[Flightgear-devel] Prime Meridian Crash

I've been playing with the latest cvs version (simgear, flightgear + data on Sept 12th) and testing my skills with VOR/DME navigation. There is a bug that causes a segfault around long 0. the "test" aircraft is the Bravo, climbing to around 4000ft with a speed of 250. The same happens with the

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Prime Meridian Crash

;s as well either east or west, but that seems to have no effect. pete James Turner wrote: > On 14 Sep 2009, at 00:23, Pete Morgan wrote: > > >> Flying the East to West eg from EGLC London City to EGLL Heathrow >> crashes in a similar fashion. >> > > That&

[Flightgear-devel] Their Plan

*Their mission is below.* All some of us need to do is to be there at the right time and the right place.. right ? We'll buzz them down ;-) Sunday September 27, 2009 at 16:00 GMT 1st combat squadron bombing mission

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Their Plan

censorship coming. George Patterson wrote: > On Fri, Sep 18, 2009 at 11:51 AM, Pete Morgan wrote: > >> *Their mission is below.* >> >> >> All some of us need to do is to be there at the right time and the right >> place.. right ? We'll buzz them

Re: [Flightgear-devel] [PATCH] FGRun enhancement suggestion...

Anders Gidenstam wrote: > AFAIK fgrun has reportedly defaulted to a nonresolvable name on > Windows too on several occasions. Let's remove this source of unnecessary > confusion from fgrun. > > Cheers, > > Anders > ** Nods in agreement with Anders ** pete

Re: [Flightgear-devel] FlightGear Sound System redux

Maybe a bit of a tangent question about the sound but.. The scenario in mind for xmas is a couple of new proper PC's (multiscreen) set up with FG, so two kids in different parts of the house are concerting. In the meantime there can be some ATC presence from some laptop in the garden shed as it

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Another FlightGear Package for Sale: Illegal?

If its for sale in the Uk Then I will quite willingly buy the package. I have already made some lines of enquiries as a common muppet. and have got some strategic replies. Whats the issue?? in UK law is it sales of goods act or copyright ? pete Tim Moore wrote: > On 09/26/2009 02:55 AM, syd a

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Source code control systems

As an observer.. This is a long thread with no conclusions, but maybe one. The one firm conclusion is to get off CVS at least. So i dont see why it can't be first be moved to svn which is tried and tested, supported on windows as the first step. pete ---

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Source code control systems

Tim Moore wrote: > The gitorious repos are being run in the pull style right now. No > one has asked for commit rights to it, and the only official source of patches > is CVS... but as I have said elsewhere, these repos are not a direct mirror of > CVS. I've been maintaining a "master" branch which

[Flightgear-devel] bug tracking

Just the word bug and track are enough to scare pilots. So The concept is to set up a tracking system for bugs. So u must have at least one winge.. http://code.google.com/p/flightgear-bugs/ lets fix them ;-) pete -- Com

Re: [Flightgear-devel] bug tracking

Curtis Olson wrote: > I agree that a bug tracking system is a good thing. My thoughts & > hopes are that once we finalized what we were doing with our eventual > move away from CVS, We would move our code to a system that offers a > number of developer features including an integrated bug trac

Re: [Flightgear-devel] bug tracking

her than setup a completely new project and >> only use the bug tracker out of it. >> >> Curt. >> >> >> > > I totally agree that an issue tracking system is required. > > >From the short run that Pete Morgan and a couple of others have had a

Re: [Flightgear-devel] bug tracking

google issues as a common complaints dept, for delegation pete Curtis Olson wrote: > > > On Wed, Sep 30, 2009 at 11:58 AM, Pete Morgan <mailto:ac...@daffodil.uk.com>> wrote: > > Curtis Olson wrote: > > I agree that a bug tracking system is a good thing. My tho

