RE: [Flightgear-devel] Request for comment: runtime validation of input files

2006-01-25 Thread Berndt, Jon S
AJ MacLeod wrote: On Monday 23 January 2006 13:46, Jon S. Berndt wrote: I've created a schema for the JSBSim aircraft configuration file. The XMLStarlet utility, xml, validates an aircraft flight model in less than a second. Sounds nice... and since I'm currently working on a JSBSim

[Flightgear-devel] RE: [Flightgear-flightmodel] PA-28

2006-02-03 Thread Berndt, Jon S
Erik Hofman wrote: This is a comment in the original (Cameron Munro Cameron Moore) configuration file which might give a clue: !-- McCormick p609 -- COEFFICIENT NAME=Cmq TYPE=VALUE In the source file src/FDM/LaRCsim/cherokee_aero.c there's my interpretation of original aero

RE: [Flightgear-devel] 737 diy cockpit

2006-03-03 Thread Berndt, Jon S
I noticed when running the 737-300 model if i switch off the fuel pumps this has no effect on the engines at all. How can i make the pumps turning off have an effect on the engines etc. Also i'd like to implement the crossfeeds so i can have the switches in my cockpit too. Anyone any

[Flightgear-devel] 3D models

2006-03-10 Thread Berndt, Jon S
Title: 3D models Is anyone aware of a converter that takes Moray 3D models to Blender? Jon --- This SF.Net email is sponsored by xPML, a groundbreaking scripting language that extends applications into web and mobile media. Attend

RE: [Flightgear-devel] 737-300 small fixes

2006-03-13 Thread Berndt, Jon S
Second (and more important) a hopefully good guess about the VRP. I used the z value of the old 737, which seems to fit and spent half an hour trying to figure out the y value. I tested giving full left break and 90% thrust which keeps the plane spinning around the left main gear and came

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Re: Nasal code error? ... Nope!

2006-03-14 Thread Berndt, Jon S
Still having problems? Everything seems ok over here. Curt. It appears that my simgear cvs update finally went through, and so I was able to build flightgear, too. Did you notice a problem with simgear cvs this morning? Jon --- This

[Flightgear-devel] 3D models and Blender

2006-03-20 Thread Berndt, Jon S
Title: 3D models and Blender If I'm not mistaken, the open source 3D modeing tool has been used to develop 3D models for FlightGear. Correct? Can the 3D models simply be opened in Blender? Jon --- This SF.Net email is sponsored by

[Flightgear-devel] Open Source Article

2006-03-21 Thread Berndt, Jon S
Title: Open Source Article One of my [too] many outside activities is serving as the volunteer editor of Horizons, the online magazine for the local Houston chapter of AIAA (the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics). The current issue (Jan/Feb) just now uploaded to our site has

RE: [Flightgear-devel] Concorde

2006-03-23 Thread Berndt, Jon S
Whats wrong with Concorde have the authors also taken this one out of commission ? It doesnt run , just says flightgear aborted no other errors. Cheers, Justin Smithies Read the post from earlier today about the Concorde, Re: FG core dump when running Concorde. You'll find the answer.

RE: [Flightgear-devel] Better way to edit XML files

2006-05-04 Thread Berndt, Jon S
From: Curtis L. Olson And of course, every experienced unix professional knows the original vi was already perfect. Not every. Some switched to emacs and thereafter would install emacs first before doing anything with a new machine. :-) As mentioned here before, there are several

[Flightgear-devel] [OT] Simulators

2006-05-12 Thread Berndt, Jon S
Title: [OT] Simulators As some of you may know, I am involved in supporting simulator development in my day job, as are many of you. I got a tour of some simulator components that I had not seen before. One that I saw yesterday is used for training for proximity operations between the space

[Flightgear-devel] Performance monitoring

2006-05-18 Thread Berndt, Jon S
Title: Performance monitoring Can anyone tell me what the name of the routines is that allows one to determine the performance details of a Linux application? Jon --- Using Tomcat but need to do more? Need to support web services,

