Re: [Flightgear-users] What sim was the Malasian flight 370 pilot using at home?

On 03/16/2014 09:16 PM, Yan Seiner wrote: > On 03/16/2014 06:18 PM, Jon Elson wrote: >> The FAA had already planned to >> severely restrict >> model aircraft. > ??? I haven't heard this. > > It created a huge pushback from the R/C crowd, including a group

Re: [Flightgear-users] What sim was the Malasian flight 370 pilot using at home?

On 03/16/2014 07:24 PM, Michael wrote: > Pretty sure the news said "two complex Microsoft > programs," so probably FSX or something. > > Oh, good. I have real doubts the pilot was involved, seems after 18K hours of treating passengers with the utmost care, it would be hard to do something bad.

[Flightgear-users] What sim was the Malasian flight 370 pilot using at home?

There are now pics online of the pilot of the Malaysian flight 370's home sim setup, with the sim running and showing a 777 cockpit on one of the screens. Any idea if that is FGFS? Looks sort of like it could be. Not great press if it is This story is sure getting WEIRD, and we know practic

Re: [Flightgear-users] Problems with FGFS 2.4.0 new install

On 12/01/2013 08:38 PM, Jon Elson wrote: > > OK, I figured out what the instructions meant about building the > scenery in your own directory, and got it to work! Sorry > for the > newbie questions. > > AAANNd, also fixed the last problem. I forgot you have to rou

Re: [Flightgear-users] Problems with FGFS 2.4.0 new install

On 12/01/2013 08:38 PM, Jon Elson wrote: > On 12/01/2013 08:17 PM, Jon Elson wrote: > > OK, I figured out what the instructions meant about building the > scenery in your own directory, and got it to work! Sorry > for the > newbie questions. > Well, now I have another oddi

Re: [Flightgear-users] Problems with FGFS 2.4.0 new install

On 12/01/2013 08:17 PM, Jon Elson wrote: > > So, I downloaded some scenery .tgz files and unpacked them > to /usr/share/games/flightgear/Scenery > and everything seems to be set up the same as the default > SF Bay tiles. But, FGFS doesn't seem to know these are there, &g

[Flightgear-users] Problems with FGFS 2.4.0 new install

I just updated my computer with Ubuntu 12.04, and installed the default FGFS that is in their repo, also installed FGFS Launch Control. I tried to enable terrasync, but (I think) couldn't get that to work right - probably not set up right. There are a bunch of directory settings needed in Launch

[Flightgear-users] throttle / joystick problem

I am running FGFS 1.9.0 (yes I know I should upgrade, but it was really difficult installing this version, and there is no newer binary for this old OS. I will eventually upgrade the whole system. I know fgfs installs painlessly on Ubuntu.) Anyway, I just got it running again after some mess

[Flightgear-users] audio problem ?

Hello, I have had FGFS 1.9.1 running on my system for nearly a year. Last time I tried to start it I get these errors : Audio initialization failed! Could not change the current ALC context Fatal error: Failed to load wav file: at The operation was invalid in the current ALUT state I get t

Re: [Flightgear-users] Last nights CVS everthing

Donn Washburn wrote: > Hey Group; > > I dowloaded about everything I could find except plib (from openSuSE). > > Everything compiled rather clean. I installed FlightGear and it was > happy. > However, I am getting a strange unexplained error. > > :~> fgfs > Error: Unable to create OpenGL graphics

Re: [Flightgear-users] Using flightgear on my non-TOTL computer

Brian Fahrlander wrote: >> >> > Well if you've gotten 10 with it ON, there's surely a problem. > Usually when my cards are at 10, it's off. I'm finding it's a matter of > both- a solid CPU to keep the data flowing, as well as a fast card to do > the rendering. > > I get 2000+ FPS

Re: [Flightgear-users] Using flightgear on my non-TOTL computer

Brian Fahrlander wrote: > J Bickhard wrote: > >> >> I get about 9FPS. 15 or so when I'm pointing at the ground or sky ;-) >> >> > Good news: that sucks SO bad, it doesn't suggest your card is bad, > but rather the rendering isn't turned on. :/ > > No, not at all. 1 FPS means no

Re: [Flightgear-users] Simgear compilation troubles: Fedora 10, 64bit.