[Flightgear-devel] Bug Tracking != Source code

Source code != bug tracking.. -- Come build with us! The BlackBerry® Developer Conference in SF, CA is the only developer event you need to attend this year. Jumpstart your developing skills, take BlackBerry mobile appli

Re: [Flightgear-devel] bug tracking

te the bug tracking system with the code. > > Regards, > > Curt. > > > On Wed, Sep 30, 2009 at 12:18 PM, Pete Morgan <mailto:ac...@daffodil.uk.com>> wrote: > > > Precisley the problem is that me as amuppet doth not know where the > issue ie at, an

Re: [Flightgear-devel] bug tracking

same here ? Gijs de Rooy wrote: > Hi, > > > Curtis Olson wrote: > > > > Why not use the bug tracker at code.google.com/p/flightgear > ? > > Is it just me or does that project not exist? The link gives an error > page and the project > does not show up whe

Re: [Flightgear-devel] bug tracking

Curtis.. Thou needs to rise up and command the people. Please dictate where we can file bugs first.. -- Come build with us! The BlackBerry® Developer Conference in SF, CA is the only developer event you need to atten

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Source code control systems

So what would the "source tree" look like to you as a developer and pilot eg hanger/boeing/** Pablo Rogina wrote: > Pete Morgan wrote: > > > I do like the way qt uses it with merge requests. a lot of them to do > > with documentation corrections, as well as mino

[Flightgear-devel] Is Flight Gear a Platform?

Tapping out of my thoughts >>> I'm new to flight gear, and am rejoicing in the pleasure. However I do have some serious reservations about the project towards global world domination that need to be addressed. For a start without my coders/web/brief hat on, what must be reorganized is that Fl

Re: [Flightgear-devel] mpserver02 downtime

pigeon, how can we move toward having the navaids data base "seperate". albeit it might be on the same google map, however the data sources would be seperate eg available on desktop file with sqllite rather than remote, or an fg-get .. ? Pigeon wrote: > Hi all again, > > As some of us

[Flightgear-devel] Autopilot and violent roll

I'm working on my motion sim for xmas. Its powered by a vacum cleaner atmo.. One BIG BIG problem - am basicng the cockpit on Bravo and 787 The autopilot heading bug is very violent and JERKS to direction.. How can we solve that problem please because on my motion platform, I cant keep up with th

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Autopilot and violent roll

ea, but they must > exist ... they are probably locked in the basement of Airbus and > Boeing and various UAV companies and not allowed to leave their cells. :-) > > Curt. > > > > On Sat, Oct 10, 2009 at 1:56 PM, Pete Morgan <mailto:ac...@daffodil.uk.com>> wrot

[Flightgear-devel] Autopilot

We need to define the autopilot properly and define its behaviour. At it's most basic I expect the autpoilot to fullfil the following functions. 1) maintain a heading - ie go that way direction - this "jerks" violently in the sim 2) Altitude hold - this works, and on the motion platform it work

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Autopilot and violent roll

t;, albeit c_++, py or indeed nasal.. This is a problem across the whole system and a mega fault. pete > -Original Message- > From: Pete Morgan [mailto:ac...@daffodil.uk.com] > Sent: 10 October 2009 20:18 > To: FlightGear developers discussions > Subject: Re: [Flightgear-d

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Autopilot and violent roll

Roy Vegard Ovesen wrote: > On Saturday 10 October 2009 22:33:01 Curtis Olson wrote: > >> Really, this is all in how the autopilot is tuned and configured. >> >> FlightGear doesn't model realistic control surface deflection rates so it's >> possible to command an instantaneous deflection of the c

Re: [Flightgear-devel] New Sound system committed

Does the new sound system honour the command line options.. http://wiki.flightgear.org/index.php/Command_Line_Parameters#Features --disable-sound Disable sound effects --enable-sound Enable sound effects --enable-sound << I dont know why this option is here what happe

