Re: [Flightgear-devel] FlightGear on O'ReillyNetwork, December 11

2003-12-13 Thread Lee Elliott
On Saturday 13 December 2003 23:11, Jon Berndt wrote: > > If I wanted to add an aircraft to FG would I be able to model everything > > properly without having to do tamper with the FG source code? > > I'm not a very competent programmer and the thought of messing around with > > other people's pe

Re: [Flightgear-devel] RE: [Jsbsim-devel] FlightGear on O'Reilly Network, December 11

2003-12-13 Thread Lee Elliott
On Saturday 13 December 2003 22:34, Paul Surgeon wrote: > On Saturday, 13 December 2003 23:53, Jonathan Richards wrote: > > Here's the deep link :¬) hope O'Reilly don't mind... > > http://linux.oreillynet.com/pub/a/linux/2003/12/11/flightgear.html > > > > Jonathan > > Quote : > "CO: From my perspe

RE: [Flightgear-devel] FlightGear on O'ReillyNetwork, December 11

2003-12-13 Thread Jon Berndt
> If I wanted to add an aircraft to FG would I be able to model everything > properly without having to do tamper with the FG source code? > I'm not a very competent programmer and the thought of messing around with > other people's pet project makes me feel a bit uncomfortable. :) > > Paul If yo

Re: [Flightgear-devel] RE: [Jsbsim-devel] FlightGear on O'Reilly Network, December 11

2003-12-13 Thread Paul Surgeon
On Saturday, 13 December 2003 23:53, Jonathan Richards wrote: > Here's the deep link :¬) hope O'Reilly don't mind... > http://linux.oreillynet.com/pub/a/linux/2003/12/11/flightgear.html > > Jonathan Quote : "CO: From my perspective, a big area in need of attention is to have people build aircraft

Re: [Flightgear-devel] RE: [Jsbsim-devel] FlightGear on O'Reilly Network, December 11

2003-12-13 Thread Jonathan Richards
On Friday 12 Dec 2003 4:42 am, Alan King wrote: > Jon Berndt wrote: > >>I can't find it. > > > > You might need to register with O'Reilly to see the article. > > > > Jon > >Nah it works for me, but I also looked past it at first. Just say > 'It's in the three ad's at the top of the text, right

Re: Cockpit Hardware Building (was: Re: [Flightgear-devel]F-16 cockpit)

2003-12-13 Thread Alan King
John Wojnaroski wrote: Take a look at www.opengc.org. All the stuff to build the displays is there. You'll have to write your own routines for specific F-16 displays. And there is an interface to FG you can tweak to meet your requirements. I think I've convinced myself to not even work on it fo

Re: Cockpit Hardware Building (was: Re: [Flightgear-devel] F-16 cockpit)

2003-12-13 Thread Alan King
Manuel Bessler wrote: Hi Alan, Do you have more pictures of your CNC ? Is the part that the steppers are mounted on some kind of plastic ? I'd like to see more pics of the details how you built your CNC :) Not yet, and yes they're 50 cent plastic electrical boxes for mounts. You can set the

Re: [Flightgear-devel] NMEA *out* to a Garmin

2003-12-13 Thread David Megginson
Manuel Bessler wrote: A while ago, I read something from the M$FS side of things about outputting GPS data from the sim to a GPS unit. Here's a link: http://forums.avsim.net/dcboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=142&topic_id=5559&mesg_id=5559&page=5 Mentioned was the "Garmin GPSMap 196". Thanks. It loo

Re: Cockpit Hardware Building (was: Re: [Flightgear-devel]F-16 cockpit)

2003-12-13 Thread John Wojnaroski
>Electronics will be easy, but we really need a good simple serial > format that FlightGear understands and can map to any controls. 19,200 > serial with 16 axes and 4 or 8 bytes should be enough, then let me use > XML config to tell which byte maps to which control. Everyone has a > serial p

Re: [Flightgear-devel] [OT] more fluff

2003-12-13 Thread David Megginson
Jon Berndt wrote: This story will warm your heart ;-) "A DC-3 flies the northern skies" http://msnbc.msn.com/id/3660452/ I just took a quick glance, but haven't read the story yet. Last I heard, those guys were operating three DC-3's out of Yellowknife. Plane fans love them (of course), but

Re: Cockpit Hardware Building (was: Re: [Flightgear-devel] F-16 cockpit)

2003-12-13 Thread Manuel Bessler
Hi Alan, On Thu, Dec 11, 2003 at 10:50:11PM -0500, Alan King wrote: >Yep, here is a picture of my CNC/driller. I wanted mostly metal, all > cheap hardware store components, and just drill hole assembly, no > slotting etc. I have a large electronics inventory, and have about 400 > stepper