Re: [Flightgear-devel] Instrument Flight Test: Passed

2003-07-30 Thread Martin Spott
David Megginson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I passed my instrument flight test this morning -- thank you all for the positive karma you sent my way. Thanks four your report and congratulations for passing the exam. These are the stories that non PPL holders like me do learn from. When I did the

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Speed question?

2003-07-30 Thread Matevz Jekovec
Jim Wilson wrote: Lee Elliott [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: Changing the model would stop that working of course, as the geometry would've changed, but it's a quick and simple way of getting a 'lite' (er) version of a model, at least with regard to texture space requirements.

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Speed question?

2003-07-30 Thread Jim Wilson
Innis Cunningham [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: Hi Jim Are you working on a low poly version of the 747 for scenery work. Just a demonstration. If you saw the screenshot, that shows how far I got with about 3 minutes work. It could be better. I was working on it yesterday.Regrouping the fuse to

[Flightgear-devel] [Fwd: Re: Request for assistance in exportingyour F16 models to FlightGear]

2003-07-30 Thread Matevz Jekovec
I'm bringing a bad news guys. I was contacting Rober Lozada (Falcon F16 modeler) for a help to include his models in FlightGear. He didn't agree to that due to lack of time. I asked him about the permission of use in case we figure it out how to import Falcon models, but I didn't get the

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Speed question?

2003-07-30 Thread Innis Cunningham
Jim Wilson writes You know, I'm not sure if we have to worry about using private carrier liveries from a copyright perspective. AFAIK Southwest is the first one...in fact I didn't notice the static model was Southwest until just now (duh!). Does anyone know about this? If it is a problem

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Was IFR checkride - clouds

2003-07-30 Thread Erik Hofman
David Megginson wrote: Alex Perry writes: [...] When we broke out at 4000 ft on our initial climb out from Ottawa, and the windows were suddenly filled with sunlight and glorious white cloudtops, everyone in the plane gasped -- it kind-of makes all the work for the rating worthwhile.

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Speed question?

2003-07-30 Thread Jim Wilson
Innis Cunningham [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: Anyway if you have a look the 747 is painted in Pakistan Airlines colors and the A320 in Air France colors.So southwest is not the first. I was going to say that those aren't private carriers, but a couple years back it seems there was a news article

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Speed question?

2003-07-30 Thread David Megginson
Jim Wilson writes: I was going to say that those aren't private carriers, but a couple years back it seems there was a news article about Air France planning to go semi-private. Still Southwest is the first private non-national livery and I think that might make a difference...don't

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Speed question?

2003-07-30 Thread Frederic Bouvier
Jim Wilson wrote: Innis Cunningham [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: Anyway if you have a look the 747 is painted in Pakistan Airlines colors and the A320 in Air France colors.So southwest is not the first. I was going to say that those aren't private carriers, but a couple years back it seems

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Speed question?

2003-07-30 Thread Jim Wilson
David Megginson [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: You're thinking about something that's very specific to the U.S. As far as I understand, the U.S. government is not allowed to copyright (and, perhaps, trademark?) any IP -- that's why people are allowed to copy and distribute the FAA database and the

[Flightgear-devel] Glide path fun

2003-07-30 Thread David Megginson
This was just added to the Canadian AIP: Glide path installations generate a radiated signal resulting in a normal glide path angle of 3deg (it can currently be anywhere from 2.5deg up to 3.5deg). The normal antenna pattern, of glide path installations, generates a side-lobe. The

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Speed question?

2003-07-30 Thread David Megginson
Jim Wilson writes: So, should we do anything differently with our models? For now, no: if we ever get a cease-and-desist letter, we can discuss it it then. Trademark violation is a complicated thing anyway -- I don't think that Campbell's soup could have successfully sued Andy Warhol even if

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Speed question?