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Autopilot and violent roll

leee wrote: > On Saturday 10 Oct 2009, Pete Morgan wrote: > >> Roy Vegard Ovesen wrote: >> >>> On Saturday 10 October 2009 22:33:01 Curtis Olson wrote: >>> >>>> Really, this is all in how the autopilot is tuned and >>>&

[Flightgear-devel] Auto Pilot Reviwed

I'm a bit confused how and why the auto pilot does certain things. I think for legacy reasons, its been hacked together and work fine.. almost.ish.. There are also duo versions of le interface as defined here.. for end users.. http://wiki.flightgear.org/index.php/Autopilot and interestingly, t

Re: [Flightgear-devel] [Flightgear-cvslogs] CVS: source/src/Instrumentation instrument_mgr.cxx, 1.40, 1.41 instrument_mgr.hxx, 1.6, 1.7

Roy Vegard Ovesen wrote: >> Update of /var/cvs/FlightGear-0.9/source/src/Instrumentation >> In directory baron.flightgear.org:/tmp/cvs-serv24388/src/Instrumentation >> >> Modified Files: >> instrument_mgr.cxx instrument_mgr.hxx >> Log Message: >> Ensure we always create a GPS instrument. >> >

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Auto Pilot Reviwed

Johnathan Van Why wrote: > First, I'll say I'm not a developer and do not have a full > understanding of this problem. > > > Should the autopilot be a separate process that just basically > inputs pilot commands? > > IE. turn at the same physical rate possible? > > I believe the autopilot is anot

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Auto Pilot Reviwed

leee wrote: > On Thursday 15 Oct 2009, Martin Spott wrote: > >> Pete Morgan wrote: >> >>> Glad you picked the 787, this is broken in CVS with all sorts >>> of errors.. thats why We need an aircraft fault list... >>> >> I would not

[Flightgear-devel] FG Bug tracking

Right, I'm a web developer and been thinking a lot about the bug tracking (in my case across projects/ventures/etc), and applying that to FG. Thats my frustration ladies and gentlemen, and I apologize for my harshness sometimes; this comes from frustration ;-) Indeed as a day job, its working s

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Prime Meridian Crash

Just catching up on the thread (been away). I compiled SG and FG with CXXFLAGS="-g -O0" and its fantastic. For the first time I can fly around London airspace without a segfault. (never tried the dist packages so cant report on that). As far as finding the bug, I tried a lot of areas to try and

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Prime Meridian Crash

anything else I can do ? pete Pete Morgan wrote: > Just catching up on the thread (been away). > > I compiled SG and FG with CXXFLAGS="-g -O0" and its fantastic. For the > first time I can fly around London airspace without a segfault. (never > tried the dist packag

[Flightgear-devel] Clouds

Can the enable 3d clouds Menu >> View >> Rendering options >> 3D Coluds also appear under Menu >> Enviroment >> Clouds if possible Pete -- Let Crystal Reports handle the reporting - Free Crystal Reports 2008 30-Day t

[Flightgear-devel] Daily FG .deb

A problem shared is a problem * 0.5 apparently. With some c++ and nasal (sneezes, dribbles and a tissue to contain tacticle stuff) then the 1/2 ratio can be rapidly reduced. So my frustration is with the "scenery" part of FlightGear. Eg can I fly from Cardiff to Barcelona without scenery disap

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Ignoring MP pilots

Tom P wrote: > Hi Torsten > > That's an interesting concept, I was thinking about groups as well. > > But instead of writing extra code on top of the current client and server, > could we use different ports on the server? > > Let me explain: if I understand correctly, the server already allows >

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Ignoring MP pilots

Seperate ports are gonna be a problem with firewalls. Is there a way to create a group using the callsign? eg my_group:callsign ? just a thought. Pete Jacob Burbach wrote: > Trying to fit everyone into a few "pre-defined" groups is not a very > good idea in my opinion. Peoples wants, needs, and

