Re: [Flightgear-devel] AI Carrier with Aircraft, and the last JSBSim version

2008-08-28 Thread Bill Galbraith
> With Catapult it is less a problem, with answering time > delay, i mean it should work. > Catapults features need only to know the "starting position" > with a more or less value precision: a carrier with 20 km > speed does 5.6 meter per second => 0.50 1/10 sec => 0.05 1/100 sec > > The

Re: [Flightgear-devel] 350 Mb movie

2008-02-29 Thread Bill Galbraith
Schweet. Details? Are those dedicated instruemtns, or a FG monitor behind a mask? Bill _ From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Curtis Olson Sent: Friday, February 29, 2008 8:17 PM To: FlightGear developers discussions Subject: [Flightgear-devel] 350 Mb movie

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Request for modeling: Diamond Katana DA-20

2008-01-29 Thread Bill Galbraith
There is someone in the DATCOM world working on an aero model DA-40. This is what it looks like. Is it close to what you are doing? If so, I'll hook you up with him. Bill > -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On > Behalf Of Tatsuhiro Nishioka

Re: [Flightgear-devel] an important growing trend now in softwareapplications to make them" portable" in the sense that thecomplete installation resides in it's one directory.

2007-12-20 Thread Bill Galbraith
_ From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Curtis Olson Sent: Thursday, December 20, 2007 10:43 AM To: FlightGear developers discussions Subject: Re: [Flightgear-devel] an important growing trend now in softwareapplications to make them" portable" in the sense th

Re: [Flightgear-devel] FlightGear Prerelease 0.9.11 some testresults

2007-11-30 Thread Bill Galbraith
_ From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Lee Duke Sent: Friday, November 30, 2007 8:14 AM To: FlightGear developers discussions Subject: Re: [Flightgear-devel] FlightGear Prerelease 0.9.11 some testresults How about 0.x.y where x and y can be variables and ev

Re: [Flightgear-devel] FlightGear Prerelease 0.9.11 some testresults

2007-11-30 Thread Bill Galbraith
_ From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Curtis Olson Sent: Friday, November 30, 2007 7:52 AM To: FlightGear developers discussions Subject: Re: [Flightgear-devel] FlightGear Prerelease 0.9.11 some testresults I'm just a little surpised that the version numbe

Re: [Flightgear-devel] [Fwd: Re: [Flightgear-cvslogs] CVS: data/Aircraft/R22/Models R22.xml, 1.3, 1.4 paint1.rgb, 1.1, 1.2 r22.ac, 1.3, 1.4]

2007-11-05 Thread Bill Galbraith
> -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On > Behalf Of Syd&Sandy > Sent: Monday, November 05, 2007 3:04 PM > To: FlightGear developers discussions > Subject: Re: [Flightgear-devel] [Fwd: Re: > [Flightgear-cvslogs] CVS: data/Aircraft/R22/Models R22.xm

Re: [Flightgear-devel] The Big Monitor show at FSWeekend,

2007-11-03 Thread Bill Galbraith
> -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On > Behalf Of Durk Talsma > Sent: Saturday, November 03, 2007 5:30 PM > To: flightgear-devel@lists.sourceforge.net > Subject: [Flightgear-devel] The Big Monitor show at FSWeekend, > > Hi Everybody, > > One th

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Consistent aircraft states

2007-10-12 Thread Bill Galbraith
> > I am clearly one that prefers to start with the brakes set and all > > switches off as that is the way every real flight starts. > > (An aside: In my experience, it's rare that the parking brake > is on when a real light plane is parked, because line staff > wouldn't be able to move it

Re: [Flightgear-devel] tunnel for glide slope visualization

2007-10-02 Thread Bill Galbraith
> -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On > Behalf Of Melchior FRANZ > Sent: Tuesday, October 02, 2007 4:57 PM > To: flightgear-devel@lists.sourceforge.net > Subject: Re: [Flightgear-devel] tunnel for glide slope visualization

Re: [Flightgear-devel] tunnel for glide slope visualization

2007-10-02 Thread Bill Galbraith
> -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On > Behalf Of Melchior FRANZ > Sent: Tuesday, October 02, 2007 4:24 PM > To: flightgear-devel@lists.sourceforge.net > Subject: [Flightgear-devel] tunnel for glide slope visualization > > Here's a first stab at

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Glass cockpit and external gauges.

