Re: [Flightgear-devel] [Flightgear-cvslogs] CVS: data/Nasal pushback.nas, 1.1, 1.2

2009-05-05 Thread Stuart Buchanan
gerard robin wrote: > On mardi 05 mai 2009, Alexis Bory - xiii wrote: > > I still don't know if it's ok to let the pushback stuff in the Nasal dir. > > IMHO this should be further discussed. > > Won't it be better to have it within Aircraft/Generic ? > with others stuffs like aar or radar I

Re: [Flightgear-devel] [Flightgear-cvslogs] CVS: data/Nasal pushback.nas, 1.1, 1.2

2009-05-04 Thread gerard robin
On mardi 05 mai 2009, Alexis Bory - xiii wrote: > Alexis Bory wrote: > > Update of /var/cvs/FlightGear-0.9/data/Nasal In directory > > baron.flightgear.org:/tmp/cvs-serv9196 > > > > Modified Files: pushback.nas Log Message: - Now the pushback "door" > > will be created only if /sim/model/pushba

Re: [Flightgear-devel] [Flightgear-cvslogs] CVS: data/Nasal pushback.nas, 1.1, 1.2

2009-05-04 Thread Alexis Bory - xiii
Alexis Bory wrote: > Update of /var/cvs/FlightGear-0.9/data/Nasal In directory > baron.flightgear.org:/tmp/cvs-serv9196 > > Modified Files: pushback.nas Log Message: - Now the pushback "door" > will be created only if /sim/model/pushback has already been created > by the modeler via the -set.x

Re: [Flightgear-devel] [Flightgear-cvslogs] CVS: data/Nasal tanker.nas, NONE, 1.1

2009-03-25 Thread Melchior FRANZ
* Melchior FRANZ -- Monday 16 March 2009: > + vary callsign & TACAN id > + fly refueling pattern That's now done. The tanker flies a refueling pattern with length 50 nm and 25 degree turns. You get a warning 1 nm before the turn. Note that pilots also tank during the turn! Bank angle and turn rat

Re: [Flightgear-devel] [Flightgear-cvslogs] CVS: data/Nasal tanker.nas, NONE, 1.1

2009-03-21 Thread Melchior FRANZ
* gerard robin -- Thursday 19 March 2009: > I can only answer that i never had any problem with the actual AI/MP radar, > it is very flexible , since the main required values x-shift, y-shift, in > addition to the other useful aircraft data ( range-nm, altitude, heading ) > are there. These da

Re: [Flightgear-devel] [Flightgear-cvslogs] CVS: data/Nasal tanker.nas, NONE, 1.1

2009-03-19 Thread gerard robin
On jeudi 19 mars 2009, Melchior FRANZ wrote: > * gerard robin -- Thursday 19 March 2009: > > Then, do you mean that the old "Radar Fashion" will be removed, > > what a pity. > > I haven't planned that (yet). But in the long run it should get > removed. This was an early mechanism to get the brand-n

Re: [Flightgear-devel] [Flightgear-cvslogs] CVS: data/Nasal tanker.nas, NONE, 1.1

2009-03-19 Thread Melchior FRANZ
* gerard robin -- Thursday 19 March 2009: > Then, do you mean that the old "Radar Fashion" will be removed, > what a pity. I haven't planned that (yet). But in the long run it should get removed. This was an early mechanism to get the brand-new AI models on the screen (for the T38?), and that was

Re: [Flightgear-devel] [Flightgear-cvslogs] CVS: data/Nasal tanker.nas, NONE, 1.1

2009-03-19 Thread gerard robin
On jeudi 19 mars 2009, Melchior FRANZ wrote: > * gerard robin -- Thursday 19 March 2009: > > With the usual AI tankers we have a lot of data regarding the Radar > > x-shift y-shift in-range , rotation, v-offset, .. and so on > > > > That tanker feature don't gives such information , it i

Re: [Flightgear-devel] [Flightgear-cvslogs] CVS: data/Nasal tanker.nas, NONE, 1.1

