[Flightgear-devel] making a garmin 496 respond to fgfs serial port

2008-02-13 Thread dave perry
I have the thread from 2006-08-26 between Curt Olson and Frederic Bouvier on this subject. The connection to the 496 is via a db-9 to super small usb cable I got from garmin as suggested in the garmin user's guide. From a dmesg, I expect that com1 is /dev/ttyS0 on my f7 system. I use the fol

Re: [Flightgear-devel] making a garmin 496 respond to fgfs serial port

2008-02-13 Thread dave perry
Curtis Olson wrote: > On Feb 13, 2008 2:59 PM, dave perry wrote: > > I have the thread from 2006-08-26 between Curt Olson and Frederic > Bouvier on this subject. The connection to the 496 is via a db-9 to > super small usb cable I got from garmin as suggested in the garmin > user's

Re: [Flightgear-devel] making a garmin 496 respond to fgfs serial port

2008-02-13 Thread Curtis Olson
On Feb 13, 2008 2:59 PM, dave perry wrote: > I have the thread from 2006-08-26 between Curt Olson and Frederic > Bouvier on this subject. The connection to the 496 is via a db-9 to > super small usb cable I got from garmin as suggested in the garmin > user's guide. From a dmesg, I expect that co

[Flightgear-devel] FG seasons

2008-02-13 Thread
Hi everyone , Since I've been working on trees and seasonal textures , I'd like to propose some ideas 1: Could we have Jester's materials.xml condition patch put in CVS ? 2: Remove the .winter that is appended to the texture path in the source code? 3: Add /sim/startup/season = summer as defa

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Multiple channel autopilot controllers

2008-02-13 Thread Jon S. Berndt
> Sometimes I really wish that I had the necessary data to do JSBSim > configs for some of the aircraft I've done - then I could also play > with some of the control stuff that JonSB has incorporated in to > JSBSim. It's pretty unlikely that I could get good enough data for > the aircraft I'm int

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Patch v1 - Rain & Snow

2008-02-13 Thread Georg Vollnhals
Nicolas schrieb: > For the moment, the patch uses the METAR informations to enable / > disable rain or snow effects. (intensity of effects is : low, meddium, > high) > > Hi Nicolas, just one more feedback, because I was so surprised and impressed when I just flew over Berlin (bad weather) and

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Multiple channel autopilot controllers

2008-02-13 Thread LeeE
On Wednesday 13 February 2008 01:12, Jeff McBride wrote: > > Thanks for your comments - they fit with what I'm finding & > > thinking. > > > > Sure, in piloted aircraft takeoff is handled by the pilot, who > > is able to cope with a wide range of possible failures at this > > critical phase of flig

[Flightgear-devel] Constant speed props for WWII aircraft using JSBSim

2008-02-13 Thread Tatsuhiro Nishioka
Hi there, I'm making a JSBSim version of A6M2, and want to share with you guys about a constant speed propellers for WWII aircraft. First I tried a default prop configuration generated by Aeromatic, but the propeller pitch was adjusted automatically. So I removed and tags from prop configura

[Flightgear-devel] FYI: marble (KDE, not blue :-)

2008-02-13 Thread Melchior FRANZ
This doesn't have anything to do with fgfs (yet? :-), but it's maybe of interest to some people here. KDE has a Free implementation of a globe with some nice features. Here are three articles about features and methods: Part 1: http://www.kdedevelopers.org/node/3269 Part 2: http://www.kdedevel

[Flightgear-devel] Syd - DHC6F

2008-02-13 Thread Georg Vollnhals
Syd, only one hint, if "Autostart" is selected the fuel switches should be "on" - otherwise it won't work, some people could be irritated by this. Regards Georg EDDW BTW: really very nice aircraft, see also Forum diskussion "Bush flying"