On Wed, 16 Jul 2003 08:09:07 -0500
"Curtis L. Olson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> Christophe DONTAINE writes:
> > Hi,
> > 
> > I'm writing a little application to link Aerowinx PS1 simulator to
> > FlightGear to have a better world visualization.
> > 
> > (to C. Olson: the project discussed by mail the 18 April)
> > 
> > I use the FG 0.9.1 from CVS where I found a java library to drive FG
> > from the network. (I'm updating my CVS to 0.9.2 right now)
> > 
> > For now, the flightgear aircraft is only at the good altitude. :D
> > 
> > 
> > 1�   I read into the java library some variables like
> > "/position/altitude-ft"  and I would like know if there is a
> > document listing all the variables. 
> > 
> > 2� I sent updates from the network and the aircraft is
> > moving... fine. But it seems that updates are too slow. Is there a
> > theorical update frequency to avoid some step in the aircraft flight
> > ? or the faster update is the better update ?
> 
> Hi,
> 
> Unfortunately the interface mechanism you are using is not designed to
> be high bandwidth.  I believe it runs at 5hz? and only processes one
> line/command per iteration.

You could try upping the frequency via the command line,
"--props=socket,bi,20,,5500,tcp".  There was a bug where the frequency was
always 5Hz regardless of the command line.  Hopefully this was fixed.

> It would work better to send over an FGNetFDM structure
> (src/Network/net_fdm.hxx) via UDP.

Agreed, although it might be tricky from a java app.

Bernie

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