[Flightgear-devel] Re: Van's RV-7 Model

2005-04-03 Thread Matthew Law
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[Flightgear-devel] Van's RV-7 Model

2005-04-01 Thread Matthew Law
which I'll finish when the RVs are done. All the best, Matthew. ___ Flightgear-devel mailing list Flightgear-devel@flightgear.org http://mail.flightgear.org/mailman/listinfo/flightgear-devel 2f585eeea02e2c79d7b1d8c4963bae2d

RE: [Flightgear-devel] Instrument headaches

2005-02-22 Thread Matthew Gong
This is exactly the reason for one of the features being added for JSBSim in the next release: the ability to calculate arbitrary values based on parameters know within the FDM - especially things like you have described here: total energy. Flight management systems and displays are

Re: [Flightgear-devel] wxWindows on Cygwin

2005-02-19 Thread Matthew Gong
Cygwin is also OK, but the socket lib may error. Disable it. (../configure --disable-sockets) --- Jon Berndt [EMAIL PROTECTED] Anyone ever try to get wxWindows to compile under Cygwin? I'm getting a strange SOCKET and m_timeout error. Jon

Re: [Flightgear-devel] v1.0 musings (was: Aircraft included in base package)

2005-01-20 Thread Matthew Law
be that to cut down on work we may have to adopt one GUI interface and only document that. All the best, Matthew (Donning flame suit as we speak ;-) ___ Flightgear-devel mailing list Flightgear-devel@flightgear.org http://mail.flightgear.org/mailman/listinfo

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Announce v0.9.8

2005-01-19 Thread Matthew Law
Is anyone doing a gentoo ebuild? - I can submit one but it'll have to wait until the weekend. If someone else can get one in quicker then please do. All the best, Matthew ___ Flightgear-devel mailing list Flightgear-devel@flightgear.org http

[Flightgear-devel] Yet another blender modelling question...

2005-01-06 Thread Matthew Law
which will be exported to AC3D or is the sub-surf lost? - as I understand it the sub-surface algorithms are just a type of mesh smoothing operation. Or am I way off the mark here? All the best, Matthew. ___ Flightgear-devel mailing list Flightgear

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Yet another blender modelling question...

2005-01-06 Thread Matthew Law
but higher poly model by using nurbs surfaces to model half of the fuselage, say. Then I'll convert it to a mesh and duplicate, mirror and join it to make the whole thing. Does this sound reasonable? All the best, Matthew. * David Megginson [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2005-01-06 14:10]: On Thu, 6 Jan 2005 09

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Yet another blender modelling question...

2005-01-06 Thread Matthew Law
up. A similar approach works for the wings and horizonatal stabilizer or stabilator. Thanks, I'll give both techniques a try and see which one works out best for me. All the best, Matthew. ___ Flightgear-devel mailing list Flightgear-devel

[Flightgear-devel] OT: Mustang

2005-01-05 Thread Matthew Law
I happened across this while looking for blender inspiration: http://www.cgtalk.com/showthread.php?t=189884 Although the quality will not be seen in FGFS for a very long time, I think you'll agree that this guy is very talented indeed! All the best, Matthew

Re: [Flightgear-devel] GUI Improvements was: Things to do to improve Flightgear

2004-12-17 Thread Matthew Law
like some of the other simulators and, dare I say it, games. With this method you can throw out native look and feel and just have a very nice looking functional user interface that works on any platform with OpenGL support. All the best, Matthew

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Video card recommendations

2004-12-17 Thread Matthew Law
while still remaining stable. All the best, Matthew. Curtis L. Olson wrote: I hope this isn't too off topic ... I am involved with a project where we are going to setup a multi-channel visual system running flightgear. (3 PC's, 3 monitors.) We can budget about $150-200 for the graphics cards

[Flightgear-devel] Stall warning

2004-11-17 Thread Matthew Law
the stall warning would go as soon as the flow re-attached to the wing... I tried looking in the property tree to see what the fdm was using but I didn't manage to sustain the attitude and airspeed without a joystick I'm afraid. All the best, Matthew

