Re: [Flightgear-devel] Autopilot Tuning

2010-01-25 Thread leee
On Monday 25 Jan 2010, Pete Morgan wrote: I'm having a successful time tuning my first autopilot on the 787. I've managed to get rid of the jerks and wobbles, mainly by using a noise-spike filter with max-rate-of-change. That thanks to Syd Adams for that wonderful tip. All flight level

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Autopilot Tuning

2010-01-25 Thread Pete Morgan
thanks lee for the reply, particular about the thinking it through part; and am already thinking about a problem I've encountered, although I'm still trying to get the hang of the autopilot. VNAV. - (don't know how to explain the problem well) I've managed to get the Altitude hold, Vertical

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Autopilot Tuning

2010-01-25 Thread leee
On Monday 25 Jan 2010, Pete Morgan wrote: thanks lee for the reply, particular about the thinking it through part; and am already thinking about a problem I've encountered, although I'm still trying to get the hang of the autopilot. VNAV. - (don't know how to explain the problem well)

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Autopilot Tuning

2010-01-25 Thread Pete Morgan
Thanks leee.. for all the tips.. Is one of you aircraft in CVS so I cant study the autopilot. pete leee wrote: On Monday 25 Jan 2010, Pete Morgan wrote: thanks lee for the reply, particular about the thinking it through part; and am already thinking about a problem I've encountered,

Re: [Flightgear-devel] terragear

2010-01-25 Thread Martin Spott
syd adams wrote: I did discover that fgfs-construct's lon , lat is the center of the work area . not bottom left like i assumed , and you need to delete the AirportArea and AirportObj folders before regenerating the airport again or you end up with holes ... and, while you are at it,

Re: [Flightgear-devel] KSFO startup bugs ?

2010-01-25 Thread Olivier JACQ
Thanks Stewart, Gijs, Martin for this update. One more question at KSFO : I do not have any more PAPI/VASIS info, is that normal (the former KSFO had) ? Thanks. - Mail Original - De: syd adams adams@gmail.com À: FlightGear developers discussions

Re: [Flightgear-devel] KSFO startup bugs ?

2010-01-25 Thread Martin Spott
Salut Olivier, Olivier JACQ wrote: One more question at KSFO : I do not have any more PAPI/VASIS info, is that normal (the former KSFO had) ? That's a data-feature. In Robin's latest v8.10 data export there is simply no visual approach path lighting defined for KSFO. Check KSQL for example,

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Autopilot Tuning

2010-01-25 Thread Torsten Dreyer
On Monday 25 Jan 2010, Pete Morgan wrote: I'm having a successful time tuning my first autopilot on the 787. I've managed to get rid of the jerks and wobbles, mainly by using a noise-spike filter with max-rate-of-change. That thanks to Syd Adams for that wonderful tip. All flight

[Flightgear-devel] fgrun --as-needed configure/compile problem

2010-01-25 Thread Christian Schmitt
Hi, I'm currently working on improving my Gentoo overlay for FG and added a live version of fgrun to it. There is a problem to compile it with --as-needed enabled as LDFLAGS. During configure it already prints: checking for gl_start in -lfltk_gl... no which leads to a compile error later on:

[Flightgear-devel] Autopilot: NAV/Localiser

2010-01-25 Thread Pete Morgan
Am trying to get the autopilot to follow a NAV1 course, correctly. It works, but the behaviour is unexpected, or I got it wrong about VOR navigation. Please have a look at the image link below as I am not good at explaining. http://imgur.com/LL6b9 Approaching a VOR, from say 50nm away, just

[Flightgear-devel] materials.xml request

2010-01-25 Thread J. Holden
I don't know if we've gone final with everything yet, but if we haven't, would it be possible for somebody here to: * double-check to see if the mushroom water-towers still exist under the town definition in materials.xml; and, if so, * remove them. As we'll have a lot more areas defined as

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Autopilot Tuning

2010-01-25 Thread Pete Morgan
Would it be possible to wire up the VNav autopilot as follows, or is it a bad idea. http://i.imgur.com/UkGHG.png I'm trying to figure out a way that will allow smooth switching between the pids, which would mean taking into account the current elevator position. Also is it possible to make

[Flightgear-devel] 777: patches and bug

2010-01-25 Thread Pete Morgan
Attached is a patch that adds filters to the 777 autopilot's Heading, LNAV and Altitude Major bug is LNAV. The 777 currently doesn't fly on a LNAV/CRS properly. The aircraft ends up on the correct heading, but with no correction, ie parallel to predicted path and not correcting. The values in

[Flightgear-devel] FlightGear release candidate for windows 2.1 available through bittorrent

2010-01-25 Thread Durk Talsma
Dear all, please find a new (and hopefully semi-final) release candidate for FlightGear available for bittorrent download: http://www.xs4all.nl/~dtalsma/fgsetup-2.0.0-RC2.1.exe.torrent Note that there is also a 64-bit version of executable available here: