Re: [Flightgear-devel] Any alpha testers with a bit of extra time on their hands?

2011-09-27 Thread Curtis Olson
On Tue, Sep 27, 2011 at 9:47 PM, Ron Jensen wrote: > On Tuesday 27 September 2011 15:53:26 Curtis Olson wrote: > > > a heavier than air balloon ... > > Would that be a Led Zeppelin? > That's more clever than what I was thinking. :-) Open-humor. Curt. -- Curtis Olson: http://www.atiak.com - htt

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Any alpha testers with a bit of extra time on their hands?

2011-09-27 Thread Ron Jensen
On Tuesday 27 September 2011 15:53:26 Curtis Olson wrote: > a heavier than air balloon ... Would that be a Led Zeppelin? :) Ron -- All the data continuously generated in your IT infrastructure contains a definitive re

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Any alpha testers with a bit of extra time on their hands?

2011-09-27 Thread Curtis Olson
On Tue, Sep 27, 2011 at 4:36 PM, Arnt Karlsen wrote: > ..tried to set camera target to some place on-shore with the camera > operator click-to-point-to-orbit, on climb-out this is over-ridden > to Carrier, Hi Arnt, There is some logic going on there to try to automatically guess what an operat

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Any alpha testers with a bit of extra time on their hands?

2011-09-27 Thread Arnt Karlsen
On Mon, 26 Sep 2011 13:04:02 -0500, Curtis wrote in message : > Updated to Beta02 -- with hopefully a bit better view management and > some more small gain tweaks (probably nothing anyone will notice.) ..tried to set camera target to some place on-shore with the camera operator click-to-point-to

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Any alpha testers with a bit of extra time on their hands?

2011-09-25 Thread Arnt Karlsen
On Sat, 24 Sep 2011 17:10:29 -0500, Curtis wrote in message : > Hi Geoff (and Arnt, et. al.) > > I have another update to try. This one drives the roll angle by > manipulating the ailerons directly, rather than trying to modify > /controls/flight/SAS-roll. SAS-roll worked for me, and I was jus

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Any alpha testers with a bit of extra time on their hands?

2011-09-25 Thread Geoff McLane
Hi Curt, Ok, version 04 zip nailed it exactly ;= Now it circles PERFECTLY... I can see in Atlas that each circle exactly overlays the last... I have not yet tried adding TURBULENCE and WINDS but will... Holding exactly 150@2000, the HUD bank-o-meter seldom gets beyond the 3rd marking -

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Any alpha testers with a bit of extra time on their hands?

2011-09-24 Thread Arnt Karlsen
On Sat, 24 Sep 2011 12:54:05 +0200, Arnt wrote in message <20110924125405.072bc...@nb6.lan>: > On Fri, 23 Sep 2011 21:06:00 -0500, Curtis wrote in message > : > > > Here's one for your guys. Do any nasal errors pop up on the console > > when things go bad? Are you able to manually fly the f-1

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Any alpha testers with a bit of extra time on their hands?

2011-09-24 Thread Curtis Olson
Here's one for your guys. Do any nasal errors pop up on the console when things go bad? Are you able to manually fly the f-14b (non-uas version) around just fine? Once in maybe 20-50 flights I do see something go goofy with the f-14b stability augmentation's roll control. Maybe this same issue

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Any alpha testers with a bit of extra time on their hands?

2011-09-23 Thread Arnt Karlsen
On Fri, 23 Sep 2011 23:44:02 +0200, Citronnier wrote in message <4e7cfda2.7060...@gmail.com>: > Le 23/09/2011 23:12, Curtis Olson a écrit : > > Geoff and Arnt and anyone else who is interested. I just updated > > the zip file overlay with a few changes. > > > > Geoff: you may be getting tired of

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Any alpha testers with a bit of extra time on their hands?

2011-09-23 Thread Citronnier - Alexis Bory
Le 23/09/2011 23:12, Curtis Olson a écrit : > Geoff and Arnt and anyone else who is interested. I just updated the > zip file overlay with a few changes. > > Geoff: you may be getting tired of being a bunny, but I played around > with the roll controller and limited max target roll angle to +/-35

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Any alpha testers with a bit of extra time on their hands?

