Re: Including instrumenst was: Re: [Flightgear-devel] c310 Panel

2001-12-22 Thread Jim Wilson
Cameron Moore [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: Speaking of which, when I hit 's' to switch panel, it looks like we're reading the XML file each time. It funny that loading scenery doesn't cause any hiccups in performance but switching panels does. Yep, I just used the panel-load that was/is bound to

Re: Including instrumenst was: Re: [Flightgear-devel] c310 Panel

2001-12-22 Thread Cameron Moore
* [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Jim Wilson) [2001.12.22 08:27]: Cameron Moore [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: Speaking of which, when I hit 's' to switch panel, it looks like we're reading the XML file each time. It funny that loading scenery doesn't cause any hiccups in performance but switching panels

re: Including instrumenst was: Re: [Flightgear-devel] c310 Panel

2001-12-21 Thread David Megginson
John Check writes: While I'm at it... is there a chance we might see being able to include fully defined layers in instruments at some point? The best I can do now is layer include=whatever.xml transformations /layer You should be able to include a complete layer with

Re: Including instrumenst was: Re: [Flightgear-devel] c310 Panel

2001-12-21 Thread John Check
On Friday 21 December 2001 04:34 pm, you wrote: John Check writes: While I'm at it... is there a chance we might see being able to include fully defined layers in instruments at some point? The best I can do now is layer include=whatever.xml transformations /layer

RE: Including instrumenst was: Re: [Flightgear-devel] c310 Panel

2001-12-21 Thread Norman Vine
John Check writes: Eventually, I guess you could have a separate subdirectory for each instrument, with a README, etc. Think of yourself as a fine craftsman, like a watchmaker. err.. uhh... umm.. whatever. I'd like to stay away from excessive directories. Maybe if the

Re: Including instrumenst was: Re: [Flightgear-devel] c310 Panel

2001-12-21 Thread Bernie Bright
Norman Vine wrote: John Check writes: Eventually, I guess you could have a separate subdirectory for each instrument, with a README, etc. Think of yourself as a fine craftsman, like a watchmaker. err.. uhh... umm.. whatever. I'd like to stay away from excessive

Re: Including instrumenst was: Re: [Flightgear-devel] c310 Panel

2001-12-21 Thread Cameron Moore
* [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Norman Vine) [2001.12.21 19:25]: Bernie Bright writes: Norman Vine wrote: We could even walk both the compressed and the uncompressed tree and use the 'newest' file for easy experimentation. Easy and slow. I remember someone once saying on this very list that

Re: [Flightgear-devel] c310 Panel

2001-12-09 Thread David Findlay
On Sat, 8 Dec 2001 21:38, you wrote: John Check writes: Yes. FWIW I did find some pix with a fair to middlin' amount of detail http://www.philyoder.com/ That's a 310R, with a longer nose, more powerful engines and (I suspect) turbosupercharging, so there may be some minor differences on

Re: [Flightgear-devel] c310 Panel

2001-12-09 Thread John Check
On Sunday 09 December 2001 3:46 am, you wrote: On Sat, 8 Dec 2001 21:38, you wrote: John Check writes: Yes. FWIW I did find some pix with a fair to middlin' amount of detail http://www.philyoder.com/ That's a 310R, with a longer nose, more powerful engines and (I suspect)

Re: [Flightgear-devel] c310 Panel

2001-12-09 Thread John Check
On Sunday 09 December 2001 5:26 pm, you wrote: David Findlay writes: Maybe it would be a good idea to state exactly which models of which aircraft we are going to have? This way we are all looking at the same thing. On the flightmodel list, I mentioned that I'm tentatively using a

Re: [Flightgear-devel] c310 Panel

2001-12-08 Thread Erik Hofman
John Wojnaroski wrote: This is about as ugly as it gets. This will go on your permanent record. :-) :-) :-) Argggh, banished to the netherworld... I should have realized that! :-0 There's nothing wrong with the netherw.. oh, you did'nt say Netherlands. Pfew. :-) Erik

Re: Including instrumenst was: Re: [Flightgear-devel] c310 Panel

2001-12-08 Thread Andy Ross
I found the following magazine review, which I used to fix the performance of the YASim model. It's the turbo variant. http://www.planeandpilotmag.com/content/specs/79cessnaturbo.html Also, this site, which is a buyer's guide for the 310 family, has lots of good trivia about equipment

Re: [Flightgear-devel] c310 Panel

2001-12-07 Thread David Megginson
Curtis L. Olson writes: Hmmm, we might want to actually double check this someplace. The other night, one of my pilot friends insisted that the c310's props spun the same direction and were *not* counter rotating. Well, that's the most authoritative statement we have so far -- I haven't

Re: [Flightgear-devel] c310 Panel

2001-12-07 Thread Curtis L. Olson
John Wojnaroski writes: BTW. attached is an alternate throttle quad arrangement - more like a center pedestal, but needs some refining apologize for the attach but quickest way to get it out Ok, let's see ... 1. You sent an attacment to the list ... wrong. 2. The attacment you sent was a

Re: [Flightgear-devel] c310 Panel

2001-12-07 Thread John Wojnaroski
This is about as ugly as it gets. This will go on your permanent record. :-) :-) :-) Argggh, banished to the netherworld... I should have realized that! :-0 JW ___ Flightgear-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [Flightgear-devel] c310 Panel

2001-12-07 Thread tcpip
On Fri, 7 Dec 2001, David Megginson wrote: Andy Ross writes: the C310 has counter-rotating engines (therefore no p-factor) It does? Oops. I gotta get that fixed. The YASim model has identical engines; I thought that most of the simple twins had co-rotating engines, because

Re: [Flightgear-devel] c310 Panel

2001-12-07 Thread Don Baker
I have never noticed a C310 as having counter-rotating props. I think I would have noticed.. Don't know how authoritative that is either... :). Don David Megginson wrote: Curtis L. Olson writes: Hmmm, we might want to actually double check this someplace. The other night, one of my

Re: [Flightgear-devel] c310 Panel

2001-12-07 Thread John Check
On Friday 07 December 2001 3:06 pm, you wrote: Hmmm, we might want to actually double check this someplace. The other night, one of my pilot friends insisted that the c310's props spun the same direction and were *not* counter rotating. Which really compounds the single engine

[Flightgear-devel] c310 Panel

2001-12-06 Thread Jim Wilson
Anyone working on an airspeed dial? If not I'll make one, probably tomorrow. Also have made a tiny bit of progress on a 3D panel model...but it's at the point where it could be either a c310 or c172 with a little stretching here and there (given my 'experience' with AC3D there's a good chance

Re: [Flightgear-devel] c310 Panel

2001-12-06 Thread David Findlay
On Fri, 7 Dec 2001 13:59, you wrote: Anyone working on an airspeed dial? If not I'll make one, probably tomorrow. Also have made a tiny bit of progress on a 3D panel model...but it's at the point where it could be either a c310 or c172 with a little stretching here and there (given my