Re: [Flightgear-devel] BGL Loader for PLIB

2002-06-07 Thread Christian Stock
This is perfect timing, I guess. I just decided to quit MSFS development 2 days ago and I know the FS2002 bgls inside out. So I can definitely help out here... Cheers, Christian At 06:49 PM 5/06/2002 +0200, you wrote: Hi Steve, Hello Flighgear Developers, I followed your projects since quite

Re: [Flightgear-devel] new potential developer :)

2002-06-07 Thread Christian Stock
Ok, here are some replies, I've been away for 2 days... To add to my MSFS work which Cameron mentioned, I have to say that I had a webpage at spaceports which was far more impressive :) The page doesn't exist anymore though, but you can check my NZ 'elevation mesh' and 'land use' scenery out

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Comments on FGFS review summary

2002-06-07 Thread Alex Perry
Curtis L. Olson writes: - There is a severe proplem going to first notch of flaps. Extreme pitch up. You need *full* down trip to fly level with any flaps at all. It is speed range dependent. If you follow the recommended profile of speeds and flap selections, the pitching

[Flightgear-devel] Boeing manuals

2002-06-07 Thread Jim Wilson
Not sure if anyone is interested in these. The 747-400 is a bit out of my price range. Maybe we should take up a collection? http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItemitem=1833696193 http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItemitem=1833699955 Best, Jim

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Boeing manuals

2002-06-07 Thread Billy Verreynne
Jim Wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Not sure if anyone is interested in these. The 747-400 is a bit out of my price range. Maybe we should take up a collection? If it is POH type data that you are looking for, I have a similar set at home. Belongs to a friend who retired a some years ago

[Flightgear-devel] Re: Patch for options.cxx

2002-06-07 Thread Curtis L. Olson
Since we went a couple rounds on this before, I thought I would post this on the mailing list for discussion first. This patch moves all the command line help text to an xml file and then loads it at run time, rather than having the text hard coded into the source. Sound like a good idea? Any

re: [Flightgear-devel] Re: Patch for options.cxx

2002-06-07 Thread David Megginson
Curtis L. Olson writes: Since we went a couple rounds on this before, I thought I would post this on the mailing list for discussion first. This patch moves all the command line help text to an xml file and then loads it at run time, rather than having the text hard coded into the

[Flightgear-devel] My First Solo

2002-06-07 Thread David Megginson
After my intro flight in a Cessna 150 on 5 April, I thought that I might never want to take the controls of a plane again: http://www.menet.umn.edu/~curt/lists/fgfs/archive-200204/msg00420.html Thanks to everyone who encouraged me, both online and offline, I stuck with it (but switched to

Re: [Flightgear-devel] My First Solo

2002-06-07 Thread Jim Wilson
David Megginson [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: After my intro flight in a Cessna 150 on 5 April, I thought that I might never want to take the controls of a plane again: http://www.menet.umn.edu/~curt/lists/fgfs/archive-200204/msg00420.html Thanks to everyone who encouraged me, both online

[Flightgear-devel] Karlsruhe, LinuxTag BOF on Saturday

2002-06-07 Thread Alex Perry
Reminder: In Karlsruhe (Germany) at LinuxTag at midday 12:00 for one hour in room R2.05 in the StadtHalle of the conference center near the Dorint Hotel, where the conference streams are located. After 1pm, we have to leave the room and continue our discussions elsewhere. Plan to be

Re: [Flightgear-devel] My First Solo

2002-06-07 Thread Tony Peden
--- David Megginson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: After my intro flight in a Cessna 150 on 5 April, I thought that I might never want to take the controls of a plane again: http://www.menet.umn.edu/~curt/lists/fgfs/archive-200204/msg00420.html Thanks to everyone who encouraged me, both

Re: [Flightgear-devel] BGL Loader for PLIB

2002-06-07 Thread Andy Ross
Christian Stock wrote: This is perfect timing, I guess. I just decided to quit MSFS development 2 days ago and I know the FS2002 bgls inside out. So I can definitely help out here... Doesn't the 12-step program discourage this sort of thing? I mean, jumping into a serious commitment so soon

Re: [Flightgear-devel] My First Solo

2002-06-07 Thread Jim Wilson
Jim Wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: Congradulations! Yikes! (how embarassing) CongraTulations, David. Jim ___ Flightgear-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.flightgear.org/mailman/listinfo/flightgear-devel

Re: [Flightgear-devel] My First Solo

2002-06-07 Thread Erik Hofman
David Megginson wrote: After my intro flight in a Cessna 150 on 5 April, I thought that I might never want to take the controls of a plane again: http://www.menet.umn.edu/~curt/lists/fgfs/archive-200204/msg00420.html Thanks to everyone who encouraged me, both online and offline, I stuck

Re: [Flightgear-devel] My First Solo

2002-06-07 Thread Jim Wilson
Jim Wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: embarassing Uggh...I give up :-) ___ Flightgear-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.flightgear.org/mailman/listinfo/flightgear-devel

