Re: [Flightgear-devel] Question: FLCH-Mode or How to decouple Throttles from target-speed?

2011-10-03 Thread syd adams
I did a DESCEND/CLIMB mode for the b1900d autopilot , and a few others that i never did commit , but have to admit I'm not sure what you mean by decoupling the throttle ... is there a controller in the autopilot file that's taking control of the throttle at the same time ?My apologies if this soun

Re: [Flightgear-devel] FlightGear Newsletter - September 2011

2011-10-03 Thread Curtis Olson
On Mon, Oct 3, 2011 at 4:47 PM, Gijs de Rooy wrote: > The issue was fixed today, which is why I publish the newsletter now ;-) > I just thought that putting all those images as thumbs isn't nice either > (the screenshot challenges for example are all about the images and have > very little text),

Re: [Flightgear-devel] FlightGear Newsletter - September 2011

2011-10-03 Thread Gijs de Rooy
The issue was fixed today, which is why I publish the newsletter now ;-) I just thought that putting all those images as thumbs isn't nice either (the screenshot challenges for example are all about the images and have very little text), so I resized them slightly. > From: kanto...@gmail.com > T

Re: [Flightgear-devel] FlightGear Newsletter - September 2011

2011-10-03 Thread Adrian Musceac
On Monday, October 03, 2011 23:07:08 Gijs de Rooy wrote: > Lots of (big) images this time, we'll have to see if that's something we'd > like to continue with. > The "big" images are probably due to the wiki server missing the ImageMagick tools that generate thumbnails. I don't know who's in char

Re: [Flightgear-devel] FlightGear Newsletter - September 2011

2011-10-03 Thread Gijs de Rooy
Due to some unexpected problems with the wiki; a slightly later published newsletter this month. Nevertheless we got some nice subjects covered. Lots of (big) images this time, we'll have to see if that's something we'd like to continue with. Comments, typos and anything else is welcome as alw

Re: [Flightgear-devel] flight recorder / replay system

2011-10-03 Thread ThorstenB
On 02.10.2011 02:48, Jacob Burbach wrote: > Many (many) months back I had a build of flightgear where there was a > bug-feature that actually allowed this to happen. I forget exactly how > I triggered it and maybe it is/was still possibleI think it was > some magic combo of reset/pause/unpause

[Flightgear-devel] Question: FLCH-Mode or How to decouple Throttles from target-speed?

2011-10-03 Thread Heiko Schulz
Hello, I'm looking for a way to create a correct FLCH-Mode for autopilots like it is used on the real Citation X or Dornier 328. Usually it works this way: Engaging this mode the AP will maintain the pitch to hold the current or selected airspeed. Maintaining throttle by the pilot will maintai

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Default 3d clouds in Local Weather

2011-10-03 Thread thorsten . i . renk
>> What's the status of the flat layer on curved Earth problem by the way? > This should have been fixed since September 12th in git. > > https://gitorious.org/fg/simgear/commit/d2dfb81a0907276f36cf7582c4274fa1784972d6 > > Are you still seeing the problem? Unfortunately yes. I've pulled and comp

[Flightgear-devel] terragear-cs moved to Gitorious; Was: Scenery Creation/TerraGear problems

2011-10-03 Thread Martin Spott
While we're a it: The main "terragear-cs" repository has now moved to Gitorious as a new repository within the FlightGear project, so those, who'd like to develop TerraGear using Gitorious don't need to maintain their private spin-off's. Instead, feel invited to create personal clones of the main r

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Default 3d clouds in Local Weather

2011-10-03 Thread Stuart Buchanan
On Mon, Oct 3, 2011 at 11:08 AM, Thorsten Renk wrote: > What's the status of the flat layer on curved Earth problem by the way? This should have been fixed since September 12th in git. https://gitorious.org/fg/simgear/commit/d2dfb81a0907276f36cf7582c4274fa1784972d6 Are you still seeing the prob

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Default 3d clouds in Local Weather

2011-10-03 Thread thorsten . i . renk
>> I see. So what do I do when I want to change the wind and want the >> clouds >> to follow the new setting? Simply do a setprop for the layer height >> setting it to the same value it was? > > For the moment, Yes. > > At some point in the future we should fix it so that we're picking up > the win