Re: [Flightgear-devel] Aerodynamic centre and 3D models

2004-02-13 Thread Jon S Berndt
On Fri, 13 Feb 2004 10:23:56 -0700 Russell Suter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Jon S Berndt wrote: But then, the FDM still has to report where the FDM is in a common reference frame. Exactly! At my company, we call this the control point and we have standardized on the Empty Weight CG.

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Aerodynamic centre and 3D models

2004-02-13 Thread Jon S Berndt
On Fri, 13 Feb 2004 08:22:15 -0800 Andy Ross <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Jon S. Berndt wrote: Can the view offset or rendering code (whatever it is that draws the 3D aircraft models) move the origin of the set of vertices that defines the model per-frame so that the CG aligns with that repor

Re: [Flightgear-devel] XML SCripting

2004-02-13 Thread Jon S Berndt
On Fri, 13 Feb 2004 11:15:19 -0600 Cameron Moore <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: FWIW, Microsoft filed their patent on Dec. 1, 2000. The CVS entry you reference was from Apr. 6, 2001. Can you beat the December date? -- Cameron Moore Probably. Jon ___ Fli

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Aerodynamic centre and 3D models

2004-02-13 Thread Jon S Berndt
On Fri, 13 Feb 2004 07:07:05 -0800 Andy Ross <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Adding the VRP is yet another mechanism, basically a direct analog of the view offset stuff on the FDM side. I just don't see the need. If we decide the VRP is the right way to do it, we should chuck the view offset stuff for

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Aerodynamic centre and 3D models

2004-02-12 Thread Jon S Berndt
On Thu, 12 Feb 2004 22:56:46 +0100 Mathias Fröhlich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Even JSBSim CVS does not support this visual reference point yet. There is a patch pending in Jon's mailbox to report the visual reference point to flightgear and define a reference point in each JSBSim aircraft

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Aerodynamic centre and 3D models

2004-02-12 Thread Jon S Berndt
On Thu, 12 Feb 2004 21:19:25 - "Vivian Meazza" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Jon S Berndt tells us First, the aircraft - like any body - rotates about its CG (according to the EOM) - not usually the same as the AC. So put the (visual) model origin at or near the CofG - wha

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Aerodynamic centre and 3D models

2004-02-12 Thread Jon S Berndt
On Thu, 12 Feb 2004 15:35:59 -0500 David Megginson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Jon S Berndt wrote: I'm not sure I see how this helps -- the model code still doesn't know where the CG is, so it still doesn't know where the centre of rotation for the model should be. This i

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Re: [Flightgear-cvslogs] CVS:

2004-02-12 Thread Jon S Berndt
On Thu, 12 Feb 2004 15:36:13 -0500 Josh Babcock <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: This has all got me thinking a bit. This subject seems to come up quite a bit, and frankly I have found it a dificult problem too. In addition, there are some related things that can get hard as well like placing the w

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Aerodynamic centre and 3D models

2004-02-12 Thread Jon S Berndt
On Thu, 12 Feb 2004 15:09:15 -0500 David Megginson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: So, given that the aerodynamic centre of an aircraft can shift based on loading and flight conditions, how can we report that from the FDM back to the 3D model code? Is this something people worked out in a previous

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Re: [Flightgear-cvslogs] CVS:

2004-02-12 Thread Jon S Berndt
On Thu, 12 Feb 2004 19:50:48 - "Jim Wilson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: You actually want to be very exact about matching the model to the FDM origin. ... Jim (or someone ... *anyone*): Could you summarize the argument taking place here? I seem to only be getting parts of it - I guess I did

Re: [Flightgear-devel] RAM disk / Unix

2004-02-10 Thread Jon S Berndt
On Tue, 10 Feb 2004 15:06:41 -0800 Andy Ross <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Norman Vine wrote: Jon S. Berndt wrote: > It is thought that the use of a RAM disk might help. On Windows I have found that increading disk cache size and / or using memory mapped files is more productive then a DA

[Flightgear-devel] RAM disk / Unix

2004-02-10 Thread Jon S Berndt
Is anyone aware of a RAM disk utility or feature under Unix (specifically, IRIX)? When running a simulation on IRIX we are finding that the disk access is taking too much time at various phase boundaries. It is thought that the use of a RAM disk might help. Jon __