Re: [Flightgear-devel] BGL Loader for PLIB

2002-06-07 Thread David Megginson
Andy Ross writes: I just decided to quit MSFS development 2 days ago and I know the FS2002 bgls inside out. So I can definitely help out here... Doesn't the 12-step program discourage this sort of thing? I mean, jumping into a serious commitment so soon after your recovery sounds

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Re: Patch for options.cxx

2002-06-07 Thread Erik Hofman
David Megginson wrote: Curtis L. Olson writes: Since we went a couple rounds on this before, I thought I would post this on the mailing list for discussion first. This patch moves all the command line help text to an xml file and then loads it at run time, rather than having the

Re: [Flightgear-devel] My First Solo

2002-06-07 Thread David Megginson
Erik Hofman writes: And, did you enjoy it? Yes, very much. After I was cleared for takeoff, I backtracked to the end of 04, turned the plane around, lined up with the centreline, then stopped the plane completely. I took a breath for two seconds, then pushed in the throttle and the rest was

Re: [Flightgear-devel] My First Solo

2002-06-07 Thread Curtis L. Olson
Jim Wilson writes: Jim Wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: embarassing Uggh...I give up :-) Just use the spanish version of the word which is much easier to spell, that would be what, probably embarasada, right? :-) Curt. -- Curtis Olson IVLab / HumanFIRST Program FlightGear Project

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Re: Report on my Scenery Investigation

2002-06-07 Thread David Megginson
John Wojnaroski writes: If you want to try a test run let me know and I'll set it up. Need to make some changes to my LAN and move the server machine from behind the firewall. Thanks. I'd be worried about swamping your line if, say, 50 users all tried to download the scenery. We should

Re: [Flightgear-devel] My First Solo

2002-06-07 Thread Arnt Karlsen
On Fri, 7 Jun 2002 11:52:24 -0400, David Megginson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message [EMAIL PROTECTED]: After my intro flight in a Cessna 150 on 5 April, I thought that I might never want to take the controls of a plane again:

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Re: Patch for options.cxx

2002-06-07 Thread Jim Wilson
Curtis L. Olson [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: Since we went a couple rounds on this before, I thought I would post this on the mailing list for discussion first. This patch moves all the command line help text to an xml file and then loads it at run time, rather than having the text hard coded

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Re: Patch for options.cxx

2002-06-07 Thread Curtis L. Olson
Jim Wilson writes: Curtis L. Olson [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: Since we went a couple rounds on this before, I thought I would post this on the mailing list for discussion first. This patch moves all the command line help text to an xml file and then loads it at run time, rather than

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Re: Patch for options.cxx

2002-06-07 Thread David Megginson
Jim Wilson writes: There must be a reason for not having it hard coded, but I can't think of what it would be. Is this just to make minor spelling/syntax corrections without rebuilding...or are you looking toward supporting multiple languages? It would be interesting to make options

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Re: Patch for options.cxx

2002-06-07 Thread C. Hotchkiss
Curtis L. Olson wrote: ... patch moves all the command line help text to an xml file and then loads it at run time, rather than having the text hard coded into the source. Sound like a good idea? Any objections?... It is an obvious and long needed improvement. However, if I read the

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Re: Patch for options.cxx

2002-06-07 Thread Erik Hofman
Jim Wilson wrote: Curtis L. Olson [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: Since we went a couple rounds on this before, I thought I would post this on the mailing list for discussion first. This patch moves all the command line help text to an xml file and then loads it at run time, rather than having the

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Re: Patch for options.cxx

2002-06-07 Thread Erik Hofman
C. Hotchkiss wrote: Curtis L. Olson wrote: ... patch moves all the command line help text to an xml file and then loads it at run time, rather than having the text hard coded into the source. Sound like a good idea? Any objections?... It is an obvious and long needed improvement.

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Re: Patch for options.cxx

2002-06-07 Thread Erik Hofman
David Megginson wrote: Jim Wilson writes: There must be a reason for not having it hard coded, but I can't think of what it would be. Is this just to make minor spelling/syntax corrections without rebuilding...or are you looking toward supporting multiple languages? It would be

[Flightgear-devel] BGL Loader part 2

2002-06-07 Thread Jrgen Marquardt
Hi all, I just joined the mailing list... Soon I'll get CVS access to PLIB then I'll check in my BGL loader patch. In the meantime just to make you a little bit curious I'll post two links to bgl files that I used for my development: http://members.kabsi.at/stefans-web/stefan2000/ (Stefan

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Re: Patch for options.cxx

2002-06-07 Thread C. Hotchkiss
Erik Hofman wrote: C. Hotchkiss wrote: ... If the file isn't needed because an error wasn't made, does the program abort because it cannot find the file? Admittedly I'm being lazy in not testing this myself. It only throws an exception when --help (or an incorrect argument) was

Re: [Flightgear-devel] BGL Loader part 2

2002-06-07 Thread Jürgen Marquardt
Screenshots! :) sure I can make some but where to post? I think the list allows only attachments up to 40k.. JM ___ Flightgear-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.flightgear.org/mailman/listinfo/flightgear-devel

