RE: [Flightgear-devel] Updated F4E

[Vivian Meazza]

Ron Jensen


 http://www.jentronics.com/fgfs/ 
 
 Here is another update to the F4E, same place as it always is
 http://www.jentronics.com/fgfs/F4E.tgz 
 
 Today's update has some cosmetic fixes to the 3D model, it now rotates
 around its axises correctly.  (Thanks Dave)  It also has afterburner
 flames (again, thanks Dave).  There were some changes deep in the FDM as
 well.
 
 I added EGT gauges for the 3D cockpit, and started to model the radar
 display.  The dash looks a bit bare until I replace the gun camera and
 HUD glass.
 
 Carlos Zaragoza Koblischek did a nice texture for the model as well.
 
 Here's a snapshot http://www.jentronics.com/fgfs/f4-paint01.jpg  and the
 texture is here http://www.jentronics.com/fgfs/F4E_base.tgz 

Seeing this reminded me that we still need to sort out the TACAN problem. I
feel uneasy about using hacked frequency/TACAN channel assignments. It seems
to me that we should correct the underlying data in nav.dat.gz by

A. correcting the TACAN frequency where this is in error.

B. adding new VORTAC entries where appropriate.


Vivian



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Re: [Flightgear-devel] Updated F4E

[Ron Jensen]

There is another update to the F4E, same place as it always is
http://www.jentronics.com/fgfs/F4E.tgz 

The airspeed/mach gauge is installed and functional, although the
texture needs some work, mach readout only goes to 1.2, its blank above
that...  The needle reads out KCAS, and the mach ring rotates with
pressure altitude so the correct mach number is under the needle.

I've added some panel hotspots, too.  They're hard to see since there
seems to be an issue with hotspots showing up in front of textures with
transparencies.  The HSI course and heading knobs work, and the
instrument lights work with the dimmer knob shown on the texture in the
upper left of the panel.

There are two knobs under the VSI gauge (and standby attitude
indicator).  The one on the right is clickable, but doesn't do anything
yet.

The one on the left controls the DME readout and bearing pointer on the
HSI.  It has four settings:
  Bearing  DME
 VOR/TAC: VOR 1VOR 1
 TAC: TACANTACAN
 ADF/TAC: ADF  TACAN
NAV COMP: VOR 1TACAN

In the real world TACANs and VORs share a common DME system, but since
FGFS's NAV radios won't read all the TACANS, and FGFS's TACAN system
won't see all DME sources I put in an option for both styles of DME.

Happy flying,
Ron




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