Re: [Flightgear-users] FlightGear-1.99.5-RC2

2008-12-26 Thread Edward Cawley
Hi Tt, It seems to be working, but only sometimes, The teraSync works well but when I bring up the Atlas window and hit l I get a box which says checking objects with the lat.- long. but sometimes the files/bytes change and a png is formed but other time nothing. It seems like it is searching

Re: [Flightgear-users] FlightGear-1.99.5-RC2

2008-12-26 Thread Edward Cawley
Hi, Back again, I re flew the flight and this time the map was generated. I gather that the map program is reading from the terasync files. It is working well now. Thanks for this version. It makes the use of FlightGear easy on the Mac On Dec 26, 2008, at 11:31 AM, Edward Cawley wrote: Hi

Re: [Flightgear-users] FlightGear-1.99.5-RC2

2008-12-24 Thread Tatsuhiro Nishioka
Hi, If you already have scenery of that area, pressing l (small L) on Atlas will sync the map image. Tat - Tatsuhiro Nishioka On Dec 24, 2008, at 3:01 PM, Edward Cawley etcaw...@earthlink.net wrote: The first time I tried the Seneca it wouldn't start but I shut down FG and loaded it

Re: [Flightgear-users] FlightGear-1.99.5-RC2

2008-12-24 Thread Richard Hornby
That did it - bizarre, but thanks. Odd that a 'soft' restart works but a 'quit - start' does not. Brgds and have a good break, R On 24 Dec 2008, at 02:48, Tatsuhiro Nishioka wrote: You can restart flightgear (by shift-ESC) and try full throttle, all magnetos, and then start engine. It

Re: [Flightgear-users] FlightGear-1.99.5-RC2

2008-12-24 Thread Tatsuhiro Nishioka
Hi, On Dec 24, 2008, at 10:34 PM, Edward Cawley etcaw...@earthlink.net wrote: Hi Tat. The problem is that I don't have the the scenery in a. png format that atlas requires.I have downloaded the scenery that I need but I am having trouble getting Map to convert it into the png files which

Re: [Flightgear-users] FlightGear-1.99.5-RC2

2008-12-23 Thread Richard Hornby
Did anybody discover the answer to this? It's (not) doing the same thing in 1.9.0. All internal properties seem fine. just doesn't catch. Mac version, at any rate - can't speak for the others. Tks R On 15 Dec 2008, at 18:28, Edward Cawley wrote: Hi all, Thanks for all of the

Re: [Flightgear-users] FlightGear-1.99.5-RC2

2008-12-23 Thread Tatsuhiro Nishioka
You can restart flightgear (by shift-ESC) and try full throttle, all magnetos, and then start engine. It works for me. I don't know the cause of this yet though. Tat On Dec 24, 2008, at 2:48 AM, Richard Hornby wrote: Did anybody discover the answer to this? It's (not) doing the same thing

Re: [Flightgear-users] FlightGear-1.99.5-RC2

2008-12-23 Thread Edward Cawley
The first time I tried the Seneca it wouldn't start but I shut down FG and loaded it again and the Seneca started with no problems. But I'm having trouble getting the Map to interpret the scenery, any suggestions on how to do it with FG 1.9.0. Atlas works fine but there is no map.? On Dec

Re: [Flightgear-users] FlightGear-1.99.5-RC2

2008-12-15 Thread Edward Cawley
Hi all, Thanks for all of the suggestions. I finally trashed the copy of FG that I had and redownloaded and reinstalled the FG 1.9.0-pre2 for the Mac. Seneca II works fine now. Not sure what the problem was? Ed On Dec 14, 2008, at 11:15 PM, Hal V. Engel wrote: On Sunday 14 December 2008

Re: [Flightgear-users] FlightGear-1.99.5-RC2

2008-12-14 Thread Edward Cawley
Hi, Tried the menu-Help-tutorial and still no start. The props turn over but don't catch. I've tried both the hot start and cold start tutorials and the straight start and none of them work. It looks like it's not getting gas. I've tried several other planes with no trouble, it seems like

Re: [Flightgear-users] FlightGear-1.99.5-RC2

2008-12-14 Thread Hal V. Engel
On Sunday 14 December 2008 17:04:47 Ron Jensen wrote: Did you turn on the mixture? Check /controls/engines/engine[]/mixture-norm = 1 You also need to make sure that you have fuel pumps on and that you have a fuel tank with fuel in it selected. On Sun, 2008-12-14 at 12:21 -0600, Edward

Re: [Flightgear-users] FlightGear-1.99.5-RC2

2008-12-13 Thread Martin Eschen
Hi Edward, On Sat, Dec 13, 2008 at 5:52 AM, Edward Cawley etcaw...@earthlink.net wrote: Hi, I can't start the engines on the Piper Seneca II directly or using either the cold or hot start tutorials. The props turnover but don't catch. It worked OK in the last release but not in this one. I'm

Re: [Flightgear-users] FlightGear-1.99.5-RC2

2008-12-13 Thread Edward Cawley
Hi Martin, Yes, gave it throttle, I did everything the same as I did using the 1.0.0 . It worked like a charm on 1.0.0 but no luck with the new release. The C 172 works fine, I'm just having problem with the Seneca. On Dec 13, 2008, at 1:35 PM, Martin Eschen wrote: Hi Edward, On Sat, Dec

Re: [Flightgear-users] FlightGear-1.99.5-RC2

2008-12-13 Thread Heiko Schulz
Hi Martin, Yes, gave it throttle, I did everything the same as I did using the 1.0.0 . It worked like a charm on 1.0.0 but no luck with the new release. The C 172 works fine, I'm just having problem with the Seneca. On Dec 13, 2008, at 1:35 PM, Martin Eschen wrote: Hi Edward,

[Flightgear-users] FlightGear-1.99.5-RC2

2008-12-12 Thread Durk Talsma
Ladies and Gentlemen, Please find FlightGear 1.99.5-RC2 ready for download. In order to relieve my humble server, John Wojnaroski has kindly provided some space on his server to host the source and base package. Please find the relevant files here: http://www.lfstech.com/pub/flightgear/ In

Re: [Flightgear-users] FlightGear-1.99.5-RC2

2008-12-12 Thread Heiko Schulz
If all goes well, I would like to prepare the final release version next Friday. Until that time please hold back on committing anything risky, and give these prereleases a decent workout. Let's try to make this the best FlightGear release yet. :-) Cheers, Durk Nice to hear-

Re: [Flightgear-users] FlightGear-1.99.5-RC2

2008-12-12 Thread Ron Jensen
On Fri, 2008-12-12 at 17:36 +0100, Durk Talsma wrote: Ladies and Gentlemen, Please find FlightGear 1.99.5-RC2 ready for download. In order to relieve my humble server, John Wojnaroski has kindly provided some space on his server to host the source and base package. Please find the

Re: [Flightgear-users] FlightGear-1.99.5-RC2

2008-12-12 Thread Edward Cawley
Hi, I can't start the engines on the Piper Seneca II directly or using either the cold or hot start tutorials. The props turnover but don't catch. It worked OK in the last release but not in this one. I'm running it on MacBook Pro , OS 10.5 Ed On Dec 12, 2008, at 8:34 PM, Tatsuhiro Nishioka

Re: [Flightgear-users] FlightGear-1.99.5-RC2

2008-12-12 Thread Durk Talsma
On Saturday 13 December 2008 03:56:45 Ron Jensen wrote: Hopefully they are in your release candidate. Unfortunately, they didn't make it in yet. I had no idead such a big improvement was coming. Fortunatly, they will be in the final release planned for next week. Cheers, Durk