Re: [Flightgear-devel] Updated Cub and c172p for Rembrandt

2012-04-04 Thread Torsten Dreyer
Am 03.04.2012 18:02, schrieb Gene Buckle: On Tue, 3 Apr 2012, Martin Spott wrote: Stuart Buchanan wrote: How's the cockpit project going BTW? Having a sponsor to pay the transport would be cool ;-) Aside from that, we're looking for a couple of small (8-12 range), bright and preferrably

[Flightgear-devel] Updated Cub and c172p for Rembrandt

2012-04-03 Thread Stuart Buchanan
Hi All, I've made some initial changes to the Cub and c172p for project Rembrandt, including a landing light for the latter. Great work Fred! I'd highly recommend taking the Cub for a fly with the shadows turned on - the shadows of the overhead struts on the cockpit are particularly nice. I've

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Updated Cub and c172p for Rembrandt

2012-04-03 Thread Martin Spott
Stuart Buchanan wrote: I've got a couple of questions for anyone who has flown a c172 at night: The landing light appears to be located on the left wing. I'm having trouble determining the angle of the light, and how far it extends. For the moment, I've pitched it slightly downwards, so the

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Updated Cub and c172p for Rembrandt

2012-04-03 Thread Martin Spott
Martin Spott wrote: The taxi light (I don't remember which one it is) [...] Service manual says: The left hand light is used for taxi and the right hand for landing. and Adjustment of the landing and taxi light is pre-set at the factory, however changes to this adjustment may be made as desired

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Updated Cub and c172p for Rembrandt

2012-04-03 Thread Gijs de Rooy
Secondly, what cockpit and instrument illumination is available? There are also those with individual instrument lights shining on the front side of the instrument. Those are the grey things on this picture:

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Updated Cub and c172p for Rembrandt

2012-04-03 Thread Stuart Buchanan
On Tue, Apr 3, 2012 at 10:43 AM, Martin Spott wrote: Stuart Buchanan wrote: The C172's I know (past 1970, I think) are having the two lights mounted into the cowling right below the prop - see:  http://www.c172fg.de/d-eeqa-dismount-1-03.jpg Thanks - looks like our c172p has got lights in the

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Updated Cub and c172p for Rembrandt

2012-04-03 Thread Edheldil
On 04/03/2012 11:12 AM, Stuart Buchanan wrote: Secondly, what cockpit and instrument illumination is available? I _think_ there's a general overhead floodlight in the ceiling of the aircraft (though I expect this isn't used during flight), and I've previously assumed that the instruments are

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Updated Cub and c172p for Rembrandt

2012-04-03 Thread Martin Spott
Martin Spott wrote: Service manual says: [...] Beginning with 1971 Models, the landing and taxi lights are located in the nose cowl. The D-EEQA (on the picture, sitting in wet grass) is a 1978's Cessna F 172N (serial 1697) and FlightGear's is, as far as I remember, a 1981's C172P. Therefore

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Updated Cub and c172p for Rembrandt

2012-04-03 Thread Martin Spott
Stuart Buchanan wrote: How's the cockpit project going BTW? Having a sponsor to pay the transport would be cool ;-) Aside from that, we're looking for a couple of small (8-12 range), bright and preferrably identical colour TFT displays for the panel, because the mechanics of the yoke prevent

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Updated Cub and c172p for Rembrandt

2012-04-03 Thread Jari Häkkinen
Newer models of C172 has landing and taxi lights located in the front edge of the left wing. This can be seen on Cessna web site and I've seen it on planes built in 2008. Of course, if fg's C172 is from 1981 then the new placement of the lights probably does not apply. Cheers, Jari On

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Updated Cub and c172p for Rembrandt

2012-04-03 Thread Heiko Schulz
Hello, Martin Spott wrote: Service manual says: [...] Beginning with 1971 Models, the landing and taxi lights are located in the nose cowl. The D-EEQA (on the picture, sitting in wet grass) is a 1978's Cessna F 172N (serial 1697) and FlightGear's is, as far as I remember, a 1981's C172P.

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Updated Cub and c172p for Rembrandt

2012-04-03 Thread Gene Buckle
On Tue, 3 Apr 2012, Martin Spott wrote: Stuart Buchanan wrote: How's the cockpit project going BTW? Having a sponsor to pay the transport would be cool ;-) Aside from that, we're looking for a couple of small (8-12 range), bright and preferrably identical colour TFT displays for the

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Updated Cub and c172p for Rembrandt

2012-04-03 Thread Martin Spott
Heiko Schulz wrote: I didn't had any service manual when I started and announced the c172p-update and it seems I did not informed myself enough about the c172-history for the update. My comment wasn't meant to blame you for making a mistake ;-) it's just been an informal notice as I

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Updated Cub and c172p for Rembrandt

2012-04-03 Thread Martin Spott
Heiko Schulz wrote: Look here: http://cdn-www.airliners.net/aviation-photos/photos/6/4/3/2081346.jpg http://www.airliners.net/photo/Cessna-172P-Skyhawk/2076182/L/sid=40c47e6e201184197341cb50f65a74cd Bah, both are almost as ugly as our D-EEQA btw, the second one appears to be a

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Updated Cub and c172p for Rembrandt

2012-04-03 Thread Martin Spott
Hi Gene, Gene Buckle wrote: Martin, if you were to pick up a copy of Mike Powell's book Building Simulated Aircraft Instruments, you could fill that whole panel pretty cheaply, including a servo based artificial horizon. I would be happy to supply you with any custom metal parts that