Re: [Flightgear-devel] airspeed vs metar

2006-01-25 Thread Vassilii Khachaturov
The more I am thinking about a clean way to implement proper rain cone tilting at any view origin, the more difficult it seems. I've already made it work properly for views attached to flying aircraft (such as in-cockpit/chase/helicopter view), and would love to make it work for all the simulation

Re: [Flightgear-devel] airspeed vs metar

2006-01-24 Thread Vassilii Khachaturov
> Vassilii Khachaturov wrote: > > Is there a simple way to learn if the current view origin is moving or > > not? (If not, is it a reasonable thing for me to try to add to FGViewer? > > what about the view origin airspeed computations?) > > One thing I notice when looking at the viewer configuratio

Re: [Flightgear-devel] airspeed vs metar

2006-01-24 Thread Curtis L. Olson
Vassilii Khachaturov wrote: The new JSBSim does zero-out the wind forces while stationary on the ground to prevent ground jitter. That might be the cause of what you are seeing. I see. Do you have an FDM-independent idea (for real aircraft, aside from the UFO) on how to get the horizonta

Re: [Flightgear-devel] airspeed vs metar

2006-01-24 Thread Erik Hofman
Vassilii Khachaturov wrote: Is there a simple way to learn if the current view origin is moving or not? (If not, is it a reasonable thing for me to try to add to FGViewer? what about the view origin airspeed computations?) One thing I notice when looking at the viewer configurations in prefer

Re: [Flightgear-devel] airspeed vs metar

2006-01-24 Thread Vassilii Khachaturov
> The new JSBSim does zero-out the wind forces while stationary on the > ground to prevent ground jitter. That might be the cause of what you are > seeing. > I see. Do you have an FDM-independent idea (for real aircraft, aside from the UFO) on how to get the horizontal airspeed component? (It woul

Re: [Flightgear-devel] airspeed vs metar

2006-01-24 Thread Erik Hofman
Vassilii Khachaturov wrote: I was expecting to read non-zero from /velocities/airspeed-kt during the thunderstorm scenario. When on the ground and facing the wind (15012KT in the "Weather Scenario" dialog, I didn't modify the defaults of the thunderstorm scenario) at approximately 150 degree head

Re: [Flightgear-devel] airspeed vs metar

2006-01-24 Thread Vassilii Khachaturov
> > I was expecting to read non-zero from /velocities/airspeed-kt > > during the thunderstorm scenario. When on the ground and facing > > the wind (15012KT in the "Weather Scenario" dialog, I didn't modify > > the defaults of the thunderstorm scenario) at approximately 150 degree > > heading, I sti

Re: [Flightgear-devel] airspeed vs metar

2006-01-24 Thread Erik Hofman
Vassilii Khachaturov wrote: Dear fellow developers, Can somebody please help with a property tree interaction with the weather scenario? I was expecting to read non-zero from /velocities/airspeed-kt during the thunderstorm scenario. When on the ground and facing the wind (15012KT in the "Weathe

[Flightgear-devel] airspeed vs metar

2006-01-23 Thread Vassilii Khachaturov
Dear fellow developers, Can somebody please help with a property tree interaction with the weather scenario? I was expecting to read non-zero from /velocities/airspeed-kt during the thunderstorm scenario. When on the ground and facing the wind (15012KT in the "Weather Scenario" dialog, I didn't m