Jon S. Berndt wrote:
Using k/j or Ctrl-b or Shift-S - nothing seems to be able to stow the
speedbrake/spoilers on the upper surface of the 737-300 wing. Using the j
key seems to start it stowing, but it's only momentary. Then, it deploys
again. This happens when I use the
..which version Morphix?
I'm using their latest 2.6.15 autobuilds basemod...
- fgfs bash completion
..huh? Url? :o)
http://members.aon.at/mfranz/flightgear/fgfs.bash
It's yet another FG goodies by Melchior.
- fgrun or kfreeflight?
..grub!!! FG setup _can_ be
Hi!
I am experimenting with some lighter-than-air support for JSBSim and
FlightGear. The progress is not fast, but it is there. Currently, I have
implemented enough to make free flying balloons behave sort of decently[0] and
it should be possible to make simple airship models (though, I have
On 5 Apr 2006, at 00:15, James Turner wrote:I've just done a first stab of a binary release for OS-X, based on CVS as of yesterday. If you have access to a Mac with either 10.4.x or 10.3.9, please test it:http://homepage.mac.com/zakalawe/.Public/flightgear-0.9.10-pre-osx.dmgThings to keep in mind:
Hi Melchior,
Melchior FRANZ wrote:
Hey, I said consider! ... OK ... then, hmm ... I've started to make
a font from the pictures in that *.pdf, and it will be easy to create
all the signs from that. Then we'll see how to continue. (If somebody
objects to the old OBJECT_{TAXI,RUN}WAY_SIGN
Hi,
On Wed, Apr 05, 2006 at 10:04:46AM +, Martin Spott wrote:
Even if someone enables TerraGear to create these signs on the fly
during scenery generation (which I favour over keeping the signs in the
Objects DB) we still face the problem that we lack the logical airport
layout.
In the
Arnt Karlsen wrote:
BTW, I fulfilled basic military service in 1987/1988 as most of the
young boys did in this time and, while the military 'practice' I
gained in such a short timeframe is neglectible, I learned a lot of
bad and good lessons - mostly on how to communicate if you want to
On Wednesday 05 April 2006 03:51, Pigeon wrote:
One deciding factor might be the ease of configuring MP - I
tested the last 0.9.10 windows prerelease on someone else's box the other
day and was very impressed at how easy it was to get online.
And that was using what? Is there a windows
Can you imagine the average windows user being happy to launch fgfs from a
command box? ;-) Most of the ones I deal with every day have no idea such a
thing exists! FGRun is cross-platform and supplied with the windows binary.
I think there is a certain logic in supplying a front end
On Wed, 5 Apr 2006 18:45:13 +1000, Pigeon wrote in message
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..which version Morphix?
I'm using their latest 2.6.15 autobuilds basemod...
..uh, I see them as far as Morphix 0.5-pre5 Himalia?
- fgfs bash completion
..huh? Url? :o)
..uh, I see them as far as Morphix 0.5-pre5 Himalia?
http://www.morphix.org/autobuilds/base/
..aye. But for low end boxes such as the ~450MHz 100$ laptops Bill
Gates whines about , dumping the wm too will help them kids run it.
I dont have one, but I do have a coupla old amd
Ralf Gerlich wrote:
In the medium to long term we will get that info from TaxiDraw ;-)
Durk already integrated logical network editing for AI aircraft in
TaxiDraw without having to extend or modify the apt.dat format. After
all the chance that the format of Robin's database changes in a more
I cannot reproduce the spoiler problem. I tried using Melchior's command
line, with and without --disable-real-weather-fetch. I attached my
fgfsrc for completeness, but don't think it makes any difference. Of
course I'm on current CVS (plib, SimGear, FG, base data, 737-300).
Nine
If opinions seem inexpensive then maybe it's a sign that folks can only
hope
to contribute in some to what is a truly impressive production.
I wonder if the 'signs' addon could be included, it's very reassuring
for a beginner.
If the signs also included VOR/ADF ID's and frequencies
From: John Kluza
Hi Curt,
That cessna mini overlay is a good starting point. I used it to build my own
custom vertical transparent panel that serves the purpose well. Right now I
can only make it visible from views that an equivalent to the pilot's eye
view from the cockpit. It seems
While debugging the 737 I discovered something that I find unsettling. For
the 737-300 model (using a JSBSim flight model) there is a nasal script
called air-ground.nas. This apparently adds some automatic control of the
spoilers while on the ground. Now, understand up front that the discussion
On Wed, 5 Apr 2006 08:06:47 +0200
Melchior FRANZ wrote:
Hey, I said consider! ... OK ... then, hmm ... I've started to make
a font from the pictures in that *.pdf, and it will be easy to create
all the signs from that. Then we'll see how to continue. (If somebody
objects to the old
I've done a search and found that the following aircraft flight models
currently have no valid (new) specification using JSBSim-ML v2.0:
707
B29
C150
C310u3a-jsbsim
colditz
Lockheed1049
I'll try to get to those soon, but don't know when that will be. If someone
else wants to convert them (and
The idea that all the taxi/runway-signs would flood the fgfsdb is rather
ridiculous. Are windsocks in the fgfsdb? No. The *.stg files are for
static objects, period. This has *nothing* to do with the fgfsdb.