[Flightgear-devel] OT: Another FGFS PPL :-D

2004-11-13 Thread Matthew Law
contributed to FGFS. It has without a doubt saved me lots of lessons and allowed me to run through some things I found difficult until I nailed them. IMHO FGFS is the best 'fly it like it is' simulator around. All the best, Matthew. ___ Flightgear

[Flightgear-devel] Re: Blender question

2004-10-30 Thread Matthew Law
Thank you all. I'm now making some progress on my model using the measure, scale and extrude technique. It's not fit to be a flyable model but it will make nice EGNF furniture for the moment :-) Better to learn to taxy before you fly, eh?! All the best, Matthew

[Flightgear-devel] Blender question

2004-10-29 Thread Matthew Law
in there to model with? Apologies if this is OT to some, but I thought it relevant and I know there are people here that use Blender for FGFS stuff ;-) All the best, Matthew ___ Flightgear-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.flightgear.org

[Flightgear-devel] Can you help me about cygwin? my fgfs under cygwin is slow.

2004-10-26 Thread Matthew Gong
Hello everyone. I'm new here. nbsp; I compile the fgfs-0.9.6 under cygwin (gcc version is 3.3.3) successful.( CXXFLAGS='-O2' ) But I find that the speed of io operationnbsp;is very slowly. It takes a long time to read airport files. then I unzip the basic.dat.gz to basic.dat and write a program

[Flightgear-devel] Re: Runway distance remainingsigns+placementscript done.

2004-09-09 Thread Matthew Law
, a girl skydiving at my dropzone landed off the airfield in a field of sheep. It was the middle of the lambing season and when she stooped down to pick up here canopy she was butted in the chest and ended up in intensive care with a badly broken sternum. All the best, Matthew. * Giles Robertson

[Flightgear-devel] Re: FlightGear logged its first real flight !

2004-09-09 Thread Matthew Churchill
Olivier, This sounds great, I am currently starting on a flight recorder for FG that records real flights for playback. Would love to try your tiny program and modified fdm is it sharable ? Actually very keen to see the results, as if your results look good I might change or even drop my

[Flightgear-devel] (no subject)

2004-08-24 Thread Matthew Churchill
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[Flightgear-devel] Re: Bypass FG Physics and Draw Pictures fromReal Data?

2004-08-22 Thread Matthew Churchill
this is exciting, this sounds close to providing the ability to playback real flights that I'm looking for to go with the flight recorder I'm attempting to make. please excuse the deluge of questions. what is david calkins program ? what kind of device is an attitude provider ? and what format

[Flightgear-devel] .flightgear file format ?

2004-08-20 Thread Matthew Churchill
Hi all, on holiday at the moment, but still watching the list. have been looking at kflog and the zaurus version cumulus. Have rigged a quick nmea recorder using a haicom cf gps reieverplugged into my zaurus c700 kflog has an import function for files with a .flightgear extension. Does anyone

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Beacons

2004-08-14 Thread Matthew Law
David Megginson wrote: Has anyone ever seen beacons on a tall tower like that in real life? I saw one at Eloy, AZ a few years ago when I was there skydiving. It wasn't a very tall tower though - around 40ft or so I'd say. All the best, Matthew

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Yasim strangeness

2004-08-01 Thread Matthew Law
on or with the engine off. I'm not surprised you couldn't replicate it. I found a pesky old .fgfsrc file containing: [EMAIL PROTECTED] I'll get my coat :-/ All the best, Matthew. ___ Flightgear-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.flightgear.org

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Yasim strangeness [was Taildragger takeoff and landing]

2004-07-29 Thread Matthew Law
... I'll check tonight. All the best, Matthew ___ Flightgear-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.flightgear.org/mailman/listinfo/flightgear-devel 2f585eeea02e2c79d7b1d8c4963bae2d

Re: [Flightgear-devel] .RV-9?, was: Carb ice (was Re: Tried the Spitfire)

2004-07-28 Thread Matthew Law
Arnt Karlsen wrote: On Tue, 27 Jul 2004 14:09:24 +0100, Matthew wrote in message [EMAIL PROTECTED]: I think my Vans RV-9 will have a diesel engine :-) ..you have a kit started? Which diesel? Arnt, I'm sending a reply off-list to prevent me getting seriously off-topic :-) All the best

