Curtis L. Olson wrote:
David Megginson writes:
Jon S Berndt writes:
Child: Mommy!
Daddy: She's not here.
Child: Daddy!
Mommy: He's not here, either.
Child: !? ... ? ... ... snore
20 years and $50,000 later:
Therapist: So why do you think you have this pathological fear of
On Saturday, January 18, 2003, at 12:44 am, David Megginson wrote:
Michael Basler writes:
as an interim report, the guy with the FS98 add-on KSFO scenery did
not
answer until now (but mail did not bounce either). I'll stay tuned,
but
doubt he will... it's just been so long ago and he did
That looks pretty similar to what I've been aiming for (screenshot of
current progress at http://www.nottingham.ac.uk/~eazdluf/taxidraw.jpg
- and
yes I know its currently windoze only - its just a fast prototype
proof-of-concept and I'll port it to a multiplatform toolkit if it
works).
It
Major A writes:
Anyone know of a new runway at LHBP (Budapest Ferihegy), or where I
can find more up-to-date information about it?
Depending on how good your Hungarian is, you can try this:
http://www.bud-airport.hu/
Thanks, my Hungarian is fine, but there is no
James Turner writes:
Actually, I'll be flying into KSFO at the start of march (going to GDC
again), so I can easily get snap away .. the problem is I'm unlikely to
get good shots out the window of a 747, hopefully some good elevation
ones of the terminal after touch-down though. It
James Turner writes:
Hmm, having said it's pointless, it occurs to me it may have
safety-training implications for pilots to teach them there's other
things besides aircraft they need to watch out for. I'll leave such
considerations to the real pilots though.
They're supposed to yield
David Megginson wrote:
James Turner writes:
Hmm, having said it's pointless, it occurs to me it may have
safety-training implications for pilots to teach them there's other
things besides aircraft they need to watch out for. I'll leave such
considerations to the real pilots though.
Charles Puffer writes:
An old nautical saying. meaning if you have the right of way you have to
worry about the other guy stopping while if you do not have the right of
way all you have to worry about is stopping.
Fortunately, a Skyhawk or Cherokee at proper taxi speed can stop
almost
Hello,
there are several corrupted files in my Windows CVS workspace,
presumably because these files were not tagged binary.
Among them :
base package/Docs/getstart.pdf
base package/Docs/FGShortRef.pdf
SimGear/src-libs/metakit-2.4.3.tar.gz
SimGear/src-libs/zlib-1.1.4.tar.gz
Could someone
Charles Puffer
warning historical quotes and smugness alert ---
It is a privilege to be burdened and a burden to be privileged.
An old nautical saying. meaning if you have the right of way you have to
worry about the other guy stopping while if you do not have the right of
way all
David Megginson writes:
Charles Puffer writes:
An old nautical saying. meaning if you have the right of way you have to
worry about the other guy stopping while if you do not have the right of
way all you have to worry about is stopping.
Fortunately, a Skyhawk or Cherokee at
James Turner wrote:
Incidentally, if anyone fancies doing up EHAM (Amsterdam Schipol), I
could try and get some shots of that too, though similar issues apply.
I've got a copy of schiphol in VRML. but since the author never
responded on my request to be able to use it in FlightGear I never
James Turner writes:
Just wanted to provide some ideas based on the Fly! Taxiways Editor
(which is an excellent tool, once you get over the learning curve..).
Basically, you can import an airport diagram (bitmap), and define the
lat/lon of two points on it (usually the start and end of
David Megginson wrote:
Major A writes:
Anyone know of a new runway at LHBP (Budapest Ferihegy), or where I
can find more up-to-date information about it?
Depending on how good your Hungarian is, you can try this:
http://www.bud-airport.hu/
Thanks, my Hungarian is
Frederic Bouvier writes:
Hello,
there are several corrupted files in my Windows CVS workspace,
presumably because these files were not tagged binary.
Among them :
base package/Docs/getstart.pdf
base package/Docs/FGShortRef.pdf
SimGear/src-libs/metakit-2.4.3.tar.gz
David Megginson writes:
Major A writes:
Anyone know of a new runway at LHBP (Budapest Ferihegy), or where I
can find more up-to-date information about it?
Depending on how good your Hungarian is, you can try this:
http://www.bud-airport.hu/
Thanks, my
I can find nothing anywhere else suggesting a new runway at Ferihegy.
Landing on taxiways or even at the wrong airport is not completely
without precident.
LOL...
I can assure you it was the right airport, and given that no reversers
and only little wheelbrake was used, the runway must
From: Curtis L. Olson [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Frederic Bouvier writes:
Hello,
there are several corrupted files in my Windows CVS workspace,
presumably because these files were not tagged binary.
