[Flightgear-devel] Compiling FlightGear 0.9.3 under MS Visual C++ 7 (.NET)?

2003-12-03 Thread marco . gugel
Is there someone who can tell me how to compile FlightGear 0.9.3 and the other libraries (plib, simgear..) under MS Visual C++ 7? Thanks, Marco ___ Flightgear-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Compiling FlightGear 0.9.3 under MS Visual C++ 7 (.NET)?

2003-12-03 Thread Erik Hofman
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is there someone who can tell me how to compile FlightGear 0.9.3 and the other libraries (plib, simgear..) under MS Visual C++ 7? Thas was posted a while ago: Hi, I am receiving an increasing number of request for working project files for MSVC. While I can't reply

[Flightgear-devel] TaxiDraw-0.0.8 available.

2003-12-03 Thread David Luff
The latest version of TaxiDraw is now up at: www.nottingham.ac.uk/~eazdluf/TaxiDraw-0p0p8-preAlpha-w32bin.zip - Windows Binary (statically linked) [323K] www.nottingham.ac.uk/~eazdluf/TaxiDraw-0p0p8-preAlpha-src.tar.gz - source and makefile for Linux [56K], requires wxGTK-dev. Summary of

Re: [Flightgear-devel] TaxiDraw-0.0.8 available.

2003-12-03 Thread Erik Hofman
David Luff wrote: The latest version of TaxiDraw is now up at: www.nottingham.ac.uk/~eazdluf/TaxiDraw-0p0p8-preAlpha-w32bin.zip - Windows Binary (statically linked) [323K] www.nottingham.ac.uk/~eazdluf/TaxiDraw-0p0p8-preAlpha-src.tar.gz - source and makefile for Linux [56K], requires wxGTK-dev.

Re: [Flightgear-devel] (OT) Kid's day at work

2003-12-03 Thread Matthew Law
On 22:13 Tue 02 Dec , David Culp wrote: I brought my son to work for a day, and he had a wonderful time. http://home.comcast.net/~davidculp2/kidsday.jpg At least he didn't have to hold on for much longer :) All the best, Matt ___

RE: [Flightgear-devel] (OT) Kid's day at work

2003-12-03 Thread Curtis L. Olson
Jon Berndt writes: Reminds me of the time I was 4 years old and flying in a Catalina and Are you serious? I'm jealous. One of my favorites. Yup, wish I had been older so I could have remembered more about it. went looking for the bathroom, because of course, all airplanes have

Re: [Flightgear-devel] VOR

2003-12-03 Thread Curtis L. Olson
Innis Cunningham writes: Yes you are right.What I was trying to get at is as you fly past a VOR station the needle should move from pointing some degree forward to some degree backward. As I understand it, the VOR needle swings right and left. If you beyond (10?) degrees of the selected

Re: [Flightgear-devel] (OT) Kid's day at work

2003-12-03 Thread David Culp
Disclaimer: It's not my picture and not my kid :) The airplane is a 737-200, I think. It's definitely Boeing, no glass, two engines. The airport markings look non-US, and judging by the high altitude and low visibility, heading about 050, parallel runways, I'd say this is Mexico City.

Re: [Flightgear-devel] (OT) Kid's day at work

2003-12-03 Thread Erik Hofman
David Culp wrote: Disclaimer: It's not my picture and not my kid :) The airplane is a 737-200, I think. It's definitely Boeing, no glass, two engines. The airport markings look non-US, and judging by the high altitude and low visibility, heading about 050, parallel runways, I'd say this is

[Flightgear-devel] VOR

2003-12-03 Thread Innis Cunningham
Hi Curt After haveing some help from David Culp I have now got this sorted.It appears my lack of understanding in using the XML code was to blame. Hopefully this will be forgiven when I get the panel finished. Thanks for your help Cheers Innis The Mad Aussi

Re: [Flightgear-devel] VOR

2003-12-03 Thread Innis Cunningham
Hi Curt Curtis L. Olson Innis Cunningham writes: Yes you are right.What I was trying to get at is as you fly past a VOR station the needle should move from pointing some degree forward to some degree backward. As I understand it, the VOR needle swings right and left. If you beyond (10?)

