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

2007-10-08 Thread Maik Justus
Hi, A video of Sea Kings starting and landing an a ship: http://pilotservices.streamlinenettrial.co.uk/videos/*Sea_Kings_on_Deck.wmv* this video is not of very good quality, but it's more than worth to see. Maik Robert Black schrieb am 08.10.2007 03:03: On Wednesday 03 October 2007 19:05,

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

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

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

2007-10-04 Thread Melchior FRANZ
* gh.robin -- Thursday 04 October 2007: The top of a building is solid, without any _demo typecarrier/type definition. Yes, but buildings are loaded late into the scenery, so you can't start with a helicopter on a building. You'd end up on the ground and the building would seconds later

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

2007-10-04 Thread Vivian Meazza
Syd wrote Sent: 04 October 2007 01:39 To: FlightGear developers discussions Subject: Re: [Flightgear-devel] oil platform... On Wed, 3 Oct 2007 17:29:54 -0700 SydSandy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If you define it to be typecarrier/type you can define solidObject/solid

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

2007-10-04 Thread AJ MacLeod
On Thursday 04 October 2007 08:23:26 Vivian Meazza wrote: Hmm. I have some difficulty with putting oil rigs in locations where they aren't in RL. Realism is our watchword. After all, there are hundreds, if not thousands of the darned things all over the shallow oceans for you to put one in

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

2007-10-04 Thread Jon Stockill
AJ MacLeod wrote: If you want to practice landing on platforms, try the Cromarty Firth, which is packed with the things and is right next to several airfields - take off from EG73(Fearn) or EGPE (Inverness). You can hop along the Firth on them (the Cromarty Firth is used as parking for

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

2007-10-04 Thread gh.robin
On jeu 4 octobre 2007, Vivian Meazza wrote: Jon Sent: 04 October 2007 10:03 To: FlightGear developers discussions Subject: Re: [Flightgear-devel] oil platform... AJ MacLeod wrote: If you want to practice landing on platforms, try the Cromarty Firth, which is packed

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

2007-10-04 Thread gh.robin
On jeu 4 octobre 2007, gh.robin wrote: On jeu 4 octobre 2007, Mike Schuh wrote: On Thu, 4 Oct 2007, gh.robin wrote: As far i understand the typecarrier/type was developed to answer to landing and taking off on/from carrier but any model which is defined typecarrier/type can have the

[Flightgear-devel] oil platform...

2007-10-03 Thread SydSandy
Log Message: Oil platform for helicopter practice Does this platform exist in real life or did you simply add it for training purpose ? Cheers, Martin. This is in response to Martin's question , but Im posting it here in the hopes of picking up some tips ,hopefully . I added

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

2007-10-03 Thread SydSandy
If you define it to be typecarrier/type you can define solidObject/solid and you may define a park position no need to have wire and catapult Regards -- Gérard http://perso.orange.fr/GRTux/ ah thanks ! I tried typeshiptype and typestatictype ... Didn't try carrier though...

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

2007-10-03 Thread SydSandy
On Wed, 3 Oct 2007 17:29:54 -0700 SydSandy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If you define it to be typecarrier/type you can define solidObject/solid and you may define a park position no need to have wire and catapult Regards -- Gérard http://perso.orange.fr/GRTux/

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

2007-10-03 Thread gh.robin
On jeu 4 octobre 2007, SydSandy wrote: On Wed, 3 Oct 2007 17:29:54 -0700 SydSandy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If you define it to be typecarrier/type you can define solidObject/solid and you may define a park position no need to have wire and catapult Regards --

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

2007-10-03 Thread Mike Schuh
On Thu, 4 Oct 2007, gh.robin wrote: As far i understand the typecarrier/type was developed to answer to landing and taking off on/from carrier but any model which is defined typecarrier/type can have the same features or less (no catapult, no wire, no speed) , like your oil platform AND only

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

2007-10-03 Thread gh.robin
On jeu 4 octobre 2007, Mike Schuh wrote: On Thu, 4 Oct 2007, gh.robin wrote: As far i understand the typecarrier/type was developed to answer to landing and taking off on/from carrier but any model which is defined typecarrier/type can have the same features or less (no catapult, no wire, no