Re: [Flightgear-devel] Fwd: Re: FlightGear

2002-06-18 Thread Christian Stock
I am interested in participating with you in flight gear development but i confused which librarys should i download i have windows operating system and msvc 6 I'm trying much the same. You have to download plib, simgear,and flightgear sources. Since you want to develop stuff, you

Re: [Flightgear-devel] ANN: SGPropertyChangeListener

2002-06-18 Thread James Turner
On Tuesday, June 18, 2002, at 02:38 am, David Megginson wrote: The node argument is as follows: 1. If the value of an existing property node has been modified, it is the node itself. 2. If a property has been added or removed, it is the property's parent. Hmm, how is the listener

Re: [Flightgear-devel] static variables

2002-06-18 Thread Jim Wilson
That's what I meant. Thanks for the example. BTW what would be the application of property tree swapping, as opposed to say the method that the view manager uses? It sounds like we could have to put a lot more data into the tree only for the sake of swapability, and that there could be

[Flightgear-devel] blue angel

2002-06-18 Thread Melchior FRANZ
Wow, what a beautiful model. Shiny blue steel, perfectly animated. Many thanks! m. :-) ___ Flightgear-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.flightgear.org/mailman/listinfo/flightgear-devel

Re: [Flightgear-devel] ANN: SGPropertyChangeListener

2002-06-18 Thread David Megginson
James Turner writes: 2. If a property has been added or removed, it is the property's parent. Hmm, how is the listener meant to work this out? Seems like you'd be better with a bigger interface (change / add_child / rmv_child) and default { } impls so people can ignore changes

Re: [Flightgear-devel] static variables

2002-06-18 Thread David Megginson
Jim Wilson writes: That's what I meant. Thanks for the example. BTW what would be the application of property tree swapping, as opposed to say the method that the view manager uses? Curt and I have discussed this before (either online or offline). We could certainly have per-vehicle

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Fwd: Re: FlightGear

2002-06-18 Thread Curtis L. Olson
Christian Stock writes: On a side note, I tried to compile the latest plib cvs on linux, but that fails right at the beginning. There was no configure file, so I ran autoconf, but the resulting configure file doesn't work. I guess, I should join the plib list. I believe there is an

Re: [Flightgear-devel] static variables

2002-06-18 Thread Erik Hofman
David Megginson wrote: information available at a single glance. The alternative is to use the multi-process model rather than a multi-thread model, and to swap entire property trees in and out like memory pages; we'll certainly avoid a lot of bugs that way (because the wrong properties

[Flightgear-devel] Multi-vehicle issues (Was: static variables)

2002-06-18 Thread julianfoad
from:David Megginson [EMAIL PROTECTED] date:Tue, 18 Jun 2002 14:53:00 to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] subject: Re: [Flightgear-devel] static variables Curt and I have discussed this before (either online or offline). We could certainly have per-vehicle subtrees, i.e. ... and

Re: [Flightgear-devel] blue angel

2002-06-18 Thread Cameron Moore
* [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Jon S Berndt) [2002.06.18 09:31]: On Tue, 18 Jun 2002 09:07:04 -0500 (CDT) Curtis L. Olson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Melchior FRANZ writes: Wow, what a beautiful model. Shiny blue steel, perfectly animated. Many thanks! I'd be interested to know what is being talked

[Flightgear-devel] Re: blue angel

2002-06-18 Thread Melchior FRANZ
* Jon S Berndt -- Tuesday 18 June 2002 16:30: I'd be interested to know what is being talked about. Screen shot? http://www.unet.univie.ac.at/~a8603365/fgfs3.jpeg (27 kB) m. ___ Flightgear-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED]

[Flightgear-devel] Re: blue angel

2002-06-18 Thread Melchior FRANZ
* Cameron Moore -- Tuesday 18 June 2002 17:14: Me too, but I think they are probably talking about the YASim A-4. Sorry. Yes, of course we meant the new model for that plane, which is in cvs now. m. ___ Flightgear-devel mailing list [EMAIL

