Re: [Flightgear-devel] Multiplayer chat patch
On Saturday 30 September 2006 16:57, Buchanan, Stuart wrote: Any chance this could be committed sometime, or objections raised? Yes, I will do so this weekend. I would like to double check that it does not break the current protocol ... Greetings Mathias - Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT business topics through brief surveys -- and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.phpp=sourceforgeCID=DEVDEV ___ Flightgear-devel mailing list Flightgear-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/flightgear-devel
Re: [Flightgear-devel] Multiplayer chat patch
--- Mathias Fröhlich wrote: ember 2006 16:57, Buchanan, Stuart wrote: Any chance this could be committed sometime, or objections raised? Yes, I will do so this weekend. I would like to double check that it does not break the current protocol ... Thanks. I've only been able to test the recent minor changes on a single computer, so a bit or paranoia would be good. If you need another person to help, let me know. I'll be on IRC. -Stuart ___ All new Yahoo! Mail The new Interface is stunning in its simplicity and ease of use. - PC Magazine http://uk.docs.yahoo.com/nowyoucan.html - Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT business topics through brief surveys -- and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.phpp=sourceforgeCID=DEVDEV ___ Flightgear-devel mailing list Flightgear-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/flightgear-devel
Re: [Flightgear-devel] Multiplayer chat patch
Stuart, I have problems applying that patches. I am not sure why but patch claims: patch: Only garbage was found in the patch input. Could you rediff that only with cvs diff -u instead of cvs diff -u -p -8 -w I would expect that this helps Thanks! On Sunday 01 October 2006 11:26, Buchanan, Stuart wrote: Thanks. I've only been able to test the recent minor changes on a single computer, so a bit or paranoia would be good. If you need another person to help, let me know. I'll be on IRC. Thanks! Greetings Mathias - Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT business topics through brief surveys -- and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.phpp=sourceforgeCID=DEVDEV ___ Flightgear-devel mailing list Flightgear-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/flightgear-devel
[Flightgear-devel] OT: First solo
Hi everybody, in the tradition of all real-life pilots-to-be reporting about their milestone experiences in their training, I'd like to tell you about my first solo in the traffic circuit I had on Friday. For understanding of the context: I'm currently training to be a pilot of microlight planes of the aerodynamically controlled type. IIRC these things are known as VLA (very light aircraft) in the US, although some of the parameters (maximum MTOW etc.) are different. So I'm not flying trikes but merely a much smaller and lighter version of what you PPL-pilots out there are using. I'm training on a Comco Ikarus C42B, of which a model for FlightGear is in the making (detailed static 3D model is nearly complete, FDM is a mess and no animation or scripting of specific instruments has yet taken place ;-) ). On Thursday it happened to happen that the conditions of myself having time off from my dayjob, not being too tired from it and the weather being VMC (lower limits, however) met on the same day. I hadn't had any lessons for nearly a month and the last one was a bit frustrating because the landings just didn't want to work the way I wanted them to, which - as I learned later on - was due to several factors I couldn't expect to counter at my stage of training, one of them being the maintenance guy who had fastened some screws in the front gear a bit too hard which made control of rudder and steering wheel harder and much less precise. It makes a whole lot of a difference whether you can control the rudder with only small forces or whether you need to literally stump on the pedals to actually move them. And on Thursday we went to our training airodrome (landing fees there allow us to do ten times more landings for the same price as at our home base), did some coordination training (following curvy roads) as well as some navigation training in bad visibility, and then I did my first landing for that day, which was absolutely perfect! We did 8 landings in total and all of them were at least safe, even though not perfect in my mind (I expect my passengers not to know that we're on the ground again ;-) ) In the break we did in between my instructor already babbled something about not letting me do a solo today yet, but there was something in that yet... On the following day, Friday, we went to that aerodrome again and I did 3 landings, all of which were safe again. On the fourth landing my instructor added a little spice by simulating an engine failure for me to see that essentially that doesn't make a huge problem when you're almost on the runway and high enough. After that landing we taxied to the apron and he tried to assure me that we would have a short break now. He's a very talented actor, but I was already prepared and it seemed awkward to do a break after that few landings. He left the plane on the apron and then told me to do 3 or 4 landings solo. I don't need to tell you I was nervous as hell, however, somehow I didn't notice the forgetting how to fly effect others had told me of. I taxied to the taxi holding point, reported that I would taxi onto the runway and takeoff as soon as the recently-landed powered glider had left it. When the runway was clear, I went onto the runway, set flaps and full power and finally was on my first real solo takeoff run. Soon after the tires left the ground, the nervousness transformed into pure excitement. I can't say I was relaxed but I wasn't exactly tense either. The plane climbed like I'd never seen it climb