2003-07-30 Thread Frederic Bouvier
David Megginson wrote: Jim Wilson writes: So, should we do anything differently with our models? For now, no: if we ever get a cease-and-desist letter, we can discuss it it then. Trademark violation is a complicated thing anyway -- I don't think that Campbell's soup could have

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Speed question?

2003-07-30 Thread Innis Cunningham
As I said earlier MSFS has been painting A/C in world airline(private and government)colors for years.And I would think if you are going to sue someone it might as well be someone with money and good old uncle Bill G would the one to try and get money out of. The whole area of copyright can

[Flightgear-devel] Re: Speed question?

2003-07-30 Thread Melchior FRANZ
* Frederic Bouvier -- Wednesday 30 July 2003 16:32: I think that if we are respectful in the use of the marks ( right font, right colors ) and we do it in context, there will be no problem. ACK! I do even think that airlines =want= to be represented in serious flight simulators. After all,

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Glide path fun

2003-07-30 Thread Major A
David, This was just added to the Canadian AIP: Glide path installations generate a radiated signal resulting in a normal glide path angle of 3deg (it can currently be anywhere from 2.5deg up to 3.5deg). The normal antenna pattern, of glide path installations, generates a

re: [Flightgear-devel] Re: Speed question?

2003-07-30 Thread David Megginson
Melchior FRANZ writes: ACK! I do even think that airlines =want= to be represented in serious flight simulators. After all, that's free advertisement. The Austrian Airlines, for example, even host the homepage of a flight sim group that duplicates the real AUA in the virtual sim domain

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Glide path fun

2003-07-30 Thread David Megginson
Major A writes: Your post raises another question of course: in FlightGear, the glideslope and localizer either both have sufficient signal or none of them. Is this realistic? No. What actually happens is that the needles wag all over the place, and the GS and TO/FROM flags flicker on and

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Glide path fun

2003-07-30 Thread Jim Wilson
David Megginson [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: We need to redo all of the NAV radios. I did the DME (it still needs work), but the others are still in their old versions in the src/Cockpit/ directory. BTW, we could use a second DME. I was going to look at that at some point. Does that sound

re: [Flightgear-devel] Re: Speed question?

2003-07-30 Thread Gene Buckle
serious flight simulators. After all, that's free advertisement. The Austrian Airlines, for example, even host the homepage of a flight sim group that duplicates the real AUA in the virtual sim domain (the virtual Austrian Airlines group). The group seems to take this all very

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Glide path fun

2003-07-30 Thread David Megginson
Jim Wilson writes: BTW, we could use a second DME. I was going to look at that at some point. Does that sound reasonably straight forward from what you recall of it? It would be very little work. I need to modularize the whole Instruments and Systems directories -- twins typically have

re: [Flightgear-devel] Re: Speed question?

2003-07-30 Thread Jim Wilson
Gene Buckle [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: serious flight simulators. After all, that's free advertisement. The Austrian Airlines, for example, even host the homepage of a flight sim group that duplicates the real AUA in the virtual sim domain (the virtual Austrian Airlines group). The

[Flightgear-devel] port for beos/zeta!

2003-07-30 Thread Ralf Schuelke
hello coders, wahre can flightgear portet for beos/zeta? ... i hope any coder make this! pleas for answere ___ Flightgear-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.flightgear.org/mailman/listinfo/flightgear-devel

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Glide path fun

2003-07-30 Thread Jim Wilson
David Megginson [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: Jim Wilson writes: BTW, we could use a second DME. I was going to look at that at some point. Does that sound reasonably straight forward from what you recall of it? It would be very little work. I need to modularize the whole Instruments

Re: [Flightgear-devel] port for beos/zeta!

2003-07-30 Thread Erik Hofman
Ralf Schuelke wrote: hello coders, wahre can flightgear portet for beos/zeta? ... i hope any coder make this! pleas for answere There has been someone working on a Beos port of FlightGear hasn't it? I don't know what the result was. Erik ___

Re: [Flightgear-devel] port for beos/zeta!