2011-09-23 Thread Citronnier - Alexis Bory
Le 22/09/2011 05:03, Curtis Olson a écrit : > I have something here that I think is kind of fun. Yup, I confirm this is plenty fun :-) It worked like a charm here. However with local weather, cold front, rough day condition, the challenge is there. Due to heavy turbs the system entered huge pitc

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Any alpha testers with a bit of extra time on their hands?

2011-09-23 Thread Curtis Olson
Geoff and Arnt and anyone else who is interested. I just updated the zip file overlay with a few changes. Geoff: you may be getting tired of being a bunny, but I played around with the roll controller and limited max target roll angle to +/-35 degrees. I also dialed down the gains a bit on final

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Any alpha testers with a bit of extra time on their hands?

2011-09-23 Thread Citronnier - Alexis Bory
Le 23/09/2011 16:47, Curtis Olson a écrit : > Hi Geoff, > > I'm starting to run low on ideas here. I assume you don't have any > crazy/severe turbulence turned on or your plots would be all over the > place. Are you running out of fuel and your engines dying? If you > open the autopilot dialo

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Any alpha testers with a bit of extra time on their hands?

2011-09-23 Thread Geoff McLane
Hi Curt, Using real weather fetch... no particular turbulence... Have HUD on, and holding 150, steady... as indicated in auto-target (F11), and as shown by the speed (kts) graph... Not descending, in fact usually still climbing to target 2000, or holding steady at 2000... as the Altitude an

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Any alpha testers with a bit of extra time on their hands?

2011-09-23 Thread Arnt Karlsen
On Fri, 23 Sep 2011 09:47:35 -0500, Curtis wrote in message : > Hi Geoff, > > I'm starting to run low on ideas here. I assume you don't have any > crazy/severe turbulence turned on or your plots would be all over the > place. Are you running out of fuel and your engines dying? If you > open th

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Any alpha testers with a bit of extra time on their hands?

2011-09-23 Thread Curtis Olson
Hi Geoff, I'm starting to run low on ideas here. I assume you don't have any crazy/severe turbulence turned on or your plots would be all over the place. Are you running out of fuel and your engines dying? If you open the autopilot dialog (F11) you can see the target speed and if you have the h

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Any alpha testers with a bit of extra time on their hands?

2011-09-23 Thread Geoff McLane
Hi Curt, Ok, removed my joystick, and entered a '5', but still crashed while just in 'circle' mode - no route entered ;=(( As usual Atlas provides a good 'view' as to what happened - added - ATLAS="--atlas=socket,out,,5500,udp" to output to Atlas running in a 2nd machine... See - http://geof

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Any alpha testers with a bit of extra time on their hands?

2011-09-23 Thread Vivian Meazza
Not “convenient” we chose Vinson because the deck is indeed identical to Nimitz. Vivian -Original Message- From: Curtis Olson [mailto:curtol...@gmail.com] Sent: 22 September 2011 23:21 To: FlightGear developers discussions Subject: Re: [Flightgear-devel] Any alpha testers with a

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Any alpha testers with a bit of extra time on their hands?

2011-09-22 Thread Arnt Karlsen
On Thu, 22 Sep 2011 17:20:51 -0500, Curtis wrote in message : > I went with the Vinson because it is spiffier. Everything should > (theoretically) work the same and just as well from the Nimitz. I > believe the deck geometries are identical in FlightGear > (conveniently.) ;-) > > Curt. ..aye,

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Any alpha testers with a bit of extra time on their hands?

2011-09-22 Thread Curtis Olson
I went with the Vinson because it is spiffier. Everything should (theoretically) work the same and just as well from the Nimitz. I believe the deck geometries are identical in FlightGear (conveniently.) ;-) Curt. On Thu, Sep 22, 2011 at 5:02 PM, Arnt Karlsen wrote: > On Thu, 22 Sep 2011 22:3

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Any alpha testers with a bit of extra time on their hands?

2011-09-22 Thread Arnt Karlsen
On Thu, 22 Sep 2011 22:36:45 +0200, Citronnier wrote in message <4e7b9c5d.6080...@gmail.com>: > Le 22/09/2011 22:04, Arnt Karlsen a écrit : > > On Thu, 22 Sep 2011 14:00:49 -0500, Curtis wrote in message > > : > > > >> On Thu, Sep 22, 2011 at 1:25 PM, Geoff McLane wrote: > >>> You seem to be deli

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Any alpha testers with a bit of extra time on their hands?

