Re: [Flightgear-devel] Navaids radio propagation code almost production ready

2012-11-27 Thread Adrian Musceac
On Tuesday, November 27, 2012 14:53:07 James Turner wrote: > > Gitorious was down this morning, or I would have already given some review > comments. However I see quite a few new versions of the patch, it would be > good to know it's 'ready' from your perspective, before reviewing. I too > would

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Navaids radio propagation code almost production ready

2012-11-27 Thread James Turner
On 27 Nov 2012, at 12:44, Adrian Musceac wrote: > I have not updated the merge request with these features yet, waiting for the > new radio to make it into 'next' since it's enough code there already. > I have also added a "Request for info" chapter in the wiki page, asking > anybody with deep

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Navaids radio propagation code almost production ready

2012-11-27 Thread Adrian Musceac
Update: I've added new signal calculation for DME stations too. As explained detailed in the wiki, DME uses a very high frequency range, thus it is possible sometimes in reality to receive the VOR signal but not the DME signal. Screenshots provided in the wiki article. Also, TACAN reception is

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Navaids radio propagation code almost production ready

2012-11-26 Thread Adrian Musceac
On Monday, November 26, 2012 19:18:26 James Turner wrote: > I'll do a review if no-one beats me to it, but this definitely needs to be > 'off-by-default' for the next release. We can add a checkbox to the > realism dialog to enable it from the GUI, and give aircraft authors a > chance to adapt. >

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Navaids radio propagation code almost production ready

2012-11-26 Thread Adrian Musceac
On Monday, November 26, 2012 19:18:26 James Turner wrote: > > I'll do a review if no-one beats me to it, but this definitely needs to be > 'off-by-default' for the next release. We can add a checkbox to the > realism dialog to enable it from the GUI, and give aircraft authors a > chance to adapt.

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Navaids radio propagation code almost production ready

2012-11-26 Thread James Turner
On 26 Nov 2012, at 17:11, Adrian Musceac wrote: > I have added VOR, localizer and glideslope signal calculations for the old > (classic) navradios (navradio.cxx) > Now an ILS navaid is basically considered as two separate stations: Localizer > and glideslope, as in reality. Both these stations

[Flightgear-devel] Navaids radio propagation code almost production ready

2012-11-26 Thread Adrian Musceac
Hi, I have added VOR, localizer and glideslope signal calculations for the old (classic) navradios (navradio.cxx) Now an ILS navaid is basically considered as two separate stations: Localizer and glideslope, as in reality. Both these stations can have separate parameters like transmitter power,

Re: [Flightgear-devel] navaids update

2009-12-21 Thread Brian Schack
> "Jean" == jean pellotier writes: Jean> I see the update is done, thanks, (and sorry for windows users Jean> waiting for a compatible binary build :) ). It appears that Jean> Atlas don't like the new nav.dat.gz, and crash on start up, Jean> because some navaids contains empt

Re: [Flightgear-devel] navaids update

2009-12-21 Thread jean pellotier
Martin Spott a écrit : Salut Jean, jean pellotier wrote: Is nav.dat supposed to be updated from robin X-plane database? If nobody else is going to do that, I'll be updating the file from Robin's most current package during our pre-release phase (however this is going to be defined ..

Re: [Flightgear-devel] navaids update

2009-12-20 Thread Martin Spott
John Denker wrote: > On the opposite side of the same coin, the last time > I looked, the scenery database listed huge numbers of > airports that were unknown to Robin's database. I don't know which "scenery database" you've been looking at, but it's certainly not been the one which we're using

Re: [Flightgear-devel] navaids update

2009-12-19 Thread James Turner
On 19 Dec 2009, at 16:19, John Denker wrote: > Maybe the code should be made more robust so that this > is not a fault condition. > > This is not the first time in history that code has > needed to perform a join on two databases that are > not in one-to-one correspondence. Well I wrote the co

Re: [Flightgear-devel] navaids update

2009-12-19 Thread John Denker
On 12/19/2009 07:40 AM, Martin Spott wrote: > ... Robin's current set of navaids ... > contains navaids for airfields which are otherwise unknown to > FlightGear, On the opposite side of the same coin, the last time I looked, the scenery database listed huge numbers of airports that were unknow

Re: [Flightgear-devel] navaids update

2009-12-19 Thread Martin Spott
Pete Morgan wrote: > Is nav.dat supposed to be updated from robin X-plane database? Yes. >> If nobody else is going to do that, I'll be updating the file from >> Robin's most current package during our pre-release phase (however this >> is going to be defined ). >> >> > Can't the data be

Re: [Flightgear-devel] navaids update

2009-12-14 Thread Pete Morgan
Is nav.dat supposed to be updated from robin X-plane database? > > If nobody else is going to do that, I'll be updating the file from > Robin's most current package during our pre-release phase (however this > is going to be defined ). > > Can't the data be commited to CVS now ? pete ---

Re: [Flightgear-devel] navaids update

2009-12-14 Thread Martin Spott
Salut Jean, jean pellotier wrote: > Is nav.dat supposed to be updated from robin X-plane database? If nobody else is going to do that, I'll be updating the file from Robin's most current package during our pre-release phase (however this is going to be defined ). > here's a diff toward our

[Flightgear-devel] navaids update

2009-12-14 Thread jean pellotier
Hi, I've got a question about the navaids, particularly nav.dat. Is nav.dat supposed to be updated from robin X-plane database? The french missing navaids I submited to robin ( approach locators ) are included in recent nav.dat from X-plane, and I was waiting them to come in Flightgear, but a

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Navaids FIX data with duplicates entries