[Flightgear-devel] terragear

Dont know if this is the right newsgroup, but am trying to compile terragear. Pulled from here http://mapserver.flightgear.org/git/?p=terragear-cs;a=summary Also simgear from here http://mapserver.flightgear.org/git/?p=simgear-cs;a=summary It configures ok but a compile error as below. regards

[Flightgear-devel] Does XMPP = Multiplayer, ATC and chit chat

Bright Idea. I'm interested in cloud computing, which means all us pilots, ATC, radar controllers, scenery, ops and IRC+backup, web, engineers can all use the same term; somewhere towards a clearer communications ;-) So what I am playing with atmo, is the google app engine, and specifically XM

[Flightgear-devel] XMPP

Can we use XMPP it for * ATIS * ATC * MP_chat * Creating out own groups, airlines etc * other stuff requirements * Dialog Server=flightgear.appspot.com email=test.pi...@my_email_address pass = handle/callsign = ATIS also Means we can use it on Google.appengine (current play) so v

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Terragear how to

Join the club. Seems that it works with terra-cs, but you HAVE to use latest cvs for everything else. And agree with you somewhat, the wiki documentation is outdated, and wrong. Scenery on forums is cool, but dont expect an answer soon. pete syd adams wrote: > Hello , > Ive decided to try to

Re: [Flightgear-devel] navaids update

Is nav.dat supposed to be updated from robin X-plane database? > > If nobody else is going to do that, I'll be updating the file from > Robin's most current package during our pre-release phase (however this > is going to be defined ). > > Can't the data be commited to CVS now ? pete ---

[Flightgear-devel] Flight Pro Sim A Scam?

Do a search for "professional flight simulator", and an ad for Flight Pro Sim appears with the title. "Plight Pro Sim A Scam ?" Sound suspect to me http://m2.daffodil.uk.com/flight_pro_sim_scam.png Pete -- This SF

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Flight Pro Sim A Scam?

I just click thru the ads ;-) Funny thing is I like the idea of IT, and if it was done with respect, then it would be cool imho. pete Alexis Bory - xiii wrote: > Pete Morgan a écrit : > >> Do a search for "professional flight simulator", and an ad for Flight >&g

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Autopilot broken, Eric maybe?

Heiko Schulz wrote: > Hi, > > There were major changes on the GPS and Route-Manager since August (3 Months > ago already!) > > So this has affected the the use of the autopilot as well. > All aircrafts using the generic Autopilot-panel are affected, but not those > with an own written flightdire

[Flightgear-devel] Bugs: 777-200ER

With today's cvs On startup I get error, which explains maybe why autp[ilot doesnt work Failed to load autopilot configuration: /home/flight-sim/flight-gear-9/data/Aircraft/777-200/Systems/777-autopilot.xml:not well-formed loading scenario 'nimitz_demo' Also as some point as I start takeoff

[Flightgear-devel] Bugs: 787

Something has changed recently as I now get these bugs which crash when starting the 787 >> ./787.sh malformed autopilot definition - unrecognized node:target in section True Heading Hold (DG based) Stage 1 Failed to load autopilot configuration: /home/flight-sim/flight-gear-9/data/Aircraft/78

[Flightgear-devel] Remember Window positions

Would it be possible to make the "dialogs" eg Autopilot (F11), Comms (F12) remember their positions. For example, I tend to move the Autopilot dialog bottom right, but wish then the next time I press f11 to reopen the dialog, it opens in the last position. regards Pete ---

[Flightgear-devel] Bugs: Bravo

Bravo is one of my favourite aircraft, however the autopilot has a few bugs. I've tried hacking some of this, but am not experienced in what to change. So I will be following any changes or fixes below with a keen interest. *** Heading Hold is "wobbly" *** At higher speeds, eg 220+ knots the

[Flightgear-devel] Bugs: CitationX

This is another cool plane, but the autopilot is also a bit confused. *** IAS BUG SPD *** Speed hold has no effect and is inoperative. *** Altitude Hold *** When selecting a new altitude, eg 1000 to 1100 then the aircraft tip up/down almost immediately, indeed each click causes the "aim" to ch