Re: [Flightgear-devel] blue angel

2002-06-18 Thread Andy Ross
Curtis L. Olson wrote: I have a lot of problems flying it well from the mouse. It doesn't seem to respond well to elevator input ... you get an initial bump and then pitch oscillations ... I don't know if that's realistic or not. I'm sure Andy can provide a suitable explanation for why it

Re: [Flightgear-devel] blue angel

2002-06-18 Thread David Megginson
Andy Ross writes: I'm not sure I understand. A given stick position corresponds very closely to a given angle of attack. If you change the stick position, the aircraft will seek to the new AoA. If you change the stick position very rapidly, it will seek rapidly, overshoot, and

Re: [Flightgear-devel] blue angel

2002-06-18 Thread Alex Perry
Andy Ross writes: I'm not sure I understand. A given stick position corresponds very closely to a given angle of attack. Nope, only for a given airspeed. The balance between tailplane and main wing, for a given elevator position, is speed dependent. Thus phugoids. If you change the

Re: [Flightgear-devel] blue angel

2002-06-18 Thread Andy Ross
David Megginson wrote: For anyone who'd like further reading on phugoid oscillations, see Alex Perry wrote: Nope, only for a given airspeed. The balance between tailplane and main wing, for a given elevator position, is speed dependent. Thus phugoids. I think I should clarify. First off,

[Flightgear-devel] More on property listeners

2002-06-18 Thread David Megginson
I am about to check in a significant improvement to yesterday's property-change listeners, once I've finished recompiling and testing them (probably before 2130Z). The interface now looks like this: class SGPropertyChangeListener { public: virtual ~SGPropertyChangeListener ();

Re: [Flightgear-devel] blue angel

2002-06-18 Thread David Megginson
Andy Ross writes: David Megginson wrote: That might be overstating the case. Smooth inputs are necessary on a C172 as well, especially if you're trying to stay within small tolerances (i.e. +-5kt airspeed or +-50ft altitude). True enough; graceful control input is always

Re: [Flightgear-devel] blue angel

2002-06-18 Thread Jon S Berndt
On Tue, 18 Jun 2002 17:04:04 -0400 David Megginson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Note that some fighter aircraft, like (I think) the F-4, are inherently unstable, and if they're modelled correctly we won't be able to fly them at all by direct controls: we'll need to work though a fairly

Re: [Flightgear-devel] blue angel

2002-06-18 Thread Andy Ross
David Megginson wrote: Note that some fighter aircraft, like (I think) the F-4, are inherently unstable, and if they're modelled correctly we won't be able to fly them at all by direct controls: we'll need to work though a fairly sophisticated FCS. The F-4 is stable. It's actually much

Re: [Flightgear-devel] blue angel

2002-06-18 Thread Rick Ansell
On Tue, 18 Jun 2002 17:04:04 -0400, David Megginson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: snip Note that some fighter aircraft, like (I think) the F-4, are inherently unstable, and if they're modelled correctly we won't be able to fly them at all by direct controls: we'll need to work though a fairly

Re: [Flightgear-devel] blue angel

2002-06-18 Thread C. Hotchkiss
Jon S Berndt wrote: ... Typically, the closer the CG is to the aerodynamic center, the quicker and easier you can yank the plane around (and possibly break your neck). It wouldn't surprise me that the A-4 is so maneuverable. It would be nice to get input from a real A-4 driver or find

Re: [Flightgear-devel] blue angel

2002-06-18 Thread Jon S Berndt
On Tue, 18 Jun 2002 14:37:16 -0700 Andy Ross [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The advantages to having an unstable aircraft are that you can hold it at a much higher peak AoA. IIRC, the F-16 is neutrally stable throughout much of its flight envelope. The main advantage for having a neutrally stable

