Re: [Flightgear-devel] dc3 pannel lights

2002-10-24 Thread Julian Foad
Curtis L. Olson wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Agreed. Instruments that test whether they are powered should default to powered if the aircraft does not provide a suitable electrical system. This could translate to if the required power bus property is not present. A simple default

Re: [Flightgear-devel] dc3 pannel lights

2002-10-23 Thread Curtis L. Olson
John Check writes: Well, Ideally, no, but like anything else, unless we have some documentation to work from, getting it right isn't likely. I don't know what doco is available. My feeling is that that we should at least have the battery and/or alternator connected to a main buss, which is

Re: [Flightgear-devel] dc3 pannel lights

2002-10-23 Thread julianfoad
Andy Ross wrote: John Check wrote: What it is is that when electrical system modeling was added it affected planes for which no electrical system was added. Shouldn't the sane choice for the defaults be the opposite? The instruments work unless the electrical system tells them that

Re: [Flightgear-devel] dc3 pannel lights

2002-10-23 Thread Curtis L. Olson
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Agreed. Instruments that test whether they are powered should default to powered if the aircraft does not provide a suitable electrical system. This could translate to if the required power bus property is not present. A simple default electrical system that

Re: [Flightgear-devel] dc3 pannel lights

2002-10-23 Thread John Check
On Wednesday 23 October 2002 8:10 am, Curtis L. Olson wrote: John Check writes: Well, Ideally, no, but like anything else, unless we have some documentation to work from, getting it right isn't likely. I don't know what doco is available. My feeling is that that we should at least have

[Flightgear-devel] dc3 pannel lights

2002-10-22 Thread Dave Perry
The c172-yasim pannel is lit at night, so this seems to be a change to the dc3 only. - Dave ___ Flightgear-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.flightgear.org/mailman/listinfo/flightgear-devel

Re: [Flightgear-devel] dc3 pannel lights

2002-10-22 Thread John Check
On Tuesday 22 October 2002 10:11 pm, Dave Perry wrote: The c172-yasim pannel is lit at night, so this seems to be a change to the dc3 only. - Dave What it is is that when electrical system modeling was added it affected planes for which no electrical system was added. I went through and added

Re: [Flightgear-devel] dc3 pannel lights

2002-10-22 Thread Andy Ross
John Check wrote: What it is is that when electrical system modeling was added it affected planes for which no electrical system was added. I went through and added the markup to include the electrical.xml from the default 172 to all the variants, but never did the non Cessna planes.

Re: [Flightgear-devel] dc3 pannel lights

2002-10-22 Thread John Check
On Wednesday 23 October 2002 12:44 am, Andy Ross wrote: John Check wrote: What it is is that when electrical system modeling was added it affected planes for which no electrical system was added. I went through and added the markup to include the electrical.xml from the default 172 to