Re: [Flightgear-devel] New Autopilot Documentation

2004-02-04 Thread Jon S Berndt
On Wed, 4 Feb 2004 21:39:23 - "Jim Wilson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Curt fixed that today. It even works pretty well with the 747. With the one he commited, the gain is higher than what you have (Kp=1.0), a little longer intergration period (Ti=25.0) and the derivator is way down to almo

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Book recommendations sought

2004-02-04 Thread Jon S Berndt
On Wed, 4 Feb 2004 09:39:16 +0100 [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Gerhard Wesp) wrote: Hello, I'm looking for good resources on flight simulations. For the aerodynamics and flight dynamics it seems that Stevens, Aircraft Control and Simulation, is (one of) the standard references. Things which Stevens does

Re: [Flightgear-devel] New autopilot

2004-01-26 Thread Jon S Berndt
On Mon, 26 Jan 2004 17:42:02 - "Jim Wilson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Good point (as is Jon's) but in all such design cases there are tradeoffs. What I'm looking at is ease of configuration and that may be a reasonable tradeoff against the limitations of defining a standard set of control

Re: [Flightgear-devel] New autopilot

2004-01-26 Thread Jon S Berndt
On Mon, 26 Jan 2004 16:21:19 - "Jim Wilson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: That has nothing at all to do with what I said. We are controlling individual control surfaces. Period. I don't think we should have subclasses for each desired action/process. Only each control surface type. Roll c

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Borland C++BuilderX Personal for $10

2004-01-26 Thread Jon S Berndt
On Mon, 26 Jan 2004 08:19:27 -0800 (PST) Gene Buckle <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I've had BuilderX installed for a couple of months. Unless it's _really_ well hidden, there is no RAD tool attached to it. It's just a fancy>cross-platform IDE. It is my understanding that you have to cough up seri

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Borland C++BuilderX Personal for $10

2004-01-26 Thread Jon S Berndt
On Mon, 26 Jan 2004 07:10:16 -0800 (PST) Gene Buckle <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Unless it's different from the downloaddable version, it does _not_ include any kind of RAD tool. g. You are probably thinking of the free Borland C++ 5.5 compiler. The link I provided refers to the Personal Edition o

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Proposed change to Terrain Following control

2004-01-22 Thread Jon S Berndt
On Thu, 22 Jan 2004 16:15:41 -0500 David Megginson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I agree as well. An autopilot driven by the gyro compass should reflect all of the compass's error's, such as drift; ditto for an AP driven by a VOR receiver. If we want to model an AP driven by a GPS, INS, and/or F

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Proposed change to Terrain Following control

2004-01-20 Thread Jon S Berndt
On Tue, 20 Jan 2004 15:09:02 -0600 "Curtis L. Olson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: FWIW (and hopefully this doesn't mean major breakage) I've been considering some changes to the autopilot infrastructure to make it more flexible. For instance, we (or at least I) could really use a mode to hold sp

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Re: Linux User & Developer Expo 2004

2004-01-15 Thread Jon S Berndt
On Thu, 15 Jan 2004 16:04:32 + "David Luff" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I'm happy to talk if we do get a slot. Cheers - Dave Would it be advantageous -- not only now, but for the future -- for major subsystem "leads" to write up a short monologue? For instance, if there was a concise writeup

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Autocoordination : Derivatives in FCS

2004-01-13 Thread Jon S Berndt
On Tue, 13 Jan 2004 16:24:42 +0100 "Hof Markus" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Ah. Fine. So you left away the setto feature? Does not matter, I'm sure noone will miss it. What I don't understand is, how you reset the previous inputs? Which application uses this? Can you send me the final FGFilter.* p

Re: [Flightgear-devel] 3D aircraft model origins

2004-01-12 Thread Jon S Berndt
On Mon, 12 Jan 2004 21:38:06 +0200 Paul Surgeon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Excellent! Now go spend some time with your kids Jon. ;) No kidding. Tonight is "library night", so I will be spending some time with the older ones. :-) What would be really useful and helpful is a step-by-step tutorial

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Re: yf23 brakes

2004-01-12 Thread Jon S Berndt
On Mon, 12 Jan 2004 11:44:27 -0600 "Curtis L. Olson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: There is an open issue with JSBSim because it has the concept of a "center brake" which doesn't directly map to the standard cockpit controls. Right now I hardwire that to a value of zero. That may be a misstep on o