Re: [Flightgear-devel] .RV-9?, was: Carb ice (was Re: Tried the Spitfire)

2004-07-28 Thread Matthew Law
Arnt Karlsen wrote: On Tue, 27 Jul 2004 14:09:24 +0100, Matthew wrote in message [EMAIL PROTECTED]: I think my Vans RV-9 will have a diesel engine :-) ..you have a kit started? Which diesel? Arnt, I'm sending a reply off-list to prevent me getting seriously off-topic :-) All the best

Re: [Flightgear-devel] .RV-9?, was: Carb ice (was Re: Tried the Spitfire)

2004-07-28 Thread Matthew Law
Lee Elliott wrote: Hello Matthew, I don't know if it's just me but you seem to be posting everything twice. That is, I seem to be getting two copies of everything you post. That doesn't mean that you're necessarily posting everything twice, but it's a bit odd. LeeE Hi Lee, I use thunderbird

[Flightgear-devel] Yasim strangeness [was Taildragger takeoff and landing]

2004-07-28 Thread Matthew Law
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Re: [Flightgear-devel] Yasim strangeness [was Taildragger takeoff and landing]

2004-07-28 Thread Matthew Law
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Re: [Flightgear-devel] Tried the Spitfire

2004-07-27 Thread Matthew Law
the pseudo code - I've never done any nasal at all. I can't remember what temperature range carb ice most commonly occurs at and I'm not sure that after partial icing, a higher power setting would clear the ice... probably not. How does this seem? All the best, Matthew

Re: Carb ice (was Re: [Flightgear-devel] Tried the Spitfire)

2004-07-27 Thread Matthew Law
as the 'plane is a write-off. Thankfully he's OK... I think my Vans RV-9 will have a diesel engine :-) All the best, Matthew. ___ Flightgear-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.flightgear.org/mailman/listinfo/flightgear-devel

Re: Carb ice (was Re: [Flightgear-devel] Tried the Spitfire)

2004-07-27 Thread Matthew Law
as the 'plane is a write-off. Thankfully he's OK... I think my Vans RV-9 will have a diesel engine :-) All the best, Matthew. ___ Flightgear-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.flightgear.org/mailman/listinfo/flightgear-devel

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Re: Carb ice

2004-07-27 Thread Matthew Law
be useful for FG to catch us out once in a while. Stay frosty (pun intended!). All the best, Matthew ___ Flightgear-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.flightgear.org/mailman/listinfo/flightgear-devel 2f585eeea02e2c79d7b1d8c4963bae2d

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Taildragger takeoff and landing

2004-07-27 Thread Matthew Law
be the case :-) All the best, Matthew. ___ Flightgear-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.flightgear.org/mailman/listinfo/flightgear-devel 2f585eeea02e2c79d7b1d8c4963bae2d

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Tried the Spitfire

2004-07-26 Thread Matthew Law
the engine back up to full power again. This is a feature that I would love to see working well in FG - especially when the conditions are ripe for carb ice (which sadly, is most of the year in the UK). Would this need to be done seperately for each FDM/engine combo? All the best, Matthew

[Flightgear-devel] Initializing OpenAL sound manager

2004-07-22 Thread Matthew
Good day, Thought I'd post here instead of IRC, in case anyone hits the same issue: fgfs Initializing OpenAL sound manager Aborted Splash screen appears, then the above appears. Using SuSE 9.1, OpenAL development is installed along with openal-20030811-196 Sound does work and I am using

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Initializing OpenAL sound manager

2004-07-22 Thread Matthew
Just installed OpenAL via CVS, no difference...Still aborts. Matt On Thu, 2004-07-22 at 19:03, Ampere K. Hardraade wrote: I have had the same problem. I fixed it by compiling and installing the latest OpenAL CVS. Regards, Ampere On July 22, 2004 08:32 pm, Matthew wrote: Good day

[Flightgear-devel] How can I land on a AIShip?

