Re: [Flightgear-devel] Airport 3/4-letter codes data source

2005-08-03 Thread Nick Coleman
On Thu, 4 Aug 2005 10:05, Gerhard Wesp wrote: 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? Don't know a source for a list, but you can look up individual airports

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Re: Diamond Katana model

2005-07-17 Thread Nick Coleman
On Mon, 18 Jul 2005 12:46, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, Mat, I'd love to get my hands on a twin turbo diesel with an all-glass panel, but right now the FAA thinks I should be flying an 80hp single. And my CFI thinks I should stay more to the middle of the runway when I touch down (never on

[Flightgear-devel] Re: Cessna 172 Panel problem in 9.8

2005-05-08 Thread Nick Coleman
On Sat, 22 Jan 2005 10:05, Nick Coleman wrote: Date: Fri, 21 Jan 2005 17:45:09 +0800 From: Innis Cunningham Hi All Could someone who uses FGRUN to start FG confirm that the 172 fullscreen hi res Cessna starts at night with the panel upside down This problem still exists in CVS

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Re: CVS: FlightGear/src/GUI dialog.cxx, 1.22, 1.23 dialog.hxx, 1.7, 1.8

2005-04-14 Thread Nick Coleman
On Fri, 15 Apr 2005 01:34, Melchior FRANZ wrote: BTW: there is also your requested scrollable text field. And if some maintainer feels like using it for the keys, I won't stop him. Looks like this: http://members.aon.at/mfranz/help3.jpg [30 kB] Great! Thanks Melchior. As a general

[Flightgear-devel] ADF Fine-Tuning

2005-02-13 Thread Nick Coleman
I'm in the process of fine-tuning the behaviour of the ADF (src/Instrumentation/adf.cxx), maintained by David M. One aspect of calculating the transmission range is the difference in elevation between the aircraft and the transmitter (aircraft at 10,000' get better reception than aircraft at

[Flightgear-devel] Re: Cessna 172 problem in 9.8

2005-01-21 Thread Nick Coleman
Date: Fri, 21 Jan 2005 17:45:09 +0800 From: Innis Cunningham Hi All Could someone who uses FGRUN to start FG confirm that the 172 fullscreen hi res Cessna starts at night with the panel upside down and no scenery even if you have noon selected in FGRUN. There is a switch in

[Flightgear-devel] Config defaults for Simgear

2005-01-20 Thread Nick Coleman
While we're talking about cleaning up for V1.0, would it be possible for Simgear's config default to include --with-jpeg-factory as the default? FG's make always barfs if I forget to include this when I build Simgear. Lol, I don't know what jpeg-factory actually does; looks like it runs some

[Flightgear-devel] DAFIF Will No Longer Be Available to Public

2004-12-09 Thread Nick Coleman
The DoD is going to stop making DAFIF available to the public. http://www.naco.faa.gov/content/naco/SpecialNotices/FR-04-25631.pdf and http://www.naco.faa.gov/content/naco/SpecialNotices/NGA_Public_Sale_Discont_Notice.pdf I don't know TerraGear at all, but I thought I'd give a heads up

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Trim quotes

2004-10-23 Thread Nick Coleman
Date: Fri, 22 Oct 2004 22:13:56 +0100 From: Lee Elliott On Thursday 21 October 2004 22:47, Jon S Berndt wrote: Would it be grumpy of me to suggest that we try a little harder to trim quotes when replying with quotes? I've noticed that there are several emails today with 100 to 200 lines

[Flightgear-devel] Flight Sim Conference

2004-03-10 Thread Nick Coleman
I read last night there is a Flight Simulator Expo in the UK in June. http://www.fs2004nationalshow.com/index.php It doesn't appear to be MS specific. From memory, it is in Blackpool. Anyone going? Nick ___ Flightgear-devel mailing list [EMAIL

Re: [Flightgear-devel] ATC readability

2004-03-04 Thread Nick Coleman
On Wed, 3 Mar 2004 22:43, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: From: David Luff I can think of a number of improvements. The first, and one which would also help the voice output, is that many of the airport names pulled automatically from the DAFIF are far too long - for instance Metropolitan

[Flightgear-devel] Re: [OT] 747 Registration -or- does it run onlinux!?!

2004-02-27 Thread Nick Coleman
On Fri, 27 Feb 2004 20:33, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: From: Frederic Bouvier Jim Wilson wrote: In deference to America's recently recovered morality, check out the registration number on this 747-300: http://www.jetphotos.net/viewphoto.php?id=199730 The same on the beach :

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Glideslope on KSFO 28R ?

