Re: [Flightgear-devel] VSI units mismatch panel/steam

2002-06-03 Thread James Turner
On Mon, 2002-06-03 at 03:18, Curtis L. Olson wrote: Cockpit/steam.cxx exports /steam/vertical-speed-fpm and ties it to FGSteam::get_VSI_fps It seems like there is a mismatch here between fpsecond and fpminute. The fdm exports /velocities/vertical-speed-fps aka climb_rate. The vsi

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Multitexturing

2002-06-03 Thread David Findlay
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sun, 2 Jun 2002 22:24, you wrote: David Findlay writes: Anyone know if multitexturing is supported by Plib? As far as I know, it is not. That would make airports and terrain look much better. Thanks, Well, yes or no depending on what

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Aircraft

2002-06-03 Thread Derrell . Lipman
All this talk of some *past* combination of Bonanza / Mooney is interesting in light of *today's* news (from the current issue of AvWeb -- www.avweb.com): OUR INCESTUOUS INDUSTRY: MOONEY EYES BARON, BONANZA... Mooney Aerospace Group (MAG), of Kerrville, Texas, has confirmed it's looking at

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Space Flight Simulation Poll

2002-06-03 Thread Martin Dressler
On Sun 2. June 2002 07:26, you wrote: The goal is by using a set of standards one could hyper-jump ones spacecraft between star systems, much the way one I'm not really interested in anything outside of earth orbit, for now. From an aircraft view, it would be nice to automate the

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Aircraft

2002-06-03 Thread Gene Buckle
On Sunday 02 June 2002 5:16 pm, Gene Buckle wrote: ..also, how about a _generic_ Mooney Bonanza? About 300 of Mooney didn't build the Bonanza, Beechcraft did. I have to admit though, a huge formation of forked-tail doctor killers would be a cool thing to see. :) g.

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Connection refused

2002-06-03 Thread Andy Ross
Jim Wilson wrote: Olivier Grisel said: Furthermore, I can't hear the landing gear sound for the 747-yasim The gear sound is working now in my copy (can't remember if cvs is working or not). For the most part it gets drowned out by the sound of the engines. Not sure if on the real thing

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Aircraft

2002-06-03 Thread David Megginson
Gene Buckle writes: forked-tail doctor killers That's a good one. That's the name given to the V tail Bonanza. That's funny -- I remembered reading a piece on a Bonanza crash, with reference to doctor/pilots. I found it again with Google:

[Flightgear-devel] Gear rumble

2002-06-03 Thread David Megginson
Andy Ross writes: Even in the lightplanes I've been in, you can't hear the squeal from the cockpit over the noise of the engine. Is it possible that the tire squeal is one of those cultural things* that we're all supposed to expect, even though it doesn't really happen? In a C172, you

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Gear rumble

2002-06-03 Thread Gene Buckle
much of it you can actually hear and how much you feel instead, but since we cannot shake the user's chair, the rumbling is a good idea. It's actually more along the lines of a low frequency sound produced *by* the vibration. I'm going to simulate this by driving a 12VDC motor with an offset

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Connection refused

2002-06-03 Thread Jim Wilson
Andy Ross [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: I doubt it. I don't fly in jumbo jets very often, but even in smaller jetliners you can't hear the tires squeal at landing. What you do hear is a low frequence bump as the gear compress. Sometimes there's a creaking sound as the passengers seats shift

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Connection refused

2002-06-03 Thread Gene Buckle
Yes. He might have been talking about the motor whine for gear up and down (that was my assumption). I know it can be heard clearly as a passenger, if The motor whine is most likely the drive systems for the leading edge slats and the flaps speedbrakes. In most passenger airliners (AFAIK),

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Gear rumble

2002-06-03 Thread Erik Hofman
Gene Buckle wrote: much of it you can actually hear and how much you feel instead, but since we cannot shake the user's chair, the rumbling is a good idea. It's actually more along the lines of a low frequency sound produced *by* the vibration. I'm going to simulate this by driving a 12VDC

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Gear rumble

2002-06-03 Thread Gene Buckle
Did you already find a solution for the gun? This was the most exciting part of the F-16 simulator, it sounds (and feels) just lik a gimlet hitting the concrete ;-) Erik That's a way down the road yet. :) I'm working on getting my avionics straightened out right now. On the up side, I

