Re: [Flightgear-devel] (Real) SR22-GTS Demo Flight

2006-02-13 Thread David Megginson
On 13/02/06, Jim Wilson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Welcome back! Interesting blog entry. I'm very glad to hear that you did > not get to try out the CAPS. Have there been reports of successes with the > system? For some reason I just imagine a pilot trying to avoid deploying (on > engine

Re: [Flightgear-devel] (Real) SR22-GTS Demo Flight

2006-02-13 Thread dene maxwell
ct: Re: [Flightgear-devel] (Real) SR22-GTS Demo Flight Date: Mon, 13 Feb 2006 12:31:29 + (UTC) "dene maxwell" wrote: >>From: Martin Spott <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >>"dene maxwell" wrote: >> >>Martin Spott wrote: >> >> >>Exac

[Flightgear-devel] (Real) SR22-GTS Demo Flight

2006-02-13 Thread Jim Wilson
> > I had a chance to take a demo flight in a (real) Cirrus SR22-GTS > today. I posted my comments on my weblog: > > http://www.megginson.com/blogs/lahso/archives/2006/02/08/cirrus-sr22-demo-flight-initial-impressions/ > > It will be a lot of work to model the Avidyne glass cockpit in FlightGea

Re: [Flightgear-devel] (Real) SR22-GTS Demo Flight

2006-02-13 Thread Martin Spott
"dene maxwell" wrote: >>From: Martin Spott <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >>"dene maxwell" wrote: >> >>Martin Spott wrote: >> >> >>Exactly this is the one which I took for the largest trips: >> >> >> >> http://www.texelairport.nl/fotogroot2004/D-EFFV.jpg >> > >> > Martin, Which one did you mean? The foregro

Re: [Flightgear-devel] (Real) SR22-GTS Demo Flight

2006-02-10 Thread dene maxwell
hehehe, If I were you i'd be asking every woman I meet to marry me for a chance to fly in that baby!!!... but with my flying ability life insurance (and heaps of it) would be necessary... Thanks for the great pic Martin, printed and on the wall now now that's an idea...a gallery of th

Re: [Flightgear-devel] (Real) SR22-GTS Demo Flight

2006-02-10 Thread Martin Spott
"dene maxwell" wrote: >>Martin Spott wrote: >>Exactly this is the one which I took for the largest trips: >> >> http://www.texelairport.nl/fotogroot2004/D-EFFV.jpg > > Martin, Which one did you mean? The foreground or background :->> The one in the background is for married couples and I'm not

Re: [Flightgear-devel] (Real) SR22-GTS Demo Flight

2006-02-10 Thread dene maxwell
Martin, Which one did you mean? The foreground or background :->> Dene From: Martin Spott <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Reply-To: flightgear-devel@lists.sourceforge.net To: flightgear-devel@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [Flightgear-devel] (Real) SR22-GTS Demo Flight Date: Fri, 10 Feb 2

Re: [Flightgear-devel] (Real) SR22-GTS Demo Flight

2006-02-10 Thread Martin Spott
David Megginson wrote: > I wouldn't object to a Garmin 430 in my Warrior to help with IFR flight, to > allow me to fly approaches into more airports and to fly off airway. You know that the GNS430 not only replaces your HSI/ADF equipment but the NAV/COMM as well Having used the GNS430 with

Re: [Flightgear-devel] (Real) SR22-GTS Demo Flight

2006-02-10 Thread Martin Spott
David Megginson wrote: > On 10/02/06, Martin Spott <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> http://www.texelairport.nl/fotogroot2004/D-EFFV.jpg > > Looks like an Archer (PA-28-181) -- nice plane. It definitely is a really great thing: You can load four people (including my instructor and his girlfriend

Re: [Flightgear-devel] (Real) SR22-GTS Demo Flight

2006-02-10 Thread David Megginson
On 10/02/06, Martin Spott <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Exactly this is the one which I took for the largest trips: > > http://www.texelairport.nl/fotogroot2004/D-EFFV.jpg Looks like an Archer (PA-28-181) -- nice plane. All the best, David -- http://www.megginson.com/

Re: [Flightgear-devel] (Real) SR22-GTS Demo Flight

2006-02-10 Thread Martin Spott
Martin Spott wrote: > At our flight school we had one brand new Cherokee equipped with GNS430 > and another one with an old-style VOR reciever, ADF and a HSI attached > to the ILS - and I've almost always chosen the latter. Exactly this is the one which I took for the largest trips: http://www

Re: [Flightgear-devel] (Real) SR22-GTS Demo Flight

2006-02-10 Thread David Megginson
Martin Spott wrote: At our flight school we had one brand new Cherokee equipped with GNS430 and another one with an old-style VOR reciever, ADF and a HSI attached to the ILS - and I've almost always chosen the latter. Thanks for the comments, Martin. I wouldn't object to a Garmin 430 in my Wa

Re: [Flightgear-devel] (Real) SR22-GTS Demo Flight

2006-02-10 Thread Martin Spott
Hello David, David Megginson wrote: > I had a chance to take a demo flight in a (real) Cirrus SR22-GTS > today. I posted my comments on my weblog: Thanks for writing down your impressions. I like your conclusions because I think mine would come out very similar :-) For many years I've been spen

Re: [Flightgear-devel] (Real) SR22-GTS Demo Flight

2006-02-09 Thread Paul Surgeon
On Thursday 09 February 2006 05:00, David Megginson wrote: > It will be a lot of work to model the Avidyne glass cockpit in FlightGear. If they can do it then I'm sure we can : http://www.eaglesoftdg.com/SR22.htm http://www.avsim.com/pages/1005/SR20/SR20.htm Paul ---

Re: [Flightgear-devel] (Real) SR22-GTS Demo Flight

2006-02-09 Thread Erik Hofman
David Megginson wrote: I had a chance to take a demo flight in a (real) Cirrus SR22-GTS today. I posted my comments on my weblog: http://www.megginson.com/blogs/lahso/archives/2006/02/08/cirrus-sr22-demo-flight-initial-impressions/ Somehow this urged to update the SR-20 3d model a bit. If you

[Flightgear-devel] (Real) SR22-GTS Demo Flight

2006-02-08 Thread David Megginson
I had a chance to take a demo flight in a (real) Cirrus SR22-GTS today. I posted my comments on my weblog: http://www.megginson.com/blogs/lahso/archives/2006/02/08/cirrus-sr22-demo-flight-initial-impressions/ It will be a lot of work to model the Avidyne glass cockpit in FlightGear. All the be