2004-01-05 Thread Nick Coleman
On Tue, 6 Jan 2004 01:53 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Message: 5 Date: Mon, 5 Jan 2004 17:14:57 -0800 From: Victoria Welch [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [Flightgear-devel] Glideslope on KSFO 28R ? Isn't that why you always bring along a duck and a cat? The cat always lands on his feet

[Flightgear-devel] Some Keybindings Have Broken

2003-12-19 Thread Nick Coleman
Some of my keybindings have broken with a No command attached to binding error msg. I suspect it may have something to do with Nasal, since one of the broken bindings is x, X and ctrl-X, and it has only been broken since the 'view' script came into the CVS tree. I wasn't following the

[Flightgear-devel] Motion simulator that hooks up to FlightGear

2003-12-18 Thread Nick Coleman
http://www.inmotionsimulation.com/training.html Note they have included Flightgear in the training section rather than gaming section. I couldn't find prices anywhere on the website. cc'd to flightgear-devel due to the budding hardware group on the list. Nick

[Flightgear-devel] Re: Time to Refactor (was Re: Nasal integration docs)

2003-11-26 Thread Nick Coleman
On Thu, 27 Nov 2003 10:24 am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Message: 7 Date: Wed, 26 Nov 2003 23:46:18 +0100 From: Melchior FRANZ [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [Flightgear-devel] Re: Time to Refactor (was Re: Nasal integration docs) The other editor on my system that is capable of

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Another FlightGear movie

2003-11-18 Thread Nick Coleman
That's a nice movie, thanks. Interesting to see the shadows cast from the wings and elevons move over the fuselage body. Great showcase for FlightGear. Nick On Wed, 19 Nov 2003 03:57 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Message: 6 Date: Tue, 18 Nov 2003 19:26:58 -0600 From: Curtis L. Olson

[Flightgear-devel] Re: Flightgear-devel Digest, Vol 7, Issue 47

2003-11-12 Thread Nick Coleman
On Wed, 12 Nov 2003 08:25 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Message: 9 Date: Wed, 12 Nov 2003 09:12:57 - From: Richard Bytheway [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [Flightgear-devel] Newbie needs a mentor(s) I am not a programmer or pilot, but I use Cygwin on Win2K to build Flightgear. Other than

[Flightgear-devel] Heading Bug

2003-11-10 Thread Nick Coleman
I'm trying to track down a fault with the heading bug where it does not rotate with the compass card, meaning that the autopilot doesn't roll level at the desired heading (the heading bug never makes it to top-dead-centre). I've looked at the c310 and the seahawk in depth, and glanced at the

[Flightgear-devel] Re: Flightgear-devel Digest, Vol 7, Issue 24

2003-11-07 Thread Nick Coleman
PROTECTED] Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Paul Surgeon writes: On Friday, 7 November 2003 06:39, Nick Coleman wrote: I disagree with this assessment. I think lower spec machines should be able to run a _flight_ sim and shouldn't be excluded just for the sake of eyecandy. I

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Some thoughts and ideas (LONG)

2003-11-07 Thread Nick Coleman
On Sat, 8 Nov 2003 09:30 am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Message: 3 Date: Fri, 7 Nov 2003 15:31:29 -0500 From: John Barrett [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [Flightgear-devel] Some thoughts and ideas (LONG) To: FlightGear developers discussions [EMAIL PROTECTED] Re: priority on fast

re: [Flightgear-devel] Some thoughts and ideas (LONG)

2003-11-06 Thread Nick Coleman
On Fri, 7 Nov 2003 11:46 am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Preface == I would like to see the sim become more friendly to casual users especially on the eye candy side of things. This does not need to

[Flightgear-devel] Real Time Weather

2003-11-05 Thread Nick Coleman
It shouldn't be too hard to implement real time weather by downloading the METAR weather and pushing it into flightgear. I imagine a wrapper script that gets the weather, decodes it, telnets into fgfs and modifies the environment properties. Before I do this, is there anyone else already

[Flightgear-devel] YBOK (Oakey Qld) Scenery Errors

2003-10-22 Thread Nick Coleman
The Oakey, Queensland, Australia airport is elevated four hundred feet above the landscape. The landscape is 1330 ft, which is correct. This causes problems with the ILS on 14 (110.5 MHz); the glideslope is set for the landscape elevation, not the airport elevation, so you crash into a great

[Flightgear-devel] FGFS can't open port 5500

2003-10-22 Thread Nick Coleman
I used to run fgfs with Atlas and it worked ok ( a few weeks ago). I tried it today (after updating cvs, but that may be unrelated for all I know) and fgfs can't open UDP port 5500. lsof (linux) doesn't show any task using 5500. Is it my machine and is there something I can change? console

ATC Freq Crash (was Re: [Flightgear-devel] FG 0.9.3-pre1 installable binary)

2003-10-20 Thread Nick Coleman
On Mon, 20 Oct 2003 19:59, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Message: 10 Date: Mon, 20 Oct 2003 10:56:58 +0100 From: David Luff [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [Flightgear-devel] FG 0.9.3-pre1 installable binary To: FlightGear developers discussions [EMAIL PROTECTED] Message-ID: [EMAIL

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Re: [Flightgear-cvslogs] CVS:

2003-10-18 Thread Nick Coleman
Just to clarify a couple of things re helicopters: Once the engine stops there is no torque and the helicopter can be autorotated to a safe landing using the same principle as a gyrocopter. This manouvre is part of training to get a licence and is practised many times. The danger with an

[Flightgear-devel] Search Engines for the Mail List Archives

2003-10-11 Thread Nick Coleman
While doing some research for my own website, I came across a couple of search engines that are free and licensed under the GPL. I haven't used them myself (yet). http://www.htdig.org/ (unix or cygwin) http://swish-e.org/ (unix or Windows) Swish-E seems the more sophisticated one; it was