Sorry for the top-post but I'm re-sending this entire message with a new subject line. Has this already been fixed in CVS?
Anyway, the following looks like a very good description of a nasty bug that shouldn't be too hard to fix. If we can't fix it for the release then shouldn't we disable load/save menu options until it is? Best regards, Jim > -----Original Message----- > From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Sent: Wednesday, 29. Mar 2006 9:06 -0500 > To: flightgear-devel@lists.sourceforge.net, > flightgear-users@lists.sourceforge.net > Subject: [Flightgear-devel] CONCLUSION: My problems with saving/loading > flights solved > > Hi everyone, > > Since I made some inquiries and replied myself on both user and devel lists, > I feel I owe you guys a report. > > Good news first: saving, and then loading and continiuing flights works well. > > The success of this though, seems to depend on starting the load/continue > session at the same (in some cases a close by) airport. > > When I had problems, I was trying to load/continue flights that I saved > around New York, Ottawa, Lake Erie (all in w080n40). I > started FG with bare command "fgfs<ret>". Of course this put me at KSFO. Then > I loaded one of the above mentioned > flights, and kaboom!, really nasty stuff happened (plane taking wild flips > and turns and eventually plunging into the earth/water > being totally uncontrolable throughout). > > After it finally occured to me that I was ending up in KSFO skies, I decided > to try starting from the original airport of the > saved flight. Everything worked like a charm. Then I tried starting in a > Toronto airport to continue the saved Ottawa flight, that > worked fine too. > > I thought I would share this. May be, it'll save some starter from the agony > in the future. > > Happy virtual flights... > > Yavuz Onder -- Jim Wilson Kelco Industries PO Box 160 Milbridge, ME 04658 207-546-7989 ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by xPML, a groundbreaking scripting language that extends applications into web and mobile media. Attend the live webcast and join the prime developer group breaking into this new coding territory! http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid=110944&bid=241720&dat=121642 _______________________________________________ Flightgear-devel mailing list Flightgear-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/flightgear-devel