[Flightgear-devel] Bug: 747

--aircraft=747 The autopilot xml has a bug, so autopilot does not work.. At the command line it shows >> malformed autopilot definition - unrecognized node:target in section True Heading Hold (DG based) Stage 1 Failed to load autopilot configuration: /home/flight-sim/flight-gear-9/data/Aircraf

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Bugs: Bravo

Rob Shearman, Jr. wrote: > Pete Morgan: > > "{re: http://tinypic.com/r/dndoip/6} The Path in Orange is the path the > > NAV hold took roughly to approach Barkway, indeed at the screenshot > > time it was still out. The yellow line is the path I would have > expected.

[Flightgear-devel] Bugs: 747-400

### Model Broken The model is broken, the captain is sitting with no left panel, just runway below. There are a lot of startup error probably causing this (see bottom ### Wing leveler The yoke oscillates from side to side nicely at around 60bpm, however over a very long period of time eg 5 minut

[Flightgear-devel] Bugs: A320

## Autopilot - Heading bug When selecting a new heading, the the aircraft moved violently left right for a few moments, before settling into the bank angle. --- The autopilot overshoots its new heading, before very slowly moving back to the correct heading, although it always seems to be out by a

[Flightgear-devel] Bugs: A380

## Startup and recurring errors. There are numerous start up error/warnings, and "Error drawing more current than available!" that is constantly ouptut till fg is terminated. See bottom below for full listing. ## Autopilot The autopilot is broken with malformed autopilot definition - unrecogniz

[Flightgear-devel] Bugs: MD11

## Model Broken The engine cowling looks like propellers and are rottating on all the engines in an offset strange way. ## Panel error On startup there is output Error reading panel: Failed to open file at /home/flight-sim/flight-gear-9/data/Aircraft/737/Panels/737-ifr-panel.xml Error reading n

[Flightgear-devel] Bugs: Citation-II

## Startup error Nasal error: could not read script file /home/flight-sim/flight-gear-9/data/Aircraft/Citation/Nasal/Electrical.nas into module annunciator ## Autopilot Broken Following startup error Failed to load autopilot configuration: /home/flight-sim/flight-gear-9/data/Aircraft/Citation/A

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Bugs: A320

syd adams wrote: > Looks like your biggest problems are autopilot... what kind of > framerate do you normally get ? Yes, my area of focus is the autopilot, navaids. I'm getting generally around 20+, but sometimes as low as 15 on this olde box. Does the frame rate really mess up the autopilot th

[Flightgear-devel] Bugs: beech99-yasim

## Startup message > Cannot find image file "/home/flight-sim/flight-gear-9/data/FOO" ## Heading Bug Selecting a new heading causes the aircraft to oscillate wildly as it turns. (broken) The autopilot overshoots the required heading by around 5 degree, before moving slowly back to its require

[Flightgear-devel] Bugs: starship

## Heading Bug Selecting a new heading caused a "violent" roll. ## Altitute Hold Selecting a new altitude causes the aircraft to bounce a few times before settling. ## NAV1 - VOR Selecting a new VOR/Course cause the aircraft to roll violently ## NAV1 - Localiser When a approaching the runway,

[Flightgear-devel] Bugs: b1900d

## AutoPilot Dialog The IAS and CRS text entry show floats instead on integers. This makes entering new text doffocult and determining current text sometimes impossible. eg CRS = 112.12 IAS=156.12 ## Heading hold On selecting a new heading, the aircraft oscillates throught the turn, until osci

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Bugs: CitationX

Anders Gidenstam wrote: > On Fri, 22 Jan 2010, Pete Morgan wrote: > > >> *** Heading Hold *** >> Wobbles intermittently above 350 knots, 400 knots + and it can crash the >> aircraft. >> > > Hi Pete, > > It is good with bug reports but I think w

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Bugs: b1900d

t only integers are required, same as a real autopilot. > I do not have oscillations during turns, selecting new heading or not. > > As I do not use AP to shoot an ILS I've not seen the other issues. > > Peter > --Original Message-- > From: Pete Morgan > To: Flight

Re: [Flightgear-devel] External FDM and Multiplayer simultaneously?