RE: [Flightgear-devel] Icing

2006-05-19 Thread Berndt, Jon S
Hi, I am experimenting with structural icing and am hacking on a little nasal script that checks outside temperature and dewpoint to guess if the aircraft is currently in a potential icing area and pack some ice on the surfaces. To get ice on the wings one thing is needed besides low

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Introduction to community and AutopilotReplacement

2006-06-01 Thread Berndt, Jon S
How did you design your autopilot? Do you have a block diagram of the signal flow? Jon Hello, first let me introduce myself. I am Jimmy Coley, a student at the University of West Florida (UWF). I have been using simulators since MSFS98 was first released, and Now I have migrated

Re: [Flightgear-devel] GPL licensing question.

2006-06-06 Thread Berndt, Jon S
In my view, the FlightGear GPL license covers our source code, but not content created with or used by that code (except for things like the base package which is explicitely licensed as GPL.) In my mind, that is one reason why the approach taken by FlightGear and associated projects lke

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Autopilot Bug/Feature

2006-06-14 Thread Berndt, Jon S
In the course of developing the KC135, I noticed that parts of the autopilot function do not work in that model, copied from the B737 - the bits described as vor/loc and app. Investigation showed that the cause was simple - in JSBSim a jet ac does not have vacuum system. No vacuum - no

Re: [Flightgear-devel] awy.dat parsing code

2006-07-27 Thread Berndt, Jon S
Hi all, Ealier today, I posted a message here indicating my intentions of committing the airway database code into CVS. For some reason, that email still hasn't appeared on the list. There was an issue with the SourceForge mailing lists yesterday. I think they are still catching up. If

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Net FDM and Hit Detection

2006-08-11 Thread Berndt, Jon S
Hi, Robert: Not that it does you a lot of good if using the Net FDM, but that feature isavailable in JSBSim if contact points are defined in the aircraft configuration file. My guess is that YASim does that, too. It's sort of a flight model feature. If you are providing your own dynamics,

Re: [Flightgear-devel] JSBSim jitter (was: Re: How to turn offmanaged-view?)

2006-08-18 Thread Berndt, Jon S
Here's a graph that illustrates it: http://members.aon.at/mfranz/jitter.png [20 kB] Command line was $ fgfs --aircraft=OV10_USAFE --airport=krhv --disable-real-weather-fetch and a few settings in local preferences.xml (nothing relevant). SimGear FlightGear from CVS/HEAD, of

Re: [Flightgear-devel] X-15

2006-10-11 Thread Berndt, Jon S
Here is the first step of a more general update I want to implement for the X-15 (also including 3D cockpit and systems) So far I only modelled the X-15A-2. Depending on what flight dynamics are implemented I may change to X-15 #1 (basic aerodynamics and Stability Augmentation System)

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Star Wars Mod :-)

2006-10-27 Thread Berndt, Jon S
http://www.geocities.com/robitabu/fgfs_SW/SW_01.jpg http://www.geocities.com/robitabu/fgfs_SW/SW_02.jpg Oops! I guess EDDK is not a good spot where to hide my vehicle. Damn! They really don't stop chasing me :-( I've actually considered making a flight model for an X-wing or other Star Wars

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Mailing list problems

2006-11-09 Thread Berndt, Jon S
On Thursday 09 November 2006 14:01, Jon S. Berndt wrote: Is anyone else noticing any SourceForge mailing list problems? I'm not seeing my own posts now - I seem to get everything else OK though. And yes, I did check that the option was set to receive copies of my own messages (besides

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Last new OSG version - better framerates

2006-11-09 Thread Berndt, Jon S
Has anyone built this on Windows XP under Cygwin, yet? Jon - Using Tomcat but need to do more? Need to support web services, security? Get stuff done quickly with pre-integrated technology to make your job easier Download

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Modeling a Flexwing Microlight

2006-12-08 Thread Berndt, Jon S
On Friday 08 December 2006 12:06, Stuart Buchanan wrote: Hi All, I recently bought a flex-wing microlight (aka trike, ultralight, hang-glider with a lawnmower engine). Specifically, a Mainair Flash 2 Alpha. There is currently a picture of it here:

Re: [Flightgear-devel] small bug in YASim-gears

2006-12-22 Thread Berndt, Jon S
The slipping is a numerics effect, not a modeling one. The only way to get the gear jitter to produce a stable solution over time is to push the coefficients *down*. But that will produce more slipping, not less. The solution to this problem is a rewrite of the static gear friction to

Re: [Flightgear-devel] gear compression +- wow

2007-01-17 Thread Berndt, Jon S
John Denker wrote: I observe that if the aircraft is initialized to an airborne position, the /gear/gear/wow property is stuck at 1, indicating weight on the wheels, even though the compression-norm property is zero. This initialization can come via the command line via

Re: [Flightgear-devel] OT: c182rg gear trouble

2007-01-17 Thread Berndt, Jon S
John Denker wrote: This is getting somewhat OT, but it's fun, so I thought I would mention it: When you fly the Skylane RG, always take the tow-bar with you; don't leave it in the hangar. I guy I know had a gear failure involving loss of hydraulic fluid (not simply failure of the

[Flightgear-devel] Proposal: New external force capability for JSBSim

2007-01-17 Thread Berndt, Jon S
Title: Proposal: New external force capability for JSBSim Dave Culp and I have been discussing the catapult and hook scheme for a while. That discussion has actually gone farther than that specific case, to planning for a capability that is a general one, for applying external forces to a

[Flightgear-devel] Polygon count

2007-02-15 Thread Berndt, Jon S
What's a realistic upper limit for polygon count now for an aircraft model? 5000? 1? 25000? What's definitely out? Jon - Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and

[Flightgear-devel] FlightGear presentation

2007-03-12 Thread Berndt, Jon S
Title: FlightGear presentation I'll be presenting an overview of FlightGear and JSBSim on Wednesday. I have some good screen shots, but if someone can point me towards some more good eye candy and movies of FlightGear in action, that would be appreciated. Note that requested screen shots are

[Flightgear-devel] FlightGear Presentation at Johnson Space Center

2007-05-01 Thread Berndt, Jon S
Title: FlightGear Presentation at Johnson Space Center I'll be presenting FlightGear and JSBSim during the AIAA-Houston Annual Technical Symposium (ATS) at NASA Johnson Space Center on May 11. I already have a presentation about JSBSim, and some words on FlightGear, but I want to add more to

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Gliding/Soaring in FlightGear

2007-05-01 Thread Berndt, Jon S
Hi, I'm trying to use FlightGear for some gliding/soaring simulation, and I've got a few questions... First, am I right that the AIthermal already written only works with JSBSim Flight Models, and that that conversely the turbulence model (used in the AIstorm), and the new winch

Re: [Flightgear-devel] FlightGear-0.9.11-pre1-------Carriers areFlying

2007-05-17 Thread Berndt, Jon S
gh.robin wrote: With FlightGear-0.9.11-pre1 it is something strange we have Flying Carriers. The carrier is correct - sea level is wrong :-)) Martin. P.S.: Just a joke Ha! Actually, I'd expect someone from the Navy will be contacting the FlightGear management,

Re: [Flightgear-devel] 737-300 FDM patch for gear location and contactpoints

2007-05-18 Thread Berndt, Jon S
That should not be necessary. The aircraft configuration file only needs to be consistent within itself. The structural frame is used for the location of engines, landing gear, empty-weight CG, etc. There is also a point called the visial reference point (typically the nose of the aircraft) that

Re: [Flightgear-devel] 737-300 FDM patch for gear location andcontactpoints

2007-05-21 Thread Berndt, Jon S
Short version: Here is the link to an updated patch which (a) corrects the VRP precisely as Anders did with the F80C while removing the somewhat incorrect Z offset in /Models and (b) adds several contact points. It does not change any other pre-existing gear, etc coordinates:

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Fwd: Flight Gear being sold on ebay

2007-06-14 Thread Berndt, Jon S
See attached forwarded message. Someone is selling FlightGear on ebay. This time there is no mention of our project name, they have changed the name and are calling it Pro Aircraft Flight Simulator. In addition, they are using the same sleazy tactics of selling a digital download, not

Re: [Flightgear-devel] flight control polarity

2007-07-03 Thread Berndt, Jon S
In every aeronautical engineering publication I've seen, the convention for positive has been: -- Positive aileron deflection creates a positive rolling moment, positive around the +X axis, i.e. roll to the right; -- Positive rudder deflection creates a positive yawing moment,

Re: [Flightgear-devel] flight control polarity

2007-07-03 Thread Berndt, Jon S
-- Positive elevator deflection creates a positive pitching moment, positive around the +Y axis, i.e. nose up. By the way, Cm_de (that is, pitching moment given an elevator deflection) is nominally negative. So, you can see, a positive elevator deflection results in a negative pitching

Re: [Flightgear-devel] flight control polarity

2007-07-03 Thread Berndt, Jon S
Title: Re: [Flightgear-devel] flight control polarity On 07/03/2007 02:45 PM, Berndt, Jon S wrote: A positive elevator angular deflection (about the +Y axis) makes the trailing edge of the elevator move down, resulting in a negative pitching moment. Likewise, a positive rotation

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Bug in JSBSim FGPropeller.cpp

2007-08-07 Thread Berndt, Jon S
There is a bug in JSBSim causing multiengine aircraft with counterrotating props suffer from excessive yaw when engines are running. Significant aileron deflection is required to fly straight and level. I tracked down that issue and finally came to FGPropeller.cpp line 198:

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Fwd: Re: Bug in JSBSim FGPropeller.cpp

2007-08-07 Thread Berndt, Jon S
Yes there is some differences needed to keep the right heading , when we modify the throttle value, but it is not exactly what you are describing. I haven't been able to look too closely at this, yet, but I have a suspicion. If you look in the function FGPropeller::GetPowerRequired() there

Re: [Flightgear-devel] JSBSim atmosphere != FlightGear atmosphere?

2007-10-26 Thread Berndt, Jon S
Hi, I just observed something I don't know if it's a bug or a feature: Parking any JSBSim aircraft at KSFO and simulating global warming by setting the air-temperature to 45degC and dewpoint to 40degC and observing the properties /environment/density-slugft3 and

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Informal version number poll

2007-11-30 Thread Berndt, Jon S
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Re: [Flightgear-devel] Informal version number poll

2007-11-30 Thread Berndt, Jon S
Actually, it might be closer to v5.0 by now. - SF.Net email is sponsored by: The Future of Linux Business White Paper from Novell. From the desktop to the data center, Linux is going mainstream. Let it simplify your IT

Re: [Flightgear-devel] rotation sense error remains in JSBSim FGPropeller.cpp

2007-12-04 Thread Berndt, Jon S
On Behalf Of dave perry Sent: Tuesday, December 04, 2007 1:13 PM While looking into the AP oscillation about the ILS near the runway for the SenecaII, I noticed that the sense is still accounted for twice (see Re: [Flightgear-devel] Bug in JSBSim FGPropeller.cpp, 08/07/2007) in

[Flightgear-devel] F-16

2007-12-05 Thread Berndt, Jon S
There has been some discussion of the F-16 working badly. I took another look at it over lunch. I think I have found one bug (which is not to say, the only bug). There are several integrators used in the control laws. These should have wind-up protection set up (which they don't). But, apart from