2004-06-08 Thread Gong Matthew
however I modified the FGAIBase::init() like that, globals-get_scenery()-get_terrain_branch()-addKid(aip.getSceneGraph()); ... But the function fgCurrentElev() do not visit this AImodel, so I can not land on a ship, for example a aircraft carrier. Help me. Thank you.

[Flightgear-devel] UK VFR Charts up for grabs.

2004-05-18 Thread Matthew Law
The new UK CAA charts are coming out so I currently have last years 1:500,000 Southern England/Wales/NW France chart up for grabs. Shortly to be followed by the Northern England/Scotland chart. I'll give these away free to anyone here who is willing to cover the postage whether you are

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Slightly OT: Vector math question(s)!

2004-04-29 Thread Matthew Law
Arnt Karlsen wrote: ..be adviced the guys here torched me for suggesting redoing FG in C, so I guess you by C really meant C++, no? ;-) No I really did mean C :-) I'm not suggesting redoing anything, just writing an app which may be useful to real pilots and FG pilots too. AFAIK (and I

[Flightgear-devel] Slightly OT: Vector math question(s)!

2004-04-28 Thread Matthew Law
I'm about to start writing something in C to calculate the heading required to maintain a track and the resultant ground speed given a wind vector. This is destined to be a simple flight planner for my Palm but I'd like to make an interface to FG so that in theory you could save a real flight

Re: [Flightgear-devel] 2004 Linux User Developer Expo

2004-04-23 Thread Matthew Law
Lee Elliott wrote: It sounds as though things went really well - round of applause to all concerned. I wish I could have got up there, if only to visit but sadly, there wasn't any way I could make it. Ditto. I'll definitely try and be there next year. Well done guys! All the best, Matt.

Re: [Flightgear-devel] tables and images and borders ... oh my

2004-04-20 Thread Matthew Law
Style sheet? tried something like img name=foo src=/images/foo.jpg border=0 ? All the best, Matt. ___ Flightgear-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.flightgear.org/mailman/listinfo/flightgear-devel

Re: [Flightgear-devel] tables and images and borders ... oh my

2004-04-20 Thread Matthew Law
Jon S Berndt wrote: No, I don't think so, because the previous version worked. To be more descriptive, I am redesigning the left hand side panel at the JSBSim web site, because we have a different set of pages now in-place than before, and because all the items were not previously viewable.

[Flightgear-devel] Slightly OT: Is Simgear dead?

2004-04-03 Thread Matthew Law
I'm not getting any response for simgear.org or cvs.simgear.org. Is anyone else having this problem? All the best, Matt. ___ Flightgear-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.flightgear.org/mailman/listinfo/flightgear-devel

Re: [Flightgear-devel] New YASim fuel code

2004-03-27 Thread Matthew Law
On Sat, 27 Mar 2004 10:17:00 -, Vivian Meazza [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: How do we handle fuel in lbs and account for Avgas/JP4? Avgas and Jet A1 have different specific gravities. I can't remember what the Sp.G of Jet A1 is but Avgas here is quoted as 0.7 - i.e. (0.7 x The equivalent

Re: [Flightgear-devel] AC3D

2004-03-25 Thread Matthew Law
On Thu, 25 Mar 2004 19:17:20 -0600, Jon Berndt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I had the impression that AC3D was a free program, but after visiting their site I seem to be mistaken. True? Jon Some of the older non-Linux and non-win versions are free I believe. All the best, Matt

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Instrument Settings Dialog; Setting the Altimeter

2004-03-23 Thread Matthew Law
On Tue, 23 Mar 2004 20:57:20 +, David Luff [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: millibars or inches? Can FG be set up to use millibars/Hecto Pascals for the Altimeter pressure setting and imperial for the rest of the units as we use in the UK? All the best, Matt.

