Re: [Flightgear-devel] Airport 3/4-letter codes data source

2005-08-03 Thread Nick Coleman
here: http://www.airnav.com/airports/ Nick ___ Flightgear-devel mailing list Flightgear-devel@flightgear.org http://mail.flightgear.org/mailman/listinfo/flightgear-devel 2f585eeea02e2c79d7b1d8c4963bae2d

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Re: Diamond Katana model

2005-07-17 Thread Nick Coleman
NOTHING like the real thing. I've been watching the FG dev list for a while now and figured the models here would be closer, at least because the FDMs are being used in some reputable projects. A Katana model would be a great addition to the fleet. Nick

[Flightgear-devel] Re: Cessna 172 Panel problem in 9.8

2005-05-08 Thread Nick Coleman
On Sat, 22 Jan 2005 10:05, Nick Coleman wrote: Date: Fri, 21 Jan 2005 17:45:09 +0800 From: Innis Cunningham Hi All Could someone who uses FGRUN to start FG confirm that the 172 fullscreen hi res Cessna starts at night with the panel upside down This problem still exists in CVS

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Re: CVS: FlightGear/src/GUI dialog.cxx, 1.22, 1.23 dialog.hxx, 1.7, 1.8

2005-04-14 Thread Nick Coleman
comment, I've always wished the dialogue boxes would scroll with the mouse-wheel, especially the property-tree box. So that's my feature request ;). Nick ___ Flightgear-devel mailing list Flightgear-devel@flightgear.org http://mail.flightgear.org

[Flightgear-devel] ADF Fine-Tuning

2005-02-13 Thread Nick Coleman
could eventually be ported across to the VOR code too.) Finally, I plan to model night-time increased range, which is easy enough. Any comments welcome, even You're wasting your time, no-one uses the ADF anymore. ;) Nick ___ Flightgear-devel mailing

[Flightgear-devel] Re: Cessna 172 problem in 9.8

2005-01-21 Thread Nick Coleman
/Aircraft/c172/c172-610x-null-set.xml that reads: panel .. flip-xtrue/flip-x I don't know what the switch is for, but if you change it to 'false' the panel is the right-way up. Don't know about the other problems though. Nick ___ Flightgear-devel mailing

[Flightgear-devel] Config defaults for Simgear

2005-01-20 Thread Nick Coleman
sort of server since it appears to tie in with an httpd library. Nick ___ Flightgear-devel mailing list Flightgear-devel@flightgear.org http://mail.flightgear.org/mailman/listinfo/flightgear-devel 2f585eeea02e2c79d7b1d8c4963bae2d

[Flightgear-devel] DAFIF Will No Longer Be Available to Public

2004-12-09 Thread Nick Coleman
just in case it uses it. Nick ___ Flightgear-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.flightgear.org/mailman/listinfo/flightgear-devel 2f585eeea02e2c79d7b1d8c4963bae2d

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Trim quotes

2004-10-23 Thread Nick Coleman
. For me, snipping, and reading replies that are interspersed within the message, are a Good Thing (tm). But, hey, I'm only a lurker here; far be it for me to set the terms. Nick ___ Flightgear-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Jsbsim trim

2004-04-25 Thread Nick
Good morning, I took a couple of classes in Matlab/Simulink last month and this was addressed specifically in the class. Matlab permits you to vary timestep size as you approach the ground. It you extrapolate ahead in time to see if any of the gear have come in contact with the ground you

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Welcome on board Flight Gear !

2004-04-12 Thread Nick
Good evening, GPS altitude is less reliable than GPS position because you derive it from the Pythagorean Theorem (or something similar) where the unkown altitude is thevertical leg (~23,800 mi) of a triangle and position is the horizontal leg. Due to the large size of the vertical leg,

[Flightgear-devel] Rutan's Spaceship One

2004-03-14 Thread Nick
Good morning, The Scaled Composites website reports that Spaceship One made another flight on Mar 11 (Thursday), but I can't find any further details reported anywhere else I looked. Has anyone else seen any more about it? Here's the report in its entirety from

[Flightgear-devel] Flight Sim Conference

2004-03-10 Thread Nick Coleman
I read last night there is a Flight Simulator Expo in the UK in June. http://www.fs2004nationalshow.com/index.php It doesn't appear to be MS specific. From memory, it is in Blackpool. Anyone going? Nick ___ Flightgear-devel mailing list [EMAIL

Re: [Flightgear-devel] ATC readability

2004-03-04 Thread Nick Coleman
Hobart Cambridge which would be Hobart Tower and Cambridge Tower, so you can't rely on the 'International' being present for the major airport. Nick ___ Flightgear-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.flightgear.org/mailman/listinfo

[Flightgear-devel] Re: [OT] 747 Registration -or- does it run onlinux!?!

