Re: [Flightgear-devel] Re: type conversion problem for amd64

2005-09-24 Thread George Patterson
On Fri, 2005-09-23 at 21:27 -0700, Alex Perry wrote: From: Erik Hofman George Patterson wrote: Tonight I cvs checkout the simgear sources tonight from cvs to recompile FlightGear. I was getting the following error. (Also got the same error in swap_test.* but worked around that problem

Re: [Flightgear-devel] OT: Simgear and SGFile usage in FGFS

2005-09-24 Thread Curtis L. Olson
Alex Perry wrote: Unless I'm missing something, someone has committed bad code to CVS. The ch variable on line 377 is of class SGIOChannel, which doesn't support the eof() method, and not of class SGFILE, which does. ~/fs/source/utils/GPSsmooth$ make if g++ -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I.

[Flightgear-devel] Flightgear Documentation update: prefligh.tex

2005-09-24 Thread George Patterson
Hi all, I have made some changes to the preflight: Installation section of the Getting started guide. While I am still learning latex, I did check my changes with lacheck which didn't complain. Could someone (probably Erik or Martin) check the patch file over and commit it into CVS? CHANGES

[Flightgear-devel] Crash carnage

2005-09-24 Thread Curtis L. Olson
This is somewhat off topic, but in the spirit of open source I'd like to share the tragedies as well as the triumphs ... http://www.flightgear.org/~curt/Models/Special/Rascal110_1/ This is part of a university project I'm helping out with. We have a backup plane and our expensive

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Crash carnage

2005-09-24 Thread Lee Elliott
On Saturday 24 Sep 2005 16:28, Curtis L. Olson wrote: This is somewhat off topic, but in the spirit of open source I'd like to share the tragedies as well as the triumphs ... http://www.flightgear.org/~curt/Models/Special/Rascal110_1/ This is part of a university project I'm helping out

[Flightgear-devel] TAT in Yasim

2005-09-24 Thread Gabor Toth
Hi, I'm currently working on the EICAS display for 747-400, and I would like to display TAT (Total Air Temperature) too. Is that property available somewhere in YASim? Thanx, Gabor P.S.: Screenshots: http://www.i-net.hu/fgfs/screenshots/747 ___

[Flightgear-devel] macflightgear info

2005-09-24 Thread Arthur Wiebe
There are some other mac fgfs guys on this list. I figured I'd let everyone know exactly what the MacOSX port of FGFS is up to.http://artooro.blogspot.com/2005/09/mac-flightgear-project-report.html (NOTE:)The Flight starter (fgrun equiv) is referred to as MacFlightGear and the rest is obvious (I

Re: [Flightgear-devel] TAT in Yasim

2005-09-24 Thread Andy Ross
Gabor Toth wrote: I'm currently working on the EICAS display for 747-400, and I would like to display TAT (Total Air Temperature) too. Is that property available somewhere in YASim? This is not part of the FDM, the outside air temperature comes out of the environment code and is available in

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Crash carnage

2005-09-24 Thread Dave Martin
On Saturday 24 September 2005 16:28, Curtis L. Olson wrote: This is somewhat off topic, but in the spirit of open source I'd like to share the tragedies as well as the triumphs ... http://www.flightgear.org/~curt/Models/Special/Rascal110_1/ This is part of a university project I'm helping

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Crash carnage

2005-09-24 Thread Dave Martin
On Saturday 24 September 2005 20:07, Curtis L. Olson wrote: It's definitely an interesting thought. Anyone know what size parachute a person would need to gentle let down about 15 lbs (7kg)? Many R/C receivers have a failsafe mode so you can trigger the servos to go to preset locations in

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Crash carnage

2005-09-24 Thread Dave Martin
On Saturday 24 September 2005 16:28, Curtis L. Olson wrote: This is somewhat off topic, but in the spirit of open source I'd like to share the tragedies as well as the triumphs ... http://www.flightgear.org/~curt/Models/Special/Rascal110_1/ This is part of a university project I'm helping

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Crash carnage

2005-09-24 Thread Curtis L. Olson
Dave Martin wrote: Just done some more reading of your page and incident analysis; I was just thinking that a useful tool would be a couple of camcorders. (and a friend to operate one of them). If you set one up on a tripod looking at the transmitter, you could at least see what control

[Flightgear-devel] missing libraries for MIDGsmooth

2005-09-24 Thread Martin Spott
Hello, I'm happy to realize that almost everything in the Sim-/FlightGear source tree compiles cleanly on IRIX (thanks Erik !!). There's just a small utility left that doesn't build: make[2]: Entering directory `/usr/local/src/FlightGear/utils/GPSsmooth' CC [...] -c99

Re: [Flightgear-devel] missing libraries for MIDGsmooth

2005-09-24 Thread Curtis L. Olson
Martin Spott wrote: Hello, I'm happy to realize that almost everything in the Sim-/FlightGear source tree compiles cleanly on IRIX (thanks Erik !!). There's just a small utility left that doesn't build: make[2]: Entering directory `/usr/local/src/FlightGear/utils/GPSsmooth' CC [...] -c99

Re: [Flightgear-devel] missing libraries for MIDGsmooth

2005-09-24 Thread Curtis L. Olson
Martin Spott wrote: Curtis L. Olson wrote: Try adding -lsgmisc (I think that is where SGPath resides.) It does. Thank you, Martin. I notice that -lsgmisc is already there. Did you have to move it to a differerent relative place in the link command? Curt. -- Curtis

[Flightgear-devel] help: making SimGear CVS under Cygwin

2005-09-24 Thread Georg Vollnhals
Building SimGear CVS under Cygwin Hi, thanks to the help of AJ I solved the OpenAL problem and though the files of Norman do not work with older versions the problems are solved with the CVS version of SimGear and Normans precompiled files (thank you Norman, AJ) Now there is another problem

[Flightgear-devel] PID Controller Bug?

2005-09-24 Thread Jeff McBride
I have been playing around with the autopilot this evening, and noticed something that seems to me to be broken. I ran into a problem where I would see a really large change in output (delta_u_n) but the output would not change (yes, this probably also means my gains need some adjusting), e.g.: