Re: [Flightgear-devel] a few more bugs

2009-01-24 Thread Erik Hofman
John Denker wrote: One guy says not to report bugs in the old FGPiston, because it has been fixed upstream. Another guy say snot to report bugs in the new FGPiston, because it is not committed code. I guess that's one way to make sure there are no reported bugs. Fair enough, but make

Re: [Flightgear-devel] a few more bugs

2009-01-23 Thread John Denker
I quote from http://www.av8n.com/fly/fgfs/htm/bug-list.htm 80::As of mid-January 2008, there is a “new” version of FGPiston.cpp floating around. It has not yet been committed to FlightGear CVS. It gets rid of the specific problems mentioned in bug 79, replacing them with new and

Re: [Flightgear-devel] a few more bugs

2009-01-23 Thread Erik Hofman
John Denker wrote: I quote from http://www.av8n.com/fly/fgfs/htm/bug-list.htm 80::As of mid-January 2008, there is a “new” version of FGPiston.cpp floating around. It has not yet been committed to FlightGear CVS. It gets rid of the specific problems mentioned in bug 79,

Re: [Flightgear-devel] a few more bugs

2009-01-23 Thread Melchior FRANZ
* John Denker -- Friday 23 January 2009: 81::The FlightGear interface to the festival text-to-speech server [...] doesn’t work [...] It hasn’t worked for years. I have never heard of anyone actually using it. Works for me since years. m.

Re: [Flightgear-devel] a few more bugs

2009-01-23 Thread Martin Spott
Melchior FRANZ wrote: * John Denker -- Friday 23 January 2009: 81::The FlightGear interface to the festival text-to-speech server [...] doesn???t work [...] It hasn???t worked for years. I have never heard of anyone actually using it. Works for me since years. Someone who's using

Re: [Flightgear-devel] a few more bugs

2009-01-23 Thread John Denker
One guy says not to report bugs in the old FGPiston, because it has been fixed upstream. Another guy say snot to report bugs in the new FGPiston, because it is not committed code. I guess that's one way to make sure there are no reported bugs. = If anybody is interested in a

Re: [Flightgear-devel] a few more bugs

2009-01-23 Thread Arnt Karlsen
On Fri, 23 Jan 2009 07:29:25 -0700, John wrote in message 4979d445.3070...@av8n.com: 82::Choppy video and sound. I observe that things work fine when the FlightGear window is the default size, 800x600. The frame rate is in the range 45 to 50. However, if I enlarge the window even

Re: [Flightgear-devel] a few more bugs

2009-01-23 Thread sandi sørensen
On Jan 23, 2009, at 6:29 AM, John Denker wrote: I quote from 81::The FlightGear interface to the festival text-to-speech server is documented in section 5.6.2 of the getstart manual. I observe that it doesn’t work (even though the festival server itself works fine when FG is not

Re: [Flightgear-devel] a few more bugs

2009-01-09 Thread Brian Schack
Ron == Ron Jensen writes: 81:: Consider the case where FlightGear is run with the --disable-ai-models command line option. It appears that some of the ai-related code continues to run. You can easily verify by turning on log-level=info, in which case you will see

Re: [Flightgear-devel] a few more bugs

2009-01-09 Thread Erik Hofman
Brian Schack wrote: I've noticed that with AI traffic turned on, there is a constant setting and resetting of the time accessed by globals-get_time_params() This sounds like a misplaced leading slash in a property for AI models to me. Erik

Re: [Flightgear-devel] a few more bugs

2009-01-08 Thread John Denker
79::Let’s do an ordinary preflight runup in the c182rg. With the prop control full forward, advance the throttle to 1700 rpm in accordance with the POH checklist. Now pull the prop control full back. In the Sim World as of 1.9.0, I observe the RPM drops from 1700 to 1400. This is highly

Re: [Flightgear-devel] a few more bugs

2009-01-08 Thread Ron Jensen
On Thu, 2009-01-08 at 13:49 -0700, John Denker wrote: 80::As of 1.9.0, in the c182rg on the runway at KSFO, I observe that with the throttle wide open the MAP is 29.97. With the throttle pulled back to 0.6, the MAP is still 29.97. This is wildly unrealistic. Similar problems in the c172p

Re: [Flightgear-devel] a few more bugs

2009-01-08 Thread John Denker
On 01/08/2009 04:59 PM, Ron Jensen wrote: this has been fixed up stream, Wow. That's great. Perhaps I overlooked the announcement. Will the fix be coming downstream anytime soon? Is there any other news we should know about.

Re: [Flightgear-devel] a few more bugs

2009-01-07 Thread John Denker
75:: As of 1.9.0, in the c182, the altimeter is not self-consistent. There is an analog scale and a digital readout. It takes 10 clicks of the Kollsman setting knob to move the digital readout ten hundredths of an inch. It takes 14 or 15 clicks to rotate the analog scale the corresponding amount.

Re: [Flightgear-devel] a few more bugs

2009-01-07 Thread Ron Jensen
On Wed, 2009-01-07 at 17:34 -0700, John Denker wrote: 77:: In the default c172p model, sitting on the runway at KSFO, at full power the engine consumes about 78 pph of fuel. So far, so good. Now stop the engine by pulling the mixture to cutoff. I observe that the fuel flow, as reported by

Re: [Flightgear-devel] a few more bugs

2009-01-07 Thread Jon S. Berndt
In the code FuelFlow_gph is the canonical property, FuelFlow_pph is only calculated when we actually consume fuel. Slamming the mixture to 0 at a high fuel flow rate causes consumption to stop leaving the FuelFlow_pph value unable to update and stuck indicating a high value. If you'll

Re: [Flightgear-devel] a few more bugs

2008-12-30 Thread John Denker
Additional JSBsim FDM initialization-related bugs: 62:: I observe that in a JSBsim aircraft e.g. c182rg, after departing the runway via the location-in-air menu item, there remains weight on wheels. That is, the gear/wow property remains true. It appears to remain true forever, long after

Re: [Flightgear-devel] a few more bugs

2008-12-28 Thread John Denker
57:: Core feature: As of CVS 26 Dec 2008 I observe that at (say) KJFK the Tower view and the Tower Look From view are conspicuously broken. Other airports are broken, just less conspicuously so. This appears to be the same problem previously discussed on the devel list under the heading

Re: [Flightgear-devel] a few more bugs

2008-12-25 Thread James Turner
On 25 Dec 2008, at 10:54, John Denker wrote: 52:: Core feature: Nav: Reversible ILS: Consider the following scenario. In the 1.9.0 Sim World, you are on the KJFK ILS RWY 31R snip In the Real World, the active runway is determined based on wind conditions (etc.) and the reversible ILS is