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Instrument Settings Dialog; Setting the Altimeter

2004-03-23 Thread Matthew Law
On Tue, 23 Mar 2004 18:07:34 -0500, David Megginson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It's a (relatively) simple matter to make instruments calibrated in millibars instead of inches of mercury; localizing dialog boxes will be a bit trickier, though. In general, I think that our policy should be to

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Instrument Settings Dialog; Setting the Altimeter

2004-03-23 Thread Matthew Law
On Tue, 23 Mar 2004 22:19:52 +, David Luff [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: eg one-zero-one-three-decimal-two You can probably drop the decimal point for millibars. This makes UK flying a lot more realistic now. Thanks :-) All the best, Matt ___

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Spitfire Hurricane manuals

2004-03-09 Thread Matthew Law
On Mon, 08 Mar 2004 21:52:04 -0500, David Megginson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: And psychological warfare. From what I've read, the German flight crews were much more frightened of the Spitfires (and British RADAR guidance for interceptions made it look like there were many more planes than the

RE: [Flightgear-devel] Spitfire Hurricane manuals

2004-03-09 Thread Matthew Johnson
(Defiant's, Wellington's, Blenheim's etc). I'd love to see the night fighting aspect explored too. I do recommend getting The Battle of Britain by Matthew Parker though, does not deal with statistics but also tells the lives of these pilots and the civilians who were on the ground. Matt

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Re: Spitfire Hurricane manuals

2004-03-07 Thread Matthew Law
On Sun, 7 Mar 2004 11:29:38 -, Vivian Meazza [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thanks for that pointer. Unfortunately, it's the wrong Mark - IX I think from the canon armament, although some real expert will undoubtedly identify it instantly, and, more importantly, it doesn't show the underwing

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Re: [BUG] Hunter noise UV face singularity

2004-03-04 Thread Matthew Johnson
On Thu, 2004-03-04 at 00:57, Melchior FRANZ wrote: * Vivian Meazza -- Thursday 04 March 2004 09:44: Vivian, Vyvyan = male Bah ... you were kidding, weren't you? http://images.google.com/images?q=vivian m. :-P Watch the BBC's 80's comedy, the Young Ones, the punk was called

Re: [Flightgear-devel] A load of YASim engine stuff

2004-03-03 Thread Matthew Law
On Tue, 02 Mar 2004 18:53:34 -0500, David Megginson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It varies with throttle and mixture. At 75% power, mine indicates about 5 psi running lean of peak or about 7 psi running rich of peak. I don't remember what it indicates in a full-rich, full-power climb. Is it usual

[Flightgear-devel] OT: Linux Simulations website.

2004-02-22 Thread Matthew Johnson
Sorry for the OT message: Just got http://www.linuxsimulations.org up and running again, seriously lacking in much at the moment. Hopefully will be better this time! Especially as I live in a house, much less likely to be moving soon :). Many thanks, Matt PS Also now back with broadband

Re: [Flightgear-devel] PC Pilot Review

2004-02-21 Thread Matthew Law
On Sat, 21 Feb 2004 17:31:30 -0600, Curtis L. Olson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This month's edition of PC Pilot (http://www.pcpilot.net) has a nice 6 page review of FlightGear. They include tons of screen shots and say a lot of nice things. I *think* you can find PC Pilot in large bookstores

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Baby

2004-02-19 Thread Matthew Law
On Wed, 18 Feb 2004 13:55:40 -0600, Curtis L. Olson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, quick announcement ... baby! Amelia Esther, 8lbs 1oz, born 6:12am this morning, less than 1 hour from first contraction to delivery. 12 minutes from arrival at the hospital to delivery. Everyone is doing good.

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Baby

2004-02-19 Thread Matthew Johnson
On Wed, 2004-02-18 at 11:55, Curtis L. Olson wrote: Hi, quick announcement ... baby! Amelia Esther, 8lbs 1oz, born 6:12am this morning, less than 1 hour from first contraction to delivery. 12 minutes from arrival at the hospital to delivery. Everyone is doing good. I'll be pretty much

Re: [Flightgear-devel] SVFR

2004-02-07 Thread Matthew Law
Straight out of the manual: --- Special VFR allows the relaxation by ATC, in certain circumstances, of some restrictions to facilitate the operation of a flight without lowering the flight safety to an unacceptable level. SVFR is usually applied by ATC in Class D or E Control Zones, when

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Voice Capability

2004-02-06 Thread Matthew Law
Well, the main difference here is the geography. There aren't many flights (possibly non!) that I could do from my base airfield where a single leg of 300 miles would leave me still in the UK. I _will_ be going to France and the Netherlands but it's extra expense and hassle that I don't want

Re: [Flightgear-devel] SVFR

2004-02-06 Thread Matthew Law
I'm going to have a look at the Air Navigation Order to check the accuracy of my original post. As far as I know, without a IMC or IR a PPl is not permitted into the kind of airspace which would be home to a airport the size of KSFO regardless of the ceiling etc. SVFR does partially waive some

Re: [Flightgear-devel] [OT] Commercial Ticket..