Re: [Flightgear-devel] 3D aircraft model origins

2004-01-09 Thread Jon S Berndt
On Fri, 9 Jan 2004 23:58:35 +0200 Paul Surgeon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Thursday, 8 January 2004 23:34, Jon S Berndt wrote: Paul: We (FDM) simply report the location of the reference point (I think we agreed it would be the forward-most position of the aircraft, like the prop hub t

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Autopilot in jsbsim

2004-01-09 Thread Jon S Berndt
On Fri, 09 Jan 2004 22:39:20 +0100 Roy Vegard Ovesen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I think this should be implemented in the jsbsim source code, not in the fdm_config xml file. Yes. And it is true there probably should be an initialization capability for filters, integrators, etc. I'll try and lo

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Autopilot in jsbsim

2004-01-09 Thread Jon S Berndt
On Fri, 09 Jan 2004 14:52:28 +0100 Roy Vegard Ovesen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Also, note that the derivative part of the example wing leveler control was a complete guess - and I think it actually may not play a large part (or *any* part) in the maintaining wings-level at all. I have also con

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Autopilot in jsbsim

2004-01-09 Thread Jon S Berndt
On Fri, 09 Jan 2004 15:24:15 +0100 Roy Vegard Ovesen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: This is the solution I'm looking to implement, but sadly my knowlege about the jsbsim structure is so limited that I could not think of a way to do it. Maybe the SWITCH component could be used as an if structure? Ye

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Autopilot in jsbsim

2004-01-09 Thread Jon S Berndt
On Fri, 09 Jan 2004 14:52:28 +0100 Roy Vegard Ovesen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: The solution to this is to stop the intergation when the actuator goes into saturation. Aha! Good explanation. Yes, I think this should not be too hard to fix, but I don't have time to play with that myself at this

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Autocoordination

2004-01-08 Thread Jon S Berndt
On Fri, 9 Jan 2004 00:09:08 +0100 Hof Markus <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Take the A320 (on FG) and watch the ball. All I want to know, which property to use for trigger function to keep the ball centered. since you discussed this topic so deeply, I'm sure someone can name me the property... I've

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Autocoordination

2004-01-08 Thread Jon S Berndt
On Thu, 08 Jan 2004 17:37:25 -0500 David Megginson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: John Wojnaroski wrote: Believe it or not, what makes an airplane turn is LIFT... think about it. Same thing -- one wing develops more lift than the other, the plane banks and wants to slip sideways, but as it does th

[Flightgear-devel] Linux machines

2004-01-08 Thread Jon S Berndt
Dell doesn't seem to market machines with Linux installed anymore, do they? Can anyone point me to a major manufacturer that does? Jon ___ Flightgear-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.flightgear.org/mailman/listinfo/flightgear-devel

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Autocoordination : Derivatives in FCS

2004-01-08 Thread Jon S Berndt
On Thu, 8 Jan 2004 20:41:00 +0100 "Hof Markus" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Other topic: Are there any suggestions about how to build a d/d(t) of a property in fdm markus Markus: For JSBSim, you can use the flight control components. This is a quick reply, so maybe I have not thought this all t

Re: [Flightgear-devel] 3D aircraft model origins

2004-01-08 Thread Jon S Berndt
On Thu, 08 Jan 2004 21:34:44 +0100 Erik Hofman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Paul Surgeon wrote: Shucks ... I must be tired or something because this is getting more and more confusing by the minute. What is this "arbitrary point" you are referring to? It is a location which you can choose. You ca

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Autocoordination

2004-01-08 Thread Jon S Berndt
On Thu, 08 Jan 2004 14:56:27 +0100 Erik Hofman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Jon Berndt wrote: For JSBSim aircraft, of course, you can by adding in the appropriate control channel in the flight control description for hte aircraft. I think eromatic automatically adds a yaw damper to aircraft creat

[Flightgear-devel] different planetary models

2004-01-05 Thread Jon S Berndt
I believe we (JSBSim team) will soon have a rudimentary model of the Martian environment integrated within JSBSim. This leads me to a question about FlightGear/SimGear: What is the potential for modeling a planetary body that is different from earth in the following ways: 1) Different radius

Re: [Flightgear-devel] gear numbering

2004-01-05 Thread Jon S Berndt
On Mon, 5 Jan 2004 11:34:15 -0800 "John Wojnaroski" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: In JSBSim, for a 747, we would associate both left main gear with the left brake input, etc. Let's not forget that the higher end equipment also has stuff like anti-skid systems which determine when/where and how th

