[Flightgear-devel] Airport codes (was Re: plib-1.8.4_RC)

2005-01-14 Thread Chris Metzler
On Sat, 15 Jan 2005 09:04:08 +0200 Paul Surgeon wrote: > > BTW: Is Robin going to give us a fixed airport db before we release > 0.9.8? i.e. The appended K's to the FAA codes is not pretty and caught > me out today. Can you elaborate on what you mean here? What is it that you're saying is broken,

Re: [Flightgear-devel] plib-1.8.4_RC

2005-01-14 Thread Paul Surgeon
On Friday, 14 January 2005 22:33, Curtis L. Olson wrote: > Can we have a few people fetch this and build Flight/SimGear against > this and report if things work well or if there are problems. Once > plib-1.8.4 is out, I'd like to push forward with FlightGear-v0.9.8 I don't notice any obvious prob

Re: [Flightgear-devel] [BUG] crash in FGTower::CheckCircuitList() (tower.cxx:392)

2005-01-14 Thread Chris Metzler
On Sat, 15 Jan 2005 02:36:51 +0100 Melchior FRANZ wrote: > > Can't say exactly where, because the gdb frame #0 was unusable. > (Stack violation?) Anyway, it was in FGTower::CheckCircuitList(). > Not reproducible, but I saw this a few times already. That's all I > could collect: Similar stuff: ht

[Flightgear-devel] [BUG] crash in FGTower::CheckCircuitList() (tower.cxx:392)

2005-01-14 Thread Melchior FRANZ
Can't say exactly where, because the gdb frame #0 was unusable. (Stack violation?) Anyway, it was in FGTower::CheckCircuitList(). Not reproducible, but I saw this a few times already. That's all I could collect: Program received signal SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault. [Switching to Thread 1089412704

Re: [Flightgear-devel] plib-1.8.4_RC

2005-01-14 Thread Andy Ross
Martin Spott wrote: > I wonder how you ever managed to make them accept patches of obvious > necessity. If I were you I'd already have lost my countenance They're a little slow sometimes, but things get done eventually. I checked to see that my set of GUI rendering fixes from last May made i

Re: [Flightgear-devel] plib-1.8.4_RC

2005-01-14 Thread Curtis L. Olson
Martin Spott wrote: I wonder how you ever managed to make them accept patches of obvious necessity. If I were you I'd already have lost my countenance I managed to obtain some "interesting" photos of the project leader ... the rest was easy. :-) Curt. -- Curtis Olsonhttp://www.fli

Re: [Flightgear-devel] plib-1.8.4_RC

2005-01-14 Thread Martin Spott
"Curtis L. Olson" wrote: > Can we have a few people fetch this and build Flight/SimGear against > this and report if things work well or if there are problems. Once > plib-1.8.4 is out, I'd like to push forward with FlightGear-v0.9.8 I wonder how you ever managed to make them accept patches of

Re: [Flightgear-devel] OT: Huygens

2005-01-14 Thread Dave Martin
On Friday 14 Jan 2005 21:35, Jon S Berndt wrote: > This is a bit off-topic for FlightGear-devel, but I thought it might > be worth mentioning that the first pictures from the Huygens probe > have returned from Saturn's moon Titan via Cassini relay. You can see > them here: > > www.spaceflightnow.co

[Flightgear-devel] OT: Huygens

2005-01-14 Thread Jon S Berndt
This is a bit off-topic for FlightGear-devel, but I thought it might be worth mentioning that the first pictures from the Huygens probe have returned from Saturn's moon Titan via Cassini relay. You can see them here: www.spaceflightnow.com -and- http://www.esa.int/esaCP/index.html The overall f

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Any info for Chalgrove UK?

2005-01-14 Thread Dave Martin
On Friday 14 Jan 2005 21:08, David Megginson wrote: > On Fri, 14 Jan 2005 20:59:23 +, Dave Martin > > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I then spent 2 hours trying to work out what this huge 3 runway > > centre-intersecting airport with full runway lighting and PAPIs was. ;-P > > It looks like the

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Any info for Chalgrove UK?

2005-01-14 Thread David Megginson
On Fri, 14 Jan 2005 20:59:23 +, Dave Martin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I then spent 2 hours trying to work out what this huge 3 runway > centre-intersecting airport with full runway lighting and PAPIs was. ;-P It looks like the runways are fairly large in real life as well: http://worlda

[Flightgear-devel] Any info for Chalgrove UK?