before so I was on traffic circuit altitude already before turning crosswind. Suddenly I had so much time between leveling the plane and crossing abeam threshold (which is the point for starting descent in the procedure I've learnt) so I could really enjoy the view. In the second or third downwind I was flying the engine suddenly seemed to run lumpy, so I tried some of the standard procedures to check the engine I had learnt. Pulling carburetor heat (we had high humidity and 16-17 degrees Celsius outside temperature), trying a different RPM, etc. I blame it on being alone in the plane for the first time, where one probably tends to hear ghosts, but there was nothing wrong with the engine. I just wanted to go on and on and on, but it was already near sunset so we had to return to our home base soon. After the fourth landing I parked the plane and my instructor came along showing thumbs up. We had a short break and then went home. The end of that flight was marked by the very first real-life landing in EDNY which I did totally on my own: No hands for my instructor ;-) As compared to the other typical traffic in EDNY we are relatively slow, we tend to do fast landings, coming to 50m aside the runway descending with about 140-160km/h and cruise power setting (normal approach speed is 110km/h), do a relatively steep turn and align to the runway, then reducing the speed by a long flare. There is an agreement between the microlight pilots at EDNY and the
Re: [Flightgear-devel] Multiplayer chat patch
--- Mathias Fröhlich wrote: Stuart, I have problems applying that patches. I am not sure why but patch claims: patch: Only garbage was found in the patch input. Could you rediff that only with cvs diff -u instead of cvs diff -u -p -8 -w Done. I've also run dos2unix on it. Available from http://www.nanjika.co.uk/flightgear/chat.tar.gz -Stuart ___ All new Yahoo! Mail The new Interface is stunning in its simplicity and ease of use. - PC Magazine http://uk.docs.yahoo.com/nowyoucan.html - Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT business topics through brief surveys -- and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.phpp=sourceforgeCID=DEVDEV ___ Flightgear-devel mailing list Flightgear-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/flightgear-devel
Re: [Flightgear-devel] Bug in mp-visibility of planes?
Hi, this effect is caused by the globals-set_sim_time_sec( 0.0 ); call when resetting. After this the stored time offset mTimeOffset in AIMultiplayer.cxx is wrong and it needs much time this offset is corrected. I don't know, why this bug is only visible in windows (at least it is not reported for other os). Please find enclosed a patch for AIMultiplayer.cxx, which detects and corrects large time offsets. (I only tested it very shortly, but i t seems to work (at least as a workaround)). Maik Maik Justus wrote: Hi, Maik Justus wrote: Hi, Maik Justus wrote: After choosing Reset in the File menu, all multiplayer aircrafts stop moving. after some time the multiplayer aircrafts start moving again. I am not sure, but I could be, that this some time is about the duration of the last session (time since the prior reset resp. starting of flightgear to the reset). AIMultiplayer.diff.gz Description: application/gzip - Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT business topics through brief surveys -- and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.phpp=sourceforgeCID=DEVDEV___ Flightgear-devel mailing list Flightgear-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/flightgear-devel
Re: [Flightgear-devel] OT: First solo
On Sun, 2006-10-01 at 12:25 +0200, Ralf Gerlich wrote: Hi everybody, in the tradition of all real-life pilots-to-be reporting about their milestone experiences in their training, I'd like to tell you about my first solo in the traffic circuit I had on Friday. For understanding of the context: I'm currently training to be a pilot of microlight planes of the aerodynamically controlled type. IIRC these things are known as VLA (very light aircraft) in the US, although some of the parameters (maximum MTOW etc.) are different. So I'm not flying trikes but merely a much smaller and lighter version of what you PPL-pilots out there are using. I'm training on a Comco Ikarus C42B, of which a model for FlightGear is in the making (detailed static 3D model is nearly complete, FDM is a mess and no animation or scripting of specific instruments has yet taken place ;-) ). On Thursday it happened to happen that the conditions of myself having time off from my dayjob, not being too tired from it and the weather being VMC (lower limits, however) met on the same day. I hadn't had any lessons for nearly a month and the last one was a bit frustrating because the landings just didn't want to work the way I wanted them to, which - as I learned later on - was due to several factors I couldn't expect to counter at my stage of training, one of them being the maintenance guy who had fastened some screws in the front gear a bit too hard which made control of rudder and steering wheel harder and much less precise. It makes a whole lot of a difference whether you can control the rudder with only small forces or whether you need to literally stump on the pedals to actually move them. And on Thursday we went to our training airodrome (landing fees there allow us to do ten times more landings for the same price as at our home base), did some coordination training (following curvy roads) as well as some navigation training in bad visibility, and then I did my first landing for that day, which was absolutely perfect! We did 8 landings in total and all of them were at least safe, even though not perfect in my mind (I expect my passengers not to know that we're on the ground again ;-) ) In the break we did in between my instructor already babbled something about not letting me do a solo today yet, but there was