Re: [Flightgear-devel] gear numbering

2004-01-05 Thread Jon S Berndt
On Mon, 05 Jan 2004 10:12:26 -0800 Andy Ross <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: That convention only works for tricycle gear airplanes with three wheels, though. The problem is that the current input mappings map the following properties to those values: /controls/wheel/gear[0]/brake -- "left" /controls/

Re: [Flightgear-devel] gear numbering

2004-01-05 Thread Jon S Berndt
On Mon, 05 Jan 2004 07:12:21 -0800 Andy Ross <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: But the hard part is that this only works for YASim. I think the other FDMs get their control inputs indirectly, via the FGControls C++ class, instead of out of the property tree. This code would have to be modified before

Re: [Flightgear-devel] INVERT keyword vs minus INPUT

2003-12-31 Thread Jon S Berndt
On Wed, 31 Dec 2003 20:59:06 +0200 Paul Surgeon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: The minus sign on an INPUT in a JSBSim FDM causes FlightGear to crash. I know the INVERT keywork is being depreciated but it doesn't look like the minus sign is working too well at the moment. You probably don't have the

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Re: [Flightgear-cvslogs] CVS: data/Aircraft/dc3/Models dc3-dpm.ac, 1.7, 1.8 dc3-dpm.xml, 1.10, 1.11

2003-12-29 Thread Jon S Berndt
On Mon, 29 Dec 2003 15:49:30 -0600 "Curtis L. Olson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: David, (Andy?) It appears that in the latest cvs, we have lost the ability to control the engines independently. Previously you could type ... etc. to select an engine. Then '{' and '}' would select the magnetos.

[Flightgear-devel] Sky darkening with high altitude

2003-12-12 Thread Jon S Berndt
Thinking of the X-15 and its flight profile: does FlightGear do any sky darkening as the aircraft flies up past 100,000 feet altitude? It doesn't seem to me that it would be that hard to do. Jon ___ Flightgear-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] htt

[Flightgear-devel] dot no more

2003-12-05 Thread Jon S Berndt
Thanks for the overwhelming response to my request for dot. I now have what I need. I'll be trying it out this evening or weekend on the sourceforge site. The dot utility is useful in creating the diagrams such as those seen in the JSBSim documentation I uploaded to the JSBSim.org site. I h

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 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 l

Re: [Flightgear-devel] FG logo Slovenian flag

2003-11-28 Thread Jon S Berndt
On Fri, 28 Nov 2003 23:56:34 -0600 Cameron Moore <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: * [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Jon S Berndt) [2003.11.27 20:37]: On Thu, 27 Nov 2003 10:11:26 + Matthew Law <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >On 10:47 Thu 27 Nov , Erik Hofman wrote: >> Yeah, but then y

Re: [Flightgear-devel] FG logo Slovenian flag

2003-11-27 Thread Jon S Berndt
On Thu, 27 Nov 2003 10:11:26 + Matthew Law <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On 10:47 Thu 27 Nov , Erik Hofman wrote: Yeah, but then you'd get a fight over which flag is put in first and which flag is shows just for 0.1 usec (e.g. the last flag) ... Erik Maybe randomise the order ? All the bes

Re: Aw: Re: [Flightgear-devel] website

2003-11-26 Thread Jon S Berndt
On Wed, 26 Nov 2003 16:22:28 +0100 (CET) [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The FlightGear logo on the top of the website. Yes, I know. I am familiar with it: I made it. :-) What don't you like about it? Jon ___ Flightgear-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [Flightgear-devel] website

2003-11-26 Thread Jon S Berndt
On Wed, 26 Nov 2003 15:38:58 +0100 (CET) [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, 1.the design of the website is really good now, but I think we need a new logo. I´m sure there are enough people with painting skills among us. Just post some ideas or pictures! A new logo? Jon ___

[Flightgear-devel] (no subject)

2003-11-25 Thread Jon S Berndt
A good article on the National Geographic web site: http://magma.nationalgeographic.com/ngm/0312/feature1/index.html Jon ___ Flightgear-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.flightgear.org/mailman/listinfo/flightgear-devel

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Shut up, already!