Daniel Pekelharing wrote: > Hi Curt, > > You were right.. > > For some reason I thought the reference to "strutils.h" referred to a > generic system header.. :o > > > Anyway, it had this strange anomaly: > > // > <<< strutils.hxx > // $Id: strutils.hxx,v 1.2 2006-03-08 18:16:08 mfranz Exp $ > =

Re: [Flightgear-users] OpenGL

Frederic Bouvier wrote: > Just remember : > http://www.mail-archive.com/flightgear-users@lists.sourceforge.net/msg06267.html > > Thanks for refreshing my memory, Frederic! I tried to build freeglut-2.2.0 from source, but it won't compile. Looking over what I had downloaded previously, I saw g

Re: [Flightgear-users] OpenGL

Simon Clubley wrote: > > > Are you running freeglut 2.4.0 instead of freeglut 2.2.0 ? > > Yes, after more research, I found out this is the problem. Supposedly the later freeglut 2.4.0-3 and later were SUPPOSED to fix this backward compatibility problem. Obviously not. > This has been report

[Flightgear-users] OpenGL

I just got OpenGL running again after a disastrous mess with a Linux kernel update that broke the Nvidia driver. I am using their "legacy" driver for a GeForce4 MX440 board. After going back to the old kernel and reinstalling the driver, I finally got glxgears to run again without crashing Xorg

Re: [Flightgear-users] Frame rates

Ron Jensen wrote: > The A10 has huge texture requirements, and lots and lots of polygons... > a 64 MB MX440 probably isn't enough card to run it well. > > Is this for the panel, or the aircraft exterior view? If the latter, is there an easy way to kill the exterior view? I don't need that, I'

[Flightgear-users] Frame rates

Well, I'm still getting everything set up after moving to a new OS (Centos 5.2) and ran into a frame rate oddity. I am using the v0.9.10 FedoraCore prebuilt package, just to test things out before going to the trouble of compiling the current code. I finally found out how to build a kernel mo

[Flightgear-users] And some mediocre performance

I'm just setting up FlightGear 0.9.10 (too many pieces and dependencies with the source). I had a very old version of FGFS on the last OS on this system, same hardware, and usually got 20 FPS, with an occasional dip to 10-12 when looking at an entire city from altitude. I have a 1.7 GHz Pentium

Re: [Flightgear-users] Analog Joystick troubles

Jon Elson wrote: > Frederic Bouvier wrote: > >> The problem was with freeglut 2.4. Try to find a newer version, or downgrade >> to v2.2 >> >> > Great! That did it, and fgfs works, now! Still got to get my joystick > set up, but I think I know ho

Re: [Flightgear-users] Upgrade troubles

Frederic Bouvier wrote: >> > > The problem was with freeglut 2.4. Try to find a newer version, or downgrade > to v2.2 > Great! That did it, and fgfs works, now! Still got to get my joystick set up, but I think I know how to do that. Thanks again, Jon --

Re: [Flightgear-users] Upgrade troubles

Curtis Olson wrote: > Hi Jon, > > I remember this freeglut problem from a while back. If I recall, the > solution was to install the "real" glut-3.7 packages. I probably have > a copy of these floating around somewhere if you can't find them online. > I grabbed that on the web, but trying to in

[Flightgear-users] Upgrade troubles

Hello, all, thanks for all the incredible work! I'm not one to upgrade frequently, so I am WA out of touch. I just set up a CentOS 5 system (Based on Red Hat Enterprise Linux), and tried to install FG 0.9.10 (the only thing that looked easy to install on a Red Hat-based system. I dl'ed a