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Aircraft

2002-06-03 Thread Jon S Berndt
On Mon, 3 Jun 2002 13:05:01 -0400 David Megginson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Gene Buckle writes: forked-tail doctor killers That's a good one. That's the name given to the V tail Bonanza. My boss (at the time) and I flew into Oshkosh one year in the early 80's in a V-tail, flying

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Aircraft

2002-06-03 Thread Curtis L. Olson
Jon S Berndt writes: On Mon, 3 Jun 2002 13:05:01 -0400 David Megginson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Gene Buckle writes: forked-tail doctor killers That's a good one. That's the name given to the V tail Bonanza. My boss (at the time) and I flew into Oshkosh one year in

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Aircraft

2002-06-03 Thread Jon S Berndt
On Mon, 3 Jun 2002 12:56:42 -0500 (CDT) Curtis L. Olson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hal has quite a few of his more interesting flying stories posted to his web page (including the one about the bonanza crash.) http://stoenworks.com/Aviation%20home%20page.html Stoenworks aviation is in

[Flightgear-devel] Star Flight Simulator

2002-06-03 Thread Curtis L. Olson
Anyone know what is going on with this product/project (Star Flight Simulator)? http://www.staridia.com/sfs/ I know a little spanish so I can bluff my way through the web site and get the general gist of things, but I'm sure I have missed most/all of the subtleties. Under the Vendas

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Star Flight Simulator

2002-06-03 Thread Erik Hofman
Curtis L. Olson wrote: Anyone know what is going on with this product/project (Star Flight Simulator)? http://www.staridia.com/sfs/ I know a little spanish so I can bluff my way through the web site and get the general gist of things, but I'm sure I have missed most/all of the

[Flightgear-devel] Highres screen shot

2002-06-03 Thread Erik Hofman
Could someone confirm that the highres screenshot is still working on Win32/Linux? I was in the mood for making another FlightGear poster and decided to take some highres snapshots, but it looks like it doesn't render the terrain (Irix). Erik

[Flightgear-devel] yasim solution failure

2002-06-03 Thread Alex Romosan
it seems to be back. things were working on friday, but this morning when i tried to fly the 747 out of KOAK i get this: Finally initializing fdm Start common FDM init ...initializing position... ...initializing ground elevation to 9.39244ft... ...initializing sea-level radius... lat = 37.7251

Re: [Flightgear-devel] yasim solution failure

2002-06-03 Thread Andy Ross
Alex Romosan wrote: it seems to be back. things were working on friday, but this morning when i tried to fly the 747 out of KOAK i get this: It looks like you're using the 747.xml file out of the current fgfsbase CVS. As of the last fix, you need a new file to fix a tail authority problem

[Flightgear-devel] Re: yasim solution failure

2002-06-03 Thread Alex Romosan
Andy Ross [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: It looks like you're using the 747.xml file out of the current fgfsbase CVS. As of the last fix, you need a new file to fix a tail authority problem that the fixed code exposed. Checkins to the base package tend to lag the source tree by a few days. I

Re: [Flightgear-devel] yasim solution failure

2002-06-03 Thread Jim Wilson
Andy Ross [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: Alex Romosan wrote: it seems to be back. things were working on friday, but this morning when i tried to fly the 747 out of KOAK i get this: It looks like you're using the 747.xml file out of the current fgfsbase CVS. As of the last fix, you need a new

[Flightgear-devel] Re: yasim solution failure

2002-06-03 Thread Melchior FRANZ
* Jim Wilson -- Monday 03 June 2002 21:53:^M That is in CVS now.^M ^M Yeah, with cool Micros~1 line-ends. Sheesh ...^M ^M m.^M ;-) ___ Flightgear-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.flightgear.org/mailman/listinfo/flightgear-devel

RE: [Flightgear-devel] Highres screen shot

2002-06-03 Thread Michael Basler
Erik, Could someone confirm that the highres screenshot is still working on Win32/Linux? I was in the mood for making another FlightGear poster and decided to take some highres snapshots, but it looks like it doesn't render the terrain (Irix). You are right, there seems to be an issue. On a

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Star Flight Simulator

2002-06-03 Thread Cameron Moore
* [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Curtis L. Olson) [2002.06.03 13:47]: Anyone know what is going on with this product/project (Star Flight Simulator)? http://www.staridia.com/sfs/ I know a little spanish so I can bluff my way through the web site and get the general gist of things, but I'm sure I