2003-11-24 Thread Jon S Berndt
On Mon, 24 Nov 2003 13:49:58 -0500 David Megginson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Andy Ross wrote: 1. The default log level is now FG_ALERT, or at least, it's supposed to be (though some FG_WARN messages inexplicably still get through). What about the presumptively "useful" stuff like the JSBSim to

Re: [Flightgear-devel] logging data

2003-11-24 Thread Jon S Berndt
On Mon, 24 Nov 2003 09:27:04 -0600 "Curtis L. Olson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: David, Now I'm imagining a script that sets up all the initial conditions (altitude, speed, pressure, temp, etc.) as well as specfic logging fields, flies an FAA certification test, logs the results, and graphs the re

Re: [Flightgear-devel] concorde

2003-11-19 Thread Jon S Berndt
On Wed, 19 Nov 2003 23:16:57 + [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hahaha! Aeromatic is *for* the end user. The next simplest thing would be to fly to wherever the user is and hold their hand as they type. Jon LOL, I'm free this Sunday if you are, Jon I'm booked for the rest of my life. My wife kee

Re: [Flightgear-devel] concorde

2003-11-19 Thread Jon S Berndt
http://jsbsim.sourceforge.net/aeromatic.html I don't see the concorde button (?!?) :-) Curt. Luckily, of all aircraft, the Concorde ought to be very easily modeled using DATCOM - which I have. Jon ___ Flightgear-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] h

Re: [Flightgear-devel] concorde

2003-11-19 Thread Jon S Berndt
On Wed, 19 Nov 2003 16:07:45 -0600 "Jon S Berndt" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Wed, 19 Nov 2003 16:01:45 -0600 "Curtis L. Olson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Someone needs to whip up a quick flight dynamics model for it. :-) Curt. http://jsbsim.sourceforge.net/aer

Re: [Flightgear-devel] concorde

2003-11-19 Thread Jon S Berndt
On Wed, 19 Nov 2003 16:01:45 -0600 "Curtis L. Olson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Someone needs to whip up a quick flight dynamics model for it. :-) Curt. http://jsbsim.sourceforge.net/aeromatic.html :-) Jon ___ Flightgear-devel mailing list [EMAIL PRO

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Landing Gear

2003-11-17 Thread Jon S Berndt
On Mon, 17 Nov 2003 11:33:35 -0500 David Megginson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Again, I'm wondering if this is an aerodynamic problem (aside from the bouncing-around-sitting-still thing). Because of its lifting surfaces, a plane is certainly more vulnerable to the wind than a car, even when it is

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Re: Landing Gear Dynamics

2003-11-17 Thread Jon S Berndt
On Mon, 17 Nov 2003 15:03:39 +0100 Erik Hofman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: While the wheel dynamics allow the wheels to move sideways easily, the landing gear dynamics does not allow the landing gear to move sideways (easily). So apart from the the individual wheel dynamics we also need to calc

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Weight & Balance data...

2003-11-14 Thread Jon S Berndt
On Fri, 14 Nov 2003 11:20:42 -0800 (PST) Gene Buckle <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Is there any interest in getting that detailed on the W&B calcs? When duplicating a real-world instrument, the weights are easily available and a "generic" weight could be assigned to avionics that don't model a speci

[Flightgear-devel] Property Heirarchy

2003-11-12 Thread Jon S Berndt
Is there any designed rhyme or reason to the layout of the properties from the top down in FlightGear? Any particular conventions? I think there ought to be something written down if there is not in order to allow the FDM authors (and others) to splice in nicer. Jon ___

[Flightgear-devel] Version[s]

2003-11-07 Thread Jon S Berndt
Suggestion: for debugging purposes (if nothing else) it would be useful to have this command: fgfs --version also spit out info on other pertinent version numbers, e.g. for: plib simgear jsbsim yasim etc. JSBSim has this available in a header file, and IIRC it is also available in a function

[Flightgear-devel] Instrument and Panel README

2003-11-07 Thread Jon S Berndt
Is there a README, FAQ, or manual on making instruments for a panel and/or creating the panel itself? Jon ___ Flightgear-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.flightgear.org/mailman/listinfo/flightgear-devel

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Multiplayer Server RFC

2003-11-05 Thread Jon S Berndt
On Wed, 5 Nov 2003 13:38:23 -0500 "John Barrett" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I'm looking at creating a new protocol module to handle the low level details of the connection, and a hud overlay like the OLK code to handle Here's a red herring - er ... I mean side note: One thing I've been playing a

