Re: [Flightgear-devel] Improved c172p autopilot

2007-01-04 Thread woodyst
Can you send me your version of the file? Thanks in advance. On 1/3/07, Roy Vegard Ovesen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wednesday 03 January 2007 10:27, woodyst wrote: It can be fixed in kap140.nas file, I think. I would study that file well and if I can, I will send another patch. I've

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Improved c172p autopilot

2007-01-03 Thread woodyst
On 1/3/07, Dave Perry [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, 2007-01-03 at 03:08 +0100, woodyst wrote: I've arrived to that conclusion when I saw that the plain wasn't unable of performing a 0-0 visibility approach with ILS. The ILS minimums for non CAT II or CAT III approaches are usually no

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Improved c172p autopilot

2007-01-03 Thread Joacim Persson
On Wed, 3 Jan 2007, Ralf Gerlich wrote: Disabling joystick inputs alltogether should not be an option, except - perhaps - if you only disable a single axis. Assume that your AP is in ALT hold mode and you want to do turns. You are right about that of course. And using a separate channel is

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Improved c172p autopilot

2007-01-03 Thread Ralf Gerlich
Hi, Joacim Persson wrote: OTOH if we're not that much after exact internal modelling, we might as well use the trim channel ;-) The piloting of the aircraft, including AP, should be realistic. In this case that involves adjusting the pitch trim (manually) -- why there are warning lights

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Improved c172p autopilot

2007-01-03 Thread Roy Vegard Ovesen
On Wednesday 03 January 2007 10:27, woodyst wrote: It can be fixed in kap140.nas file, I think. I would study that file well and if I can, I will send another patch. I've overhauled kap140.nas quite extensively. I've changed to more sensible property data types like boolenas instead of text.

[Flightgear-devel] Improved c172p autopilot

2007-01-02 Thread woodyst
I was investigating about the KAP140. I read the manual and the autopilot documents of FlightGear and I think there may be some errors in the KAP140.xml file. I've arrived to that conclusion when I saw that the plain wasn't unable of performing a 0-0 visibility approach with ILS. I have

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Improved c172p autopilot

2007-01-02 Thread Dave Perry
On Wed, 2007-01-03 at 03:08 +0100, woodyst wrote: I've arrived to that conclusion when I saw that the plain wasn't unable of performing a 0-0 visibility approach with ILS. The ILS minimums for non CAT II or CAT III approaches are usually no less than 200 1/2 (200 ft AGL decision height and

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Improved c172p autopilot

2007-01-02 Thread Dave Perry
On Tue, 2007-01-02 at 23:01 -0700, Dave Perry wrote: For whatever reason, the KAP140 gives more realistic performance in the pa24 than in the c172p. I did not include an autopilot config xml in the pa24 implementation, i.e. it is using the default configuration. Correction: I am using the