2004-02-27 Thread Nick Coleman
://www.jetphotos.net/viewphoto.php?id=134816 Gee, that's a little late to be dropping the gear, isn't it? Nick ___ Flightgear-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.flightgear.org/mailman/listinfo/flightgear-devel

Re: [Flightgear-devel] GA Chute

2004-02-06 Thread Nick
Jon, This company started out making ballistic parachutes for hang gliders in the 1980's.Hang gliders were the first aircraft (that I know of) to have a full-airframe parachute. I think it's kind of cool that the idea was developed for other aircraft. Nickolas HeinMorgantown WV -

Re: [Flightgear-devel] More on cockpit hardware

2004-01-10 Thread Nick
Good morning, Actually, this begs the question of where to get a good, rugged floor mounted fighter stick. I only know of the jetliner yokes from precision flight controls. http://www.flypfc.com/entertainment%20products/jetliner.html Nickolas HeinMorgantown WV - Original Message

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Re: Oh dear

2004-01-10 Thread Nick
Good morning, I've been told by my colleagues that you can also get worldwide terrain and texture data from Mapquest. Nickolas HeinMorgantown WV - Original Message - From: Lee Elliott To: FlightGear developers discussions Sent: Saturday, January 10, 2004 9:46 AM

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Glideslope on KSFO 28R ?

2004-01-05 Thread Nick Coleman
authority. A possible side-effect is someone called Schroedinger will attempt to make the cat half-dead. Or half the cat dead. Or something. I wonder which FDM it will use? Nick, often-time victim of inadequate CBA. ___ Flightgear-devel mailing list

Re: [Flightgear-devel] My Flight in a B-1B Flight Simulator at DyessAFB

2003-12-24 Thread Nick
Cameron, If the simulation is accurate the delays are due to the aircraft inertia and not control system delays. Hydraulic controls don't have a humanly discernable amount of delay. Simulators have their own delays too, the time it takes a signal to get through the circuit from the control

Re: [Flightgear-devel] My Flight in a B-1B Flight Simulator at DyessAFB

2003-12-23 Thread Nick
Good evening, I worked with some of the Boeing guys who helped build the B1 sim. After that experience the Air Force barred Boeing from ever building them a simulator again. I was working on th F-22 and we subcontracted it to Hughes (which became Raytheon, which is now L3 Communications and

[Flightgear-devel] Some Keybindings Have Broken

2003-12-19 Thread Nick Coleman
the beginning of the Nasal thread. Is there a startup option I need to enable Nasal scripting to work? Thanks, Nick ___ Flightgear-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.flightgear.org/mailman/listinfo/flightgear-devel

[Flightgear-devel] Motion simulator that hooks up to FlightGear

2003-12-18 Thread Nick Coleman
http://www.inmotionsimulation.com/training.html Note they have included Flightgear in the training section rather than gaming section. I couldn't find prices anywhere on the website. cc'd to flightgear-devel due to the budding hardware group on the list. Nick

[Flightgear-devel] Re: Time to Refactor (was Re: Nasal integration docs)

2003-11-26 Thread Nick Coleman
of syntax coloring, is kate. But I rarely use it, so I won't bother. You know, I've only just started using kate due to needing to edit xml files for FlightGear. The more I use it the more I'm quite impressed with it. Add the plugins, the regular expression editing, etc, it's pretty powerful. Nick

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Another FlightGear movie

2003-11-18 Thread Nick Coleman
That's a nice movie, thanks. Interesting to see the shadows cast from the wings and elevons move over the fuselage body. Great showcase for FlightGear. Nick On Wed, 19 Nov 2003 03:57 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Message: 6 Date: Tue, 18 Nov 2003 19:26:58 -0600 From: Curtis L. Olson

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Airport vehicle (driving) sim

2003-11-16 Thread Nick
Hmmm, Tricky. David culp sent me the relevant source code. I'll take a look at it and see what I can do. Nickolas HeinMorgantown WV - Original Message - From: Jon Berndt To: FlightGear developers discussions Sent: Saturday, November 15, 2003 3:48 PM Subject:

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Airport vehicle (driving) sim

2003-11-15 Thread Nick
Good afternoon, This sort of modelling is standard practice for training simulator companies. They identify a "zero-speed" model for landing gear reactions. Now you'd think that if it's standard practice someone would have it written down so newcomers wouldn't have to figure it out all over

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Airport vehicle (driving) sim