2007-10-01 Thread Bill Galbraith
> -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On > Behalf Of Phil Panelli > Sent: Monday, October 01, 2007 9:02 PM > To: flightgear-devel@lists.sourceforge.net > Subject: [Flightgear-devel] Glass cockpit and external gauges. > > Hi , > > Is there anyone w

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Compiling SimGear on Cygwin

2007-08-09 Thread Bill Galbraith
> -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On > Behalf Of Romeo Ahohe > Sent: Thursday, August 09, 2007 2:38 PM > To: flightgear-devel@lists.sourceforge.net > Subject: [Flightgear-devel] Compiling SimGear on Cygwin > > Hi, > > I was able to compile and

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Epsilon, alpha_tail and independent tail contributions

2007-07-22 Thread Bill Galbraith
> Indeed, I was talking about two 2-D tables, "wrongly" > guessing that JSBSim would interpolate the data in case, > let's say, the current slat position is not any of the > specific slat for which the tables are defined. Such an > interpolation would be quite accurate, being better the mor

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Epsilon, alpha_tail and independent tail contributions

2007-07-22 Thread Bill Galbraith
> On the topic of calculating downwash at the tail, and the > effects thereof, rather than make a four dimensional table it > might be better to think outside the box and consider > alternative ways to do what you need. I agree. That's why I brought it up in the first place, to see if anyon

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Epsilon, alpha_tail and independent tail contributions

2007-07-22 Thread Bill Galbraith
> Quoting Fabian Grodek > Now, regarding the 737 sample case, it should be checked > which flaps-slats combinations are normally possible; it may > be the case where let's say flaps 20 cannot come with > retracted slats (if there is a problem with the slats > deployment you are allowed to u

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Asymetric flaps ?

2007-07-22 Thread Bill Galbraith
> I saw that ans it is a bit disturbing. If I understand well > you take the output from datcom and assign half of those > numbers to each flap. Except that we suddenly have negative > flap angles in the datcom.xml (they are positive in datcom.out). ZOIKS! You are correct. It was caused by

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Epsilon, alpha_tail and independent tail contributions

2007-07-21 Thread Bill Galbraith
> Jon Replies: > > I've been thinking about these issues for some time. I've > actually considered just guessing. :-) I wonder how much > data is too much data? It would be great to have this level > of fidelity modeled. > > Jon >   Don't know if anyone noticed, but the flaps are already

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Epsilon, alpha_tail and independent tail contributions

2007-07-21 Thread Bill Galbraith
> -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On > Behalf Of Jon S. Berndt > Sent: Saturday, July 21, 2007 2:49 PM > To: 'FlightGear developers discussions' > Subject: Re: [Flightgear-devel] Epsilon,alpha_tail and > independent tail contributions > > > >

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Epsilon, alpha_tail and independent tail contributions

2007-07-21 Thread Bill Galbraith
> > Any chance JSBSim could be expanded to do infinity number of > > dimensions of tables (if it doesn't do it already)? > > > > Bill > > We might actually be able to effectively do that, since we > could have multiple tables defined that create multipliers > that could be used later. > >

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Epsilon, alpha_tail and independent tail contributions

2007-07-21 Thread Bill Galbraith
> > Jon Replies: > > I've been thinking about these issues for some time. I've > actually considered just guessing. :-) I wonder how much > data is too much data? It would be great to have this level > of fidelity modeled. > > Jon >   >   Any chance JSBSim could be expanded to do infini

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Epsilon, alpha_tail and independent tail contributions

2007-07-21 Thread Bill Galbraith
_ From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Jon S. Berndt Sent: Saturday, July 21, 2007 12:48 PM To: 'FlightGear developers discussions' Subject: Re: [Flightgear-devel] Epsilon,alpha_tail and independent tail contributions Fabian wrote: Currentl

Re: [Flightgear-devel] List message format

2007-07-21 Thread Bill Galbraith
> -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On > Behalf Of Jon S. Berndt > Sent: Saturday, July 21, 2007 12:51 PM > To: Flightgear-Devel > Subject: [Flightgear-devel] List message format > > Is there a convention we should follow for formatting > messag

[Flightgear-devel] Pre-11 distribution for Windoze?