Among them :
base package/Docs/getstart.pdf
base package/Docs/FGShortRef.pdf
Major A writes:
LOL...
I can assure you it was the right airport, and given that no reversers
and only little wheelbrake was used, the runway must have been quite
long, certainly longer than the taxiway in that direction. The crew
was quite professional, the landing was exceptionally smooth
Too bad they make you turn your gps off during the last few minutes of
the flight. My little hand held garmin can pick up enough satellites
to get a position if I hold it right up to the window of the aircaft.
I was pretty amazed that it actually worked when I tried it on my last
flight.
Major A writes:
The only thing I can imagine is that it was a DME approach, and we did
a very gradual right turn in the last 10 minutes -- but that would
have required more room really. And there is no navaid in the right
place anyway. No way we could have turned left into 31R, that would
Looks good now. No problem building with 1.6.
Best,
Jim
David Megginson [EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
Major A writes:
I still get this:
g++-2.95 -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I. -I../../src/Include -I../..
-I../../src -I/usr/local/SimGear/include -I/usr/X11R6/include
Curtis L. Olson writes:
Too bad they make you turn your gps off during the last few minutes
of the flight. My little hand held garmin can pick up enough
satellites to get a position if I hold it right up to the window of
the aircaft. I was pretty amazed that it actually worked when I
The only thing I can imagine is that it was a DME approach, and we did
a very gradual right turn in the last 10 minutes -- but that would
have required more room really. And there is no navaid in the right
place anyway. No way we could have turned left into 31R, that would
have
David Megginson wrote:
Curtis L. Olson writes:
Too bad they make you turn your gps off during the last few minutes
of the flight. My little hand held garmin can pick up enough
satellites to get a position if I hold it right up to the window of
the aircaft. I was pretty amazed
Christian Mayer writes:
David Megginson wrote:
Curtis L. Olson writes:
Too bad they make you turn your gps off during the last few minutes
of the flight. My little hand held garmin can pick up enough
satellites to get a position if I hold it right up to the window of
the
Christian Mayer writes:
Sounds like a very reliable plane and/or company when the pilot has to
ask an ordinary passenger for his ground speed...
Or a savy customer relations staff that trains it's
crews to make the passengers feel important :-)
Norman
Sounds like a very reliable plane and/or company when the pilot has to
ask an ordinary passenger for his ground speed...
What would he do if no passenger had a GPS? Fly more carefully as he
doesn't know how reliable his data is?
Captain: Hey, can you hold onto the yoke for a few
The new XML-configured menubar is now the default for FlightGear;
configure --with-old-menubar to get the old one (which I'll keep
around for now, until we're sure the new one is working OK).
Please, everyone, give the new menubar a spin, and take a look at
$FG_ROOT/gui/menubar.xml and
Major A writes:
I guess the navigator never uses any of the old radar etc. equipment
anymore...
The radar equipment is usually for weather, terrain, and traffic
detection, not for primary navigation.
All the best,
David
--
David Megginson, [EMAIL PROTECTED], http://www.megginson.com/
Major A writes:
That's what I thought, but the sky was clear and we could see all the
lights on the ground.
If it was at night, then anything you saw was especially unreliable.
Pilots have a hard time flying VFR at night even with a full view out
the front, and everything you see looks
Christian Mayer writes:
Sounds like a very reliable plane and/or company when the pilot has to
ask an ordinary passenger for his ground speed...
What would he do if no passenger had a GPS? Fly more carefully as he
doesn't know how reliable his data is?
The PC-12 is supposed to be a very
If it was at night, then anything you saw was especially unreliable.
Pilots have a hard time flying VFR at night even with a full view out
the front, and everything you see looks different. You were probably
just on the approach to 13L/R.
That would have taken us straight over the city,
On Sat, 2003-01-18 at 09:50, David Megginson wrote:
Christian Mayer writes:
Sounds like a very reliable plane and/or company when the pilot has to
ask an ordinary passenger for his ground speed...
What would he do if no passenger had a GPS? Fly more carefully as he
doesn't know how
On Sat, 2003-01-18 at 10:02, Tony Peden wrote:
On Sat, 2003-01-18 at 09:50, David Megginson wrote:
Christian Mayer writes:
Sounds like a very reliable plane and/or company when the pilot has to
ask an ordinary passenger for his ground speed...
What would he do if no passenger
Major A wrote:
Anyone know any good ways of getting permission to get onto the flight
deck for a commercial flight? (I'm not thinking of box cutters, BTW.)
(Also, I'm not a pilot and don't know the crew.)
Before 9/11 it was no problem at all - just ask a passing stewardess.
