Re: [Flightgear-devel] Aircraft modeling idea/request: Piper Super Cub

2010-03-03 Thread Peter Brown
Gary, Be careful what you undertake, there are a few variants to the Super CubFloats are the most popular, but there are Tundra Tires, Banner Towing and more to be had. But you are right, there is an abundance of information available, and a few thousand video's. Looking forward to it.

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Aircraft modeling idea/request: Piper Super Cub

2010-03-03 Thread Gary Neely
On Wed, Mar 3, 2010 at 7:47 PM, syd adams wrote: >  So-- Syd, if no one else steps up and >> >> you're busy, and no one is in a screaming hurry to have the model (I >> work pretty slow), I'd be interested in taking this on as a YASim >> project, otherwise I'll defer to you and consider the Champ a

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Aircraft modeling idea/request: Piper Super Cub

2010-03-03 Thread syd adams
So-- Syd, if no one else steps up and > you're busy, and no one is in a screaming hurry to have the model (I > work pretty slow), I'd be interested in taking this on as a YASim > project, otherwise I'll defer to you and consider the Champ again, no > worries. > > -Gary aka Buckaroo > > > Well I'm

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Aircraft modeling idea/request: Piper Super Cub

2010-03-03 Thread Gary Neely
The Cub was the first plane I ever flew in, before I'd even been in a commercial jet. A friend's father owned a Cub (probably a J-3, not a Super Cub-- pretty sure we didn't have flaps though that was 30 years ago and I'm not totally certain now), and we'd scrounge up some fuel money and take it out

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Aircraft modeling idea/request: Piper Super Cub

2010-03-03 Thread David Megginson
On Wed, Mar 3, 2010 at 3:22 PM, syd adams wrote: > I could probably get a decent yasim FDM built , but someone  else would have > to do a JSB fdm , I still dont know what Im doing when it comes to jsbsim . JSBSim works best when you already have aircraft data (derivatives, etc.) and want to stic

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Aircraft modeling idea/request: Piper Super Cub

2010-03-03 Thread syd adams
Ive been considering it ... unless someone beats me to it. I did some quick browsing and Im guessing the desired aircraft is the PA-18 I flew in one almost 30 years ago , and its amazing how small a sand bar in the middle of a river you can land on :) Cheers P.S. I could probably get a decen

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Patch to protect terrasync SVN from ^C

2010-03-03 Thread Frederic Bouvier
Hi Jari, - "Jari Häkkinen" a écrit : > Great, I haven't had an opportunity to run the new version yet. I took > time to compile though, and there is a problem compiling terrasync.cxx > on mac because of Apples typedef of the signal handler. I attached a > small fix. Your mail remind me I ha

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Patch to protect terrasync SVN from ^C

2010-03-03 Thread Jari Häkkinen
Great, I haven't had an opportunity to run the new version yet. I took time to compile though, and there is a problem compiling terrasync.cxx on mac because of Apples typedef of the signal handler. I attached a small fix. Jari On 2/28/10 5:51 PM, Alex Perry wrote: Attached patch replaces

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Password SOMETIMES required

2010-03-03 Thread Jari Häkkinen
On 3/3/10 5:16 PM, Curtis Olson wrote: > Proftpd has the ability to limit the number of connections from any single > host. Otherwise one person often ends up grabbing all the available > download slots. Anyone want to look into a torrent? Is there an easy > recipe for setting one up? What's th

Re: [Flightgear-devel] v2.0 Aircraft Download Page

2010-03-03 Thread Martin Spott
Curtis Olson wrote: > On Wed, Mar 3, 2010 at 11:02 AM, YOSHIMATSU Toshihide wrote: >> PDF version is good, but html version >> (http://www.flightgear.org/Docs/FGShortRef.html) is very old. >> > > If someone sends me a new version I can update the web page. already in CVS (HTML plus CSS),