Re: [Flightgear-devel] master and position freeze

2003-10-23 Thread Jon S Berndt
On Thu, 23 Oct 2003 15:24:27 -0500 "Curtis L. Olson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Jon S Berndt writes: On Thu, 23 Oct 2003 13:32:14 -0500 David Culp <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >The command line switch --enable-freeze, as well as the properties >/sim/freeze/master an

Re: [Flightgear-devel] master and position freeze

2003-10-23 Thread Jon S Berndt
On Thu, 23 Oct 2003 13:32:14 -0500 David Culp <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: The command line switch --enable-freeze, as well as the properties /sim/freeze/master and /sim/freeze/position don't work (at least not with JSBSim or Yasim). I don't know if they ever have, or if they are a work in pro

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Lee's TSR2

2003-10-21 Thread Jon S Berndt
On Tue, 21 Oct 2003 18:36:58 +0200 Matevz Jekovec <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Yes, nVidia graphic cards have drivers capable of twin-view in Linux. You just have to edit your XF86Config file, to match your configuration. Detonator README covers all questions btw. I've used the GeForce card I have

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Re: [Flightgear-cvslogs] CVS:

2003-10-16 Thread Jon S Berndt
On Thu, 16 Oct 2003 17:15:02 -0400 David Megginson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: There are still some problems we need to work out. For example, if you set the wind to 0 and turn off the engine, the helicopter still slides backwards and turns -- we'll have to figure out why there are forces acting o

Re: [Flightgear-devel] F-16 simulator

2003-10-14 Thread Jon S Berndt
On Tue, 14 Oct 2003 22:11:55 +0100 Lee Elliott <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Are you sure the differential tail deflections can't be done in JSBSim? Well, it's not so much that it can't be done. However, there are some factors to consider. Depending on the flight conditions and modes, the flight

Re: [Flightgear-devel] AN225

2003-10-01 Thread Jon S Berndt
Could anyone provide a screen dump image of this aircraft flying in FlightGear? Jon ___ Flightgear-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.flightgear.org/mailman/listinfo/flightgear-devel

Re: [Flightgear-devel] web site updates

2003-09-30 Thread Jon S Berndt
On Tue, 30 Sep 2003 13:55:05 -0500 "Curtis L. Olson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Andrei Barbu has revamped the flightgear web site layout and made quite a few improvements. I have placed the proposed changes here: http://www.flightgear.org/www.andrei/ Outstanding. Jon ___

Re: [Flightgear-devel] AN225

2003-09-29 Thread Jon S Berndt
On Mon, 29 Sep 2003 11:42:18 -0500 David Culp <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Failed to untie property /consumables/fuel/tank[0]/level-gal_us Failed to untie property /consumables/fuel/tank[1]/level-gal_us Failed to untie property /engines/engine[0]/fuel-flow-gph Failed to untie property /engines/engin

Re: [Flightgear-devel] AN225

2003-09-29 Thread Jon S Berndt
On Mon, 29 Sep 2003 12:02:26 -0500 "Curtis L. Olson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Did anyone change anything with property names recently? My flight recorder is also broke now. :-( What's the date on JSBSim.cxx? There were some changes that were made to that file for engines, I think. If that was

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Re: [Flightgear-cvslogs] CVS: data/Aircraft/fokker50/Models

2003-09-05 Thread Jon S Berndt
On Fri, 5 Sep 2003 16:01:59 +0100 James Turner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: - a similar elevator effect to that martin described, when deploying the flaps at high speeds - very odd high pitch angle behavior ... I can't really describe it, alas. It seems like way too much lift is getting developed

Re: [Flightgear-devel] *awk

2003-09-04 Thread Jon S Berndt
On Thu, 4 Sep 2003 18:31:11 -0400 David Megginson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Jon S Berndt writes: > Which is better: > > awk > gawk > nawk perl David I'm going to take a wild guess here: I'll bet you and Curt didn't do to well in multip

[Flightgear-devel] *awk

2003-09-04 Thread Jon S Berndt
Which is better: awk gawk nawk ?? Jon ___ Flightgear-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.flightgear.org/mailman/listinfo/flightgear-devel

Re: [Flightgear-devel] new scenery samples

2003-09-04 Thread Jon S Berndt
On Thu, 4 Sep 2003 16:15:48 -0500 "Curtis L. Olson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Yes. Curt. Is it worth a new screen shot? Jon ___ Flightgear-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.flightgear.org/mailman/listinfo/flightgear-devel

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Any Volunteers?