something in that yet... On the following day, Friday, we went to that aerodrome again and I did 3 landings, all of which were safe again. On the fourth landing my instructor added a little spice by simulating an engine failure for me to see that essentially that doesn't make a huge problem when you're almost on the runway and high enough. After that landing we taxied to the apron and he tried to assure me that we would have a short break now. He's a very talented actor, but I was already prepared and it seemed awkward to do a break after that few landings. He left the plane on the apron and then told me to do 3 or 4 landings solo. I don't need to tell you I was nervous as hell, however, somehow I didn't notice the forgetting how to fly effect others had told me of. I taxied to the taxi holding point, reported that I would taxi onto the runway and takeoff as soon as the recently-landed powered glider had left it. When the runway was clear, I went onto the runway, set flaps and full power and finally was on my first real solo takeoff run. Soon after the tires left the ground, the nervousness transformed into pure excitement. I can't say I was relaxed but I wasn't exactly tense either. The plane climbed like I'd never seen it climb before so I was on traffic circuit altitude already before turning crosswind. Suddenly I had so much time between leveling the plane and crossing abeam threshold (which is the point for starting descent in the procedure I've learnt) so I could really enjoy the view. In the second or third downwind I was flying the engine suddenly seemed to run lumpy, so I tried some of the standard procedures to check the engine I had learnt. Pulling carburetor heat (we had high humidity and 16-17 degrees Celsius outside temperature), trying a different RPM, etc. I blame it on being alone in the plane for the first time, where one probably tends to hear ghosts, but there was nothing wrong with the engine. I just wanted to go on and on and on, but it was already near sunset so we had to return to our home base soon. After the fourth landing I parked the plane and my instructor came along showing thumbs up. We had a short break and then went home. The end of that flight was marked by the very first real-life landing in EDNY which I did totally on my own: No hands for my instructor ;-) As compared to the other typical traffic in EDNY we are relatively slow, we tend to do fast landings, coming to 50m aside the runway descending with about 140-160km/h and cruise power setting (normal approach speed is 110km/h), do a relatively steep
Re: [Flightgear-devel] 3D model for the F-15
Martin Spott wrote: Andy Ross wrote: flying.toaster wrote: Is there anywhere a list of work in progress just to avoid duplicates? Even if there were, the best advice would be to ignore it. :) Teamwork is not one of your favourites, is it !? ;-) In what way is refusing to work on a task in deference to someone else who will never finish it teamwork?. Teamwork requires that people actual *do* what they claim to be doing. This point was, I think, fairly well explained in the following paragraph to which you conveniently did not reply. :) Andy - Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT business topics through brief surveys -- and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.phpp=sourceforgeCID=DEVDEV ___ Flightgear-devel mailing list Flightgear-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/flightgear-devel
[Flightgear-devel] Schleicher ASK 21 glider in progress
Hi, For some weeks ago, I began to model a glider, the Schleicher ASK 21. A very well known glider, many thousands are out there in the world. Slowly I come to the end now: -the outermodel is to 95% ready -the interior needs a bit more work -the fligthtmodel is nice but it's need some work to.B But nethertheless the ASK 21 is now quite flyable. Where can I send it for CVS? Some Pics: www.hoerbird.de/bilder/fgfs.ask21.1 www.hoerbird.de/bilder/fgfs.ask21.2 www.hoerbird.de/bilder/fgfs.ask21.3 www.hoerbird.de/bilder/fgfs.ask21.4 Greetings HHS ___ Der frühe Vogel fängt den Wurm. Hier gelangen Sie zum neuen Yahoo! Mail: http://mail.yahoo.de - Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT business topics through brief surveys -- and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.phpp=sourceforgeCID=DEVDEV ___ Flightgear-devel mailing list Flightgear-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/flightgear-devel
[Flightgear-devel] (Open)Suse 10.1 specialists, please correct errors - new Wiki entry
Hi, I would ask anybody on this list who is familiar with (Open)SUSE 10.1 to have a look at a new tutorial I wrote for the FG wiki. There was help for me from Craig and Sid and therefore it is fair that I give something back to other newbees. But as I am a n00b too there might be some errors in this article, so please look for things which are obviously wrong and should be corrected. Thank you very much! This is what I wrote to the FG users list: Hi, any newbee to (Open)SUSE 10.1 who is interested to get a tutorial how to get a running CVS FlightGear compilation working should have a look at the FG Wiki http://hellosimon.org/flightgear_wiki/index.php?title=OpenSUSE_10.1 This is how I prepared the OpenSuse 10.1 system, what programs and datas are needed, where and how to get all and how to compile. I started to work with OpenSuse seriously a short time ago and it took me a lot of time and energy to learn all what is needed. This tutorial should make life easier for other n00bs like me. Any feedback/corrections are wellcome. --- Regards Georg HeliFlyer EDDW - Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT business topics through brief surveys -- and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.phpp=sourceforgeCID=DEVDEV ___ Flightgear-devel mailing list Flightgear-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/flightgear-devel
