Re: [Flightgear-devel] Remote wakeup and remote shutdown

2003-03-06 Thread Roman Grigoriev
Thanx Curtis! Remote startup is clear for me but waht about remote shutdown SMTP? or else. I need to create windows program that have two buttons: IGs ON and IGs OFF What API should I use? Thanx in advance Bye - Original Message - From: "Curtis L. Olson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PRO

[Flightgear-devel] [OT] tyre squeak

2003-03-06 Thread Major A
I've recently watched one of my favourite films called "The Big Blue". I was amazed to find that even in a great film like this they added that fake tyre squeak sound on landing -- of a helicopter! Andras === Major And

[Flightgear-devel] more bugs

2003-03-06 Thread Major A
Has anyone looked at (or at least confirmed) the panel ASI and NAV problems? I've just found another one -- on aircraft on which the ASI works, the HUD and ASI readout for IAS don't match -- it seems that the panel ASI gets multiplied by the IAS/TAS ratio twice. I assume of course that the HUD sh

Re: [Flightgear-devel] current bugs

2003-03-06 Thread Major A
> This is probably obvious, but according to my study materials for the > instrument rating, the efficiency of a jet engine depends on the > temperature differential between its combustion and the outside air > temperature -- that's why jets are very efficient flying near the > tropopause at aroun

Re: [Flightgear-devel] current bugs

2003-03-06 Thread Major A
> My gutt feeling is that all the YASim jet's consume fuel faster than > they should. The a4 can go about 150 miles before it runs out of > fuel. I'm not a jet pilot though so maybe I'm doing something wrong. Hmmm. I've just taken that bird for a spin, I flew from EDDF to EDDM at airliner-style

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Re: 3DS Models in Flightgear

2003-03-06 Thread Wolfram Kuss
>I haven't been able to find documentation on what is >or is not supported in PLib I just tried several >models and found out. See the table at bottom of this page: http://plib.sourceforge.net/ssg/non_class.html > >Erez Bye bye, Wolfram. ___ Flightge

Re: [Flightgear-devel] current bugs

2003-03-06 Thread Jim Wilson
Major A <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > Thanks Jim, things look a lot better now. I tried a flight today, from > EDDF to KDTW, which should be well in the range of a fully loaded > 747-400. I used full throttle to climb to FL290 first, then in steps > up to FL410. Throttle was taken back so as to make

Re: [Flightgear-devel] current bugs

2003-03-06 Thread David Megginson
Andy Ross writes: > There's a tunable TSFC number that you can play with. The engine > model isn't smart enough to vary fuel consumption with condition > (real engines have variable TSFC's under different situations). > But as long as the number used is correct for cruise there > shouldn't b

RE: [Flightgear-devel] Change to default aircraft

2003-03-06 Thread David Megginson
Ryan Larson writes: > Carb heat on non-fuel injected engines helps keep the venturi from being > plugged up by ice. This can happen with air temps as high as 100F and > relative humidity of +50%. This normally happens when you are about to land > or make a long decent. When you bring the RP

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Change to default aircraft

2003-03-06 Thread David Megginson
Arnt Karlsen writes: > ..I should have asked: how far back/down of peak temp? Carb heat > helps you down the temperatures on leaning way back, how far down? I'll check next time I'm up. I don't trust my EGT all that much, since it measures only one cylinder -- with a fixed-pitch prop, I find

Re: [Flightgear-devel] current bugs

2003-03-06 Thread Andy Ross
Curtis L. Olson wrote: > My gutt feeling is that all the YASim jet's consume fuel faster than > they should. The a4 can go about 150 miles before it runs out of > fuel. I'm not a jet pilot though so maybe I'm doing something wrong. There's a tunable TSFC number that you can play with. The engine

[Flightgear-devel] UDP Format for version 0.7.9

2003-03-06 Thread Joshua Lamorie
Gidday there, How can I get an older version of the source code for net_fdm.hxx in version 0.7.9? I can't log on to the cvs at /var/cvs/FlightGear-0.7 any hints? thanks Joshua -- Joshua Lamorie [EMAIL PROTECTED] Space Systems 514-848-9640 e

Re: [Flightgear-devel] current bugs

2003-03-06 Thread Curtis L. Olson
Major A writes: > Thanks Jim, things look a lot better now. I tried a flight today, from > EDDF to KDTW, which should be well in the range of a fully loaded > 747-400. I used full throttle to climb to FL290 first, then in steps > up to FL410. Throttle was taken back so as to make the airspeed > som

Re: [Flightgear-devel] current bugs

2003-03-06 Thread Major A
> > Oh, I meant "higher" to refer to the throttle, not altitude. I know > > FL300 is too low for long-haul flights, but I would have thought that > > you don't need more than 90% throttle during cruise. > > You don't. What I said was that 300kt IAS is cruise speed at 30,000ft. That > should wor

[Flightgear-devel] UDP Format Help

2003-03-06 Thread Joshua Lamorie
Gidday there, I need to drive FlightGear visualization from another computer with UDP messages. Where in the documentation/code can I find the definition of the data to be sent? Any URLs appreciated. thanks Joshua -- Joshua Lamorie [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Remote wakeup and remote shutdown

2003-03-06 Thread Curtis L. Olson
You could have the IGs be "always on". By that I mean when the computer boots, it immediately starts up the FG IG and it is always running and waiting for packets from the FDM computer. Another approach I've seen is a front end GUI that runs on the operator station. It talks to daemons on each r

[Flightgear-devel] Remote wakeup and remote shutdown

2003-03-06 Thread Roman Grigoriev
Hi guys! Maybe you can help me to solve this problem I have 3 channels Flightgear on linux and FDM computer on windows I need to write a program to wakeup and shutdown IGs. Wakeup is simple you have to setup wake-on-lan and send magic packet and have to autologin But how to implement remote

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Got FlightGear to compile on Mac OS X

2003-03-06 Thread David Drum
Quoth Darrell Walisser: > There is a fairly well-known and officially unresolved inefficiency > in the rendering of small vertex arrays that is particularly painful > on Mac OS X. Thank you for the reference. I was aware of this and thought I had checked against the right patches, but apparently

[Flightgear-devel] Sending flight dynamics data to serial port

2003-03-06 Thread Tim Jelliffe
Hi all,   First a bit of background to this request:   I am just starting off a thesis project for my engineering degree, with the task of building a cockpit mockup of a single engine light aircraft that my university has designed. Something in the same sort of class as a cessna 172. The aim