Re: [Flightgear-devel] BGL Loader part 2

2002-06-07 Thread Gene Buckle
Screenshots! :) sure I can make some but where to post? I think the list allows only attachments up to 40k.. If you want, you can upload it to simpits.org via http://www.simpits.org/fileproc/upload.php - it can then be viewed by looking at the bottom of this:

Re: [Flightgear-devel] HSIs

2002-06-07 Thread Curtis L. Olson
James Turner writes: As a result of playing with with routes / flight plans, one thing I forsee in the future is driving navigation instruments from a non-radio source (i.e something like the NAV / GPS toggle which I'm led to believe is common in many GA craft with a GPS fitted). Now, the

Re: [Flightgear-devel] BGL Loader part 2

2002-06-07 Thread Jürgen Marquardt
Am Freitag, 7. Juni 2002 23:21 schrieb Gene Buckle: Screenshots! :) sure I can make some but where to post? I think the list allows only attachments up to 40k.. If you want, you can upload it to simpits.org via http://www.simpits.org/fileproc/upload.php - it can then be viewed by

Re: [Flightgear-devel] HSIs

2002-06-07 Thread James Turner
On Fri, 2002-06-07 at 22:42, Curtis L. Olson wrote: You are in luck. :-) Hmm, I'm quite worried that my brain didn't register that this instrument was an HSI (given that I've used the 310 and DC-3 quite a bit). I think maybe I've been using (virtual) digital HSIs too much, and forgot they can

Re: [Flightgear-devel] BGL Loader part 2

2002-06-07 Thread Gene Buckle
Those shots are great! Good work! g. ___ Flightgear-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.flightgear.org/mailman/listinfo/flightgear-devel

[Flightgear-devel] AytoPilot changes

2002-06-07 Thread Norman Vine
a recent change broke the autopilot gui Norman ___ Flightgear-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.flightgear.org/mailman/listinfo/flightgear-devel

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Re: Patch for options.cxx

2002-06-07 Thread Julian Foad
If the program cannot find options.xml, I strongly suggest that it still should give a sensible (if brief) reply to --help. This reply should tell the user how to help it to find options.xml. - Julian C. Hotchkiss wrote: Erik Hofman wrote: C. Hotchkiss wrote: ... If the file

RE: [Flightgear-devel] HSIs

2002-06-07 Thread Norman Vine
Andy Ross writes Newer HSIs that are driven by RNAV or GPS engines don't have this limitation, and I'm pretty sure they display distance generically. Someone correct me if I'm wrong. As far as I know both cross track error and heading to waypoint are included in all GPS units. Which one is

RE: [Flightgear-devel] HSIs

2002-06-07 Thread James Turner
On Fri, 2002-06-07 at 23:45, Norman Vine wrote: FWIW crosstrack error on a 'spherical earth' was computed in 'some' navigation instruments long before 'digital' computers were used in these devices. trig values for an angle can be determined from an 'analog' device and the rest is

[Flightgear-devel] Off topic?

2002-06-07 Thread C. Hotchkiss
This was forwarded to me by my mother-in-law. I checked back to SI to see if they were the attributed source and found a link to a movie on the subject as well. Why the original author chose to submit to SI, I don't know. Regards, Charlie H. http://rense.com/general8/boom.htm

Re: [Flightgear-devel] BGL Loader part 2

2002-06-07 Thread David Megginson
Jürgen Marquardt writes: done :) Here are the actual URLs: http://www.simpits.org/fileproc/files/fgfs-screen-017.jpg http://www.simpits.org/fileproc/files/fgfs-screen-019.jpg Beautiful! All the best, David -- David Megginson, [EMAIL PROTECTED], http://www.megginson.com/

Re: [Flightgear-devel] BGL Loader part 2

2002-06-07 Thread Christopher S Horler
This looks damn good! On Saturday 08 Jun 2002 12:03 am, Cameron Moore wrote: * [EMAIL PROTECTED] (J?rgen Marquardt) [2002.06.07 17:09]: Am Freitag, 7. Juni 2002 23:21 schrieb Gene Buckle: Screenshots! :) sure I can make some but where to post? I think the list allows only

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Star Flight Simulator

2002-06-07 Thread Marcio Shimoda
The Star Flight Simulator is the first product of Staridia Softworks, a project currently in a pre-incubating stage at INTUEL (Londrina International Incubator for Technology-Based Companies). I'm the main programmer of SFS. We are using the FlightGear to develop this flight simulator.

Re: [Flightgear-devel] BGL Loader part 2

2002-06-07 Thread Roman Grigoriev
- Original Message - From: John Check [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, June 08, 2002 8:38 AM Subject: Re: [Flightgear-devel] BGL Loader part 2 On Friday 07 June 2002 5:07 pm, J?rgen Marquardt wrote: Am Freitag, 7. Juni 2002 23:21 schrieb Gene Buckle: