Re: [Flightgear-devel] C310 Update
One more... The mixture levers are crossed: the left mixture controls the right engine and vice versa ___ Flightgear-devel mailing list Flightgear-devel@flightgear.org http://mail.flightgear.org/mailman/listinfo/flightgear-devel 2f585eeea02e2c79d7b1d8c4963bae2d
Re: [Flightgear-devel] C310 Update
> There are a number of minor issues remaining: > - For some reason I have minor alpha problems with the panel where the > outside world can be seen through the bottom edge of some instruments. I > haven't been able to get to the bottom of this. I'm not sure whether this > is an issue with my graphics card or not. I don't see the same issue with > the c182, which I used the same panel approach on. Same here with a radeon9600. And there is a hole on the upper side of each wing where the upper surface connects to the wingtip. It looks like you "optimized" one vertex to much. Oh and one more funny view is when you look from the outside at the plane's roof, you can see thru the windows and the bottom of the plane to the ground. Could be a bit scary for the passengers :-) Will now go and fly some patterns... Cheers, Torsten ___ Flightgear-devel mailing list Flightgear-devel@flightgear.org http://mail.flightgear.org/mailman/listinfo/flightgear-devel 2f585eeea02e2c79d7b1d8c4963bae2d
Re: [Flightgear-devel] FlightGear for PSP??
Cool Idea, and after that I'd love to have fgfs on my IPod, it's internal disk ist large enough for the entire scenery and there is a linux implementation for it, too (www.ipodlinux.org). I think the graphics is a little poor... > I have a wild idea I hope no one kills me for! Its christmas and PSP > prices are a little lower (i think). How hard would it be to put > Flightgear on a PSP. People are already doing homebrew games on > those, ofcourse, not with very complicated graphics. But it could be > possible could it not?? ___ Flightgear-devel mailing list Flightgear-devel@flightgear.org http://mail.flightgear.org/mailman/listinfo/flightgear-devel 2f585eeea02e2c79d7b1d8c4963bae2d
[Flightgear-devel] OT: A380 arrived in EDHI (Hamburg-Finkenwerder)
Hi everybody! Last tuesday, the A380 serial number 2 (F-WXXL) came to the airbus site in Hamburg to get a new painting and the interior. They will also do the evacuation test and some others here. This is the first A380 that came to Hamburg for a full-stop after a short fly-by visit some weeks ago. Once they start production and delivery of the A380, there will be a couple of landings a week here in Hamburg, before they get delivered to the airlines. It is a very nice place to spot the aircrafts there. The airport is located close to the river Elbe and for about half of the runway a dike protecting against flooding from high water in the Elbe runs parallel to the runway giving you a 7m (20ft) elevation to the runway surface. You can stand so close, one can almost touch the wing-tips passing in front of you. An aerial foto of EDHI is here http://www.eddh.de/info/landeinfo-ergebnisb.php?ueicao=EDHI but it is a few years old. In the meantime, the bay located in the center of the picture was filled and there are hangars for the A380 production now and the runway has been extended to the lower right corner of the picture, almost touching the water. I took some fotos of the A380 landing on tuesday and put them here http://www.t3r.de/fg/a380/ I also put 2 movies there for those with a fast internet-link, they are 37MB and 60MB. Hope you like this little story and the pics. Cheers, Torsten ___ Flightgear-devel mailing list Flightgear-devel@flightgear.org http://mail.flightgear.org/mailman/listinfo/flightgear-devel 2f585eeea02e2c79d7b1d8c4963bae2d
Re: [Flightgear-devel] Re: howto compile on SuSE 10.0 running gcc
> An archive post says that the CVS version does not have this problem. > Should I try the CVS version? I installed 0.9.8 because of the > previous error, just to see if the version was at fault. It's not FG, but freeglut 2.4.0 (release version) causing this error. I have tried to compile the CVS version of freeglut on SuSE 10, but got lots of compile errors there and fixing the older 2.2.0 version was easier for me. Torsten ___ Flightgear-devel mailing list Flightgear-devel@flightgear.org http://mail.flightgear.org/mailman/listinfo/flightgear-devel 2f585eeea02e2c79d7b1d8c4963bae2d
[Flightgear-devel] howto compile on SuSE 10.0 running gcc 4.0.2 and freeglut 2.4.0
Hi everybody,
just tried to get latest CVS compiled on a fresh install of SuSE 10.0. It has
gcc 4.0.2 and freeglut 2.4.0 installed. It compiles, but does not run due to
the known
freeglut (fgfs): Failed to create cursor
freeglut ERROR: Function called without first calling
'glutInit'.
stuff. Trying to compile freeglut 2.2.0 brings up a lot of compile errors on
freeglut_callbacks.c.
