Re: [Flightgear-devel] English Electric Lightning no longer runs

2010-03-26 Thread Vivian Meazza
Alan Teeder > Problem now solved !! > > In Lighning-electrical.nas, line 378 > if(bus_volts > 114){setprop("instrumentation/radar/switch","on" );} > > Setting this to "on" crashes Flightgear on both my computers here. > > I can do the same by setting the property from the "Browse Intern

Re: [Flightgear-devel] English Electric Lightning no longer runs

2010-03-26 Thread Alan Teeder
Problem now solved !! In Lighning-electrical.nas, line 378 if(bus_volts > 114){setprop("instrumentation/radar/switch","on" );} Setting this to "on" crashes Flightgear on both my computers here. I can do the same by setting the property from the "Browse Internal Properties" menu. During

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Translating getstart.pdf to German

2010-03-26 Thread Gijs de Rooy
Hi, > Martin Spott wrote: > > Maik Justus wrote: > > > > I don't know. But at least my two cents to The Manual (chapter "A > > Helicopter Tutorial" was copied from the Wiki to the manual.) > > I suspect this has not happened without proper negotiation, or did it ? Maik copied it himself, as y

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Translating getstart.pdf to German

2010-03-26 Thread Martin Spott
Hi Maik, welcome to microlight flying - BTW ;-) Maik Justus wrote: > Martin Spott schrieb am 25.03.2010 22:34: >> Oh, are people really duplicating The Manual on the Wiki ? >> > I don't know. But at least my two cents to The Manual (chapter "A > Helicopter Tutorial" was copied from the Wiki

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Translating getstart.pdf to German

2010-03-26 Thread Maik Justus
Hello Jörg, Jörg Emmerich schrieb am 26.03.2010 10:23: > ... > For the example of the Helicopter (and similar) I am not yet sure about > the best way: But I am convinced also here we do need a chapter about > the "Basics of how to fly a Helicopter" in the manual -- and point to > the wiki for "enh

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Web Site

2010-03-26 Thread Gene Buckle
On Fri, 26 Mar 2010, Roland Haeder wrote: > But like Curt stated before: This has a very big downside, like every > medal has (remember, medals have two sides...) a backside. :( And that > one is also very clear: Do we, no better does Curt want to put his > project into the hand of Google who offe

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Sponsorship letter idea

2010-03-26 Thread George Patterson
2010/3/26 Pete Morgan : > Dear Richard Branston, > At risk of being a pedant, I'd imagine that it would have gone in the virtual bin at the point of reading the first line. Attention to details is important. Hi Pete, So you are proposing that a third party airline distributes the FlightGear CD a

[Flightgear-devel] Planned downtime of "ftp.de"

2010-03-26 Thread Martin Spott
Apparently they're going to conduct works on the electricity supply of the entire building, therefore the server is going to shut down at approx. 14:45 UTC. Electricity is supposed to get restored until monday morning at latest, Martin. -- Unix _IS_ user friendly - it's just selective ab

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Sponsorship letter idea

2010-03-26 Thread Jon S. Berndt
> > Dear Richard Branston, > > > > I'm sending this letter as an individual and am representing > FlightGear, Virgin may have a licensing department you would go through rather than sending it to him personally - he'll never personally see the letter. --

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Sponsorship letter idea

2010-03-26 Thread Victhor
Considering what he has been doing lately, he may end up accepting this. :) BTW, IMO you should write the letter more formally. > Dear Richard Branston, > > I'm sending this letter as an individual and am representing FlightGear, > which is an Open Source Flight Simulator released under the "Gene

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Translating getstart.pdf to German

2010-03-26 Thread Jörg Emmerich
I am very positive surprised that more people are interested in this project, than I thought! Some even offer actual help! That is very encouraging for me - I hope that will not get against me when I confess that I might not just do a word-by-word translation but also get some proposals for a gener

Re: [Flightgear-devel] English Electric Lightning no longer runs

2010-03-26 Thread Alan Teeder
> > Hmm - some kind of Nasal issue then? Any kind of error message? > > Vivian No error messages , it just stops with an Windows crash report. The dos window is, as usual, filled with the usual stream of annoying messages from traffic manager and navaids. At the moment I am looking at the e

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Sponsorship letter idea

2010-03-26 Thread Vivian Meazza
> -Original Message- > From: Pete Morgan [mailto:ac...@daffodil.uk.com] > Sent: 26 March 2010 02:40 > To: FlightGear developers discussions > Subject: [Flightgear-devel] Sponsorship letter idea > > Dear Richard Branston, > > I'm sending this letter as an individual and am representing F