[Flightgear-devel] sprintf usage

2007-10-07 Thread Durk Talsma
Gentlemen, Is there any reason not to use snprintf instead of sprintf? In order to investigate possible memory corruption errors, I changed a few in SimGear, and just found there are about another 250 of these in FlightGear. Unless there's a compelling reason, I'd like to change those as well,

[Flightgear-devel] Century IIB, Century IIII, and Altimatic IIIc 3d autopilots submitted to cvs

2007-10-07 Thread dave perry
Hi all, Autopilot changes to the pa24 and SenecaII: For the last 5 weeks, I have been working with Torsten Dreyer to implement accurate models of the actual autopilots used by the pa24 and SenecaII. Friday morning, I sent 4 patches to Andy Ross for submission to cvs that implement these

Re: [Flightgear-devel] oil platform...

2007-10-07 Thread Robert Black
On Wednesday 03 October 2007 19:05, SydSandy wrote: Log Message: Oil platform for helicopter practice I was thinking about this and thought of a ship with a helo deck which could be anything from a yacht to cargo ships and ships in the Niimitz Strike Force or a Coast Guard type and then

[Flightgear-devel] autopilots, adverse aileron yaw and jsbsim questions

2007-10-07 Thread dave perry
While optimizing the aitopilot config files for the Century IIB and III autopilots for the pa24 and the Altimatic IIIc for the SenecaII, a significant difference between the values of parameters (gains in particular) that give non oscillatory behavior in yasim and jsbsim became very apparent.

Re: [Flightgear-devel] oil platform...

2007-10-07 Thread gh.robin
On lun 8 octobre 2007, Robert Black wrote: On Wednesday 03 October 2007 19:05, SydSandy wrote: Log Message: Oil platform for helicopter practice I was thinking about this and thought of a ship with a helo deck which could be anything from a yacht to cargo ships and ships in the Niimitz

[Flightgear-devel] Flight Gear runtime failure

2007-10-07 Thread James Reinsberg
I have attempted to build Flight Gear from source, as well as plib, simgear, and openscenegraph. I have retrieved the head of each program from cvs/svn, and compiled/linked without (significant) error. When I execute Flight Gear the program reads airport and navigation data fine, but crashes