The reason for the errors is in freeglut_internal.h in the definitions of the
macros FETCH_WCB and INVOKE_WCB
I modified these like this in freeglut_internal.h:
#define FETCH_WCB(window,cbname) \
((window).CallBacks[CB_ ## cbname])
#define INVOKE_WCB(window,cbname,arg_list)\
do\
{ \
if( FETCH_WCB( window, cbname ) ) \
{ \
fgSetWindow( &window ); \
((FGCB ## cbname)FETCH_WCB( window, cbname )) arg_list; \
} \
} while( 0 )
After that freeglut compiles and a rebuild of plib, SimGear and FlightGear
brings back my FlightGear.
Looks more like a freeglut-thing, but maybe someone on this list also cares...
Cheers, Torsten
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Re: [Flightgear-devel] Microsoft artwork (!) in the 707 panel
> > Is someone out there who has a 707 panel photo me ; ?? > (There is no aircraft museum in Germany with a 707, AFAIK) > The Hamburg airport has a 707 as a museum sitting on the ramp http://www.airport.de/de/boeing_707.html I just wrote a mail to the contact address on that page to ask for some fotos or the permission to take pictures myself. I'll post the answer here.. cheers, torsten ___ Flightgear-devel mailing list Flightgear-devel@flightgear.org http://mail.flightgear.org/mailman/listinfo/flightgear-devel 2f585eeea02e2c79d7b1d8c4963bae2d
Re: [Flightgear-devel] Airport 3/4-letter codes data source
Am Donnerstag, 4. August 2005 02:05 schrieb Gerhard Wesp: > Hi all, > > anybody knows any good source for a list of all airports and their > 3-letter code (like JFK, SFO, LHR, etc.) together with its coordinates > and/or 4-letter ICAO code? > > Thanks and kind regards > -Gerhard http://www.ead.eurocontrol.int/ register yourself (it's free), you need a browser with java enabled (Firefox will do). Click on "Go" on the bottom of the page, select "Enter" on the next page and wait for the applet to load. Select "SDO Reporting, Generate Report" and select one of the predefined Reports "Aerodrome / Heliport in XXX". XXX is for - Africa - Europe / Greenland - North/South America, Pacific - Russia, Asia, Australia here is the example of my homebase, generated from Europe/Greenland: 4606735 EDDH GERMANY HAMBURG EDDH HAM AD JOINT 533749.40N 0095917.62E WGE HAMBURG H24 09-Jun-2005 Cheers, Torsten ___ Flightgear-devel mailing list Flightgear-devel@flightgear.org http://mail.flightgear.org/mailman/listinfo/flightgear-devel 2f585eeea02e2c79d7b1d8c4963bae2d
Re: [Flightgear-devel] xml panels (2d)
> directory. How common is the KRA10? Well - you usually don't find it in the small trainers like 150's or 172's, but in the "upperclass" like the mooney or beech or lite twins, it can be seen. So I declare this one as "common" and I put the files under Aircraft/Instruments and Aircraft/Instruments/Textures. I solved the problem with the lowpass filter by using the tag which is very easy to use. I put a downloadable version of my radar altimeter here: http://www.t3r.de/fg/ and whould be happy if anybody likes to integrate it to their panels. Torsten ___ Flightgear-devel mailing list Flightgear-devel@flightgear.org http://mail.flightgear.org/mailman/listinfo/flightgear-devel 2f585eeea02e2c79d7b1d8c4963bae2d
[Flightgear-devel] xml panels (2d)
Hi, I'm currently working on two panels to eumulate a Piper Seminole and a Piper Seneca (both piston twins). I already managed to build a few things: http://www.t3r.de/fg/fgfs-screen-003.jpg There is an old-fashioned analog utc-clock, a RMI with two needles for ADF and VOR, a radar altimeter (like the King KRA-10A), some engine instruments, a Piper-style manifold gauge with two needles (this is the non turbo type) and a bunch of switches. All the other instruments are from the flightgear-stock. Work in progress is the radar altimeter and here comes my first question: The needle is bound to the /position/altitude-agl-ft property with a rotation transformation and a interpolation table which works pretty good. Is it possible to feed the result of the tranformations thru a lowpass? The reason is: if the height above ground is less than 20 feet, the needle moves clockwise out of sight (behind the 2500 feet mark) and if I implement this with the interpolation table, the needles just disappeares instead of moving more or less quickly out of view. How should the files be organized? All xml files in Aircraft/Instruments and all textures in Aircraft/Instruments/Textures or whould it be better to sort the files e.g. all files related to the KRA-10A go into Aircraft/Instruments/KRA10 (which I prefer)? Cheers, Torsten ___ Flightgear-devel mailing list Flightgear-devel@flightgear.org http://mail.flightgear.org/mailman/listinfo/flightgear-devel 2f585eeea02e2c79d7b1d8c4963bae2d