2009-03-19 Thread Melchior FRANZ
* gerard robin -- Thursday 19 March 2009: > With the usual AI tankers we have a lot of data regarding the Radar > x-shift y-shift in-range , rotation, v-offset, .. and so on > > That tanker feature don't gives such information , it is missing , > is it any valuable reason ? That's not

Re: [Flightgear-devel] [Flightgear-cvslogs] CVS: data/Nasal tanker.nas, NONE, 1.1

2009-03-19 Thread gerard robin
On lundi 16 mars 2009, Melchior FRANZ wrote: > While we are at it, here some comments on tanker.nas: > > There's a menu entry AI/MP->Tanker, which opens a small dialog where > you can request a tanker. It'll contact you and tell you something > like this: > > "MOBIL3 at 15000, heading 130 with 25

Re: [Flightgear-devel] [Flightgear-cvslogs] CVS: data/Nasal tanker.nas, NONE, 1.1

2009-03-15 Thread Melchior FRANZ
While we are at it, here some comments on tanker.nas: There's a menu entry AI/MP->Tanker, which opens a small dialog where you can request a tanker. It'll contact you and tell you something like this: "MOBIL3 at 15000, heading 130 with 250 knots, TACAN 062X" At the moment TACAN is always 062X,

Re: [Flightgear-devel] [Flightgear-cvslogs] CVS: data/Nasal tanker.nas, NONE, 1.1

2009-03-15 Thread gerard robin
On dimanche 15 mars 2009, Melchior FRANZ wrote: > * gerard robin -- Sunday 15 March 2009: > > => make sure /systems/refuel/ exists <= > > > > Since a specific AAR could use any other specific property > > This should have been "systems/refuel", without the leading > slash. It's the tanker's prop

Re: [Flightgear-devel] [Flightgear-cvslogs] CVS: data/Nasal tanker.nas, NONE, 1.1

2009-03-15 Thread Melchior FRANZ
* gerard robin -- Sunday 15 March 2009: > => make sure /systems/refuel/ exists <= > > Since a specific AAR could use any other specific property This should have been "systems/refuel", without the leading slash. It's the tanker's property /ai/model/tanker[*]/refuel/contact. This is the one and

Re: [Flightgear-devel] [Flightgear-cvslogs] CVS: data/Nasal tanker.nas, NONE, 1.1

2009-03-15 Thread gerard robin
On dimanche 15 mars 2009, Melchior FRANZ wrote: > * gerard robin -- Sunday 15 March 2009: > > You should know that aircrafts which have some specific AAR won't > > be able to use it. > > All that work(ed) with the tanker scenarios should also work with > this. It doesn't do anything magic. Just off

Re: [Flightgear-devel] [Flightgear-cvslogs] CVS: data/Nasal tanker.nas, NONE, 1.1

2009-03-15 Thread Melchior FRANZ
* gerard robin -- Sunday 15 March 2009: > You should know that aircrafts which have some specific AAR won't > be able to use it. All that work(ed) with the tanker scenarios should also work with this. It doesn't do anything magic. Just offer a tanker and set the aircraft's "contact" flag if it's c

[Flightgear-devel] [Flightgear-cvslogs] CVS: data/Nasal tanker.nas, NONE, 1.1

2009-03-15 Thread gerard robin
If that is . right => allow aar-equipped aircraft to request a tanker everywhere without scenario <== You should know that aircrafts which have some specific AAR won't be able to use it. -- Gérard http://pagesperso-orange.fr/GRTux/ J'ai décidé d'être heureux parce que c'est bon pour la

Re: [Flightgear-devel] [Flightgear-cvslogs] CVS: data/Nasal globals.nas, 1.42, 1.43

2008-12-17 Thread James Turner
On 17 Dec 2008, at 15:44, Syd wrote: > I dont know if this makes sense to anyone else , but to me the first > version is a word , the second option is a sentence :) Agreed completely - the issue is, I think of all these things as sentences (well, phrases, anyway) - so I find FOO2BAR rather lik

Re: [Flightgear-devel] [Flightgear-cvslogs] CVS: data/Nasal globals.nas, 1.42, 1.43