Re: [Flightgear-devel] (OT) Kid's day at work

2003-12-03 Thread Jim Wilson
Jonathan Polley [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: Oh, now that is just PURE EVIL. Funny, but evil just the same ;) Nah it's good for him. Builds character. :-D Yes...funny pic. Best, Jim ___ Flightgear-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [Flightgear-devel] (OT) Kid's day at work

2003-12-03 Thread Jim Wilson
David Culp [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: Disclaimer: It's not my picture and not my kid :) The airplane is a 737-200, I think. It's definitely Boeing, no glass, two engines. The airport markings look non-US, and judging by the high altitude and low visibility, heading about 050, parallel

Re: [Flightgear-devel] (OT) Kid's day at work

2003-12-03 Thread Curtis L. Olson
Jim Wilson writes: David Culp [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: Disclaimer: It's not my picture and not my kid :) The airplane is a 737-200, I think. It's definitely Boeing, no glass, two engines. The airport markings look non-US, and judging by the high altitude and low visibility,

Re: [Flightgear-devel] (OT) Kid's day at work

2003-12-03 Thread David Culp
I also noticed some covering missing on the center wind screen divider with exposed wiring, made me wonder if this is a sim cockpit. That's the way Mr. Boeing makes them. No frills there :) Also, if you look carefully at the runway number, it is quite clearly a two digit number. I would say

Re: [Flightgear-devel] (OT) Kid's day at work

2003-12-03 Thread Paul Surgeon
On Wednesday, 3 December 2003 20:42, David Culp wrote: That's the way Mr. Boeing makes them. No frills there :) That's the way Boeing USED to make them. Compare that cockpit to a new 737-800 ... The new cockpits must make pilot's lives pretty boring. Paul

Re: [Flightgear-devel] VOR

2003-12-03 Thread Curtis L. Olson
David Megginson writes: Right, but the system will also need input from a directional gyro (possibly slaved) to know which way to make the needle point. My point was that it's not like the ADF which (more or less) points towards the transmitter; it's more a guess at where the transmitter

Re: [Flightgear-devel] VOR

2003-12-03 Thread David Megginson
Innis Cunningham wrote: There is no way to get directional information to a VOR; instruments like an RMI have to fake it by comparing the current radial (which can already be very different from the magnetic [or in the north, true] bearing from the station). Without looking up my notes I would

Re: [Flightgear-devel] VOR

2003-12-03 Thread David Megginson
Curtis L. Olson wrote: As I understand it, the VOR needle swings right and left. If you beyond (10?) degrees of the selected radial, the needle will always stay pegged to one side. The needle will move if you are within (10?) degrees of the selected and it will show you which side you are on and

Re: [Flightgear-devel] (OT) Kid's day at work

2003-12-03 Thread David Megginson
Curtis L. Olson wrote: Nope, it turns out that bathrooms are typically only on things like 737's and DC-9's and stuff. Smaller planes have them as well -- on small business jets and turboprops, one of the seats cushions often lifts up to reveal a small toilet, with a curtain that you can pull

Re: [Flightgear-devel] (OT) Kid's day at work

2003-12-03 Thread Jon S Berndt
Paul Surgeon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: That's the way Boeing USED to make them. Compare that cockpit to a new 737-800 ... The new cockpits must make pilot's lives pretty boring. Paul http://tinyurl.com/xkxh Yep. Jon ___ Flightgear-devel mailing

Re: [Flightgear-devel] (OT) Kid's day at work

2003-12-03 Thread Jim Wilson
David Culp [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: I also noticed some covering missing on the center wind screen divider with exposed wiring, made me wonder if this is a sim cockpit. That's the way Mr. Boeing makes them. No frills there :) Also, if you look carefully at the runway number, it is quite

Re: [Flightgear-devel] (OT) Kid's day at work

2003-12-03 Thread Jon S Berndt
On Wed, 3 Dec 2003 19:42:06 - Jim Wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This should settle the issue: !GASP! He fell OFF! Jon ___ Flightgear-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.flightgear.org/mailman/listinfo/flightgear-devel

Re: [Flightgear-devel] (OT) Kid's day at work

2003-12-03 Thread Gene Buckle
That's the way Boeing USED to make them. Compare that cockpit to a new 737-800 ... The new cockpits must make pilot's lives pretty boring. Paul Take a peek at the 727 and 737 here. Real analog stuff. :) http://deltasoft.fife.wa.us/BehindTheScenes/ g.