Re: [Flightgear-devel] Re: Diamond Katana model
> joe, > > sure you are not interested in a DA42 ? > would love one of these in FG > http://www.abacuspub.com/fsd/catalog/s609.htm There was a project from diamond aircraft and microsoft about building a model for the Twin Star. http://www.diamond-air.at/de/press/pressarchive/50606.htm this page is in german, I don't think there is one in english. It - roughly - tells the story about both companies supporting two schools in austria in a building a model of the DA42 for FS2004. The files could be found here http://www.microsoft.com/austria/education/projekte.mspx It looks like they did a model for the DA40 180, too. I whish, they did this for fg... Torsten ___ Flightgear-devel mailing list Flightgear-devel@flightgear.org http://mail.flightgear.org/mailman/listinfo/flightgear-devel 2f585eeea02e2c79d7b1d8c4963bae2d
[Flightgear-devel] European AIS Database
Hi everybody, maybe you all know of this thing, but I just stumbled into http://www.ead.eurocontrol.int/ where ** TONS ** of data is available for free. They seem to have lots of AIPs for download, including SID/STAR/Approach charts for european countries (I just checked germany and danmark). Also they can generate reports with VOR, Airport, DME, intersection and airspace positions - and output data in XML (!). You have to register with them to use the service - but it's for free. The user interface is a java applet an you have to have a running sun java plugin for your browser. I use Firefox and jre 1.5 on linux which works fine. I think this site is cool for pilots - simulated and real life - who prefer to spend their money for AVGAS (Beer for simpilots?) rather than chart subscriptions. fly with fun! Torsten ___ Flightgear-devel mailing list Flightgear-devel@flightgear.org http://mail.flightgear.org/mailman/listinfo/flightgear-devel 2f585eeea02e2c79d7b1d8c4963bae2d
Re: [Flightgear-devel] Building joystick hardware
Well - it's not really a serial driver, the interface connects thru the handshake lines rts/cts and dtr with rxd and txd left unconnected since the LTC1090 speaks a synchronous protocol. I have no Idea how to present a Joystick to the kernel out of userland. And second - correct me, if I'm wrong - I think, there is no way to set rts and/or dtr via ioctl or other portable api? I would love to get rid of a kernel module and start some kind of userspace-daemon. Torsten Am Montag, 6. Juni 2005 19:31 schrieb Andy Ross: > Wow, very cool. > > Torsten Dreyer wrote: > > This is a kernel module for a linux 2.6 kernel on ix86 machines with > > 8250/16450 serial ports (standard pc hardware). > > Comments *ARE* welcome! > > > > Anybody out there, who can point me to a resource for developing joystick > > drivers for MS? > > No hints about windows, sorry. But why are you doing a custom serial > driver? Surely the hardware handles the proper RS-232 framing on its > own, no? Can't you do this in userspace? > > Andy ___ Flightgear-devel mailing list Flightgear-devel@flightgear.org http://mail.flightgear.org/mailman/listinfo/flightgear-devel 2f585eeea02e2c79d7b1d8c4963bae2d
Re: [Flightgear-devel] Building joystick hardware
I put the source of the LTC1090 joystick driver here: http://www.t3r.de/fghw/ At the bottom of the page you find the download link for the source-tarball. This is a kernel module for a linux 2.6 kernel on ix86 machines with 8250/16450 serial ports (standard pc hardware). Comments *ARE* welcome! Anybody out there, who can point me to a resource for developing joystick drivers for MS? Regards - Torsten ___ Flightgear-devel mailing list Flightgear-devel@flightgear.org http://mail.flightgear.org/mailman/listinfo/flightgear-devel 2f585eeea02e2c79d7b1d8c4963bae2d
Re: [Flightgear-devel] Building joystick hardware
>[..] > Hey, LTC apparently has a tradition of making chips for easy > application. I never knew they have such a nice A/D converter. > I'd be primarily interested to know how you did the driver. Did you > pick one from the Linux kernel and changed a few bits or did you build > one from scratch ? > > Cheers, > Martin. I looked thru the existing joystick drivers, took some pieces of some of them and added my own stuff. Thats what software development is all about - see what others are doing and add own ideas. Who builds new software from scratch? A wise man once said: ".. men never really invents something - he just rearranges things .." Greetings out of nimbostratus, Torsten ___ Flightgear-devel mailing list Flightgear-devel@flightgear.org http://mail.flightgear.org/mailman/listinfo/flightgear-devel 2f585eeea02e2c79d7b1d8c4963bae2d