2003-07-30 Thread Ralf Schuelke
thus not which I had the wild jemad that made or forwards, in any case giebt it fligthgear not for beos! and in such a way I make on (hobit as smaller) and look for myself more coder those for havens! Am Mit, 2003-07-30 um 20.57 schrieb Erik Hofman: Ralf Schuelke wrote: hello coders, wahre

re: [Flightgear-devel] Re: Speed question?

2003-07-30 Thread Gene Buckle
On the manufacturing side, however, Cessna and Piper seem to have withdrawn their permission for representation of logos, etc., between FLY and FLY II. That's because Microsoft overbid on the licensing contract to deny it to Terminal Reality. See 2 bit company that can't stand 1

[Flightgear-devel] damage from too-high sink rate

2003-07-30 Thread Jon Berndt
http://www.msnbc.com/news/946048.asp?0cv=CB10 ___ Flightgear-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.flightgear.org/mailman/listinfo/flightgear-devel

Re: [Flightgear-devel] port for beos/zeta!

2003-07-30 Thread Erik Hofman
Ralf Schuelke wrote: thus not which I had the wild jemad that made or forwards, in any case giebt it fligthgear not for beos! and in such a way I make on (hobit as smaller) and look for myself more coder those for havens! Could you write this in German, I think I'm going to undertand that better.

Re: [Flightgear-devel] damage from too-high sink rate

2003-07-30 Thread Erik Hofman
Jon Berndt wrote: http://www.msnbc.com/news/946048.asp?0cv=CB10 And all of a sudden it looked like a B-1. Erik ___ Flightgear-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.flightgear.org/mailman/listinfo/flightgear-devel

Re: [Flightgear-devel] damage from too-high sink rate

2003-07-30 Thread Lee Elliott
On Wednesday 30 July 2003 20:35, Erik Hofman wrote: Jon Berndt wrote: http://www.msnbc.com/news/946048.asp?0cv=CB10 And all of a sudden it looked like a B-1. Erik LOL :) LeeE ___ Flightgear-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED]

re: [Flightgear-devel] Re: Speed question?

2003-07-30 Thread Jim Wilson
Gene Buckle [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: I was a beta tester for Fly! II. Negotiations with Cessna, etc. were suddenly terminated and all of a sudden Microsoft starts touting Cessna and Piper connections. It started quite the anti-ms rant on the tester forum. Sigh...Godfather Gates. Maybe we

Re: [Flightgear-devel] port for beos/zeta!

2003-07-30 Thread Ralf Schuelke
also nicht das ich wste das jemad das gemacht oder vor hatte, auf jeden fall giebt es fligthgear nicht fr beos ! und so mache ich mich auf (wie ein kleiner hobit) und suche coder die das porten! Am Mit, 2003-07-30 um 21.30 schrieb Erik Hofman: Ralf Schuelke wrote: thus not which I had the

Re: [Flightgear-devel] port for beos/zeta!

2003-07-30 Thread Erik Hofman
Ralf Schuelke wrote: also nicht das ich wste das jemad das gemacht oder vor hatte, auf jeden fall giebt es fligthgear nicht fr beos ! und so mache ich mich auf (wie ein kleiner hobit) und suche coder die das porten! Ah I see. Bernie Bright has been working on a Beos port but has never completed

[Flightgear-devel] Re: port for beos/zeta!

2003-07-30 Thread Melchior FRANZ
* Erik Hofman -- Wednesday 30 July 2003 20:57: There has been someone working on a Beos port of FlightGear hasn't it? We had this in our Thanks file for a while: Bernie Bright [EMAIL PROTECTED] Many C++ style, usage, and implementation improvements. STL portability, tons o' stuff. :-)

Re: [Flightgear-devel] port for beos/zeta!

2003-07-30 Thread Ralf Schuelke
I do not know! therefore I ask here for whether one of you that make can! in german: ich kenne keinen! deshalb frage ich ja hier nach ob einer von euch das machen kann! Am Mit, 2003-07-30 um 21.58 schrieb Erik Hofman: Ralf Schuelke wrote: also nicht das ich wste das jemad das gemacht oder

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Re: port for beos/zeta!