2007-07-16 Thread Bill Galbraith
Is there a recently compiled distribution package of the Flight Gear 0.9.pre11 package available, say something built within the last month? I want to do some model development without having to build the pre11 release myself. ...and, as long as I have you on the line, with the 0.9.11 release i

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Datcom+ 2.1 Release annoucement

2007-07-12 Thread Bill Galbraith
> -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On > Behalf Of AnMaster > Sent: Thursday, July 12, 2007 11:48 AM > Why couldn't Datcom be installed in the user's home directory > like most programs? Or does datcom not support --prefix to > ./configure? (N

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Datcom+ 2.1 Release annoucement

2007-07-12 Thread Bill Galbraith
> -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On > Behalf Of Torsten Dreyer > Sent: Thursday, July 12, 2007 9:52 AM > To: FlightGear developers discussions > Subject: Re: [Flightgear-devel] Datcom+ 2.1 Release annoucement > > Hi Bill, > > thanks for this

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Datcom+ 2.1 Release annoucement

2007-07-12 Thread Bill Galbraith
_ From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Pablo Rogina Sent: Thursday, July 12, 2007 9:18 AM To: flightgear-devel@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [Flightgear-devel] Datcom+ 2.1 Release annoucement > 'helping', but he complained about stuff that I just wasn'

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Datcom+ 2.1 Release annoucement

2007-07-11 Thread Bill Galbraith
y UAV altitude hold controller this morning before work. I have a plot and a movie of the flightgear replay under today's entry at this url: http://baron.flightgear.org/~curt/UAV/MicroGear1/ Full res movie (so you can read the gauges) is here: http://baron.flightgear.org/~curt/tmp

[Flightgear-devel] Datcom+ 2.1 Release annoucement

2007-07-11 Thread Bill Galbraith
I am happy to annouce the release of of Datcom+ 2.1. This has been a LOT of work packaging these tools into nice installation packages, for Windows XP and Windows Vista for point and click people, Cygwin under Windows XP and Vista for the smells-like-Linux group, and Linux (compiled under Debian).

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Aircraft design idea: Cirrus Jet

2007-06-29 Thread Bill Galbraith
and. (Usually when people send me this stuff, they want a DATCOM model and a FlightGear package). Thanks for not asking ;-} _ From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Curtis Olson Sent: Friday, June 29, 2007 1:57 PM To: FlightGear developers discussi

Re: [Flightgear-devel] new pseudo FDM for vehicles (osg branch)

2007-06-19 Thread Bill Galbraith
> > > I also have doubts that a single fdm can accurately > reproduce ship and > > car characteristics - [...] A true Ship FDM would require sea state simulation, as a carrier is going to rock in a heavy sea. Landing on a carrier in calm water in the daylight is easy. It's that Sea State 5,

Re: [Flightgear-devel] BlackBird SR-71

2007-06-14 Thread Bill Galbraith
Okay, now someone needs to refuel behind it. I understand the tanker is firewalled, and the SR-71 is on the verge of stalling. Bill - This SF.net email is sponsored by DB2 Express Download DB2 Express C - the FREE version

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Fwd: Flight Gear being sold on ebay

2007-06-14 Thread Bill Galbraith
_ From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Curtis Olson Sent: Thursday, June 14, 2007 10:02 AM To: FlightGear developers discussions Subject: Re: [Flightgear-devel] Fwd: Flight Gear being sold on ebay On 6/14/07, Bill Galbraith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Fwd: Flight Gear being sold on ebay

2007-06-14 Thread Bill Galbraith
DId you report this to EBay? They are usually pretty good about resolving issues like this. _ From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Curtis Olson Sent: Thursday, June 14, 2007 9:50 AM To: FlightGear developers discussions Subject: [Flightgear-devel] Fwd: Flight G

Re: [Flightgear-devel] First Flight!