Re: [Flightgear-devel] blue angel

2002-06-18 Thread Andy Ross
Jon S. Berndt wrote: IIRC, the F-16 is neutrally stable throughout much of its flight envelope. The main advantage for having a neutrally stable or unstable fighter aircraft is agility, quickness in manueverability. It's a chicken an the egg problem. Any aircraft can have quickness in

Re: [Flightgear-devel] blue angel

2002-06-18 Thread David Megginson
C. Hotchkiss writes: Nimble. Hmm. Wasn't the F16 so responsive that it became the first fighter to put its pilot to sleep if he yanked to hard on the controls. People can pass out at as little as 6Gs, can't they? It takes 4Gs to start a loop in an aerobatic plane, so it shouldn't be that

Re: [Flightgear-devel] blue angel

2002-06-18 Thread Rick Ansell
On Tue, 18 Jun 2002 16:37:27 -0500, Jon S Berndt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, 18 Jun 2002 17:04:04 -0400 David Megginson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Note that some fighter aircraft, like (I think) the F-4, are inherently unstable, and if they're modelled correctly we won't be able to fly

Re: [Flightgear-devel] blue angel

2002-06-18 Thread Andy Ross
Charlie Hotchkiss wrote: Nimble. Hmm. Wasn't the F16 so responsive that it became the first fighter to put its pilot to sleep if he yanked to hard on the controls. Certainly not the first. GLOC has been an known issue from the very early days of aviation. There was an experimental fighter

Re: [Flightgear-devel] blue angel

2002-06-18 Thread Rick Ansell
On Tue, 18 Jun 2002 18:53:41 -0400, David Megginson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: C. Hotchkiss writes: Nimble. Hmm. Wasn't the F16 so responsive that it became the first fighter to put its pilot to sleep if he yanked to hard on the controls. People can pass out at as little as 6Gs, can't

Re: [Flightgear-devel] blue angel

2002-06-18 Thread Tony Peden
On Tue, 2002-06-18 at 15:53, Andy Ross wrote: Jon S. Berndt wrote: IIRC, the F-16 is neutrally stable throughout much of its flight envelope. The main advantage for having a neutrally stable or unstable fighter aircraft is agility, quickness in manueverability. It's a chicken an the egg

Re: [Flightgear-devel] blue angel

2002-06-18 Thread Andy Ross
Rick Ansell wrote: From memory G-Induced Loss of Consciousness (GLOC) is the 'new' problem - this is caused by the rapid onset of G. Blackout is progressive and therefore gives a warning. GLOC is sudden and occurs 4 to 6 seconds after the manoeuvre. Its insidious as short periods of rapidly

Re: [Flightgear-devel] blue angel

2002-06-18 Thread Rick Ansell
On Tue, 18 Jun 2002 16:36:54 -0700, Andy Ross [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Rick Ansell wrote: From memory G-Induced Loss of Consciousness (GLOC) is the 'new' problem - this is caused by the rapid onset of G. Blackout is progressive and therefore gives a warning. GLOC is sudden and occurs 4 to 6

Re: [Flightgear-devel] blue angel

2002-06-18 Thread Andy Ross
Robert Detmers wrote: Actually the F-4 is unstable, but only marginally. It just means that the plane would eventually diverge if the pilot did nothing to stop it. Not in pitch, certainly? An aircraft that is unstable in pitch, if you pulled the stick a little bit and got the nose going up

RE: [Flightgear-devel] blue angel

2002-06-18 Thread Jon Berndt
It's a chicken an the egg problem. Any aircraft can have quickness in maneuverability with large enough control surfaces. But you can't make the control surfaces too large and still intercept nuclear bombers at Mach 2. True .. though not so much Chicken and Egg as balanced design

Re: [Flightgear-devel] blue angel

2002-06-18 Thread Andy Ross
Rick Ansell wrote: This is my reading to, but the two are usual treated/described as separate and 'GLOC' was certainly heralded as a new hazard in the 80's. (Back when I religiously read Flight International from cover to cover each week!) I hadn't realized this was a new(ish) term. I've

