Re: [Flightgear-devel] Fokker 50 turboprop commuter

2003-07-29 Thread Innis Cunningham
Frederic Bouvier Innis Cunningham wrote: Thanks Fred Full credits should go to Erik for the Fokker family ! Sorry.In that case thank you Erik I am only responsible for the Airbus A320. Nice aircraft also the 100 to.Noticed that it (f50) seemed a little touchey on pitch but nothing bad.

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Fokker 50 turboprop commuter

2003-07-29 Thread Erik Hofman
Innis Cunningham wrote: Frederic Bouvier Innis Cunningham wrote: Thanks Fred Full credits should go to Erik for the Fokker family ! Sorry.In that case thank you Erik Thanks. I've been heads down too long while working on these aircraft. Thanks everyone who mentioned the dusk/down colors. It

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Fokker 50 turboprop commuter

2003-07-29 Thread David Megginson
Erik Hofman writes: David, congratulations on your IFR approval! Now, be careful out there (that's what the exam is all about anyhow) but I hate to loose you as a developer. Thanks. Fortunately, since I did my whole flight test in hard-core IMC, the examiner was actually able to see how

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Fokker 50 turboprop commuter

2003-07-29 Thread Erik Hofman
David Megginson wrote: When we broke out at 4000 ft on our initial climb out from Ottawa, and the windows were suddenly filled with sunlight and glorious white cloudtops, everyone in the plane gasped -- it kind-of makes all the work for the rating worthwhile. Not to mention ones own feeling of

[Flightgear-devel] Fokker 50 turboprop commuter

2003-07-28 Thread Innis Cunningham
Thanks Fred Nice aircraft also the 100 to.Noticed that it (f50) seemed a little touchey on pitch but nothing bad. Also on a different subject.The maintance hangar at KSFO does not seem to be in the stg file yet.If not what are its co ordinates.Is it the United airlines hangar.If so which one.

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Fokker 50 turboprop commuter

2003-07-28 Thread Frederic Bouvier
Innis Cunningham wrote: Thanks Fred Full credits should go to Erik for the Fokker family ! I am only responsible for the Airbus A320. Nice aircraft also the 100 to.Noticed that it (f50) seemed a little touchey on pitch but nothing bad. Also on a different subject.The maintance hangar at KSFO

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Fokker 50 turboprop commuter

2003-07-28 Thread Jon Stockill
On Mon, 28 Jul 2003, Frederic Bouvier wrote: Blender is a very productive tool. Worth the time it takes to learn the basics. Agreed - Initial attempts at using it left me wondering what sort of substances the people who designed the UI were abusing, but once you get the hang of it it's rather

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Fokker 50 turboprop commuter

2003-07-28 Thread Curtis L. Olson
Jon Stockill writes: On Mon, 28 Jul 2003, Frederic Bouvier wrote: Blender is a very productive tool. Worth the time it takes to learn the basics. Agreed - Initial attempts at using it left me wondering what sort of substances the people who designed the UI were abusing, but once you get

RE: [Flightgear-devel] Fokker 50 turboprop commuter

2003-07-28 Thread Jon Berndt
I'm no 3d modeling expert, but I have yet to see any 3d modeler with a comprehensible gui. 3d modeling is a very complex process and so the gui's are also necessarily complex. But with most of them, you can be very productive once you learn the various tricks and keyboard accelerators, and

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Fokker 50 turboprop commuter

2003-07-28 Thread WillyB
On Monday 28 July 2003 06:25, Jon Stockill wrote: On Mon, 28 Jul 2003, Frederic Bouvier wrote: Blender is a very productive tool. Worth the time it takes to learn the basics. Agreed - Initial attempts at using it left me wondering what sort of substances the people who designed the UI were

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Fokker 50 turboprop commuter

2003-07-28 Thread Matthew Law
Agreed - Initial attempts at using it left me wondering what sort of substances the people who designed the UI were abusing, but once you get the hang of it it's rather productive. I'm just trying to get my head around the UV editor now. Can you guys recommend any tutorial resources for the

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Fokker 50 turboprop commuter

2003-07-28 Thread WillyB
Besides the urls I posted earlier in this thread, there's this page: http://www.blender3d.org/Education/ and this whole site here is very good as well. probably better actually ;) http://www.elysiun.com/ I've gotten pretty good at the basics.. but there's still a lot more I don't know than I do

[Flightgear-devel] Fokker 50 turboprop commuter

2003-07-27 Thread Erik Hofman
Hi, I've added the first stab at a Fokker 50 turboprop commuter into the base package CVS. At this time the JSBSim configuration file is completely generated by David's latest aeromatic scrip and is the first FlightGear aircraft to combine a propeller and a turbine engine (latest CVS