RE: [Flightgear-devel] msvc6 - 0.7.9 release

2002-01-19 Thread Norman Vine
Christian Mayer writes: Norman Vine wrote: Christian Mayer writes: Norman Vine wrote: Well if you just wanted to drift with the wind and be 'cheesy' you could use the simgear direct geodetic solver to get a new lat lon based on current position speed and course int

RE: [Flightgear-devel] msvc6 - 0.7.9 release

2002-01-19 Thread Curtis L. Olson
Norman Vine writes: Christian Mayer writes: Norman Vine wrote: Christian Mayer writes: Norman Vine wrote: Well if you just wanted to drift with the wind and be 'cheesy' you could use the simgear direct geodetic solver to get a new lat lon based on current position speed

Re: [Flightgear-devel] msvc6 - 0.7.9 release

2002-01-19 Thread Christian Mayer
Curtis L. Olson wrote: Norman Vine writes: Christian Mayer writes: Norman Vine wrote: Christian Mayer writes: Norman Vine wrote: Well if you just wanted to drift with the wind and be 'cheesy' you could use the simgear direct geodetic solver to get a new lat lon

RE: [Flightgear-devel] msvc6 - 0.7.9 release

2002-01-19 Thread Norman Vine
Curtis L. Olson writes: One thing I've noticed (from the magic carpet mode) is that if you call geo_direct_wgs_84() with zero distance and zero direction (i.e. zero velocity) you don't get *exactly* the starting lat/lon back because of numerical precision issues. This is not a big deal at

Re: [Flightgear-devel] msvc6 - 0.7.9 release

2002-01-18 Thread Christian Mayer
Norman Vine wrote: Christian Mayer writes: Geoff McLane wrote: My exe crashed on ada and just 'sat' on the runway in 'balloon'. But with magic the system soared. Well, the balloon lacks one significant thing for an FDM: enable the plane to move around. The balloon model works nicely

RE: [Flightgear-devel] msvc6 - 0.7.9 release

2002-01-18 Thread Norman Vine
Christian Mayer writes: Norman Vine wrote: Well if you just wanted to drift with the wind and be 'cheesy' you could use the simgear direct geodetic solver to get a new lat lon based on current position speed and course The drifting is moddeled correctly and returnes me a displacement in

Re: [Flightgear-devel] msvc6 - 0.7.9 release

2002-01-17 Thread Geoff McLane
Geoff McLane wrote: YASim, and it all went well ... I had a 'reasonable' flight, 'stuttering' along, but some moments when it came together ... Andy asked: YASim shouldn't be stuttering, certainly. Which aircraft were you using? What were the symptoms? I was using the c172-yasim, and

Re: [Flightgear-devel] msvc6 - 0.7.9 release

2002-01-17 Thread Geoff McLane
Geoff McLane wrote: When running your fgfs.exe the log ends abruptly with * Before globals-saveInitialState() ... first thing ... is delete initial_state; but initial_state ... 0 Q Can you delete a NULL pointer? A ... deleting a pointer with a value of zero... is guaranteed to

RE: [Flightgear-devel] msvc6 - 0.7.9 release

2002-01-17 Thread Norman Vine
Christian Mayer writes: Geoff McLane wrote: My exe crashed on ada and just 'sat' on the runway in 'balloon'. But with magic the system soared. Well, the balloon lacks one significant thing for an FDM: enable the plane to move around. The balloon model works nicely for raising and sinking

Re: [Flightgear-devel] msvc6 - 0.7.9 release

2002-01-17 Thread David Megginson
Geoff McLane writes: A ... deleting a pointer with a value of zero... is guaranteed to be harmless. (ibid., Page 499) Wow? What is programming about? It should not be a question as to whether it is ok to delete a null! Any allocator/deallocator of memory can or may not have

RE: [Flightgear-devel] msvc6 - 0.7.9 release

2002-01-16 Thread Norman Vine
Norman Vine wrote: Geoff McLane writes: When running your fgfs.exe the log ends abruptly with ... /autopilot /PropertyList * After fgSaveFlight() * Before globals-saveInitialState() Aha this is my xtra instrumentation in fg_init() bool fgInitSubsystems( void ) {

Re: [Flightgear-devel] msvc6 - 0.7.9 release

2002-01-15 Thread Geoff McLane
Have you tried my Windows binary http://www.vso.cape.com/~nhv/files/fgfs/fgfs.exe.gz Initially JSBSim went crazy during the cfg xml read ( JSBSim Flight Dynamics Model v0.9.1 [cfg v1.57]) but this is caused by the cvs update adding things like the following to %FG_ROOT%\Aircraft\c172\c172.xml

RE: [Flightgear-devel] msvc6 - 0.7.9 release

2002-01-15 Thread Norman Vine
Geoff McLane writes: Have you tried my Windows binary http://www.vso.cape.com/~nhv/files/fgfs/fgfs.exe.gz Initially JSBSim went crazy during the cfg xml read ( JSBSim Flight Dynamics Model v0.9.1 [cfg v1.57]) but this is caused by the cvs update adding things like the following to