Re: [Flightgear-devel] Building joystick hardware
Some pictures and more infos can be found here: http://www.t3r.de/fghw/ I am currently working on the page with the driver sources and a description how to build it. > Hi everybody. > > Some weeks ago, I dug thru my spare-parts-box and found a small assembly of > an 8 channel 10 bit A/D converter using a LTC1090 and a few other parts. I > dug a bit further and out came some pots, knobs, switches, some pieces of > wood, a few screews and a bit of wire. > I glued it all together, wrote a device driver for linux, hacked a xml file > and suddenly had a neat power quadrant to use with flightgear's piston > twins connected to the unused serial port. > It has: > 6 levers (axis?): 2 black for throttle, 2 blue for prop, 2 red for mixture > 2 wheels for elevator and rudder trim > 1 switch for gear up/down > 2 switches for flaps down/up > > js_demo sees it like this: > ~~ > Joystick 0: "LTC1090 Joystick" > Joystick 1 not detected > Joystick 2 not detected > Joystick 3 not detected > Joystick 4 not detected > Joystick 5 not detected > Joystick 6 not detected > Joystick 7 not detected > +JS.0--+ > > | Btns Ax:0 Ax:1 Ax:2 Ax:3 Ax:4 Ax:5 Ax:6 Ax:7 | > > +--+ > > | 0004 +0.2 +0.2 -0.6 +0.3 -0.1 -0.6 -0.0 -0.1 | > > If anyone here on the list (or is there a hardware-builder list?) is > interested in rebuilding this little toy, I am happy to put all I know to a > little web site. One should be able to purchase all parts for around 40 > EUR. > > Oh - by the way: > Thanks everybody for making FlightGear! I use it a lot to keep current in > flying ifr procedures... > > Cheers, Torsten > > ___ > Flightgear-devel mailing list > Flightgear-devel@flightgear.org > http://mail.flightgear.org/mailman/listinfo/flightgear-devel > 2f585eeea02e2c79d7b1d8c4963bae2d -- Herzlichen Gruß Torsten Dreyer ___ Flightgear-devel mailing list Flightgear-devel@flightgear.org http://mail.flightgear.org/mailman/listinfo/flightgear-devel 2f585eeea02e2c79d7b1d8c4963bae2d
[Flightgear-devel] Building joystick hardware
Hi everybody. Some weeks ago, I dug thru my spare-parts-box and found a small assembly of an 8 channel 10 bit A/D converter using a LTC1090 and a few other parts. I dug a bit further and out came some pots, knobs, switches, some pieces of wood, a few screews and a bit of wire. I glued it all together, wrote a device driver for linux, hacked a xml file and suddenly had a neat power quadrant to use with flightgear's piston twins connected to the unused serial port. It has: 6 levers (axis?): 2 black for throttle, 2 blue for prop, 2 red for mixture 2 wheels for elevator and rudder trim 1 switch for gear up/down 2 switches for flaps down/up js_demo sees it like this: ~~ Joystick 0: "LTC1090 Joystick" Joystick 1 not detected Joystick 2 not detected Joystick 3 not detected Joystick 4 not detected Joystick 5 not detected Joystick 6 not detected Joystick 7 not detected +JS.0--+ | Btns Ax:0 Ax:1 Ax:2 Ax:3 Ax:4 Ax:5 Ax:6 Ax:7 | +--+ | 0004 +0.2 +0.2 -0.6 +0.3 -0.1 -0.6 -0.0 -0.1 | If anyone here on the list (or is there a hardware-builder list?) is interested in rebuilding this little toy, I am happy to put all I know to a little web site. One should be able to purchase all parts for around 40 EUR. Oh - by the way: Thanks everybody for making FlightGear! I use it a lot to keep current in flying ifr procedures... Cheers, Torsten ___ Flightgear-devel mailing list Flightgear-devel@flightgear.org http://mail.flightgear.org/mailman/listinfo/flightgear-devel 2f585eeea02e2c79d7b1d8c4963bae2d
Re: [Flightgear-devel] power/gear warning
From the PA-44-180 Seminole Pilot's Operating Handbook: A micro switch incorporated in the throttle quadrant activates the gear warning horn under the following conditions: (a) The gear is not locked down and the manifold pressure has fallen below 14 inches on either one or both engines (b) The gear selector switch is in the UP position when the airplane is on the ground (c) The gear selector switch is in the UP position and wing flaps are extended to the second or third notch position Regards, Torsten Curtis L. Olson wrote: On some more complex aircraft, if you pull back the power without having the landing gear down, you get an audible warning signal. I don't know if I've ever had the chance to hear this tone in real life. Does any one have (or can anyone create) a suitable sound to be included in the base package? Thanks, Curt. ___ Flightgear-devel mailing list Flightgear-devel@flightgear.org http://mail.flightgear.org/mailman/listinfo/flightgear-devel 2f585eeea02e2c79d7b1d8c4963bae2d