Re: [Flightgear-users] "oops"

Sid Boyce wrote: > > There was a 757 over Canada that lost both engines (source Reader's > Digest in my doctor's office some years ago) The famous "Gimli Glider", and there are far better reports, such as one from Air and Space, I think. They had a strong feeling they were low on fuel during t

Re: [Flightgear-users] "oops"

Curtis Olson wrote: If they lost both engines nearly > simultaneously, then that would make you wonder about fuel. yes, I was thinking the same thing. No large fire in the wings, even with the massive damage near the wing root, that likely tore the fuel system all to pieces. The only odd bit w

Re: [Flightgear-users] "oops"

Ampere K. Hardraade wrote: > On Thursday 17 January 2008 08:57:22 Jon Stockill wrote: > >>It seems BA had a little bit of an accident at EGLL. >> >>http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/london/7194086.stm >> >>Jon > > > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CYwQ4EHQY8Y > > With the landing gear punched t

Re: [Flightgear-users] "oops"

Sid Boyce wrote: > Jon Stockill wrote: > >>It seems BA had a little bit of an accident at EGLL. >> >>http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/london/7194086.stm >> >>Jon >> > > > Lucky indeed, but they did admirably. Waiting to hear exactly what the > problem was. Very disturbing if all power plants

Re: [Flightgear-users] OT: first to 29000+ft - on foot

Jon Elson wrote: > LeeE wrote: > >>Little to do with flying but if speed is life, and altitude is >>life-insurance (old joke), last respects to Edmund Hillary, and >>belated last respects to Tenzing Norgay, for being the first people >>to get to that altitude by f

Re: [Flightgear-users] OT: first to 29000+ft - on foot

LeeE wrote: > Little to do with flying but if speed is life, and altitude is > life-insurance (old joke), last respects to Edmund Hillary, and > belated last respects to Tenzing Norgay, for being the first people > to get to that altitude by foot. If you want a flying altitude record, check out

Re: [Flightgear-users] CC DUMPS FRESH CC FULL FOR SALE

John Clary wrote: > On Dec 4, 2007 8:15 PM, cc dumps <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >>We offer fresh dumps from first hands.All dumps with orginal track1 and >> track2 >> > > > Whiskey, Tango, Foxtrot. How the H3// did he get on here? > And, what the H3// is he selling, stolen credit card numbers

Re: [Flightgear-users] groom lake & ufo's

Laurence Vanek wrote: > Interstingly, the airport at groom lake is in the data base as KUFO :-) Now, that is FUNNY! I'm wondering, that CAN'T be a coincidence! Jon - This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft Defy all chal

Re: [Flightgear-users] Changing airports gives blank screen

David Findlay wrote: > I've just installed from source version 0.9.10 and it works, except for when > I > try to start from a different airport. Changing airports gives me a black > screen apart from the panel. The sim seems to be running, and I briefly see > the scenery but then it disappears.

Re: [Flightgear-users] [OT]:: Darwin award candidates - Sukhoi SU62G-SIID and 5 friends

Richard Bytheway wrote: > -Original Message- > > >>http://www.airsceneuk.org.uk/airshow05/riat05/partone/curtis.jpg >> >>That would be a challenge to model in AI... >> >>Cheers >>Dene >>NZWN > > > > Photoshop - well done, but still fake. > > If the exposure is long enough to blur the

Re: [Flightgear-users] nice landing ...

Curtis Olson wrote: > On 3/21/07, *Jon Elson* wrote: > > Wow, no flare at all, and about 60 FPS descent. Clearly blew a > couple tires on that one, especially the nosewheel. Might have > been more excitement later, as the hydraulic systems might have > run out

Re: [Flightgear-users] nice landing ...