2003-08-26 Thread Jon S Berndt
On Tue, 26 Aug 2003 23:37:25 +0200 Erik Hofman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi, Curtis is going to do a new scenery release but is unable to get the SRTM30 data include due to time restrictions (they should be generated within a day or two). We might be able to get it going for him if there are

[Flightgear-devel] Topographic data

2003-08-22 Thread Jon S Berndt
[Sorry if this ends up being a duplicate post] MEDIA RELATIONS OFFICE JET PROPULSION LABORATORY CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY NATIONAL AERONAUTICS AND SPACE ADMINISTRATION PASADENA, CALIFORNIA 91109. TELEPHONE (818) 354-5011 http://www.jpl.nasa.gov Nancy Lovato (818) 354-9382 Jet Propulsio

[Flightgear-devel] I think this is relevant

2003-08-22 Thread Jon S Berndt
MEDIA RELATIONS OFFICE JET PROPULSION LABORATORY CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY NATIONAL AERONAUTICS AND SPACE ADMINISTRATION PASADENA, CALIFORNIA 91109. TELEPHONE (818) 354-5011 http://www.jpl.nasa.gov Nancy Lovato (818) 354-9382 Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif. David E. Steitz

Re: [Flightgear-devel] OT: Aircraft Carriers

2003-08-21 Thread Jon S Berndt
On Thu, 21 Aug 2003 18:32:18 +0100 (BST) Jon Stockill <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Thu, 21 Aug 2003, Matevz Jekovec wrote: I think S-3 Viking. C130 http://www.aerospaceweb.org/question/history/q0097.shtml ___ Flightgear-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTE

Re: [Flightgear-devel] YASim Propeller Drag

2003-08-08 Thread Jon S Berndt
On Wed, 6 Aug 2003 17:41:33 -0400 David Megginson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: you are flying fast enough (i.e. a dive). Any suggestions? JSBSim does not handle windmilling properly either. Any suggestions? Jon ___ Flightgear-devel mailing list [EMAIL

Re: [Flightgear-devel] request for comments?

2003-08-08 Thread Jon S Berndt
On Tue, 5 Aug 2003 11:23:07 -0500 "Curtis L. Olson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: but it may give us many more options for moving forward with new and better graphic effects. My uneducated, gut feeling, leads me to opt for the route that gives the most promise for the future. Jon _

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Multiplayer Network Server

2003-08-05 Thread Jon S Berndt
On Tue, 5 Aug 2003 19:36:15 +0100 (BST) Paul Morriss <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: * Mass Multiplayer Server (MAYS) - Instead of a single How do you get MAYS from Mass MultiPlayer Server? Should it not be MMS, or MMPS? This is serious. The correct acronym is critical in getting project support! ;

Re: [Flightgear-devel] metakit

2003-08-02 Thread Jon S Berndt
On Sat, 2 Aug 2003 16:03:33 -0400 "Norman Vine" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Yes this is *very* annoying :-) Yep. I haven't quite figured out how to work this into my batch build script. If I could figure out how to latch into the result code when simgear checks to whether the latest metakit is

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Gliding (Stall)

2003-08-01 Thread Jon S Berndt
On Fri, 1 Aug 2003 15:14:57 -0400 David Megginson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: That's a problem with JSBSim models in general -- most of them tend to drop a wing in the stall. The problem is that JSBSim only recently started supporting wing washout We did? _

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Re: Lee's YF23

2003-07-23 Thread Jon S Berndt
On Wed, 23 Jul 2003 10:07:22 -0500 David Culp <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: ..cool, then we don't need my F-16 drag shute housing pics. ;-) Do we have drag shutes modelled? Yes. There exists a property called /controls/flight/drag-chute which takes a boolean value. In JSBSim you could add a Kin

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Re: Lee's YF23

2003-07-23 Thread Jon S Berndt
On Wed, 23 Jul 2003 16:35:52 +0200 Arnt Karlsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Do we have drag shutes modelled? I've thought about this extensively. There are lots of reasons I'd like to model it. It would not be too hard, either. It's the *time*. Jon ___

