightgear source code, I have tried to write a patch that automatically sets a scenery model's elevation to ground level at the object's site if an elevation < is defined in the .stg file. At this point, many thanks to Melchior, who g

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Patch for auto-apation of scenery object

2007-06-30 Thread Martin Spott
Hi Sebastian, Sebastian Bechtold wrote: > As a very first attempt to contribute to the flightgear source code, I > have tried to write a patch that automatically sets a scenery model's > elevation to ground level at the object's site if an elevation < is > defined in the .stg file. For s

[Flightgear-devel] Weekly CVS Changelog Summary: SimGear

2007-06-30 Thread Curtis L. Olson
=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= 2007-06-25_10:29:45 (mfranz) /var/cvs/SimGear-0.3/source/simgear/environment/visual_enviro.cxx /var/cvs/SimGear-0.3/source/simgear/environment/visual_enviro.hxx revert last change (part of the radar patch). It changed the interface for

[Flightgear-devel] Weekly CVS Changelog Summary: FlightGear source

2007-06-30 Thread Curtis L. Olson
=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= 2007-06-24_03:05:30 (mfranz) /var/cvs/FlightGear-0.9/source/src/Instrumentation/wxradar.cxx fix the most horrible indentation crimes :-} =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= 2007-06-24_03:30:56 (mfranz) /var/

[Flightgear-devel] Weekly CVS Changelog Summary: FlightGear data

2007-06-30 Thread Curtis L. Olson
=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= 2007-06-24_10:23:36 (mfranz) /var/cvs/FlightGear-0.9/data/Aircraft/A-10/Models/puff-impact.ac /var/cvs/FlightGear-0.9/data/Aircraft/A-10/Models/puff-new.rgb /var/cvs/FlightGear-0.9/data/Aircraft/A-10/Models/smoke-impact.xml /var/cvs/Flig

Re: [Flightgear-devel] CVS on OS X

2007-06-30 Thread Tatsuhiro Nishioka
Hi Hans, >> Now I'm working on building both 0.9.11-pre1 and cvs head. >> I had some errors in linking osgViewer (when building fgfs cvs-head/ >> OSG-svn head) >> OSG-2.0 seems OK so I'll go with it for cvs-head for a while. >> By the way, do you know which revision/tag is suitable for building >>