2007-06-09 Thread Bill Galbraith
This message is getting long and probably 99% of you have clicked delete/next by now, but let me brag on FlightGear now a minute. First off, let me say CONGRATULATIONS. Not only did you have a successful first flight, in that you proved that you could engage and override the autopilot,

Re: [Flightgear-devel] More ideas on dogfighting

2007-05-14 Thread Bill Galbraith
> -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On > Behalf Of Ralf Gerlich > Sent: Monday, May 14, 2007 10:23 AM > To: FlightGear developers discussions > Subject: Re: [Flightgear-devel] More ideas on dogfighting > > Hi, > > Gene Buckle wrote: > >>> Martin

Re: [Flightgear-devel] More ideas on dogfighting

2007-05-13 Thread Bill Galbraith
> -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On > Behalf Of Martin Spott > Sent: Sunday, May 13, 2007 5:01 PM > To: flightgear-devel@lists.sourceforge.net > Subject: Re: [Flightgear-devel] More ideas on dogfighting > > Hi

Re: [Flightgear-devel] More ideas on dogfighting

2007-05-13 Thread Bill Galbraith
> -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On > Behalf Of Martin Spott > Sent: Sunday, May 13, 2007 4:17 PM > To: flightgear-devel@lists.sourceforge.net > Subject: Re: [Flightgear-devel] More ideas on dogfighting > > Maik Justus wrote: > > > Does anyon

Re: [Flightgear-devel] More ideas on dogfighting

2007-05-12 Thread Bill Galbraith
> -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On > Behalf Of Stefan Seifert > Sent: Saturday, May 12, 2007 10:38 PM > To: FlightGear developers discussions > Subject: Re: [Flightgear-devel] More ideas on dogfighting > > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- >

Re: [Flightgear-devel] More ideas on dogfighting

2007-05-11 Thread Bill Galbraith
_ From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of James Palmer Sent: Friday, May 11, 2007 8:06 AM To: FlightGear developers discussions Subject: Re: [Flightgear-devel] More ideas on dogfighting Thanks to all for the input... the collaboration of many is what makes FG

Re: [Flightgear-devel] More ideas on dogfighting

2007-05-10 Thread Bill Galbraith
> -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On > Behalf Of Martin Spott > Sent: Thursday, May 10, 2007 6:04 PM > To: flightgear-devel@lists.sourceforge.net > Subject: Re: [Flightgear-devel] More ideas on dogfighting > > James, > > "James Palmer" wrote:

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Phidot not zero.. And bank angle constant...

2007-03-23 Thread Bill Galbraith
> -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On > Behalf Of Jon S. Berndt > Sent: Friday, March 23, 2007 10:29 PM > To: FlightGear developers discussions > Subject: Re: [Flightgear-devel] Phidot not zero.. And bank > angle constant... > > > Hi, > > > > I

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Phidot not zero.. And bank angle constant...

2007-03-23 Thread Bill Galbraith
> -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On > Behalf Of Nicol Carstens > Sent: Friday, March 23, 2007 5:51 AM > To: flightgear-devel@lists.sourceforge.net; [EMAIL PROTECTED]; > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: [Flightgear-devel] Phidot not zero.. And bank

Re: [Flightgear-devel] An2 problems

2007-03-23 Thread Bill Galbraith
> -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On > Behalf Of Yurik V. Nikiforoff > Sent: Friday, March 23, 2007 6:44 AM > To: FlightGear developers discussions > Subject: Re: [Flightgear-devel] An2 problems > > В сообщении от 23 Март 2007 15:53 AJ MacLeod

Re: [Flightgear-devel] FlightGear presentation

2007-03-12 Thread Bill Galbraith
There were some tanker chase videos that were pretty decent. I think they were Curt's. I have them, if you'd like me to send them to you. _ From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Berndt, Jon S Sent: Monday, March 12, 2007 10:20 AM To: flightgear-devel@lists.source

Re: [Flightgear-devel] An2 problems

2007-03-09 Thread Bill Galbraith
> To me , the last JSBSim FG CVS update is right, I can start > and fly every propeller Aircraft, but the An2 which does not > take off (not enough power to take off) , it can fly only if > we launch it from altitude (enough power to fly). Do the props have pitch to them? Do you have to se

Re: [Flightgear-devel] An2 problems

2007-03-08 Thread Bill Galbraith
> -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On > Behalf Of Ron Jensen > Sent: Thursday, March 08, 2007 12:43 AM > To: FlightGear developers discussions > Subject: Re: [Flightgear-devel] An2 problems > > On Wed, 2007-03-07 at 21:54 -0600, Jon S. Berndt wr

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Better audio for FG

2007-02-17 Thread Bill Galbraith
_ From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Tom Betka Sent: Saturday, February 17, 2007 8:48 AM To: flightgear-devel@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: [Flightgear-devel] Better audio for FG Hello all, I am new to FG and to the developer list. I sent an earlier e