Re: [Flightgear-devel] v2.0 Aircraft Download Page

2010-03-03 Thread Martin Spott
YOSHIMATSU Toshihide wrote: > PDF version is good, but html version > (http://www.flightgear.org/Docs/FGShortRef.html) is very old. > > Can anyone correct makeshortref.sh to generate FGShortRef.html from > FGShortRef.tex? Done, Martin. -- Unix _IS_ user friendly - it's just selective a

Re: [Flightgear-devel] v2.0 Aircraft Download Page

2010-03-03 Thread Curtis Olson
On Wed, Mar 3, 2010 at 11:02 AM, YOSHIMATSU Toshihide wrote: > Current manual of PDF version has 218 pages. > I will fix the page count. > PDF version is good, but html version > (http://www.flightgear.org/Docs/FGShortRef.html) is very old. > If someone sends me a new version I can update the

Re: [Flightgear-devel] v2.0 Aircraft Download Page

2010-03-03 Thread YOSHIMATSU Toshihide
Hi all, From: stefan riemens Subject: Re: [Flightgear-devel] v2.0 Aircraft Download Page Date: Wed, 3 Mar 2010 17:32:56 +0100 > On a related note, I miss the link to the base-package... It is > available on the mirrors, but hard to find. I could find a link to the base package at http://www.fli

Re: [Flightgear-devel] v2.0 Aircraft Download Page

2010-03-03 Thread Curtis Olson
On Wed, Mar 3, 2010 at 10:32 AM, stefan riemens wrote: > On a related note, I miss the link to the base-package... It is > available on the mirrors, but hard to find. > The logic is that people who are downloading the software and compiling it themselves are the ones that need to download the dat

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Aircraft modeling idea/request: Piper Super Cub

2010-03-03 Thread Heiko Schulz
Hi, > > Wow...a Super Cub! That sounds great! > > I have a bit of time flying a Super Cub with a 150 hp > Lycoming O-320 engine, but there were various engine > configurations available. I know of everything from a 90 hp > Continental, to a 180 hp Lycoming. But I think the 150 hp > model was very

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Password SOMETIMES required

2010-03-03 Thread Martin Spott
Curtis Olson wrote: > Proftpd has the ability to limit the number of connections from any single > host. Yup, "MaxClientsPerHost" works pretty well as a 'general' rule, but still doesn't yield the desired effect because the client hostname/IP verification calls _after_ the initial connection has

Re: [Flightgear-devel] v2.0 Aircraft Download Page

2010-03-03 Thread stefan riemens
On a related note, I miss the link to the base-package... It is available on the mirrors, but hard to find. Thanks, Stefan 2010/3/3, Curtis Olson : > Hi Toshi, > > The latest web page for downloading aircraft should reference the > Aircraft-2.0.0/ directory argh! and I see that it does not.

Re: [Flightgear-devel] v2.0 Aircraft Download Page

2010-03-03 Thread YOSHIMATSU Toshihide
OK, Curt. Now I can download aircraft files correctly. Thanks a lot for your quick work. Cheers, Toshi From: Curtis Olson Subject: Re: [Flightgear-devel] v2.0 Aircraft Download Page Date: Wed, 3 Mar 2010 10:22:22 -0600 > Hi Toshi, > > The latest web page for downloading aircraft should refer

Re: [Flightgear-devel] v2.0 Aircraft Download Page

2010-03-03 Thread Curtis Olson
Hi Toshi, The latest web page for downloading aircraft should reference the Aircraft-2.0.0/ directory argh! and I see that it does not. That's a stupid mistake on my part. What a mess. Ok, it is now fixed so the links should point in the correct place. Thank you for reporting this and bri

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Password SOMETIMES required

2010-03-03 Thread Curtis Olson
Proftpd has the ability to limit the number of connections from any single host. Otherwise one person often ends up grabbing all the available download slots. Anyone want to look into a torrent? Is there an easy recipe for setting one up? What's the bandwidth required to seed it? Curt. On We