2003-07-30 Thread Ralf Schuelke
ja dan werde ich ihn mal anmailen! danke! hoffe das er den port auch nocht macht! dan I become it times anmailen! thanks! hope which it the haven makes also nocht! Am Mit, 2003-07-30 um 22.03 schrieb Melchior FRANZ: * Erik Hofman -- Wednesday 30 July 2003 20:57: There has been someone

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Re: port for beos/zeta!

2003-07-30 Thread Ralf Schuelke
:-) i have say, i will look vor the port ! and mail the guy ! and tnake you for your helps! mfg ralf Am Mit, 2003-07-30 um 22.30 schrieb Melchior FRANZ: * Ralf Schuelke -- Wednesday 30 July 2003 22:15: ja dan werde ich ihn mal anmailen! danke! hoffe das er den port auch nocht macht!

[Flightgear-devel] Re: port for beos/zeta!

2003-07-30 Thread Melchior FRANZ
* Ralf Schuelke -- Wednesday 30 July 2003 22:15: ja dan werde ich ihn mal anmailen! danke! hoffe das er den port auch nocht macht! dan I become it times anmailen! thanks! hope which it the haven makes also nocht! But maybe you should try a human translator. Your machine translated English

Re: [Flightgear-devel] [Fwd: Re: Request for assistance in exportingyour F16 models to FlightGear]

2003-07-30 Thread Arnt Karlsen
On Wed, 30 Jul 2003 08:39:44 +0200, Matevz Jekovec [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message [EMAIL PROTECTED]: I'm bringing a bad news guys. I was contacting Rober Lozada (Falcon F16 modeler) for a help to include his models in FlightGear. He didn't agree to that due to lack of time. I asked him

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Speed question?

2003-07-30 Thread Arnt Karlsen
On Wed, 30 Jul 2003 12:33:17 +0200, Frederic Bouvier [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Jim Wilson wrote: Innis Cunningham [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: Anyway if you have a look the 747 is painted in Pakistan Airlines colors and the A320 in Air France colors.So

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Re: port for beos/zeta!

2003-07-30 Thread Arnt Karlsen
On 30 Jul 2003 22:41:42 +0200, Ralf Schuelke [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Am Mit, 2003-07-30 um 22.30 schrieb Melchior FRANZ: * Ralf Schuelke -- Wednesday 30 July 2003 22:15: ja dan werde ich ihn mal anmailen! danke! hoffe das er den port auch nocht macht!

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Oil Pressure 3d Model

2003-07-30 Thread WillyB
Thanks David. WillyB On Wednesday 30 July 2003 18:18, David Megginson wrote: WillyB writes: The fulcrum of the needle needs to be at the base of the gauge but I can only get it to rotate around the center. I tried these things in the xml file: oil-pressure.xml (which I made

Re: [Flightgear-devel] port for beos/zeta!

2003-07-30 Thread Bernie Bright
On Wed, 30 Jul 2003 20:57:08 +0200 Erik Hofman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ralf Schuelke wrote: hello coders, wahre can flightgear portet for beos/zeta? ... i hope any coder make this! pleas for answere There has been someone working on a Beos port of FlightGear hasn't it? I don't

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Oil Pressure 3d Model

2003-07-30 Thread WillyB
Ah Ha! The version of Docs/fgfs-model-howto.html is different online than Docs/model-howto.html offline. I was looking into the offline version and when I looked online I find more info. I'd used the center as well.. but was using the Y axis and not the Z axis, which made it look like it was

[Flightgear-devel] ASW20 panel

2003-07-30 Thread Sung Hyun Kim
I tried to generate asw20 panel using T38 aircraft by changing the name of the panel picture. I found out that ASW20 picture background comes out white, while the panel of T38 has a transparent background. When I open them up as picture files, they all show white background. I don't know how to