RE: [Flightgear-devel] Hurricane

2005-06-15 Thread Vivian Meazza
AJ MacLeod wrote On Tuesday 14 Jun 2005 22:57, Vivian Meazza wrote: Is this in roll only? The ailerons are much more powerful, but also damped. There shouldn't be any rapid movement in the ailerons, but the stick reflects the input. Look at the ailerons in an external view - are they

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Hurricane

2005-06-15 Thread Jon Stockill
Vivian Meazza wrote: Have you seen the recent Aeroplane magazine? It has comprehensive series of articles on the Lightning: excellent source data. Keep at it - it just takes time - you can hijack most of the Hunter instruments for the interior. And if anyone wants real instruments there

RE: [Flightgear-devel] Hurricane

2005-06-15 Thread Vivian Meazza
Jon Stockill wrote Vivian Meazza wrote: Have you seen the recent Aeroplane magazine? It has comprehensive series of articles on the Lightning: excellent source data. Keep at it - it just takes time - you can hijack most of the Hunter instruments for the interior. And if anyone

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Hurricane

2005-06-15 Thread Jon Stockill
Vivian Meazza wrote: Jon Stockill wrote Vivian Meazza wrote: Have you seen the recent Aeroplane magazine? It has comprehensive series of articles on the Lightning: excellent source data. Keep at it - it just takes time - you can hijack most of the Hunter instruments for the interior.

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Hurricane

2005-06-15 Thread Erik Hofman
Jon Stockill wrote: As he said - extensive studies of people who spent upwards of 8 hours at a time sitting in front of such instruments has shown that they're losing teeth and hair, their remaining hair is turning grey, they have mobility problems, and some are dropping dead. Oddly enough

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Hurricane

2005-06-15 Thread Jon Stockill
Erik Hofman wrote: Jon Stockill wrote: As he said - extensive studies of people who spent upwards of 8 hours at a time sitting in front of such instruments has shown that they're losing teeth and hair, their remaining hair is turning grey, they have mobility problems, and some are dropping

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Hurricane

2005-06-15 Thread Josh Babcock
Jon Stockill wrote: Yet more pointless regulation to protect us from nothing. It's not just the EU, I'm having this problem in the US. I tried to get a surveying compass with tritium illumination, and found that it's banned in the US as well. This is a big deal since electric illumination

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Hurricane

2005-06-15 Thread Jon Stockill
Josh Babcock wrote: Jon Stockill wrote: Yet more pointless regulation to protect us from nothing. It's not just the EU, I'm having this problem in the US. I tried to get a surveying compass with tritium illumination, and found that it's banned in the US as well. This is a big deal since

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Hurricane

2005-06-15 Thread Josh Babcock
Jon Stockill wrote: Josh Babcock wrote: Jon Stockill wrote: Yet more pointless regulation to protect us from nothing. It's not just the EU, I'm having this problem in the US. I tried to get a surveying compass with tritium illumination, and found that it's banned in the US as well.

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Hurricane

2005-06-15 Thread Jon Stockill
Josh Babcock wrote: From the page: We can only ship the Glowring to UK addresses Makbe the UK is saner than the EU and US. Anyone over there want to let me order one to their address and *cough* illegally ship it to me? Clearly they're not that sane - they'll happily sell tritium keyrings

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Hurricane

2005-06-15 Thread AJ MacLeod (email lists)
On Wednesday 15 Jun 2005 08:47, Vivian Meazza wrote: Still not tempted by a Bucc? ;-) Oh well, one mustn't be greedy! Yes - I went as far as to look at a cockpit section at the Manston Museum last year. Daunting! Certainly... It didn't take me long to decide that I certainly wasn't going to

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Hurricane

2005-06-15 Thread Josh Babcock
AJ MacLeod (email lists) wrote: Funnily enough, I surprised myself by what I was able to produce by sight in Blender, random household objects etc. Producing something reasonably exact from 3-views has proved a completely different story though... I have found that 3-views are good for

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Hurricane

2005-06-15 Thread AJ MacLeod (email lists)
On Wednesday 15 Jun 2005 17:18, Josh Babcock wrote: I have found that 3-views are good for laying out the basic shapes, but to really get a model right you need lots of reference photos. The quality of these photos makes a big difference too. I would recommend starting the model, then once you

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Hurricane

2005-06-15 Thread Arnt Karlsen
On Wed, 15 Jun 2005 12:07:13 +0100, Jon wrote in message [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Erik Hofman wrote: Jon Stockill wrote: As he said - extensive studies of people who spent upwards of 8 hours at a time sitting in front of such instruments has shown that they're losing teeth and hair,

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Hurricane

2005-06-14 Thread AJ MacLeod (email lists)
On Monday 13 Jun 2005 15:14, Vivian Meazza wrote: There remains some more eye-candy to do: nav lights, beam approach marker lamps, realistic rad and oil temperature readings etc. In the meantime I would be grateful for any comments, not least that it all downloads and installs correctly!

RE: [Flightgear-devel] Hurricane

2005-06-14 Thread Vivian Meazza
AJ MacLeod wrote On Monday 13 Jun 2005 15:14, Vivian Meazza wrote: There remains some more eye-candy to do: nav lights, beam approach marker lamps, realistic rad and oil temperature readings etc. In the meantime I would be grateful for any comments, not least that it all downloads and

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Hurricane

2005-06-14 Thread AJ MacLeod (email lists)
On Tuesday 14 Jun 2005 22:57, Vivian Meazza wrote: Is this in roll only? The ailerons are much more powerful, but also damped. There shouldn't be any rapid movement in the ailerons, but the stick reflects the input. Look at the ailerons in an external view - are they jumping around too? Yes