[Flightgear-devel] AAR/refueling change
In the past it was possible to refuel any aircraft from any tanker. That's no longer the case! Tankers do now have to declare which system they offer. They do that by setting /ai/models/tanker[*]/refuel/system[*] to boom or probe A tanker can set both, but none of our current tankers does. Both KC135 offer boom, and the KA6D offers probe. Aircraft have to declare from which system they can receive by setting systems refuel systemboom/system !-- systemprobe/system -- /refuel /systems An aircraft may set both. The system names aren't hard-coded. One can just use a new method name in tanker and receiver without having to register it anywhere first. There's no fool-proof fallback method. If an aircraft doesn't say what it wants, then it gets no fuel. Period. :-P At the moment only the ufo (boom probe) and the a4f (probe only!) can get refueled. So, please, add the necessary declaration to your aircraft. m. - This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Moblin Your Move Developer's challenge Build the coolest Linux based applications with Moblin SDK win great prizes Grand prize is a trip for two to an Open Source event anywhere in the world http://moblin-contest.org/redirect.php?banner_id=100url=/ ___ Flightgear-devel mailing list Flightgear-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/flightgear-devel
Re: [Flightgear-devel] AAR/refueling change
And here's the traditional interface change right after the announcement: s/system/type/ Tanker: /ai/models/tanker[*]/refuel/type[*] boom or probe Aircraft: systems refuel typeboom/type !-- typeprobe/type -- /refuel /systems Sorry for the inconvenience. :-) m. - This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Moblin Your Move Developer's challenge Build the coolest Linux based applications with Moblin SDK win great prizes Grand prize is a trip for two to an Open Source event anywhere in the world http://moblin-contest.org/redirect.php?banner_id=100url=/ ___ Flightgear-devel mailing list Flightgear-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/flightgear-devel
Re: [Flightgear-devel] AAR/refueling change
On jeu 14 août 2008, Melchior FRANZ wrote: In the past it was possible to refuel any aircraft from any tanker. That's no longer the case! Tankers do now have to declare which system they offer. They do that by setting /ai/models/tanker[*]/refuel/system[*] to boom or probe A tanker can set both, but none of our current tankers does. Both KC135 offer boom, and the KA6D offers probe. Aircraft have to declare from which system they can receive by setting systems refuel systemboom/system !-- systemprobe/system -- /refuel /systems An aircraft may set both. The system names aren't hard-coded. One can just use a new method name in tanker and receiver without having to register it anywhere first. There's no fool-proof fallback method. If an aircraft doesn't say what it wants, then it gets no fuel. Period. :-P At the moment only the ufo (boom probe) and the a4f (probe only!) can get refueled. So, please, add the necessary declaration to your aircraft. m. Thanks for that realistic feature. I only want to say, to the Blackbird A and B users (if there is still any user :) ) that i must improve that model. It does include a specific Air refueling, which do not use the aar generic, it does use some features from JSBsim FDM itself. So it could be possible that, now, the Air refueling will not work until i will have updated it. Cheers -- Gérard http://pagesperso-orange.fr/GRTux/ J'ai décidé d'être heureux parce que c'est bon pour la santé. Voltaire - This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Moblin Your Move Developer's challenge Build the coolest Linux based applications with Moblin SDK win great prizes Grand prize is a trip for two to an Open Source event anywhere in the world http://moblin-contest.org/redirect.php?banner_id=100url=/ ___ Flightgear-devel mailing list Flightgear-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/flightgear-devel
Re: [Flightgear-devel] AAR/refueling change
* gerard robin -- Thursday 14 August 2008: [Blackbird] It does include a specific Air refueling, which do not use the aar generic, it does use some features from JSBsim FDM itself. So it could be possible that, now, the Air refueling will not work until i will have updated it. Nope. It will work just like before. It's $FG_ROOT/Aircraft/Generic/aar.nas which checks whether an aircraft and a tanker fit together. It either fills the tanks, or doesn't. So, if the Blackbird doesn't even use aar.nas, then there's nobody making any decision which could affect it. There are only a few new properties set, that's all. m. - This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Moblin Your Move Developer's challenge Build the coolest Linux based applications with Moblin SDK win great prizes Grand prize is a trip for two to an Open Source event anywhere in the world http://moblin-contest.org/redirect.php?banner_id=100url=/ ___ Flightgear-devel mailing list Flightgear-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/flightgear-devel
[Flightgear-devel] AAR
Hi, AAR is fun, if a little tricky. These screen shots were taken with an AI tanker. ftp://ftp.abbeytheatre.dyndns.org/fgfs/Screen-shots/KC135-KC135-1.jpg ftp://ftp.abbeytheatre.dyndns.org/fgfs/Screen-shots/KC135-cockpit.jpg The KC135 is AAR capable so a full fuel load was taken. We still have to practice to do this with a MP tanker! Vivian
