Re: [Flightgear-devel] Auto Pilot probs in 0.9.1

2002-12-10 Thread Norman Vine
Jim Wilson wrrites: It isn't a YASim problem, other than those are the aircraft that don't have DG installed. Here is a temporary *patch* This also reactivates the autopilot adjuster :-) Norman diffs Description: Binary data

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Auto Pilot probs in 0.9.1

2002-12-10 Thread Jim Wilson
Norman Vine [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: Jim Wilson wrrites: It isn't a YASim problem, other than those are the aircraft that don't have DG installed. Here is a temporary *patch* This also reactivates the autopilot adjuster :-) Right...temporary. This just points up the need to get

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Auto Pilot probs in 0.9.1

2002-12-10 Thread David Megginson
Jim Wilson writes: Right...temporary. This just points up the need to get a fully configurable autopilot running. If there isn't a DG you can't really follow heading. So the j3-cub should not even have an autopilot without it. I wonder if anyone has ever STC'd some kind of autopilot

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Auto Pilot probs in 0.9.1

2002-12-09 Thread Andy Ross
Curtis L. Olson wrote: Heading hold seems to fail on YASim planes ... something seems to be missing, or not quite happening right. I thing this was introduced about the same time David implimented the vacuum driven AI and DG ... Hrm... did a property name change, perhaps? Or maybe something

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Auto Pilot probs in 0.9.1

2002-12-09 Thread Norman Vine
Andy Ross writes: Curtis L. Olson wrote: Heading hold seems to fail on YASim planes ... something seems to be missing, or not quite happening right. I thing this was introduced about the same time David implimented the vacuum driven AI and DG ... Hrm... did a property name change,

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Auto Pilot probs in 0.9.1

2002-12-09 Thread Jim Wilson
A patch that Curt added back in October is the root of the problem. The code is adjusting the Target heading with the difference between the FDM heading and the DG instrumentation. If there is no DG then the DG indicated heading doesn't change when the aircraft yaws so the gap just keeps getting