[Flightgear-devel] Aircrafts using JSBSim FDM= c130, f18

2007-08-03 Thread gh.robin
Hello, We can notice that some aircraft which are using JSBSim FDM could have a better realistic FDM if they used the FDM data, which are available within the FG community. The c130 could use the C130 FDM engine (turboprop engine) and aerodynamic"C130.xml,v 1.11 2006/05/18 11:53:35 jberndt w

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Weather interpolation patch

2007-08-03 Thread Ron Jensen
On Fri, 2007-08-03 at 19:06 +0200, gh.robin wrote: > On Fri 3 August 2007 18:49, Hans Fugal wrote: > > On 8/3/07, Melchior FRANZ <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > * Stuart Buchanan -- Thursday 26 July 2007: > > > > It interpolates METAR changes over time as follows: > > > > > > Committed, thanks. Th

[Flightgear-devel] Hey!

2007-08-03 Thread Curtis Olson
For the next little bit, we hope to have a UAV in the air and flying, using FlightGear as a live synthetic view of the aircraft, but also we have a net connection so this copy of flightgear is registered in the MP system. So if you look for call sign UMN1, that's us, and we are LIVE! Curt. -- Cu

[Flightgear-devel] Landsat based scenery requests

2007-08-03 Thread AnMaster
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 I'm wondering if it is possible to request landsat based scenery of some specific area (like that was done for LinuxTag and EAA Oshkosh), if yes I would like to request such scenery for the area around KSFO. That area looks really bad (with a hill in

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Weather interpolation patch

2007-08-03 Thread gh.robin
On Fri 3 August 2007 18:49, Hans Fugal wrote: > On 8/3/07, Melchior FRANZ <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > * Stuart Buchanan -- Thursday 26 July 2007: > > > It interpolates METAR changes over time as follows: > > > > Committed, thanks. This was sorely missing, but I'm afraid > > we'll get complaints

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Weather interpolation patch

2007-08-03 Thread Hans Fugal
On 8/3/07, Melchior FRANZ <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > * Stuart Buchanan -- Thursday 26 July 2007: > > It interpolates METAR changes over time as follows: > > Committed, thanks. This was sorely missing, but I'm afraid > we'll get complaints because the real-life-weather "doesn't > work any more". (

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Weather interpolation patch

2007-08-03 Thread Melchior FRANZ
* Stuart Buchanan -- Thursday 26 July 2007: > It interpolates METAR changes over time as follows: Committed, thanks. This was sorely missing, but I'm afraid we'll get complaints because the real-life-weather "doesn't work any more". (No more obvious weather changes shaking the aircraft. ;-) m.

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Movie Short - from Aerotro

2007-08-03 Thread Will Harrison
> > I made another Movie Short, it's using some old video from a few weeks = > back, Special effects include daylight (Sky Ilumination) glare, (This = > adds realism as if seen through a camera irl) Included is - > > Storch2 - L-1011, erobo, DCULP, & AndersG in his fire Truck.=20 > > Just a short v

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Altitude above ground

2007-08-03 Thread Ron Jensen
On Fri, 2007-08-03 at 14:18 +0100, Jon Stockill wrote: > Ron Jensen wrote: > > Let me try to hijack this thread to ask a related question: > > > > How do I get the altitude of the ground at a given location? > > > > I have a simple little tool that prints the base path and index for a > > given l

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Altitude above ground

2007-08-03 Thread Jon Stockill
Ron Jensen wrote: > On Fri, 2007-08-03 at 14:18 +0100, Jon Stockill wrote: >> Ron Jensen wrote: >>> Let me try to hijack this thread to ask a related question: >>> >>> How do I get the altitude of the ground at a given location? >>> >>> I have a simple little tool that prints the base path and inde

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Altitude above ground

2007-08-03 Thread Jon Stockill
Ron Jensen wrote: > Let me try to hijack this thread to ask a related question: > > How do I get the altitude of the ground at a given location? > > I have a simple little tool that prints the base path and index for a > given longitude and latitude pair. Is there a simgear function to load > th