2011-09-22 Thread Citronnier - Alexis Bory
Le 22/09/2011 22:04, Arnt Karlsen a écrit : > On Thu, 22 Sep 2011 14:00:49 -0500, Curtis wrote in message > : > >> On Thu, Sep 22, 2011 at 1:25 PM, Geoff McLane wrote: >>> You seem to be deliberately holding its speed down >>> around 150 - I see air-brakes come up when greater >>> than this, and th

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Any alpha testers with a bit of extra time on their hands?

2011-09-22 Thread Arnt Karlsen
On Thu, 22 Sep 2011 14:36:23 -0500, Curtis wrote in message : > Arnt, you have hijacked my thread, but if you are at 3fps with v1.9 > then I'd recommend spending $10 on ebay to get yourself a decent > video card and maybe $35 to get yourself a decent > computer. :-) :-) :-) ..have decent gear in

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Any alpha testers with a bit of extra time on their hands?

2011-09-22 Thread Arnt Karlsen
On Thu, 22 Sep 2011 14:00:49 -0500, Curtis wrote in message : > On Thu, Sep 22, 2011 at 1:25 PM, Geoff McLane wrote: > > You seem to be deliberately holding its speed down > > around 150 - I see air-brakes come up when greater > > than this, and throttle back - and although flaps (I think > > fu

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Any alpha testers with a bit of extra time on their hands?

2011-09-22 Thread Curtis Olson
Arnt, you have hijacked my thread, but if you are at 3fps with v1.9 then I'd recommend spending $10 on ebay to get yourself a decent video card and maybe $35 to get yourself a decent computer. :-) :-) :-) On Thu, Sep 22, 2011 at 2:28 PM, Arnt Karlsen wrote: > On Thu, 22 Sep 2011 20:42:58 +0200,

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Any alpha testers with a bit of extra time on their hands?

2011-09-22 Thread Arnt Karlsen
On Thu, 22 Sep 2011 20:42:58 +0200, Arnt wrote in message <20110922204258.605fc...@nb6.lan>: > On Wed, 21 Sep 2011 22:03:43 -0500, Curtis wrote in message > : > > > I have something here that I think is kind of fun. I've been > > fiddling with this off and on since last fall and decided it was

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Any alpha testers with a bit of extra time on their hands?

2011-09-22 Thread Curtis Olson
On Thu, Sep 22, 2011 at 1:25 PM, Geoff McLane wrote: > Hi Curt, > > A pleasure, and FUN ;=)) > > Yes, I know a low frame rate can play havoc when > you are trying to fine control an aircraft from > its attitude feedback, and I should have mentioned my > rate, but is always in the high 50-70 fps ra

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Any alpha testers with a bit of extra time on their hands?

2011-09-22 Thread Arnt Karlsen
On Wed, 21 Sep 2011 22:03:43 -0500, Curtis wrote in message : > I have something here that I think is kind of fun. I've been > fiddling with this off and on since last fall and decided it was time > to clean it up a bit and quit hording all the fun for myself. > Basically I have taken the F-14b

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Any alpha testers with a bit of extra time on their hands?

2011-09-22 Thread Geoff McLane
Hi Curt, A pleasure, and FUN ;=)) Yes, I know a low frame rate can play havoc when you are trying to fine control an aircraft from its attitude feedback, and I should have mentioned my rate, but is always in the high 50-70 fps range in this Ubuntu machine... so should NOT be a factor... I ju

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Any alpha testers with a bit of extra time on their hands?

2011-09-22 Thread Curtis Olson
Hi Geoff, Thanks for checking it out! I was starting to get worried by the complete silence that no one would try this at all. :-) I'll tweak the instructions a bit as per your comments. And if you (or anyone else) has any other points that should be clarified or fixed, just holler. I will pro

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Any alpha testers with a bit of extra time on their hands?

2011-09-22 Thread Geoff McLane
Hi Curt, Always a bunny to try NEW things, and eventually got there ;=)) I think you should for sure say somewhere to add the option --carrier=Vinson when running fgfs, either via fgrun, or on the command line... Of course this is implied, but my first attempt was without this ;=(( And it w

[Flightgear-devel] Any alpha testers with a bit of extra time on their hands?

2011-09-21 Thread Curtis Olson
I have something here that I think is kind of fun. I've been fiddling with this off and on since last fall and decided it was time to clean it up a bit and quit hording all the fun for myself. Basically I have taken the F-14b and created a high performance Navy "drone" out of it. It can auto-lau