I tried slaving a while back, but other commitments stopped the dabbling. In the reasearch I had set up the "slave socket" as another native protocol with a high frame rate of 30, and the multiplayer at frame rate ten. Would to interested to know if its working well? and also how are you using

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Bugs: b1900d

deal, and fun with freedom ;-) Any hints or tips re autopilot would be appreciated. I've working on developing a motion platform. So far I have FG manipulating small servos on the bottom of a cockpit in a cardbox box, a real dodgy scale prototype with Action man as pilot. This is why I've be

[Flightgear-devel] BugFix - Re: Bugs: 787

After following the link below.. here is the fix. Not sure what it does, but took a stab at replacing the ax=13.6. The model looks fins in the views.. +++ b/787.xml @@ -55,7 +55,7 @@ Mach 1 = 576.6 kt @ 35,000 ft --> width="5.9" taper="0.62"/> - On Fri, Jan 22, 20

[Flightgear-devel] Web + Design Competition

Since were in the new decade, maybe its time for a new look also for the new release, also. A Design competition for the new website and logo would be a nice. Brief. "Design a new website and image that will make it cool for flight simulation enviroment, thats functional and will last this com

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Web + Design Competition

oops sorry, meant an Extra Large T-Shirt (like mr T and basic T for pilot), a joyStick (I'll cover both) and a really small tshirt, eg to keep your copilot the laptop warm. anyway just a thought pete Victhor wrote: > You get two t-shirts and a joystick? Wow! :D > >> Since were in the new d

Re: [Flightgear-devel] BugFix - Re: Bugs: 787

leee wrote: > On Saturday 23 Jan 2010, Pete Morgan wrote: > >> After following the link below.. here is the fix. Not sure what >> it does, but took a stab at replacing the ax=13.6. The model >> looks fins in the views.. >> >> +++ b/787.xml >> @@ -5

[Flightgear-devel] Autopilot Tuning

I'm having a successful time tuning my first autopilot on the 787. I've managed to get rid of the "jerks" and wobbles, mainly by using a "noise-spike" filter with . That thanks to Syd Adams for that wonderful tip. All flight level changes, and NAV, heading can be tuned very well, at the curre

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Autopilot Tuning

thanks lee for the reply, particular about the "thinking it through" part; and am already thinking about a problem I've encountered, although I'm still trying to get the hang of the autopilot. VNAV. - (don't know how to explain the problem well) I've managed to get the Altitude hold, Vertical

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Autopilot Tuning

Thanks leee.. for all the tips.. Is one of you aircraft in CVS so I cant study the autopilot. pete leee wrote: > On Monday 25 Jan 2010, Pete Morgan wrote: > >> thanks lee for the reply, particular about the "thinking it >> through" part; and am already t

[Flightgear-devel] Autopilot: NAV/Localiser

Am trying to get the autopilot to follow a NAV1 course, correctly. It works, but the behaviour is unexpected, or I got it wrong about VOR navigation. Please have a look at the image link below as I am not good at explaining. http://imgur.com/LL6b9 Approaching a VOR, from say 50nm away, just of

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Autopilot Tuning

make all the PID's active (with history as leee pointed out).. and have a switch between them pete leee wrote: > On Monday 25 Jan 2010, Pete Morgan wrote: > >> thanks lee for the reply, particular about the "thinking it >> through" part; and am already thinki