2004-02-05 Thread Matthew Law
Well Done! All the best, Matt. On 16:11 Wed 04 Feb , Ryan Larson wrote: I just got back from taking my Commercial Pilot, Airplane Multiengine Land checkride, and I am happy to say that I passed! Doing a single engine ILS down to minimums is lots of fun! I took the test in a Piper Aztec

Re: [Flightgear-devel] [OT] Commercial Ticket..

2004-02-05 Thread Matthew Law
There's also various scenarios of asymetric thrust - two running engines but one running roughly or not developing as much power for a plethora of possible reasons. These incidents have killed many pilots on take off as they think they have plenty of power, and they do, but the situation

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Voice Capability

2004-02-05 Thread Matthew Law
No not yet. I have about 25hrs and need to sit the written exams for Flight Planning, Nav, Met, Human Factors and Aircraft Technical. I have sat and passed RT written and Practical and Air Law so far... Hopefully I'll get my PPL sometime later this year but I'm in no rush really. Also, like

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Voice Capability

2004-02-05 Thread Matthew Law
I was sitting my RT Practical. It's a basic test of skill on the radio and ability to request and act on clearances along a preset route etc. Hence the near failure for not requesting SVFR into a zone at or before 15miles/5 min. All the best, Matt. On 16:36 Wed 04 Feb , David Megginson

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Voice Capability

2004-02-04 Thread Matthew Law
Thankyou all, I passed btw :-) All the best, Matt On 17:07 Tue 03 Feb , David Luff wrote: Good Luck! (Although you probably should have set off by the time this hits your inbox given the traffic in the UK these days!) Cheers - Dave ___

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Voice Capability

2004-02-04 Thread Matthew Law
Hi Dave, thanks for the info - I'll mess with the density and see what that yields. Do the AI aircraft appear at small UK airfields? I was planning on doing a basic collision detection between the AI aircraft and the user aircraft. Initially not between AI planes until you were finished

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Voice Capability

2004-02-03 Thread Matthew Law
BTW, what does the 'S' stand for in 'No SVFR' that's printed next to KSFO and some other large international airports on the VFR charts? In the UK it means 'Special VFR' and allows a pilot under VFR and in VMC conditions to be guided to an airfield which is inside a control zone. You see it

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Voice Capability

2004-02-03 Thread Matthew Law
Thanks :-) I thought it was the hardest of all the exams so far and I just got through with 87.5% (pass is 75%). Since you are under the JAA you will also have to learn the semi-pointless and brain numbing Chicago convention stuff too... I have my Radio Practical exam in a couple of hours :-/

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Re: Scenery

2004-02-01 Thread Matthew Law
Hi Mally, I wasn't aware that you were an MSFS developer and since I currently do a bit of x-country practice in MSFS with the VisualFlight scenery I'd like to congratulate you on an awesome job! I for one would be elated to see a commercially available version of the getmapping derived

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Re: Scenery

2004-01-29 Thread Matthew Law
I'm interested in how you did this as I thought of extracting the files from the MS FS VFR scenery discs I have and somehow stitching it together for use in FGFS..? In theory you should be able to get at the data as Reiser should still be able to give you everything since the last time it wrote

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Re: Scenery

2004-01-29 Thread Matthew Law
The ones I have are from www.visualflight.co.uk and are about 20GBP per region. I bought the regions aroung my airfield to help with VFR practice in MSFS but I'd like to see them in FGFS much more :-) An extension script to rip these into FG for people who have purchased the images would be

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Scenery

2004-01-28 Thread Matthew Law
That's pretty good scenery! Is that straight from TerraGear or ripped from the MS Scenery add-ons? All the best, Matt. On 23:31 Wed 28 Jan , Erik Hofman wrote: But I must also admit that after looking at the new screen shots from Mat Churchill I might want to change my mind: html