RE: [Flightgear-devel] blue angel

2002-06-18 Thread Jon Berndt
For extra credit, record a pilot grunting or huffing sound and play it at high G's. guffaw smime.p7s Description: application/pkcs7-signature

Re: [Flightgear-devel] blue angel

2002-06-18 Thread David Megginson
Andy Ross writes: Actually, it wouldn't be too terribly hard. Write some filter code that reads /accelerations/z-g or whatnot and sets /pilot/gloc-norm between 0 (no effect) and 1 (out) based on the 5 second rule and a few recovery heuristics. It's been a while, but I think that Battle

Re: [Flightgear-devel] blue angel

2002-06-18 Thread Robert Deters
- Original Message - From: Andy Ross [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, June 18, 2002 7:05 PM Subject: Re: [Flightgear-devel] blue angel Robert Deters wrote: Actually the F-4 is unstable, but only marginally. It just means that the plane would eventually

[Flightgear-devel] a4 panel

2002-06-18 Thread Jim Wilson
Can anyone ID the left two instruments in the top row and the left most in the bottom row? http://www.avsim.com/pages/0801/a4c/shot02.jpg Does anyone has a decent cockpit photo of or diagram for an a-4c ~ a-4f? Been looking online with little success. Thanks, Jim

RE: [Flightgear-devel] blue angel

2002-06-18 Thread Jon Berndt
Robert Deters wrote: Actually the F-4 is unstable, but only marginally. It just means that the plane would eventually diverge if the pilot did nothing to stop it. Rob: I think most people, when thinking of stability think: If I made an exact paper airplane of the aircraft in question and

RE: [Flightgear-devel] a4 panel

2002-06-18 Thread Ryan Larson
The left one says something temp.. maybe an egt? -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Jim Wilson Sent: Tuesday, June 18, 2002 9:28 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [Flightgear-devel] a4 panel Can anyone ID the left two instruments in the

Re: [Flightgear-devel] a4 panel

2002-06-18 Thread Cameron Moore
* [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Jim Wilson) [2002.06.18 21:30]: Can anyone ID the left two instruments in the top row and the left most in the bottom row? http://www.avsim.com/pages/0801/a4c/shot02.jpg I looked in a T-37 manual I have here, and found an instrument that is probably exactly like the

Re: [Flightgear-devel] a4 panel

2002-06-18 Thread John Wojnaroski
I'm still unsure of the other two instruments you asked about. I'll keep digging. FWIW: EGT gauge and airspeed Lower left is gear indicator ( 3 green) Can't make out the rest of the symbols on the gauge; could be flap position Regards JW ___

[Flightgear-devel] Warbird instrument photos

2002-06-18 Thread Cameron Moore
For the panel designers out there, I stumbled onto a good site with closeup photos of some individual instruments from WWII era warbirds here: http://www.bjaircraft.com/ Enjoy. -- Cameron Moore / Why do people without a watch look at their \ \ wrist when you ask them what time it is? /

Re: [Flightgear-devel] a4 panel

2002-06-18 Thread Andy Ross
Jim Wilson wrote: Can anyone ID the left two instruments in the top row and the left most in the bottom row? The top left is exhaust temperature (in fahrenheit, I think). To its right is airspeed in knots. The weird one at the bottom left is probably a gear indicator; it might plausibly be a

Re: [Flightgear-devel] a4 panel

2002-06-18 Thread John Check
On Wednesday 19 June 2002 1:23 am, Andy Ross wrote: snip I have backgrounds for some of these that I did a while back, but never integrated. Take a look at http://www.plausible.org/andy/gauges/all.png for the stuff that I have ready. These were all generated by a little perl (and

Re: [Flightgear-devel] blue angel

2002-06-18 Thread Andy Ross
Robert Deters wrote: Andy Ross wrote: Robert Deters wrote: Actually the F-4 is unstable, but only marginally. Not in pitch, certainly? Yes in pitch. Besides, I think you are confusing static stability and dynamic stability. Er, normally one interprets an unqualified use of stable as