Re: [Flightgear-devel] Re : Arresting Type Devices

2011-12-16 Thread Erik Hofman
On Thu, 2011-12-15 at 23:09 +0100, HB-GRAL wrote: Attached you find the list. There are 55 BAK12 and 23 BAK14 devices, 156 items total, all in the US and found in recent FAA runway data. The coordinates comes from column base/reciprocal ends of runways, published by FAA, assuming myself

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Re : Arresting Type Devices

2011-12-16 Thread HB-GRAL
Am 16.12.11 09:38, schrieb Erik Hofman: That's probably wrong most of the time. I think the start of the blastpad is more accurate most of the time. Erik Oh no! The blastpad is ALWAYS outside the runway. In xplane specs, and also in FAA specs ! Cheers, Yves

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Re : Arresting Type Devices

2011-12-16 Thread Erik Hofman
On Fri, 2011-12-16 at 09:42 +0100, HB-GRAL wrote: Am 16.12.11 09:38, schrieb Erik Hofman: That's probably wrong most of the time. I think the start of the blastpad is more accurate most of the time. Oh no! The blastpad is ALWAYS outside the runway. In xplane specs, and also in FAA

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Weather issues for 2.6

2011-12-16 Thread thorsten . i . renk
We are still looking into this one. At first glance there doesn't seem to be any good reason for the wind not being honoured. The overcast is a problem of interpreting different implementations between Global and Local weather. Now you are back operational we will try to come up with a

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Recent shader stuff vs 2.4

2011-12-16 Thread Martin Spott
Gijs de Rooy wrote: Next to that there are some typos/faults in current Git with respect to shader-properties, so it is possible that some shaders are accidentally still enabled. I'm preparing a commit that fixes quite some bugs, hope to push it today. But you can already test it via

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Re : Arresting Type Devices

2011-12-16 Thread HB-GRAL
Am 15.12.11 23:13, schrieb Martin Spott: Vivian Meazza wrote: The other one, which used to be non-op, seems to have gained operational capability along the way. You see, in order to avoid confusion, having just one operational arrestor would have been the clever solution. We're trying to

[Flightgear-devel] Maritime traffic

2011-12-16 Thread Adrian Musceac
Hello everybody, I wrote a little script to add maritime traffic from AIS static data. It's a little crude Nasal script at the moment, but it could be done in C++ to automate the display of traffic according to a certain range/density. I'll be looking at that later. For an explanation of the

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Recent shader stuff vs 2.4

2011-12-16 Thread Gijs de Rooy
Martin wrote: Disabling the shaders requires moving the slider forth and back at runtime in order to take effect - that's inconsistent, I'd say ;-) Ah, good catch. Didn't think of that :P Will commit a fix this evening, if no-one beats me to it. Thanks! Gijs

[Flightgear-devel] Re : Maritime traffic

2011-12-16 Thread Olivier
Hi, That's a nice start! Are you grabbing data from: http://www.marinetraffic.com/ais/ ? In fact, depending on the data format, you may obtain the speed the type of the ship with AIS. So if speed=0, you should use a ship without wakes (eg ship in a harbour, and display a type depending on

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Re : Maritime traffic

2011-12-16 Thread Adrian Musceac
On Friday, December 16, 2011 14:57:24 Olivier wrote: Hi, That's a nice start! Are you grabbing data from: http://www.marinetraffic.com/ais/ ? Yes. aprs.fi also has a good feed, although more oriented towards ham radio APRS. AisHub has very detailed NMEA data, but they require you to send a

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Re : Arresting Type Devices

2011-12-16 Thread HB-GRAL
Am 16.12.11 11:26, schrieb HB-GRAL: Am 15.12.11 23:13, schrieb Martin Spott: Vivian Meazza wrote: The other one, which used to be non-op, seems to have gained operational capability along the way. You see, in order to avoid confusion, having just one operational arrestor would have been