[Flightgear-devel] Re: UK Linux Expo 2004

2004-01-15 Thread Matthew Law
transport. Alternatively, if anyone is attending who lives reasonably near to Sheffield and wishes to car share I'd be happy to take a car and drive down with them to cut costs. All the best, Matthew. ___ Flightgear-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http

Re: [Flightgear-devel] [Fwd: Linux User Developer Expo 2004]

2004-01-14 Thread Matthew Law
Curt, Let me check with the lady first :-) All the best, Matt. On 09:28 Wed 14 Jan , Curtis L. Olson wrote: Martin Spott wrote: Curtis L. Olson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: FlightGear has been offered free .org booth space and a possible speaker slot at the Linux User Developer Expo

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Autocoordination

2004-01-08 Thread Matthew Law
As David said, there is very little adverse yaw from aileron input on modern aircraft designs. Now, I have no experience of anything but Cessnas but on an A320 for example, I would be surprised if the aileron input required to perform say, a 20 deg. bank turn would require *any* rudder input

Re: [Flightgear-devel] ATC Talk

2003-12-30 Thread Matthew Law
I agree with you totally. My sentiment was that there have also been many accidents caused by ATC talking in a foreign language (English) to another pilot who also doesn't speak English as a first language. The possible problems which can be introduced by a conversation in effect being

Re: [Flightgear-devel] ATC Talk

2003-12-29 Thread Matthew Law
On 03:15 Mon 29 Dec , Ivo wrote: Or we could have multiple people around the world recording the sentences, so we'll hear the right accent when approaching for example New Delhi or Mexico City or Frankfurt. Maybe even bilingual, though I don't know if they use their native language (for

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Contribution to flightgear

2003-12-29 Thread Matthew Law
Hi Prabhu, Please read and digest the docs on the flightgear website and the documentation on scenery editing at the simgear website (see the link to simgear from the flightgear site) before getting started. If you still have questions there are plenty here who will help once you've read the

[Flightgear-devel] Trim position and speed to external hardware

2003-12-23 Thread Matthew Law
How do I export the trim position and IAS to a serial port? I'd like to use these values to drive some stepper motors which crudely simulate control load and trim effects. All the best, Matt. --- A merry xmas and a happy new year. ___

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Adding a runway to runways.dat

2003-12-19 Thread Matthew Law
On 02:34 Fri 19 Dec, Ivo wrote: Also check: http://baron.flightgear.org/pipermail/flightgear-devel/2003-December/023555.html After adding the runway manually, you could use TaxiDraw to add the taxiways. As for the bug I mentioned in that thread, David Luff sent me a debug-enabled

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Re: Cockpit Hardware Building

2003-12-18 Thread Matthew Law
On 12:42 Thu 18 Dec , Alan King wrote: Rudder pedals. Been a while since I was at the controls in a Cessna etc, how much control throw is normal? With a one foot seperation between the pedals 4 seems like a lot, maybe too much. Currently have 2 in and 2 out for the 4 total, but can

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Re: Cockpit Hardware Building

2003-12-18 Thread Matthew Law
be noisy to boot. All the best, Matthew ___ Flightgear-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.flightgear.org/mailman/listinfo/flightgear-devel

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Adding a runway to runways.dat

2003-12-18 Thread Matthew Law
On 00:42 Fri 19 Dec , Matthew Law wrote: What are the fields? I'm guessing at some here: Sorry. I just found the doc on the FGFS site. I've got to start RTFMing more often :-) All the best, Matt ___ Flightgear-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED

[Flightgear-devel] Adding a runway to runways.dat

2003-12-18 Thread Matthew Law
and length a little wrong. All the best, Matthew ___ Flightgear-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.flightgear.org/mailman/listinfo/flightgear-devel

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Kool site of the day ...