[Flightgear-devel] 777: patches and bug

Attached is a patch that adds filters to the 777 autopilot's Heading, LNAV and Altitude Major bug is LNAV. The 777 currently doesn't fly on a LNAV/CRS properly. The aircraft ends up on the correct heading, but with no correction, ie parallel to predicted path and not correcting. The values in t

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Autopilot: NAV/Localiser

Curtis Olson wrote: > On Tue, Jan 26, 2010 at 2:36 AM, syd adams wrote: > > > It works, but the behaviour is unexpected, or I got it wrong > about VOR > navigation. > > > Sounds like it could be a faulty config file ,,, but the proper > way to do a VOR navigation is

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Autopilot tuning

Wonderful, brilliant stuff Giuseppe, The way that the autopilot works with those patches is the way I expected. Hope this stuff makes its way into CVS so at least there's a good reference implementation. pete Giuseppe Venanzoni wrote: > Hi! > > I would like to join the discussion about AP tuni

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Autopilot tuning

I just noticed the info below about localiser on the "Flight Simulation Naviagtion" site http://www.navfltsm.addr.com/ Is there an easy way to determine is the NAV is a Lcoaliser, I cant see that in Prop tree. pete >>> Flying the Localizer Most of the skills learned when flying VOR

[Flightgear-devel] Flight Gear Education CD - 2020

The idea is to create a Distribution for use in schools. FG will hopefully be used in the following lessons. * Geography * Geology * Physics * Technical Drawing * Art * Drama * Cooking and food * Maths * woodwork * english To make it the DeFacto, we all need to get our act together. Thats the vi

[Flightgear-devel] Money and Contributions

I would gladly make a contribution to FlightGear. My small contrib would be around £10 per quarter and I would expect this cash to go towards: * Maintaining servers online and similar Is that mechanism in place ? Is FlightGear.com TradeMark in place? Is there a way I can take FlightGear and c

Re: [Flightgear-devel] new MP server / Netherlands

Olivier JACQ wrote: > The MP conversation is interesting. > > Why should people choose between one or another MP Server : > > 1. Because it is written in the doc (Wiki, ...) > 2. Because they check their latency from their location (which is the best > option). > 3. Because they choose it based on

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Helicopter Flightsim Event

My birthday is may 16.. and am near Swansea .. cunning flight plan coming... pete Gijs de Rooy wrote: > Hi, > > > > while searching for flightsim events I came across the Flight > Simulator Convention at > the *Helicopter Museum in Weston Super Mare, North Somerset, United > Kingdom*. > As

[Flightgear-devel] GUI dialogs suck

* they do not maintain last position * Cant be resized * label "over flow" spacing * no Validation on entry * Changes are sometimes immediate, even tapping in or deleting a figure, makes the entries applies to SIM REAL time key entry.. eg trying to change heading from 270 to 280, means remov

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Money and Contributions

Erik Hofman wrote: > Pete Morgan wrote: > >> I would gladly make a contribution to FlightGear. >> >> My small contrib would be around £10 per quarter and I would expect this >> cash to go towards: >> * Maintaining servers online and similar >>

Re: [Flightgear-devel] GUI dialogs suck

Erik Hofman wrote: > Pete Morgan wrote: > >> GUI dialogs suck >> > > And now? > > Erik > very helpful erik. pete -- The Planet: dedicated and managed hosting, cloud sto

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Autopilot tuning

Thanks James. It seems to work with my test buzzing london and associated VOR/ILS am now trying to refine autopilot in concert. pete James Turner wrote: > On 28 Jan 2010, at 04:00, syd adams wrote: > > >> you can also check the instrumentation/nav/nav-loc , but it seems to stay >> stuck on

Re: [Flightgear-devel] GUI dialogs suck

Stuart Buchanan wrote: > We are to some extent hamstrung by the rather old GUI toolkit we use. However, > replacing that is going to be non-trivial, and it would affect not just the > core GUI but > also all the dialog boxes that have been set up for particular aircraft. > > -Stuart > > That is

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Nasal library maintainer?

