On Tuesday 09 May 2006 03:24, Simon Trusler wrote: > Hi All, <snip> > I was unsure whether I could actually make a difference but it appears that > I have been able to add functionality to the 737 autopilot that was > documented as needing to be done.
Great! That's one of the areas that needed some serious attention on the 737. I tried to do a flight from KSFO to KLAX last week to test an RDMI instrument and the climb profile to FL330 was rather "interesting" to put it mildly. For your info there are two 737-300's for FlightGear. The one in FlightGear is a more or less static 2D panel version and there is another one with a 3D cockpit being developed outside of the FG CVS system. The idea is that the 3D cockpit version might replace the 2D version once it's in a usable state which will be many months at the rate we're going but that's quite normal in the FG world. Justin Smithies has kindly provided us with a CVS server in case you want to check it out (excuse the pun). :) cvs -d :pserver:[EMAIL PROTECTED]:/cvs login Password is guest cvs -d :pserver:[EMAIL PROTECTED]:/cvs co 737-300 > What I’ve done is: <snip> > What I’d like to ask now is: > > 1. How I can contribute on a more formal basis. > 2. Who do I need to talk to about these changes? FlightGear development is a rather informal process. If you have a good idea you can ask for feedback on the devel mailing list and then implement it and submit it to someone with CVS write priviledges for inclusion into the base. This is most often done through e-mail in the form of diff patches. Some people with CVS write priviledge (in rough descending order of response times ) Melchior Franz Vivian Meazza Erik Hofman Curtis L. Olson David Luff David Megginson Melchior hangs around on the IRC channel a lot and will be really quick to tell you if your patch sucks which I appreciate. > 4. Is there any other information I can read on how everything works? > My Software Engineering background has allowed me to understand enough to > make a some alterations but some of the config values (Kp, beta, alpha > etc.) I do not understand enough of what they mean. There are docs in the SimGear source directory, FlightGear data directory, JSBSim web site, on web sites, etc. One has to hunt around a bit sometimes to find what you're looking for. In most cases a "look and see how someone else did it" is the quickest route. > 5. Do I need to have a Unix based machine to do development or can > everything be achieved on a Windows Xp based machine? You can do everything on Windows XP if you like although the compilation of the source code can be a trick to get set up right. Cygwin seems to be the best option under Windows at the moment. Paul ------------------------------------------------------- Using Tomcat but need to do more? Need to support web services, security? Get stuff done quickly with pre-integrated technology to make your job easier Download IBM WebSphere Application Server v.1.0.1 based on Apache Geronimo http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid0709&bid&3057&dat1642 _______________________________________________ Flightgear-devel mailing list Flightgear-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/flightgear-devel
