Re: [Flightgear-devel] Observations on latest cvs flightgear

2002-02-13 Thread D Luff
David Megginson writes: Andy Ross writes: The startup stuff, though, should be really simple. What do I do, check the cranking flag and add some delay before it turns over? It would be better to have a cutoff RPM where the engine stops running. As long as the cranking flag is set,

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Observations on latest cvs flightgear

2002-02-08 Thread D Luff
Curtis L. Olson writes: I'm not seeing this at all on my end. The controls all start out centered for me. Are you running with keyboard input, or joystick for the yoke? This is with keyboard. You are the only one who I've heard report such a thing. OK, I'll assume some

[Flightgear-devel] Observations on latest cvs flightgear

2002-02-07 Thread D Luff
Here's my observations from testing the latest cvs flightgear/simgear/base: The fixed turn co-ordinater in JSBSim is great, unfortunately it doesn't work (freezes) after a reset. Its quite literally 'fixed' then ;-) The output from SG_INFO to the console (Event states, mouse in view/pointer

RE: [Flightgear-devel] Observations on latest cvs flightgear

2002-02-07 Thread BERNDT, JON S. (JON) (JSC-EX) (LM)
One of the problems is that JSBSim does its own output outside of the SG_LOG infrastructure. We'll need to modify JSBSim to allow custom logging interfaces, and that might be a bit of a tedious chore. No really. If we want JSBSim to have no output log, simply set JSBSIM_DEBUG=0 I don't

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Observations on latest cvs flightgear

2002-02-07 Thread Bernie Bright
David Megginson wrote: Cameron Moore writes: The output from SG_INFO to the console (Event states, mouse in view/pointer mode, lighting updates and tile updates) can cause nasty pauses on Windows 98 even with the console window minimised, far worse than on NT on the same

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Observations on latest cvs flightgear

2002-02-07 Thread Curtis L. Olson
D Luff writes: The output from SG_INFO to the console (Event states, mouse in view/pointer mode, lighting updates and tile updates) can cause nasty pauses on Windows 98 even with the console window minimised, far worse than on NT on the same hardware. May I suggest that we turn off all

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Observations on latest cvs flightgear

2002-02-07 Thread Curtis L. Olson
Cameron Moore writes: I've got a Feature Request item[1] for this on SF. I seriously doubt I'll have free time to hack on this before the feature freeze, so if it's going to get into 0.7.9, someone else is going to have to do it. Thanks [1]

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Observations on latest cvs flightgear

2002-02-07 Thread Andy Ross
Curtis L. Olson wrote: D Luff wrote: YASim initialised at about 40 knots charging down the runway, with the engines running and the magnetos off. Due to the aformentioned full left aileron I didn't get very far. Yes, YASim engine start procedures need to be on the todo list

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Observations on latest cvs flightgear

2002-02-07 Thread David Megginson
Andy Ross writes: The startup stuff, though, should be really simple. What do I do, check the cranking flag and add some delay before it turns over? It would be better to have a cutoff RPM where the engine stops running. As long as the cranking flag is set, keep incrementing RPM slightly;