2003-12-16 Thread Matthew Law
On 14:53 Tue 16 Dec , Erik Hofman wrote: Kool Sites are informative, weird, stylish, offbeat or unique So, what exactly is the FlightGear site? I'd go for Informative, stylish, and unique ;-) All the best, Matt ___ Flightgear-devel mailing

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Video card recommendation

2003-12-05 Thread Matthew Law
On 18:08 Fri 05 Dec , [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have a Geforce 4 Ti 4200 and this card works perfectly with flightgear under Linux. Me too. Using the latest drivers i still see the sky flash from blue to black occasionally... All the best, Matt

Re: [Flightgear-devel] (OT) Kid's day at work

2003-12-03 Thread Matthew Law
On 22:13 Tue 02 Dec , David Culp wrote: I brought my son to work for a day, and he had a wonderful time. http://home.comcast.net/~davidculp2/kidsday.jpg At least he didn't have to hold on for much longer :) All the best, Matt ___

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Grass Runway Textures

2003-12-02 Thread Matthew Law
On Fri, 2003-11-28 at 17:46, Julian Foad wrote: Matthew Law wrote: Speaking of which, would it be possible to change the texture above a certain height AGL? We could have a texture with more detail for low altitudes and a shinier, more gaussian texture for higher altitudes... Just

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Playing with textures

2003-12-02 Thread Matthew Law
On 09:56 Tue 02 Dec , Curtis L. Olson wrote: This is something that has been considered, but it will be a massive amount of work to do this and preserve all the existing functionality. Massive might be slightly overstated, but it probably means tearing everything down and rebuilding it

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Grass Runway Textures

2003-11-28 Thread Matthew Law
One of the problems with these type of photographs is the fact that they cover a very small area. When using these for textures you would end up with a hight degree of very annoying repetitiveness. Another problem is the fact that they aren't shot straight down, making the textures look

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Latest stupid helicopter trick

2003-11-27 Thread Matthew Law
On 07:50 Thu 27 Nov , Martin Spott wrote: The first is correct, the latter is not (see above). Pilots love this helicopter because of his outstanding manouverability. It's even capable of doing serious aerobatic - up to inverted flying (AFAIR with a modified gear box lubrication), Check

Re: [Flightgear-devel] FG logo Slovenian flag

2003-11-27 Thread Matthew Law
On 10:47 Thu 27 Nov , Erik Hofman wrote: Yeah, but then you'd get a fight over which flag is put in first and which flag is shows just for 0.1 usec (e.g. the last flag) ... Erik Maybe randomise the order ? All the best, Matt ___

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Latest stupid helicopter trick

2003-11-27 Thread Matthew Law
On 14:48 Thu 27 Nov , Jon Stockill wrote: I remember seeing the army display team at RAF Waddington a couple of years ago - 4 gazelle 1 lynx all lined up in the hover, then the lynx pilot backflipped the aircraft out of the lineup. The first time you see it you really can't believe what

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Grass Runway Textures

2003-11-27 Thread Matthew Law
On 18:49 Tue 25 Nov , Erik Hofman wrote: So 75x75 textures of these types of surfaces are required, then? I might have a go at these during my attempts at modelling EGNF. Are there any restrictions to the making of textures that I need to be aware of oether than size and color depth?

re: [Flightgear-devel] Combat anti-flame

2003-11-10 Thread Matthew Johnson
On Mon, 2003-11-10 at 16:17, David Megginson wrote: Andy Ross writes: In an attempt to depoliticize the combat flame war as much as possible, it's worth pointing out that, irrespective of people's opinions on the matter, there are not a lot of combat features we can really avoid

re: [Flightgear-devel] Re: First real flight

2003-10-30 Thread Matthew Law
Given the difficulty of getting in and out of a 152 on the ground it's probably impossible at our circuit height of 800ft to survive a bailout. A larger aircraft at 1000ft and reasonable speed, say 100kts, would be quite survivable. The key is the airspeed. You'd get a far faster deployment at

[Flightgear-devel] Re: First real flight

2003-10-28 Thread Matthew Law
Congratulations, Lee! Will you be carrying on and getting a glider license? Turbulence sucks: when I'm flying, I usually try to climb out above it. Turbulence often means thermals and updrafts, though, so I imagine that soaring types actually go looking for it. The gusts disappear usually a few

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