Re: [Flightgear-devel] Missing Model Problem

2002-05-31 Thread Tony Peden
On Thu, 2002-05-30 at 22:16, Cameron Moore wrote: * [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Jon Berndt) [2002.05.30 20:45]: I have not been keeping track of changes on the JSBSim XML formats for several months, so I'll try to update the -180 definitions tonight and see what happens. I will let you know if

Re: [Flightgear-devel] YASim 747-400 climb performance

2002-05-31 Thread David Megginson
Andy Ross writes: First, the air pressures returned from the environment system don't agree with the standard atmosphere that YASim uses to do its calibration. They match pretty well at sea level, but diverge as altitude increase. At 35000 feet, they're too low by 20%, which is

re: [Flightgear-devel] Pressure errors in FGEnvironment

2002-05-31 Thread David Megginson
Andy Ross writes: Nonetheless, I think I found the problem. In converting the YASim table to the new format, its values were re-encoded as deltas from sea level conditions, with sea level pressure defined as 29.92 inches of mercury. But in the FGEnvironment constructor, I see the

Re: [Flightgear-devel] compile/make/build flags?

2002-05-31 Thread julianfoad
Keith, unfortunately Eric's instructions weren't quite right :( Erik Hofman wrote: Just do ./configure this will give a full list of the possibilities. He meant ./configure --help of course :) Yours is: --disable-logging Actually, it is --without-logging: ./configure

Re: [Flightgear-devel] compile/make/build flags?

2002-05-31 Thread Erik Hofman
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Keith, unfortunately Eric's instructions weren't quite right :( Erik Hofman wrote: Just do ./configure this will give a full list of the possibilities. He meant ./configure --help of course :) Yours is: --disable-logging Actually, it is

Re: [Flightgear-devel] O/T: Home made yoke

2002-05-31 Thread Major A
Matt, I've been looking at the comparitive high price of good quality analogue yokes and I wondered how difficult it would be to make my own and if anyone here has made one? I figured that there might be a place that I could buy an old yoke and shaft from a Cessna, Piper or similar and

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Dual monitors

2002-05-31 Thread Arnt Karlsen
On Thu, 30 May 2002 19:37:16 -0700 (PDT), Gene Buckle [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message [EMAIL PROTECTED]: If memory serves, it's a Radeon VE. I'm using it with two 17 flat panels. The machine is a Dell dual P4 running Win2k. ..hmmm. Have you tried it under Linux? Mandrake 8.2 or Red

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Pressure errors in FGEnvironment

2002-05-31 Thread Andy Ross
David Megginson wrote: The idea is that users should be able to set any reasonable sea-level pressure and see reasonable behaviour -- that's why I set the tables up with deltas rather than absolute values. I can see, now, how that would be a problem at higher altitudes, but what should we

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Dual monitors

2002-05-31 Thread Gene Buckle
If memory serves, it's a Radeon VE. I'm using it with two 17 flat panels. The machine is a Dell dual P4 running Win2k. ..hmmm. Have you tried it under Linux? Mandrake 8.2 or Red Hat 7.3 may be a better choise to support the card, considering ATI's policy towards XFree86.org and

[Flightgear-devel] ANN: FlightGear Scenery Tutorial

2002-05-31 Thread David Megginson
I've just finished a comprehensive, step-by-step guided tutorial for creating FlightGear scenery using only DEM-30 (or DEM-3), the default.apt.gz file, and one of the four vmap0 CD-ROMs (the tutorial explains what you need to download and where you can find it). The tutorial is temporarily

Re: [Flightgear-devel] YASim 747-400 climb performance

2002-05-31 Thread Jim Wilson
Andy Ross [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: I'm pretty sure we're seeing the same behavior here, actually. I'll With Dave's change to prefrences.xml I can get up to FL320 before running into trouble. Really tried to go higher...no luck. take a look at the reduction in climb performance, but I'm

Re: [Flightgear-devel] YASim 747-400 climb performance

2002-05-31 Thread David Megginson
Jim Wilson writes: In any case, flying very carefully I can barely get it up to FL320 with the change in preferences.xml. Going further just doesn't seem possible. I tried serveral AoAs and just couldn't get it to go up much without falling back. What happens when you reduce the fuel

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Pressure errors in FGEnvironment

2002-05-31 Thread Christian Mayer
Andy Ross wrote: David Megginson wrote: The idea is that users should be able to set any reasonable sea-level pressure and see reasonable behaviour -- that's why I set the tables up with deltas rather than absolute values. I can see, now, how that would be a problem at higher

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Autopilot climb modes

2002-05-31 Thread Thomas Holland
Jim Wilson said: Hi Thomas, A couple questions below. Thomas Holland [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: The CLB and CON (max. continuous thrust) you mentioned above (and the other two modes CRZ and TO/GA) are just limits. This means, that they set an upper limit on how much thrust will be

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Autopilot climb modes

2002-05-31 Thread thomas Holland
Hello James, [I assume Thomas will reply anyway, but I want to check I have this right (from using the PMDG 757/767/777s which are supposed to be just about the most accurate systems models out there)] On the FMC, one of the pages is THRUST LIM (actually there's a couple). This is where

Re: [Flightgear-devel] YASim 747-400 climb performance

2002-05-31 Thread Jim Wilson
David Megginson [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: What happens when you reduce the fuel load? Hmmm...nothing because it won't reduce. I'm showing full 19k+ lbs for three tanks no matter what I do with the fraction figure in the config and can't dump during flight it either. Reducing the tank capacity

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Space Flight Simulation Poll

2002-05-31 Thread Jon S Berndt
On Fri, 31 May 2002 13:51:49 -0700 Dave Tessman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is there any interest in space flight simulation out there? I don't think it's ruled out, at all. There are at least two issues I can see: 1) FlightGear might have to modify the visuals approach it is currently using

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Autopilot climb modes

2002-05-31 Thread Arnt Karlsen
On Fri, 31 May 2002 19:20:30 -, Thomas Holland [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message 004101c208d8$3be70830$fe78a8c0@private: Jim Wilson said: Hi Thomas, A couple questions below. Thomas Holland [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: Are the CLB and CRZ preset to a given thrust? And CON is