2008-12-17 Thread Syd
Melchior FRANZ wrote: > * James Turner -- Wednesday 17 December 2008: > >>> + var KT2MPS = 0.51; # knots to m/s >>> > > >> Personally I think all these constants would be easier to >> read if they were written the same way as the Simgear ones, >> i.e MPS_TO_KT, NM_T

Re: [Flightgear-devel] [Flightgear-cvslogs] CVS: data/Nasal globals.nas, 1.42, 1.43

2008-12-17 Thread Alexis Bory - xiii
Melchior FRANZ wrote: > var MPS_TO_KT = MPS2KT; > > What do other Nasal developers think? I'm willing to change it if > others have problems with that, too. (And to change all occurrences > in the repository.) No problem here with shorter names for the constants. For me they are easy to reco

Re: [Flightgear-devel] [Flightgear-cvslogs] CVS: data/Nasal globals.nas, 1.42, 1.43

2008-12-17 Thread Stuart Buchanan
Melchior FRANZ wrote: > * James Turner -- Wednesday 17 December 2008: > > > + var KT2MPS = 0.51; # knots to m/s > > > Personally I think all these constants would be easier to > > read if they were written the same way as the Simgear ones, > > i.e MPS_TO_KT, NM_TO_M and so on.

Re: [Flightgear-devel] [Flightgear-cvslogs] CVS: data/Nasal globals.nas, 1.42, 1.43

2008-12-16 Thread Melchior FRANZ
* James Turner -- Wednesday 17 December 2008: > > + var KT2MPS = 0.51; # knots to m/s > Personally I think all these constants would be easier to > read if they were written the same way as the Simgear ones, > i.e MPS_TO_KT, NM_TO_M and so on. I find them equally easy to read

Re: [Flightgear-devel] [Flightgear-cvslogs] CVS: data/Nasal globals.nas, 1.42, 1.43

2008-12-16 Thread James Turner
On 17 Dec 2008, at 01:03, Melchior Franz wrote: > + var KT2MPS = 0.51; # knots to m/s > + var MPS2KT = 1 / KT2MPS; > + > var LB2KG = 0.45359237;# pounds to kilogram > var KG2LB = 1 / LB2KG; Personally I think all these constants would be easier to read if th

Re: [Flightgear-devel] [Flightgear-cvslogs] CVS: data/Nasal glide_slope_tunnel.nas, 1.4, 1.5

2008-09-26 Thread James Turner
On 25 Sep 2008, at 15:32, Melchior FRANZ wrote: >> I see you don't like my long_underscored_function_names [...] > > That's because we don't have a single function name with underscores. > It's setprop, not set_prop. It's settimer, not set_timer, etc. It's > about consistency. Okay - is there a

Re: [Flightgear-devel] [Flightgear-cvslogs] CVS: data/Nasal glide_slope_tunnel.nas, 1.4, 1.5

2008-09-25 Thread Melchior FRANZ
* James Turner -- Wednesday 24 September 2008: > Well, in the future, the key args for getActiveRunwayForUsage are what > I said - the usage type (landing or takeoff, maybe some other flags in > the future for weird stuff, like helis) and the inbound / outbound > radial, [...] OK, then let's

Re: [Flightgear-devel] [Flightgear-cvslogs] CVS: data/Nasal glide_slope_tunnel.nas, 1.4, 1.5

2008-09-24 Thread DrC
In my experience the active runway is designated by the ground radio station at the field. At small fields it is the same active runway for take-off and landing. At large busy fields these might be two different (often parallel) runways. If different non-parallel runways are designated, they w

Re: [Flightgear-devel] [Flightgear-cvslogs] CVS: data/Nasal glide_slope_tunnel.nas, 1.4, 1.5

2008-09-24 Thread James Turner
On 24 Sep 2008, at 11:30, Melchior FRANZ wrote: > The airportinfo() function is there to return everything that you > ever wanted to know about an airport, and more. Active takeoff and > landing runway belongs there. What "other optional args" would > we need? More than required minimum length/wi

Re: [Flightgear-devel] [Flightgear-cvslogs] CVS: data/Nasal glide_slope_tunnel.nas, 1.4, 1.5

