[Flightgear-devel] Re: build identification

2003-01-07 Thread Melchior FRANZ
* Jon Berndt -- Tuesday 07 January 2003 05:55: strings jsbsim.exe | grep Id and get a list of all the modules and version/date information that went into the executable. or shorter (and better :-): $ ident jsbsim.exe m. ___ Flightgear-devel

[Flightgear-devel] Trip Report: Roads and Rivers

2003-01-07 Thread David Megginson
I took C-FBJO up for a joy-ride today. To add realism to FlightGear, I think that we should simulate arriving at the airport, finding the stabilator covered with hard-crusted ice, and having to wait an hour while the plane thaws out in someone's heated hangar. We could call it an ADM --

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Trip Report: Roads and Rivers

2003-01-07 Thread Curtis L. Olson
David Megginson writes: With roads, rivers, and railroads, this kind of flying works in FlightGear as well, or almost as well as it does in real life. I strongly encourage everyone to try it: grab a map (even just a road map or atlas), and fly around following roads, rivers, coastlines, and

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Problem: unrealistic YASim stalls

2003-01-07 Thread Curtis L. Olson
David Megginson writes: That makes sense -- thanks. So, here's my near-term YASim wishlist, which is pleasingly short: - wing washout - turbulence - steady-state starts with non-zero velocity and/or in-air - respect runtime property changes (i.e. new altitude or location) My wish list

[Flightgear-devel] JSBSim resets (was: Problem: unrealistic YASim stalls)

2003-01-07 Thread Erik Hofman
Curtis L. Olson wrote: I think it would be much cleaner to force a reset to a new location each time we warp to a new location. This allows us to delete the FDM instance and create a new one so it can be freshly inited and trimmed for the new conditions. Otherwise, it's really hard not to

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Problem: unrealistic YASim stalls

2003-01-07 Thread David Megginson
Curtis L. Olson writes: - respect runtime property changes (i.e. new altitude or location) I would respectfully suggest that this one not be implimented or at least be put at a low priority. We tried to do this in JSBsim and it can really get messy. The problem was that the startup

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Trip Report: Roads and Rivers

2003-01-07 Thread David Megginson
Curtis L. Olson writes: One that I have enjoyed is following the Columbia river. If you start from Portland, OR (KPDX) the airport is right next to the river. Just start following it east. You quickly get into interesting terrain. Using various combinations of autopilot/terrain

[Flightgear-devel] CVS Server

2003-01-07 Thread David Megginson
The FlightGear CVS server is freezing on update when I try to use it (no error message). Is anyone else seeing this problem? I'm seeing it without any -z argument. All the best, David -- David Megginson, [EMAIL PROTECTED], http://www.megginson.com/

[Flightgear-devel] Moving [was: Trip Report: Roads and Rivers]

2003-01-07 Thread Andy Ross
Curtis L. Olson wrote: One that I have enjoyed is following the Columbia river. If you start from Portland, OR (KPDX) the airport is right next to the river. For those who haven't seen it, the Colombia River gorge is even better in reality, too. And while we're on the subject of Portland, I

Re: [Flightgear-devel] CVS Server

2003-01-07 Thread Curtis L. Olson
David Megginson writes: The FlightGear CVS server is freezing on update when I try to use it (no error message). Is anyone else seeing this problem? I'm seeing it without any -z argument. Spamassassin went balistic. The mail/cvs server was thrashing big time. Load average was 200+ when I

re: [Flightgear-devel] Moving [was: Trip Report: Roads and Rivers]

2003-01-07 Thread David Megginson
Andy Ross writes: I don't have GPS coordinates handy, but the property sits about 0.6nm mile from the threshold of KHIO runway 2, maybe 200 feet from the centerline. This is the short runway at Hillsboro airport; unfortunately all we saw last week were planes in the pattern for runway

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Problem: unrealistic YASim stalls

2003-01-07 Thread Tony Peden
Resend after getting bounced earlier ... On Tue, 2003-01-07 at 14:39, David Megginson wrote: Curtis L. Olson writes: - respect runtime property changes (i.e. new altitude or location) I would respectfully suggest that this one not be implimented or at least be put at a low

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Moving [was: Trip Report: Roads and Rivers]

2003-01-07 Thread Arnt Karlsen
On Tue, 07 Jan 2003 15:36:30 -0800, Andy Ross [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message [EMAIL PROTECTED]: This is obviously going to interrupt my email availability during the move. My nextbus account should remain active for the near term, but I may not be able to check it. The plausible.org

Re: [Flightgear-devel] JSBSim resets (was: Problem: unrealisticYASim stalls)

2003-01-07 Thread Tony Peden
On Tue, 2003-01-07 at 14:35, Erik Hofman wrote: Curtis L. Olson wrote: I think it would be much cleaner to force a reset to a new location each time we warp to a new location. This allows us to delete the FDM instance and create a new one so it can be freshly inited and trimmed for the

re: [Flightgear-devel] CVS Server

2003-01-07 Thread David Megginson
David Megginson writes: The FlightGear CVS server is freezing on update when I try to use it (no error message). Is anyone else seeing this problem? I'm seeing it without any -z argument. OK, it's back again. I notice that the mail server stopped as well. All the best, David --