* [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Curt Olson) [2002.02.22 12:26]:
> Jim Wilson writes:
> > Hope they disconnected the usb Flamethrower first :-)  I'm getting the same 
> > thing with CL77.  Some screwy looking airstrip.  There still seems to be some
> > problems with altitude between fg and jsbsim.  A workaround is to add a
> > --alititude=(runway elevation) to the command line.
> > 
> > This perhaps is a naive question,  but why aren't we kicking in the FDM after
> > the plane is on the runway during initialization?
> 
> We are actually doing this.  We don't initialize the FDM until the
> scenery subsystem is reporting a valid ground elevation.  However, for
> some starting locations it appears that the initial reported elevation
> is incorrect the first frame and then updated to the correct elevation
> the second frame.

This may be totally unrelated, but ...  The FPE issue I posted about the
other day is triggered when the tile manager is initialized.  Could
it be that tile manager is getting a bogus starting point due to this
FPE bug, and that bogus value is making it's way to the FDM's?
-- 
Cameron Moore
/ If a person with multiple personalities threatens \
\  suicide, is that considered a hostage situation? /

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