2003-11-15 Thread Nick
about the zero speed point. This will stop that oscillation. Hope it helps Nickolas HeinMorgantown WV - Original Message - From: Nick To: FlightGear developers discussions Sent: Saturday, November 15, 2003 1:14 PM Subject: Re: [Flightgear-devel] Airport vehicle

[Flightgear-devel] Re: Flightgear-devel Digest, Vol 7, Issue 47

2003-11-12 Thread Nick Coleman
On Wed, 12 Nov 2003 08:25 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Message: 9 Date: Wed, 12 Nov 2003 09:12:57 - From: Richard Bytheway [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [Flightgear-devel] Newbie needs a mentor(s) I am not a programmer or pilot, but I use Cygwin on Win2K to build Flightgear. Other than

[Flightgear-devel] Heading Bug

2003-11-10 Thread Nick Coleman
? I'm happy to work with someone to fix this. Nick ___ Flightgear-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.flightgear.org/mailman/listinfo/flightgear-devel

[Flightgear-devel] Re: Flightgear-devel Digest, Vol 7, Issue 24

2003-11-07 Thread Nick Coleman
PROTECTED] Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Paul Surgeon writes: On Friday, 7 November 2003 06:39, Nick Coleman wrote: I disagree with this assessment. I think lower spec machines should be able to run a _flight_ sim and shouldn't be excluded just for the sake of eyecandy. I

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Some thoughts and ideas (LONG)

2003-11-07 Thread Nick Coleman
option for those who don't want it, either in the make stage or in the startup stage. Nick ___ Flightgear-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.flightgear.org/mailman/listinfo/flightgear-devel

re: [Flightgear-devel] Some thoughts and ideas (LONG)

2003-11-06 Thread Nick Coleman
. Nick, offering another viewpoint. ___ Flightgear-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.flightgear.org/mailman/listinfo/flightgear-devel

[Flightgear-devel] Real Time Weather

2003-11-05 Thread Nick Coleman
looking at it? I don't want to reinvent the wheel or intrude on someone else's work. Nick ___ Flightgear-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.flightgear.org/mailman/listinfo/flightgear-devel

[Flightgear-devel] Unable to receive messages

2003-11-04 Thread Nick
Good morning, I haven't received messages for a few days. This is happening on some (but not all) of my other lists as well. Anyone else having this problem? Nickolas HeinMorgantown WV ___ Flightgear-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED]

[Flightgear-devel] Experimenting with other sims - Dina Studio

2003-10-31 Thread Nick
Good morning, I came across a public domain simulation "studio" that I would like to try and use for educational purposes. I've downloaded everything and read the documentation but can't get the thing to run. It is called Dina Studio. Has anyone else here on the list used it successfully?

[Flightgear-devel] test

2003-10-31 Thread Nick
test ___ Flightgear-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.flightgear.org/mailman/listinfo/flightgear-devel

[Flightgear-devel] Real Flight - Hang gliding

2003-10-28 Thread Nick
Good evening, When I was a hang glider pilot we would live for turbulence. It came with thermal lift. When you were struggling to stay in tight ratty little thermals it also made the timepass much more quickly. Hours would go by in minutes. There were a few times we were blessed with magic

[Flightgear-devel] YBOK (Oakey Qld) Scenery Errors

2003-10-22 Thread Nick Coleman
big dyke on the approach ;). I think the airport should be at 1330', not 1730'. Nick ___ Flightgear-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.flightgear.org/mailman/listinfo/flightgear-devel

[Flightgear-devel] FGFS can't open port 5500

2003-10-22 Thread Nick Coleman
output: Error writing to socket: 5500 Error writing data. Thanks, Nick Mandrake 9.1 ___ Flightgear-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.flightgear.org/mailman/listinfo/flightgear-devel

ATC Freq Crash (was Re: [Flightgear-devel] FG 0.9.3-pre1 installable binary)

2003-10-20 Thread Nick Coleman
if it happens again. Nick ___ Flightgear-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.flightgear.org/mailman/listinfo/flightgear-devel

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Re: [Flightgear-cvslogs] CVS:

2003-10-18 Thread Nick Coleman
to the ground. This can happen if you get a side gust while in the hover just before dropping to the ground. The helicopter rolls over. HTH, Nick ___ Flightgear-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.flightgear.org/mailman/listinfo/flightgear-devel

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Recommended non-free read

2003-10-14 Thread Nick
Good evening, For something more recent I would also like to recommend another book called "Airplane Stability and Control" by Larrabee and Abzug. It is a technical, but fabulously engaging history of the technologies that made controlled flight possible over the years. The people who made

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Another Recommended read

2003-10-14 Thread Nick
it. By the way, both books are much cheaper at A1TechBooks.com and I've ordered from them satisfactorily (once). Hope it's of interest. Nickolas HeinMorgantown WV - Original Message - From: Nick To: FlightGear developers discussions Sent: Tuesday, October 14, 2003 6:52

