[Flightgear-devel] runway lights

2002-01-16 Thread Roman Grigoriev
Hi guys! Still try to implement runway lights find some section in tileentry.cxx RWY_LIGHTS but i think it's unfinished also when i looked in tile_entry.cxx i found various runway lights initialsations but i don't understand angular_size in setcolor() function and elev_size and azimut_size in

Re: [Flightgear-devel] altitude hold problem

2002-01-16 Thread Andy Ross
Jon S. Berndt wrote: Alex wrote: For starters, can the JSB filters (etc) stuff be used without JSBSim? The base class of all JSBSim classes - including the FCS classes - is FGJSBBase. So, technically, no. This would be a good feature to look at breaking out of the FDM. At its most

RE: [Flightgear-devel] altitude hold problem

2002-01-16 Thread Jon S. Berndt
I don't see why moving the FCS out of JSBSim precludes your ability to run the thing standalone. You could maintain your own tree independant of FlightGear as you do right now (or just keep it in the JSB tree next to the FDM). Alternatively, you could place it in SimGear, which is designed

RE: [Flightgear-devel] msvc6 - 0.7.9 release

2002-01-16 Thread Norman Vine
Norman Vine wrote: Geoff McLane writes: When running your fgfs.exe the log ends abruptly with ... /autopilot /PropertyList * After fgSaveFlight() * Before globals-saveInitialState() Aha this is my xtra instrumentation in fg_init() bool fgInitSubsystems( void ) {

Re: [Flightgear-devel] dumb CVS question

2002-01-16 Thread Cameron Moore
* [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Boslough, Mark B) [2002.01.16 15:37]: I'm still trying to come up to speed and if I am going to do any serious work I need to be able to do CVS checkouts. I downloaded wincvs and am following instructions (I think) on the flightgear website. Here's what I get: $ cvs

Re: [Flightgear-devel] embedded screenshot httpd server

2002-01-16 Thread David Findlay
On Thu, 17 Jan 2002 07:09, you wrote: Thanks to Norman Vine's unique combination of genius hackery we now support this as an option: http://128.101.142.57:5501/ Server up and running for a short time so check it out now before I take it down. Um. All I see is gibberish characters.

Re: [Flightgear-devel] embedded screenshot httpd server

2002-01-16 Thread David Findlay
On Thu, 17 Jan 2002 08:09, you wrote: On Thu, 17 Jan 2002 07:09, you wrote: Thanks to Norman Vine's unique combination of genius hackery we now support this as an option: http://128.101.142.57:5501/ Server up and running for a short time so check it out now before I take it

RE: [Flightgear-devel] dumb CVS question

2002-01-16 Thread Boslough, Mark B
Thanks for catching my error. Unfortunately, I am getting the same result when I type it correctly. So in addition to me being dumb, there is still something else wrong. Mark -Original Message- From: Cameron Moore [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, January 16, 2002 2:41 PM

Re: [Flightgear-devel] embedded screenshot httpd server

2002-01-16 Thread Curtis L. Olson
Curtis L. Olson writes: Thanks to Norman Vine's unique combination of genius hackery we now support this as an option: http://128.101.142.57:5501/ Server up and running for a short time so check it out now before I take it down. Approaching KLAX @ 14,500', then on to KSAN, KPHX,

Re: [Flightgear-devel] altitude hold problem

2002-01-16 Thread Tony Peden
On Wed, 2002-01-16 at 10:13, Andy Ross wrote: Jon S. Berndt wrote: Alex wrote: For starters, can the JSB filters (etc) stuff be used without JSBSim? The base class of all JSBSim classes - including the FCS classes - is FGJSBBase. So, technically, no. This would be a good

Re: [Flightgear-devel] altitude hold problem

2002-01-16 Thread Tony Peden
On Tue, 2002-01-15 at 18:52, Alex Perry wrote: On Tue, 2002-01-15 at 07:19, Christian Mayer wrote: What we really need here is for our resident flight control systems expert to whip us up a program for generating the control law gains based on the config file ... It's probably easier

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Altitude Calculation

2002-01-16 Thread Julian Foad
John Wojnaroski wrote: In steam.cxx the pressure datum is set to some setting that represents atmospheric pressure. Okay, so far But can't find any connection between the two. ... In the present FlightGear code, the atmospheric pressure (the_STATIC_inhg) used to calculate the altimeter

RE: [Flightgear-devel] altitude hold problem

2002-01-16 Thread Jon S. Berndt
From: Andy Ross In fact, this is a good example: a real F-16A (Dunno about the C) flight control computer takes its input from a set of gyros and from the position of the stick, and that's it The F-16 DFCS (beginning with Block 40) - and I suspect to some degree also the F-16A model - also

[Flightgear-devel] altitude hold fix

2002-01-16 Thread Jim Wilson
I've got some values that seem to work in the current autopilot code with the c310. They are: min_climb = 85.0 kts best_climb = 107.0 kts TargetClimbRate = 1500 fpm Also there is this adjustment factor (code snippet from newauto.cxx aprox line 697): // calculate proportional error prop_error

RE: [Flightgear-devel] altitude hold problem

2002-01-16 Thread Jon S. Berndt
Martin. P.S.: I _really_ believe it would be wise to separate FDM and FCS using a clean interface - but this is different from the above ;-) In JSBSim it already is. There appears to be a misconception that the FDM and FCS are inappropriately linked together. In JSBSim the atmosphere,

RE: [Flightgear-devel] embedded screenshot httpd server

2002-01-16 Thread Norman Vine
Curtis L. Olson writes: Cameron Moore writes: * [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Curtis L. Olson) [2002.01.16 15:11]: Thanks to Norman Vine's unique combination of genius hackery we now support this as an option: http://128.101.142.57:5501/ Server up and running for a short time so check it