RE: [Flightgear-devel] FlightGear Features on the web

2003-10-08 Thread Richard Bytheway
This wasn't going to be a proof read of the features page, but it became so... In the section Extensive and Accurate World Scenery Data Base, should point three read Taxiways available for many larger airPORTS rather than aircraft? I personally would use arc second rather than arcsec, and some

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Re: I am new here/ helicopter flight model

2003-10-08 Thread Maik Justus
Hello Erik, I tried to add animation for separate blades, but I failed. (The animation file seemed to me that it is possible, but...). The helicopter model is working, but I am still debugging. I use two different approaches, one more analytical and one more numerical, and my aim is, that

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Re: I am new here/ helicopter flight model

2003-10-08 Thread Martin Spott
Erik Hofman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In case you are creating your own modifications to the animation file, you have to animate every blade by itself because they don't share a single rotation axis ... I doubt any reasonable machine is able to handle the varying blade angles every frame. Is

RE: [Flightgear-devel] Re: I am new here/ helicopter flight model

2003-10-08 Thread Norman Vine
Martin Spott writes: Erik Hofman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In case you are creating your own modifications to the animation file, you have to animate every blade by itself because they don't share a single rotation axis ... I doubt any reasonable machine is able to handle the

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Re: I am new here/ helicopter flight model

2003-10-08 Thread Carsten . Hoefer
Hi Maik, I know it's a little early for my question, but I am writing a FG Flying Tutorial and want to add a chapter about heli flying. Would you mind sending me a couple of lines describing how to handle a heli? The only information I got, is the FLY II manual and I do not know, how good it is.

RE: [Flightgear-devel] Re: I am new here/ helicopter flight model

2003-10-08 Thread Richard Bytheway
From what I know (which is almost nothing) the simple answer is: Carefully. I had a neighbour who built model aircraft for a hobby, and would produce a top notch aeroplane each winter. Having built a 12ft wingspan monster (with radio controlled parachutist), he built a helicopter, which took 18

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Re: I am new here/ helicopter flight model

2003-10-08 Thread Carsten . Hoefer
Ok, Richard, I will use this story as foreword for the heli chapter!! Carsten Richard Bytheway schrieb: From what I know (which is almost nothing) the simple answer is: Carefully. I had a neighbour who built model aircraft for a hobby, and would produce a top notch aeroplane each winter.

RE: [Flightgear-devel] Re: I am new here/ helicopter flight model

2003-10-08 Thread Matthew Law
I've dabbled with a couple of model helicopters, owned a couple of model heli sims and flown an R22 for 15 minutes. A better description for the un-initiated would be 'like juggling water with forks' IMO. Far more difficult than a C152 ;-) Cheers, Matt. On Wed, 2003-10-08 at 12:44, Richard

RE: [Flightgear-devel] COMDEX in Las Vegas next month

2003-10-08 Thread Jon Berndt
Interesting ... and if you go out 2 days earlier, you could also see this: http://www.nellisairshow.com/ Curt. It must be the season: http://www.wingsoverhouston.com/ Jon ___ Flightgear-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Re: I am new here/ helicopter flight model

2003-10-08 Thread Martin Spott
Martin Spott [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [...] Every time you wanted to gain lift you had to accelerate the main rotor and - because people didn't have gyros these days - you had to counteract with the tail rotor (much more than you have to do nowadays when you simply have to eliminate the

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Re: I am new here/ helicopter flight model

2003-10-08 Thread Erik Hofman
Maik Justus wrote: Hello Erik, I tried to add animation for separate blades, but I failed. (The animation file seemed to me that it is possible, but...). This is not tested, and may not work directly, but hetting it to work might be a matter of changing the object-name's. Make sure you use

RE: [Flightgear-devel] FlightGear Features on the web

2003-10-08 Thread Curtis L. Olson
Ok, thanks for the comments, I'll make the appropriate tweaks. Regards, Curt. Richard Bytheway writes: This wasn't going to be a proof read of the features page, but it became so... In the section Extensive and Accurate World Scenery Data Base, should point three read Taxiways available

[Flightgear-devel] GCC-3.3, -march=athlon -O3

2003-10-08 Thread Martin Spott
Just as a side note: If anyone compiles FlightGear with GCC-3.3 using the options -march=athlon -O3 you are likely to trigger a compiler but errm, 'feature'. If you experience FlightGear missing to load FDM parameters, then you should reduce optimization to -O1 and you're done, Martin. --

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Re: I am new here/ helicopter flight model

2003-10-08 Thread Maik Justus
Hi Carsten, oh, I am not so good in writing lines, which explain how to fly a heli. And in detail, I only know how to fly a model helicopter. But you can find a very detailed explanation written by a real helicopter pilot at http://www.cybercom.net/~copters/ Maik [EMAIL PROTECTED] schrieb:

Re: [Flightgear-devel] FlightGear Features on the web

2003-10-08 Thread Andreas
http://www.flightgear.org/features.html To which version does this apply? 0.9.2? Or CVS? ___ Flightgear-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.flightgear.org/mailman/listinfo/flightgear-devel

[Flightgear-devel] HUD visibility

2003-10-08 Thread Matevz Jekovec
I am trying to make HUD visible only in 0 view. If I use condition and equals type of sentences in my J22 hud.xml file, FG tells me it is not able to parse few lines from that file and ignores my condition. Is there any other way to turn off HUD when not in 0 view? - Matevz

RE: [Flightgear-devel] HUD visibility

2003-10-08 Thread Norman Vine
Matevz Jekovec writes: I am trying to make HUD visible only in 0 view. If I use condition and equals type of sentences in my J22 hud.xml file, FG tells me it is not able to parse few lines from that file and ignores my condition. Is there any other way to turn off HUD when not in 0 view?

Re: [Flightgear-devel] COMDEX in Las Vegas next month

2003-10-08 Thread Curtis L. Olson
Interesting ... and if you go out 2 days earlier, you could also see this: http://www.nellisairshow.com/ Curt. Alex Perry writes: We have been offered free booth space at the COMDEX expo in Las Vegas. If you'd like to spend a few days introducing thousands of people to your