Hey gang, Just trying Flight Gear for the first time today. What a ridiculously top-notch open source project. Just awesome. Congrats and thank you to everyone who's made it so.
Now, first question, on the downloads page it says: "64-bit overlay: If you run 64-bit windows, you can download the self extracting 64-bit version of FlightGear. This installs over the top of the standard 32 bit version so you will need to install that first." What are the benefits of this? Does it result in faster performance? reduce memory usage? what? Clearly it is optional since the main fgsetup-2.0.0.exe has installed an run fine. (Actually I'd rather be trying it in Linux but I'm on a work machine, (windows 7 64-bit) which I can't reinstall or set for dual boot at the moment.) And my main question, has anyone built a mock GPS display in any of the cockpits? and if so has anyone thought of simulating, outputting, or logging the NMEA GPS ASCII data stream for time, position, heading, speed, waypoints, etc? I would be interested in adding this feature, so I will mention it on -devel, but I thought I'd ask on -users first and see if it is already implemented, known, used by users who can help/answer before asking developers. I have checked the FAQ and there's nothing there mentioning GPS, but I just did a google search with "site:flightgear.org gps" and these two wiki pages http://wiki.flightgear.org/index.php/GPS and http://wiki.flightgear.org/GPS_internals mostly answer my question that the GPS modelling has been, apparently, thoroughly done. Great. So the only question then is has the NMEA ASCII output been considered? ...answering my own question again, I see NMEA is mentioned as a command line option here http://wiki.flightgear.org/Command_line_options and I've now found it in the FlightGear launch Wizard too. Great. Okay, last question, I just tried sending that NMEA output to a file and it has NMEA sentences for GPGSA, GPRMC, and GPGGA. Can it also send GPGLL, GPGSV, and GPVTG, and if so, how can I enable this? Or is this a -devel question and I should ask there? Thank you. Martin ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ AppSumo Presents a FREE Video for the SourceForge Community by Eric Ries, the creator of the Lean Startup Methodology on "Lean Startup Secrets Revealed." This video shows you how to validate your ideas, optimize your ideas and identify your business strategy. http://p.sf.net/sfu/appsumosfdev2dev _______________________________________________ Flightgear-users mailing list Flightgear-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/flightgear-users