Ampere K. Hardraade wrote: > > > I mentioned FBW because I believe the plane was an A320. There should be two > angled leading edges on vertical stabilizer for the 737, where the A320 has a > fillet near the fuselage. I couldn't really discern that feature, but the "heart-shaped" winglets of t

Re: [Flightgear-users] nice landing ...

leee wrote: > > > I've had this video for a few years and I don't buy it as a fake. Quite > apart > from the fact that it was obviously set up for filming, I've done a lot of > photography and a lot of CGI and everything about it. from the detail and > operation of the flaps & spoilers, the

Re: [Flightgear-users] nice landing ...

Vadym Kukhtin wrote: > > > 2007/3/20, Tom Schinckel <[EMAIL PROTECTED] >: > > > Can anyone I.D. the airline? > > > it is RC aircraft model, its wellknown Oh, S**T! That makes a BIG difference! Well, what an incredible model, then! Sure had ME fooled! If that had

Re: [Flightgear-users] nice landing ...

Bill Galbraith wrote: > > > > >I have nothing to say. > > > > >>http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-2307135223378952178&q=worst >> >> >&hl=en > >Josh > > > > >I thought that it was some testing of the aircraft to ensure that i

Re: [Flightgear-users] nice landing ...

Tom Schinckel wrote: >Jon Elson wrote: > > >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>Wow! That was about as close to a crash as I've ever seen! What was >>the weather doing >>at the time? Must have been severe crosswin

Re: [Flightgear-users] nice landing ...

Georg Vollnhals wrote: >Josh Babcock schrieb: > > >>I have nothing to say. >> >>http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-2307135223378952178&q=worst&hl=en >> >>Josh >> >> >> >> >Hi Josh, >I never thought I could see one of my sim-landings in reality ;-) > > Wow! That was about as close

Re: [Flightgear-users] My FG doesn't work at night

Jon Stockill wrote: >On Fri, November 17, 2006 6:03 pm, Dene wrote: > > >>To emphasize the point; FG 09.10 won't run on a p4/1.8Ghz /fsb400 with >>nVidia geForce MX2 32Mbyte card >> >> > >Then there's something else causing the problems - it works fine on a 1GHz >P3 machine with the same

[Flightgear-users] 3% Linux

Edward Cawley wrote: > If 3% is for Linux, I hate to think what Mac is! I may have a very skewed perspective, as I sell hardware that is currently supported only by a program that runs only under Linux. But, I don't think the keyword searches that bring people there would select Linux users in

Re: [Flightgear-users] Discovery Channel FlightGear sighting?

>Jon Stockill wrote: > > >>I was watching the "Ultimate Combat Helicopters" on Discovery Wings in >>the UK a couple of days ago, the prog covered the upgrades that are >>being performed on assorted helicopters so that they can integrate with >>modern battlefield communications systems. They s

Re: [Flightgear-users] US Homeland security and Flightgear [Was]Century Wind Project (resend)

Curtis L. Olson wrote: >JD Fenech wrote: > > >>That's exatly what they want! They _NEED_ to be included now.I want to >>include it more than ever, then send them an email notifying them of >>this fact, and that they have absolutely no say in whether or not it stays. >> >> >> > >We don't

Re: [Flightgear-users] US Homeland security and Flightgear [Was]Century Wind Project (resend)

JD Fenech wrote: >Well, a new update on finding the positional data on those wind turbines >in central Iowa to put into FG. > >How compatible is flightgear with US homeland security? >When I asked Mid-American Energy (or should it be Mid-CCCP Energo now?), >I was refused any real information, be

Re: [Flightgear-users] is this a radar antenna?

Josh Babcock wrote: >I'm not sure if this is a radar antenna, or what. It's smack in the >middle of KADW, about a thousand feet north of the VOR. There should be >a TACAN antenna around somewhere, but I don't think this is it. Can >anyone identify it? > >http://jrbabcock.home.comcast.net/flightgea

Re: [Flightgear-users] Re: [Flightgear-devel] Guess what plane this is!

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