Re: [Flightgear-devel] yasim solution failure

2002-06-03 Thread John Check
On Monday 03 June 2002 3:22 pm, Andy Ross wrote: Alex Romosan wrote: it seems to be back. things were working on friday, but this morning when i tried to fly the 747 out of KOAK i get this: It looks like you're using the 747.xml file out of the current fgfsbase CVS. As of the last fix,

Re: [Flightgear-devel] yasim solution failure

2002-06-03 Thread Andy Ross
John Check wrote: Andy Ross wrote: Checkins to the base package tend to lag the source tree by a few days. I attached the new file to my mail on Sunday (subject: YASim 747-400 climb). A few days? That really shouldn't be. Everybody that needs write access for the base has it, AFAIK.

[Flightgear-devel] Parsing Lon/lat strings

2002-06-03 Thread James Turner
Further to my flight plan hacking (which is coming along nicely): Is there any code in Sim/FlightGear to do generic conversion of a lat / lon string into a decimal degree value? I.e, something that would accept and convert some / all of the following: N50 23.1 -96.32 E00 06.3 into a

Re: [Flightgear-devel] yasim solution failure

2002-06-03 Thread John Check
On Monday 03 June 2002 6:18 pm, Andy Ross wrote: John Check wrote: Andy Ross wrote: Checkins to the base package tend to lag the source tree by a few days. I attached the new file to my mail on Sunday (subject: YASim 747-400 climb). A few days? That really shouldn't be. Everybody

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Parsing Lon/lat strings

2002-06-03 Thread Andy Ross
James Turner wrote: Is there any code in Sim/FlightGear to do generic conversion of a lat / lon string into a decimal degree value? And, if it doesn't exist, any suggestions how do a vaguely elegant implementation? Heh, that actually sounded kinda fun, so I tried it. Here's the smallest

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Star Flight Simulator

2002-06-03 Thread Arnt Karlsen
On Mon, 3 Jun 2002 16:38:10 -0500, Cameron Moore [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message [EMAIL PROTECTED]: * [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Curtis L. Olson) [2002.06.03 13:47]: Anyone know what is going on with this product/project (Star Flight Simulator)? http://www.staridia.com/sfs/

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Crash on Reset function.

2002-06-03 Thread Jim Wilson
Curtis L. Olson [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: Has anyone tried to debug the Reset menu crash? Yes, right after the cloud layer changes went in it started. David knows about it. Comment out the cloud layer config in preferences.xml and the problem goes away (but you have no clouds). It appears

RE: [Flightgear-devel] Crash on Reset function.

2002-06-03 Thread Norman Vine
Curtis L. Olson writes: Has anyone tried to debug the Reset menu crash? Yep, but no joy. This is a bug we shouldn't let sit around very long. The longer it sits, the harder it will be to track down. FWIW: It is curious that 'goto airport' seems to still work Norman

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Crash on Reset function.

2002-06-03 Thread Andy Ross
Curtis L. Olson wrote: Has anyone tried to debug the Reset menu crash? I've been looking at it for an hour and am just going in circles. Half the time I get a segfault with no backtrace ... I don't remember what a malloc segfault exactly means, but I seem to recall that it probably means

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Parsing Lon/lat strings

2002-06-03 Thread Frederic Bouvier
I wrote one in fgsd that allow [ESNW-+]? dd.d [ESNW-+]? dd:mm.mm [ESNW-+]? dd:mm:ss.sss see double FGSD_Util::parsePosition( const char *_pos_, bool _error_ ) at : http://cvs.sourceforge.net/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/fgsd/fgsd/src/sdutil.cpp?rev= HEADcontent-type=text/vnd.viewcvs-markup

[Flightgear-devel] Re: Crash on Reset function.

2002-06-03 Thread Melchior FRANZ
* Andy Ross -- Tuesday 04 June 2002 07:30: Who was it that was playing with valgrind (http://developer.kde.org/~sewardj/) a while back? That was me. And I'm still playing with it. I just hadn't much time recently, but I'll continue as soon as possible. What has also slowed me down a bit is,

[Flightgear-devel] Re: Parsing Lon/lat strings

2002-06-03 Thread Melchior FRANZ
* Frederic Bouvier -- Tuesday 04 June 2002 07:47: PS: I am seeing all your messages as attachment. Is there something special with your mailer or is it me ( or Outlook ) ? This feature is brought to you by Micros~1 Outlock. It's a normal signed MIME-message, nothing special. m.