2008-02-07 Thread John Denker
On 02/07/2008 07:28 AM, Cleber Santz wrote: > I have trace same routes using waypoints and find many duplicates > entries in FIX Data ( like LEPAS, HARDY ) with different coordinates, > thats is correct ? 1) That is a correct observation, there are duplicate fixes. That includes named waypoints

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Navaids FIX data with duplicates entries

2008-02-07 Thread Cleber Santz
Yes, SBGL is in APT.DAT but the FIX around is not in FIX.DAT ( Like FICO, PERES ) And there duplicates entries in X-Plane data too, i have send mail for Robin check it, but FIX of around SBGL airport is in X-Plane but not in Flightgear. Tks, Cleber "K. Hoercher" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> escre

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Navaids FIX data with duplicates entries

2008-02-07 Thread K. Hoercher
On Thu, Feb 07, 2008 at 03:42:05PM +0100, Pietro wrote: > At Thursday 07 February 2008 15:28:55 Cleber Santz wrote: > >One more thing, some FIX that find in X-Plane navaid data not appers in > > FlightGear ( FIX for SBGL airport for example ), is not the same database ? Well I checked LEPAS an

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Navaids FIX data with duplicates entries

2008-02-07 Thread Pietro
At Thursday 07 February 2008 15:28:55 Cleber Santz wrote: >One more thing, some FIX that find in X-Plane navaid data not appers in > FlightGear ( FIX for SBGL airport for example ), is not the same database ? Hi, AFAIK the fgfs navaids files have been converted from X-plane data files, but al

[Flightgear-devel] Navaids FIX data with duplicates entries

2008-02-07 Thread Cleber Santz
Hi, I have trace same routes using waypoints and find many duplicates entries in FIX Data ( like LEPAS, HARDY ) with different coordinates, thats is correct ? One more thing, some FIX that find in X-Plane navaid data not appers in FlightGear ( FIX for SBGL airport for example ), is not t

Re: [Flightgear-devel] NAVAIDS ???

2006-01-29 Thread Jon Stockill
Mathias Fröhlich wrote: Jon, On Tuesday 24 January 2006 22:45, Jon Stockill wrote: I've just discovered that when using the null fdm I'm not getting updates to /position/ground-elev-m any more. So I can't actually retrieve the terrain elevation. Is there somewhere else in the property tree I c

Re: [Flightgear-devel] NAVAIDS ???

2006-01-28 Thread Mathias Fröhlich
Jon, On Tuesday 24 January 2006 22:45, Jon Stockill wrote: > I've just discovered that when using the null fdm I'm not getting > updates to /position/ground-elev-m any more. So I can't actually > retrieve the terrain elevation. Is there somewhere else in the property > tree I could read this from

Re: [Flightgear-devel] NAVAIDS ???

2006-01-25 Thread Jon Stockill
Curtis L. Olson wrote: Hmmm, ouch, ground_cache issues? This was added by others so I don't understand it enough to know if this could be the issue or not. Might be something to look at though ... Well using the UFO, without specifying fdm=null seems to work. Just got to hope the UFO doesn

[Flightgear-devel] navaids...

2006-01-24 Thread syd & sandy
Thanks guys did an update and ILS works again ! Now I just have to figure out why I break my Nav needle animations when using several different conditions on the same object . :) Cheers , Syd --- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Spl

Re: [Flightgear-devel] NAVAIDS ???

2006-01-24 Thread Mathias Fröhlich
On Tuesday 24 January 2006 22:45, Jon Stockill wrote: > Jon Stockill wrote: > > So with any luck I should have a full update of all the navaids in the > > database with correct elevations by this weekend. > > It seems I don't have any luck at the moment. > > I've just discovered that when using the

Re: [Flightgear-devel] NAVAIDS ???

2006-01-24 Thread Curtis L. Olson
Jon Stockill wrote: Jon Stockill wrote: So with any luck I should have a full update of all the navaids in the database with correct elevations by this weekend. It seems I don't have any luck at the moment. I've just discovered that when using the null fdm I'm not getting updates to /posi

Re: [Flightgear-devel] NAVAIDS ???

2006-01-24 Thread Jon Stockill
Jon Stockill wrote: So with any luck I should have a full update of all the navaids in the database with correct elevations by this weekend. It seems I don't have any luck at the moment. I've just discovered that when using the null fdm I'm not getting updates to /position/ground-elev-m any

Re: [Flightgear-devel] NAVAIDS ???

2006-01-24 Thread Jon Stockill
Curtis L. Olson wrote: Hmmm, it appears that Robin added a range field to the data file, and embarasingly, I didn't not notice before updating the data file. I see if I can get that straightened out here. That caught me out too, however I now have a script to import the current format into t

Re: [Flightgear-devel] NAVAIDS ???

2006-01-24 Thread Curtis L. Olson
Curtis L. Olson wrote: Hmmm, it appears that Robin added a range field to the data file, and embarasingly, I didn't not notice before updating the data file. I see if I can get that straightened out here. Hi Syd, give the latest cvs (code) a try ... Curt. -- Curtis Olsonhttp://www

Re: [Flightgear-devel] NAVAIDS ???

2006-01-24 Thread Curtis L. Olson
syd & sandy wrote: After a very recent CVS update I noticed some strange behavior while working on my Citation-Bravo ... heading needle deviation seems to be inaccurate. I fired up Atlas and the first thing I noticed was ALL ILS navaids were pointing roughly south .Has anyone else noticed this .

[Flightgear-devel] NAVAIDS ???

2006-01-23 Thread syd & sandy
After a very recent CVS update I noticed some strange behavior while working on my Citation-Bravo ... heading needle deviation seems to be inaccurate. I fired up Atlas and the first thing I noticed was ALL ILS navaids were pointing roughly south .Has anyone else noticed this ... or have I messed up