Anders Gidenstam wrote: > On Fri, 29 Jan 2010, Stuart Buchanan wrote: > > >> We do, of course, have a set of standard Nasal libraries under data/Nasal/. >> >> These were previously maintained by Melchior, who worked hard to ensure that >> we didn't end up wth lots of slightly different per-aircr

Re: [Flightgear-devel] GUI dialogs suck

Curtis Olson wrote: > Here's the thing. FlightGear uses a gui widget set that is > implemented on top of OpenGL. This has many advantages from a > portability standpoint and from the standpoint of integrating with > window systems. "Pui" doesn't have every feature under the sun, but > it was

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Money and Contributions

I would expect my "donation" to go to infrastructure costs, eg wiki Hosting which often complains about limit exceeded. pete Martin Spott wrote: > syd adams wrote: > > >> Where does the donation money go ? To who ? And for what ?I dont like >> donating money when I have no idea what Im donati

[Flightgear-devel] FlightGear Foundation

thinking Maybe we do really need to set up some legal "entity"... for a variety of reasons. Its noted that setting up an "entity" does have huge ramifications in time and admin, such as legal status, cash flow, etc.. etc..atc.. and it does mean responsibility ie personally involved.. offic

Re: [Flightgear-devel] 747-400

Gijs, why not just create a clone of 747 series in github, or gitorious , and then that can be merges into CVS later maybe. pete Gijs de Rooy wrote: > Hi, > > > Just wanted to know if anybody was working on it so I don't > duplicate wnat other people are doing. > > Do I understand correctly you

[Flightgear-devel] MP Errors

With ATC2, I keep getting a Nasal error, which results in having to restart. Nasal runtime error: nil used in numeric context at /home/flight-sim/flight-gear-9/data/Nasal/multiplayer.nas, line 285 http://code.google.com/p/flightgear-bugs/issues/detail?id=51 kind regards Pete ---

Re: [Flightgear-devel] property browsing

yo John Denker We are working on the same goal, in identifying bugz, and other little imperfections ;-) Please join the google code bugs experiment for FG = R+D. ie a list of bugs. Its an independant tangent, like your spreadsheet, except its online and you can use it also.. http://code.googl

Re: [Flightgear-devel] scenery bug: KSQL stray building

can you file this bug formally at http://code.google.com/p/flightgear-bugs/issues/list so we can track it ta pete John Denker wrote: > At KSQL there is reproducibly a building sitting > partially on a taxiway and even extending onto > the runway a little bit. > > http://www.av8n.com/fly/fgfs/i

Re: [Flightgear-devel] 777-200ER another little bug

The 777 is totally in dev.. and making all sorts of capers.. I guess we have to sit back and wait for Syd to decide the "aircraft" and its systems is worthy of "testing". In the meantime its a pointless task as the path is not identified, or indeed the "path" mapped. So come back later (BTW the

[Flightgear-devel] Bug #52 MPChat - invalid length error

bug #52 is quite frustrating, particular when ATC'ing It does not directly crash FG, however the terminal output and/or the error makes it run slow and means an FG restart, thereby loosing all ATC context. http://code.google.com/p/flightgear-bugs/issues/detail?id=52 pete -

[Flightgear-devel] Wiki and 503 error - resource limit exceeded

This error at wiki.flightgear.org is happening more often, indeed I'd say a 1 in 4 chance = 25% Is anyone experiencing this, and if so as traffic ramps up, then maybe we'll have no wiki at all !!! pete -- SOLARIS 10 is

Re: [Flightgear-devel] FlightGear 2.0.0 Announcement text + Summary of ChangeLog

Cant this cos be in .html instead of .rtf please YOSHIMATSU Toshihide wrote: > Hi all, > > Just for reference, I attached nice document, that was written by Tat > and included in 2.0.0-pre3 package for Mac OS X. > > - TXT.rtf (Rich Text Format) > > Cheers, > Toshi > >

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