Re: [Flightgear-devel] New GUI Font

2010-03-03 Thread Alan Teeder
LCD is essentially a memory mapped array. Each element is addressed by row and column, so in effect it can also be visualised as a raster display. To draw a vector on such a display you have to calculate which row/column elements need to be illuminated. With a vector display the hardware had a s

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Password SOMETIMES required

2010-03-03 Thread Martin Spott
Gijs de Rooy wrote: >> j...@kingmont.com wrote: >> Just wanted to let folks know that SOMETIMES you will get a message >> requiring >> a user name and password when attempting to access the mirror site at >> http://kingmont.com. > > The other two (official) mirrors have the same behaviour. Alr

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Setting OBS on command line/.fgfsrc

2010-03-03 Thread James Turner
On 3 Mar 2010, at 15:07, Alasdair wrote: > Thanks for the prompt reply, John. That fixes the proplem for me, which > exists in FG-2.0 as well. Don't know what it will do to the GPS code, > though. Ack, this is my fault, apologies. The problem is the support for the FMS/GPS driving the selected

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Setting OBS on command line/.fgfsrc

2010-03-03 Thread Alasdair
On Wed, 2010-03-03 at 07:22 -0700, John Denker wrote: > On 03/03/2010 06:13 AM, Alasdair wrote: > > I am using FG cvs and have recently noticed that commands such as: > > fgfs --prop:/instrumentation/nav/radials/selected-deg=63 > > no longer have any effect. > > > > --prop:/instrumentation/nav/fre

Re: [Flightgear-devel] v2.0 Aircraft Download Page

2010-03-03 Thread YOSHIMATSU Toshihide
Hi Curt, Some of users in forum report that they can't download aircraft files from the aircraft download page, and I also confirmed this issue. Example of c172p: ftp://mirrors.ibiblio.org/pub/mirrors/flightgear/ftp/Aircraft/c172p_20091229.zip ftp://ftp.ibiblio.org/pub/mirrors/flightgear/ftp/Airc

Re: [Flightgear-devel] New GUI Font

2010-03-03 Thread leee
On Tuesday 02 Mar 2010, HB-GRAL wrote: > Melchior FRANZ schrieb: > > * HB-GRAL -- Tuesday 02 March 2010: > >> Melchior FRANZ schrieb: > >>> Helvetica is the default font used in HUDs (e.g. in the F16). > >>> While not perfect for that (there are MIL standards for > >>> this), > >> > >> Do you mean

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Setting OBS on command line/.fgfsrc

2010-03-03 Thread John Denker
On 03/03/2010 06:13 AM, Alasdair wrote: > I am using FG cvs and have recently noticed that commands such as: > fgfs --prop:/instrumentation/nav/radials/selected-deg=63 > no longer have any effect. > > --prop:/instrumentation/nav/frequencies/selected-mhz=108.90 > works fine. I observe the same bug

[Flightgear-devel] Setting OBS on command line/.fgfsrc

2010-03-03 Thread Alasdair
I am using FG cvs and have recently noticed that commands such as: fgfs --prop:/instrumentation/nav/radials/selected-deg=63 no longer have any effect. --prop:/instrumentation/nav/frequencies/selected-mhz=108.90 works fine. Any ideas? Alasdair ---

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Aircraft modeling idea/request: Piper Super Cub

2010-03-03 Thread Thomas Betka
Wow...a Super Cub! That sounds great! I have a bit of time flying a Super Cub with a 150 hp Lycoming O-320 engine, but there were various engine configurations available. I know of everything from a 90 hp Continental, to a 180 hp Lycoming. But I think the 150 hp model was very popular. I also

Re: [Flightgear-devel] 3d clouds rendering order

2010-03-03 Thread Erik Hofman
Lauri Peltonen wrote: > Hello again. > > Please forget the last patch I sent, since it was a huge black hole in > my head I think :) > > This one does the same but is much simpler, just pushes all 3d clouds > into CLOUDS_BIN which is depth sorted from back to front, and all 3d > clouds render nic