After 9/11 I
David Megginson writes:
The new XML-configured menubar is now the default for FlightGear;
configure --with-old-menubar to get the old one (which I'll keep
around for now, until we're sure the new one is working OK).
Please, everyone, give the new menubar a spin, and take a look at
Tony Peden writes:
Altitude and rate of change of DME ought to work too ...
That is assuming you are on a radial, of course.
... which is always the case with a Victor airway. You can also
discount altitude unless you're very close to the station, since the
difference between slant
Curtis L. Olson writes:
One thing I'd like to have is a --disable-menu/--enable-menu option so
that we can have the menu start off by default if we want.
Yes, I need to reinstate show/hide menu -- thanks for the reminder.
All the best,
David
--
David Megginson, [EMAIL PROTECTED],
On Sat, 2003-01-18 at 09:19, Major A wrote:
Sounds like a very reliable plane and/or company when the pilot has to
ask an ordinary passenger for his ground speed...
What would he do if no passenger had a GPS? Fly more carefully as he
doesn't know how reliable his data is?
Tony,
Anyone know any good ways of getting permission to get onto the flight
deck for a commercial flight? (I'm not thinking of box cutters, BTW.)
(Also, I'm not a pilot and don't know the crew.)
It is illegal in the U.S. until after the flight.
It was legal in Germany before September,
Michael Basler writes:
One issue: When I make a selection from the Weather menu the dialog box
opens as it should. However, after only pressing either OK or Cancel the
simulator silently dies with a stackdump as follows:
_
token = OBJECT_BASE name =
I've added a new command to cycle a property through an enumerated
list of values. It looks like this:
binding
commandproperty-cycle/command
property/foo/bar/property
valuevalue1/value
valuevalue2/value
valuevalue3/value
/binding
If the current value is value1, it will change
David,
That looks like it's just program output. Can you get a proper
backtrace in gdb or some other debugger?
This would imply me knowing how to use it. I am not a programmer, just an
ordinary poor physicist...
I analyzed a core file with gdb once. However, FG doesn't dump a core file
Typically you run fgfs from within gdb.
Something like
bash$ gdb fgfs
gdb run --fgfs-option1 --fgfs-option2
Then when you get a crash you can type:
gdb where
To get a back trace.
Regards,
Curt.
Michael Basler writes:
David,
That looks like it's just program output. Can you get a
Curt, David
I already messed a bit around with gdb, but it always died. Mean issue was I
set --fg_root= instead of fg-root= :-(((
It now does run. However, after selecting the button in question, flightgear
never dies completely. Instead, it hangs infinitely. I had to kill it
manually.
The
Michael Basler writes:
That looks like it's just program output. Can you get a proper
backtrace in gdb or some other debugger?
This would imply me knowing how to use it. I am not a programmer, just an
ordinary poor physicist...
I analyzed a core file with gdb once. However, FG doesn't
Is the new version of PLIB required or optional for the fg source
downloaded from cvs by the latest changes? Are there any changes to
the SL directory that are required by flightgear?
Also, does anyone know where I can find Atlas (specifically the atlas
viewer) binaries to work with fg? Or
Here are the two modifications I had to make to get flightgear (just
updated from CVS) to build. The first one is for being able to specify
SimGear's location at the ./configure command line, and the second one
is to be able to link.
Cheers //Johan
? buildfixes.patch
Index: configure.ac
Ima,
I would use version 1.6 of plib. I have not been able to get the
latest CVS to build for me (there is a problem with the new joystick
code for MacOS X). The only other change I have is a minor tweak to
src/ssg/ssgVtxTable.cxx for some performance improvements.
I have never tried to
On Sat, 18 Jan 2003 12:39:32 -0500
David Megginson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
The new XML-configured menubar is now the default for FlightGear;
configure --with-old-menubar to get the old one (which I'll keep
around for now, until we're sure the new one is working OK).
Please, everyone, give
Bernie Bright writes:
On Sat, 18 Jan 2003 12:39:32 -0500
David Megginson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
The new XML-configured menubar is now the default for FlightGear;
configure --with-old-menubar to get the old one (which I'll keep
around for now, until we're sure the new one is working
David,
I'm not sure your thinking on this, but the Reset option has
disappeared. That's kind of nice if you want to do a complete reset
of everything.
Regards,
Curt.
--
Curtis Olson IVLab / HumanFIRST Program FlightGear Project
Twin Cities[EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL
Damn, I'm starting to feel rather uncomfortable asking all these
questions without actually contributing...
I've recently come across a website which promises to be a global
aviation simulation platform:
http://www.ivao.org/
You can connect as a pilot or air traffic controller, using TCP/IP
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