On Friday 09 February 2007 21:36, Roy Vegard Ovesen wrote: > On Friday 09 February 2007 21:13, leee wrote: > > Just tried another quick test. > > > > Opened five property browsers - autopilot/locks, autopilot/settings, > > autopilot/internal, autopilot/FCS/locks & autopilot/FCS/controls - all > > seemed ok but then I pre-set most of the nodes during aircraft > > initialisation. > > The one I asked Gérard to look at was /autopilot/new-config. > > When you have pinpointed that a certain controller is not outputting what > it should, look in /autopilot/new-config to see if the controller is > actually there. If it is there, try enabling the debug option for that > controller. > > > On this test the altitude hold failed to work. The altitude hold > > controller reads the filtered target alt and outputs to > > autopilot/settings/target-climb-rate-fps. When the altitude hold > > controller was engaged it failed to update the target climb rate. Agl > > hold, which also outputs to the same target climb rate node in > > autopilot/settings, was ok and I could see the node being updated. > > > > I switched back to altitude hold and forced a climb by over-typing a +ve > > climb rate into the non-updating node. Once I got to around 10k ft I > > reset the A/P and the climb rate started updating. > > It looks like the controllers are not getting built correctly at FG > startup. When you do a autopilot-reset, the controllers in > /autopilot/new-config are cleared and the autopilot config xml file is > re-read and the controllers re-built.
Quick test - this time on take-off the pitch hold didn't kick in. This is the very first controller in the config and it appeared to be there in new-config, with the correct config. It just didn't seem to be sending anything to the output. All the other controllers seemed to be accounted for too - I didn't check each one but the numbers tallied. Yup - just tried again and got the same pitch-hold problem. I checked everything for this controller in new-config, making sure that all the nodes were ok, and it all looked fine. LeeE ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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&kid=120709&bid=263057&dat=121642 _______________________________________________ Flightgear-devel mailing list Flightgear-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/flightgear-devel