[Flightgear-devel] Search Engines for the Mail List Archives

2003-10-11 Thread Nick Coleman
; it was developed at Berkeley. May be useful for the mail list archives? Nick ___ Flightgear-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.flightgear.org/mailman/listinfo/flightgear-devel

[Flightgear-devel] MATLAB/Simulink

2003-09-24 Thread Nick
Good evening, Is there anyone on this list who has linked FlightGear or Microsoft FlightSim to Simulink block diagrams? Any advice or suggestions? Nickolas HeinMorgantown WV - Original Message - From: Norman Vine To: FlightGear developers discussions Sent:

Re: [Flightgear-devel] MATLAB/Simulink

2003-09-24 Thread Nick
Jon, As it happens I was looking at the forum list for that product when your mail arrived. I've posted my request there. I have talked to Marius in the past and may use his Aerosim blockset for linking to FG and MSFS. I'm hoping he's also included X-Plane because it looks so darn useful.

Re: [Flightgear-devel] heads up - aircraft reorg

2003-09-21 Thread Nick
Good morning, I'd like to mention that I worked as an engineer for an airship company for several years in the mid-1980's. My company developed the Cyclo-crane and Aero-cran- a combination between an airship and a helicopter. (It really requires a picture to give the idea) Anyway I'm a good

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Boeing 717-200 progress

2003-09-16 Thread Nick
Sent: Tuesday, September 16, 2003 10:22 AM Subject: Re: [Flightgear-devel] Boeing 717-200 progress Nick [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: Good evening, Just as a matter of professional technique, the pilot's opinion is the = last place to go for verification. Do every possible thing you can

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Boeing 717-200 progress

2003-09-16 Thread Nick
progress On Mon, Sep 15, 2003 at 11:33:44PM -0400, Nick wrote: Good evening, Just as a matter of professional technique, the pilot's opinion is the last place to go for verification. Do every possible thing you can to check your results objectively. Then tell the pilot you've done every

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Boeing 717-200 progress

2003-09-15 Thread Nick
Good evening, Just as a matter of professional technique, the pilot's opinion is the last place to go for verification. Do every possible thing you can to check your results objectively.Then tell the pilot you've done every possible objective test. THEN get the pilot's opinion. For

[Flightgear-devel] test

2003-09-11 Thread Nick
Nickolas HeinMorgantown WV ___ Flightgear-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.flightgear.org/mailman/listinfo/flightgear-devel

[Flightgear-devel] serial interface

2003-06-29 Thread Nick Wright
appear to work in the windows version of Flightgear. Thanks for any suggestions, Nick. ___ Flightgear-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.flightgear.org/mailman/listinfo/flightgear-devel

[Flightgear-devel] (Fwd) Re: Flightgear error from windows binary version.

2003-01-10 Thread nick
--- Forwarded message follows --- Date sent: Fri, 10 Jan 2003 11:19:54 -0600 From: Curtis L. Olson [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject:Re: Flightgear error from windows binary version. Nick, You are the first

[Flightgear-devel] GLUT under Cygwin

2002-12-05 Thread Nick Foster
to compile FG under Cygwin? --nick ___ Flightgear-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.flightgear.org/mailman/listinfo/flightgear-devel

RE: [Flightgear-devel] GLUT under Cygwin

2002-12-05 Thread Nick Foster
i did a full install of Cygwin, all the packages, and although it installs GLUI, i don't see any libs for GLUT. PLIB and SimGear build fine, but FlightGear dies when compiling the test suite, with undefined references to _glutInit. --nick -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED

RE: [Flightgear-devel] GLUT under Cygwin

2002-12-05 Thread Nick Foster
I found the GLUT libs, but still can't resolve deps. I'll look to see where it's looking. Thanks, --nick Nick Foster writes: When compiling FlightGear for Win32 using Cygwin, how do you link GLUT into the compile -- with the Linux libraries, or the Windows ones? You can download the GLUT

RE: [Flightgear-devel] GLUT under Cygwin

2002-12-05 Thread Nick Foster
i got it -- it builds! hooray. thanks for your help. --nick -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Norman Vine Sent: Thursday, December 05, 2002 5:33 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [Flightgear-devel] GLUT under Cygwin Nick

[Flightgear-devel] panel.cxx

2002-12-04 Thread Nick Foster
, int updown, int x, int y) should return something, and it doesn't. I just stuck a return false at the end, let me know if this is not kosher for any reason, or if the function decl. should be changed. --nick ___ Flightgear-devel mailing list [EMAIL