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Latest stupid helicopter trick

2003-12-03 Thread Erik Hofman
Martin Spott wrote: Erik Hofman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Here is another challenge. Put it on the deck of a moving sailboat: http://www.a1.nl/~ehofman/fgfs/gallery/sailboat.jpg I must admit that I didn't manage to spot the sailboat. From the perspective it looks like the boat is cruising in

Re: [Flightgear-devel] (OT) Kid's day at work

2003-12-03 Thread Lee Elliott
On Wednesday 03 December 2003 18:02, Jim Wilson wrote: David Culp [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: Disclaimer: It's not my picture and not my kid :) The airplane is a 737-200, I think. It's definitely Boeing, no glass, two engines. The airport markings look non-US, and judging by the

[Flightgear-devel] Re: (OT) Kid's day at work

2003-12-03 Thread Brandon Craig Rhodes
Lee Elliott [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I'd imagine the taxiing/u/c characteristics are a lot different too, especially as the hull comes up into the planing position. I'm not a sea-plane scientist, so these are really idle speculations, but we might want to start thinking about them. Wow,

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Re: (OT) Kid's day at work

2003-12-03 Thread Lee Elliott
On Wednesday 03 December 2003 23:06, Brandon Craig Rhodes wrote: Lee Elliott [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I'd imagine the taxiing/u/c characteristics are a lot different too, especially as the hull comes up into the planing position. I'm not a sea-plane scientist, so these are really idle

Re: [Flightgear-devel] (OT) Kid's day at work

2003-12-03 Thread Andy Ross
Lee Elliott wrote: A couple of things about modelling sea-planes in FG though - a) unless you start in the air, you have to start on a runway, and b) with YASim, at least, you can't define the fuselage properly because part of it has to start below the surface and you get a collision at

Re: [Flightgear-devel] (OT) Kid's day at work

2003-12-03 Thread Lee Elliott
On Wednesday 03 December 2003 23:31, Andy Ross wrote: Lee Elliott wrote: A couple of things about modelling sea-planes in FG though - a) unless you start in the air, you have to start on a runway, and b) with YASim, at least, you can't define the fuselage properly because part of it has

[Flightgear-devel] running flightgear without display

2003-12-03 Thread Seamus Thomas Carroll
Hi, Is there a way to run flightgear without outputting to the display? I would like to run flightgear from a remote computer and I dont want the display to show up on the local or calling computer. I would still like to be able to take screen shots so I would still require that the buffer

Re: [Flightgear-devel] (OT) Kid's day at work

2003-12-03 Thread Jim Wilson
Lee Elliott [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: On a semi serious note, if anyone sees any pictures from the same point of view but at night and showing the landing lights, please post a link. It Would be handy in trying to work something out. Ta, LeeE Try this.

[Flightgear-devel] F-16 cockpit

2003-12-03 Thread Jon Berndt
F-16 cockpit: http://www.aimsworth.com/ Jon -- Project Coordinator JSBSim Flight Dynamics Model http://www.jsbsim.org ___ Flightgear-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.flightgear.org/mailman/listinfo/flightgear-devel

Re: [Flightgear-devel] F-16 cockpit

2003-12-03 Thread mail
Hi, Very nice piece of kit - but a little costly. I've been toying with the idea of building my own generic single seat cockpit unit. I do MIDI, LCD, Serial and Keyboard interface controllers. Recently I've got hold of some USB chips and have been planning to make some control panels for