2005-01-14 Thread Dave Martin
I've just flown over Chalgrove (near RAF Benson) at night. Except I didn't know it was Chalgrove I then spent 2 hours trying to work out what this huge 3 runway centre-intersecting airport with full runway lighting and PAPIs was. ;-P Its obviosly very mis-laid in FlightGear (maybe by DAFIF)as C

[Flightgear-devel] plib-1.8.4_RC

2005-01-14 Thread Curtis L. Olson
I just received email from Steve Baker, and plib is very close to it's v1.8.4 release. They have a release candidate available: http://plib.sourceforge.net/dist/plib-1.8.4_RC.tar.gz Can we have a few people fetch this and build Flight/SimGear against this and report if things work well or if th

Re: [Flightgear-devel] I have a GMax 3D model, help me exporting to 3ds file format

2005-01-14 Thread Robicd
Ampere K. Hardraade ha scritto: You can also send it to me. I should be able to export it for you. Ampere P.S. Being in a BridgeCommander modding community once, I was pretty sure that GMax can export meshes into 3ds formats. hmm... Maybe some old release did. I know gmax since a few days only a

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Is this usefull for flightgear/jsbsim?

2005-01-14 Thread Andy Ross
Arnt Karlsen wrote: > ..well, all good jokes can't come up with a potential like the > http://gpgpu.org; your average recent GPU chews code 6 times > faster than your average CPU. So, we can use part of the GPU > to show pretty pictures, and the remainder, say "half", to say, > triple FG framerate

Re: [Flightgear-devel] PC7-maintainer

2005-01-14 Thread Erik Hofman
Martin Spott wrote: Hello Erik, Martin Spott wrote: I'll see if I can make a fix for the aircraft definition later today, How do you feel with simply removing the respective section from the defaults, like this: It's committed. I didn't even know it was there :-/ If you have any additional change

Re: [Flightgear-devel] PC7-maintainer

2005-01-14 Thread Martin Spott
Hello Erik, Martin Spott wrote: > I'll see if I can make a fix for the aircraft definition later today, How do you feel with simply removing the respective section from the defaults, like this: --- data/Aircraft/pc7/pc7-set.xml~ Tue Nov 2 11:29:48 2004 +++ data/Aircraft/pc7/pc7-set.xml

Re: [Flightgear-devel] PC7-maintainer

2005-01-14 Thread Martin Spott
Erik Hofman wrote: > I'm not sure but could this be the trim setting? I thought so as well. I tried to adjust with the cursor keys but that only resulted in moving the elevator indicator: Apparently I used the wrong keys. Still I don't get leveled flight when I center the stick but it's much bett

RE: [Flightgear-devel] PC7-maintainer

2005-01-14 Thread Richard Bytheway
> Two things: I have the impression that two notches of flaps > are set per > default on startup, it might me worthwile to remove this. > And there's a second point which becomes visible when you use the HUD: > > http://document.ihg.uni-duisburg.de/bitmap/FGFS/PC7_02.jpg > > The third 'scale'

Re: [Flightgear-devel] PC7-maintainer

2005-01-14 Thread DesmoSS
I believe that carrot is the elevator trim indicator. It should never be centered, but it should be near the neutral point for S & L flight.   Mike ___ Flightgear-devel mailing list Flightgear-devel@flightgear.org http://mail.flightgear.org/mailman/li

Re: [Flightgear-devel] PC7-maintainer

2005-01-14 Thread Erik Hofman
Martin Spott wrote: And there's a second point which becomes visible when you use the HUD: http://document.ihg.uni-duisburg.de/bitmap/FGFS/PC7_02.jpg The third 'scale' from the left has two markers (the first is power, the second is airspeed and the one I meen is the one that comes next). The mar

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Is this usefull for flightgear/jsbsim?

2005-01-14 Thread Steven Beeckman
Arnt Karlsen wrote: On Thu, 13 Jan 2005 15:05:26 +0100, Steven wrote in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: Citeren "Ampere K. Hardraade" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: On January 13, 2005 07:28 am, Arnt Karlsen wrote: On Wed, 12 Jan 2005 21:30:23 -0500, Ampere wrote in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: On January 1

Re: [Flightgear-devel] PC7-maintainer

2005-01-14 Thread Martin Spott
Erik Hofman wrote: > Martin Spott wrote: > > I realized that >> you have to push the stick heavily in order to achieve level flight. >> Could someone tell me which knob to adjust in order to make this behave >> a bit more realistic ? > > Huh, I can't recall that was necessary. Maybe the center o

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Google adwords?

2005-01-14 Thread Ivo
On Friday 14 January 2005 04:14, Jim Wilson wrote: > Sort of a little off topic: Something that would be really cool (at least > in the US) is to have a registered non-profit that just collected > donations (like United Way) and then uses those funds to make grants to > individual projects like fli