2008-09-24 Thread Melchior FRANZ
* James Turner -- Wednesday 24 September 2008: > This could either be an addition member on the airport hash yes > [...] a new function exposed to Nasal makes sense [...] IMHO no >active_runway_for_airport(, ... other optional args ) The airportinfo() function is there to return

Re: [Flightgear-devel] [Flightgear-cvslogs] CVS: data/Nasal glide_slope_tunnel.nas, 1.4, 1.5

2008-09-24 Thread James Turner
On 24 Sep 2008, at 09:38, James Turner wrote: > Thanks Melchior - I forget to do some searches in data/ when I updated > this interface. Also, just noticed this (in char-menu.xml) : # Determine the active runway. We have two ways to do this: # - If the aircraft is on the ground (o

Re: [Flightgear-devel] [Flightgear-cvslogs] CVS: data/Nasal glide_slope_tunnel.nas, 1.4, 1.5

2008-09-24 Thread James Turner
On 23 Sep 2008, at 21:08, Melchior Franz wrote: > Modified Files: > glide_slope_tunnel.nas > Log Message: > - remove no longer neede complement_runways() function > - s/threshold1/threshold/ Thanks Melchior - I forget to do some searches in data/ when I updated this interface. James -

Re: [Flightgear-devel] [Flightgear-cvslogs] CVS: data/Nasal

2007-05-08 Thread Martin Spott
Melchior FRANZ wrote: > * Martin Spott -- Tuesday 08 May 2007: > > Is this intended to implement toe-brakes ? I thought we > > already had these, [...] > What the new singleton class implements is differential braking > via toe-brake-less pedals. I learned that many British military > aircraft have

Re: [Flightgear-devel] [Flightgear-cvslogs] CVS: data/Nasal aircraft.nas, 1.30, 1.31

2007-05-08 Thread Melchior FRANZ
* Martin Spott -- Tuesday 08 May 2007: > Is this intended to implement toe-brakes ? I thought we > already had these, No and yes. We do indeed have toe brakes since a long time: , and . on the keyboard, or two separate js buttons, or real toe brakes on pedals. What the new singleton class impleme

Re: [Flightgear-devel] [Flightgear-cvslogs] CVS: data/Nasal aircraft.nas, 1.30, 1.31

2007-05-08 Thread Martin Spott
Hi Melchior, Melchior Franz wrote: > Update of /var/cvs/FlightGear-0.9/data/Nasal > In directory baron:/tmp/cvs-serv28789 > > Modified Files: > aircraft.nas > Log Message: > add class that implements differential braking with rudder input I'm not good in parsing Nasal source, so I'm not

Re: [Flightgear-devel] [Flightgear-cvslogs] CVS: data/Nasal dynamic_view.nas, 1.22, 1.23

2007-02-06 Thread Maik Justus
Hi, hm, maybe it's not solved fully. I got it again :-( Maik Maik Justus schrieb am 06.02.2007 16:52: > Hi Melchior, > > by updating data without updating the source the spinning bug is gone. > > Thanks! > Maik > > > Melchior Franz schrieb am 06.02.2007 15:34: > >> Update of /var/cvs/FlightGe

Re: [Flightgear-devel] [Flightgear-cvslogs] CVS: data/Nasal dynamic_view.nas, 1.22, 1.23

2007-02-06 Thread Maik Justus
Hi Melchior, by updating data without updating the source the spinning bug is gone. Thanks! Maik Melchior Franz schrieb am 06.02.2007 15:34: > Update of /var/cvs/FlightGear-0.9/data/Nasal > In directory baron:/tmp/cvs-serv15580 > > Modified Files: > dynamic_view.nas > Log Message: > - fi

Re: [Flightgear-devel] [Flightgear-cvslogs] CVS: data/Nasal aircraft.nas, 1.21, 1.22

2007-01-22 Thread Martin Spott
Melchior Franz wrote: > Update of /var/cvs/FlightGear-0.9/data/Nasal > In directory baron:/tmp/cvs-serv13482 > > Modified Files: > aircraft.nas > Log Message: > respect /sim/startup/save-on-exit Thanks ! Martin. -- Unix _IS_ user friendly - it's just selective about who its fri