The question was neither if we want those signs (of course we do), or
if they are static
On Wed, 5 Apr 2006 08:57:08 -0400
Chris Metzler wrote:
As Ralf noted, placing all these in the FGFSDB
will result in a lot of objects in the DB, although I don't know that
the number count would cause a problem (hey Ralf, I think I'm already
the winner in that contest, since I think I'm
Martin Spott wrote:
Almost every engineer facing a problem starts with creating a plan -
this is what we are being taught when real life hits us after leaving
university ;-)
What are the implications of the OBJECT_{TAXI,RUN}WAY_SIGN feature ?
If you/we walk this path this would imply creating
I'm subsribed to all fgfs/sg cvslogs mailing lists, and update and
recompile *at least* once every day, often within minutes after a commit.
Except if the commits were mine, which isn't exactly rare either.
No, I won't update anything. I'm already running CVS/HEAD, just
like always.
(Of
hello,
i've written perl script to build flight plans in fgfs
http://seb.marque.free.fr/fichiers/scripts/perl/plandevol-eng
the goal was to make a very light single file appli to give enough
informations to go from a point to another following a route composed by
navaids. it includes the sid
Melchior FRANZ wrote:
Ideally, TerraGear would add all of them. But yes, it would make
some sense to add the automatically generated sign locations to the
fgfsdb first, so that they can then be modified through user input.
I take the ridiculous back. :-)
I entirely agree with you that the
* Jon S. Berndt -- Wednesday 05 April 2006 15:21:
What kind of climb rate do you see? How long does it take
to get to those really high altitudes?
Oh, it takes very long. More than an hour. That's why I'm not keen to
try it without AP. I prefer to let the AP do that on another desktop,
only
Very soon we'll see signs sitting in the middle of the taxiways
We already see windsocks in the middle of taxiways :-)
Roberto
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* Jon S. Berndt -- Wednesday 05 April 2006 15:21:
Now the question is, how up-to-date is your code? ;-)
About an hour ago. plib/simgear/flightgear/base.
Hehe ... OK. I just remember that you come occasionally with compilation
problems that are caused by code changes done several weeks ago.
On Wed, 5 Apr 2006 22:21:14 +1000, Pigeon wrote in message
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..uh, I see them as far as Morphix 0.5-pre5 Himalia?
http://www.morphix.org/autobuilds/base/
..sweet. We can automate iso builds right outta cvs or sn. ;o)
..aye. But for low end boxes such as the
- Original Message -
From: Jim Wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: flightgear-devel@lists.sourceforge.net
Sent: Wednesday, April 05, 2006 6:22 AM
Subject: Re: [Flightgear-devel] instrument panels on views from outside the
aircraft
From: John Kluza
snip
My real question though is can
On Wed, 05 Apr 2006 09:42:16 -0400, Josh wrote in message
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Well, the B-29 doesn't really have any correct JSBSim config at all,
so you might as well just ignore that entry. I don't think I will ever
get the polar data for the Boeing wing, so it will probably not happen
in
Arnt Karlsen wrote:
..anything useful here?:
http://www.google.com/search?num=100hl=enlr=ie=UTF-8oe=UTF-8q=airfoil+%22polar+data%22+lift+drag+B-29+OR+B29+OR+B-50+OR+B50btnG=Search
Fraid not. There is a specific Boeing airfoil used in the B-29 and it's
variants, i think it's the 319.
On Wednesday 05 April 2006 10:24, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hi!
I am experimenting with some lighter-than-air support for
JSBSim and FlightGear. The progress is not fast, but it is
there. Currently, I have implemented enough to make free
flying balloons behave sort of decently[0] and it
Hi all,
can anyone else reproduce this?
Start FG with a flight plan i.e. --flight-plan=foo
Clear the route via the menu drop down.
Add a way point and hit _return_
The menu no longer responds to mouse clicks but the mouse appears
to work ok otherwise i.e. right clicks and on the panel.
If
Well, the B-29 doesn't really have any correct JSBSim config at all, so
you might as well just ignore that entry. I don't think I will ever get
the polar data for the Boeing wing, so it will probably not happen in
the future either.
Josh
I think we can wing it fairly accurately (pun
Hi all,
I have uploaded a first small collection of taxiway signs for EDDF
airport. I'd like someone to check it out, and tell me if something is
wrong. This collection places runway exit signs on 07L-25R and 07R-25L only.
I am working on taxiway holding signs too. They will be uploaded in the
There is a problem with some ATI graphics hardware using ATI's proprietary
fglrx driver in Linux. FlightGear runs at about 25% of expected frame rate,
eventually spewing lots of these:
fglX11AllocateManagedSurface: __FGLTexMgrAllocMem failed!!
The problem occurs in FG 0.9.9 and later CVS
* Jon S. Berndt -- Wednesday 05 April 2006 15:21:
Now the question is, how up-to-date is your code? ;-)
About an hour ago. plib/simgear/flightgear/base.
Hehe ... OK. I just remember that you come occasionally with compilation
problems that are caused by code changes done several weeks
Hello Jon
Jon S. Berndt writes
Thanks - yes, I missed your post. Thanks for the report. I'll look at the
737. So, you tried the 747 and it works properly?
Just as a heads up the airground.nas file for the 737 was written by David
Culp and is designed to mimic the 737's airground switch.
Hi all , just discovered a problem with the aircraft downloads from the
website while trying to solve a problem for Steve , who downloaded my
Citation Bravo and reported errors.
The Bravo , and several others of mine rely on instruments in the
Instrument-3d folder , but they dont appear to be
I've updated the texture pack it now includes a winterized (snowy) set
of textures (thanks Erik for the tip on how to make snow appear on
everything).
Ironically, where I live in Florida where it doesn't snow :p
-Rob
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