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Lee's YF23

2003-07-22 Thread Jon S Berndt
On Tue, 22 Jul 2003 23:36:11 +0200 Matevz Jekovec <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: That's amazing! Are there any F16 models planned for FlightGear in early future? Because I have few friends from Falcon community who could lend us their models and skins with no problem. There already is. There is a JS

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Re: [Flightgear-cvslogs]

2003-07-01 Thread Jon S Berndt
On 1 Jul 2003 17:20:40 GMT Martin Spott <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I'm happy to see those in CVS, I yet have to verify if this breaks build on other platforms. BTW, we have to give notice to Jon about these changes, otherwise he'll revert them on the next JSBSim update. Would anyone commit the fix

[Flightgear-devel] Contrails

2003-06-25 Thread Jon S Berndt
What's the potential of creating contrails for such a thing as the X-15 rocket engine? Wingtip vortices? etc.? Jon ___ Flightgear-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.flightgear.org/mailman/listinfo/flightgear-devel

[Flightgear-devel] Scripting

2003-06-25 Thread Jon S Berndt
Some of you may know that JSBSim has the ability to make scripted runs. I would like to be able to do this for JSBSim when integrated with FlightGear. It won't be terribly difficult at all - I'll just need to add a few lines inside JSBSim.cxx. If no script is specified, no effect is made on e

Re: [Flightgear-devel] New buildings models

2003-06-18 Thread Jon S Berndt
On Wed, 18 Jun 2003 16:00:22 +0200 Martin Dressler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: You should be able hide your aircraft in Hangar. If I remember it. Even new hits routine has some support for this. Madr I think Norman may know the answer to this one. However, JSBSim simply gets a terrain height fr

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Rendering options

2003-06-17 Thread Jon S Berndt
On Tue, 17 Jun 2003 17:00:45 - "Jim Wilson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Erik Hofman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: /sim/rendering/enhanced-lighting toggle enhanced runway lighting on or off /sim/rendering/distance-attenuation add distance attenuation to the enhanced runway lighting What i

Re: [Flightgear-devel] A320 progress

2003-06-16 Thread Jon S Berndt
On Mon, 16 Jun 2003 16:31:22 +0200 (CEST) Frederic BOUVIER <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Martin Spott wrote: > Just an update on the A320 model : > http://perso.wanadoo.fr/frbouvi/flightsim/a320-fgfs-02.png > http://perso.wanadoo.fr/frbouvi/flightsim/a320-fgfs-03.png What was the flight model for

Re: [Flightgear-devel] What is ...

2003-06-11 Thread Jon S Berndt
On Wed, 11 Jun 2003 19:54:45 +0200 Pieter Pareit <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Op woensdag 11 juni 2003 19:37, schreef Jon S Berndt: What's a wiki? http://www.wikipedia.org/w/wiki.phtml?search=wiki&go=Go In short, a web page that can contain anything, that can be updated by an

[Flightgear-devel] What is ...

2003-06-11 Thread Jon S Berndt
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Re: [Flightgear-devel] Airbus A320

2003-06-06 Thread Jon S Berndt
On Fri, 6 Jun 2003 10:27:39 -0700 (PDT) Gene Buckle <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: If he flies for Aeroflot, they may not notice the difference. *gd&r* You guys are scaring me. ;-) ___ Flightgear-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.flightgea

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Airbus A320

2003-06-05 Thread Jon S Berndt
On Wed, 4 Jun 2003 20:40:42 +0200 Jorge Van Hemelryck <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: It will be easy to convert the 737 model to an A320. I'll send you one. What about fly-by-wire ? How can it be taken into account ? Since David is making a JSBSim version of the A-310, you can use the JSBSim flight

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Another pre-release consideration

2003-06-04 Thread Jon S Berndt
On 03 Jun 2003 15:30:46 -0700 Tony Peden <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: The roll trim was bound to the yaw trim props and vice-versa. Probably the fault of the guy who did the properties for JSBSim, can't remember his name offhand, though, ... Well, we'll have to dock his pay when we find out who he

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Another pre-release consideration

2003-06-04 Thread Jon S Berndt
On Tue, 3 Jun 2003 16:08:50 -0400 David Megginson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Here's something else to worry about before the release: a recent bug fix in JSBSim ?? Which fix ?? meant that all of the JSBSim-based propeller planes are now badly out of trim. I fixed the default C172P, but I need

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