From: Curtis L. Olson [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Alex Perry wrote:
freeglut ERROR: Function glutSetCursor called \
without first calling 'glutInit'.
Hey Alex, this has been a 'common' issue that has bit a lot of people.
There appears to be a problem with freeglut 2.4. The solution has been
From: Martin Spott
Vassilii Khachaturov wrote:
Maybe some German-speaking user could point the reporters to Atlas
for the moving map solution they describe as absent [...]
I probably would do, but I don't have any experience with Atlas at all,
so I'm unable to give appropriate response to
I haven't tried to debug this yet, but thought I'd report it.
$ fgfs
opening file: /usr/local/share/FlightGear/Navaids/carrier_nav.dat
/usr/local/share/FlightGear/Navaids/TACAN_freq.dat
RenderTexture Error: glXCreateGLXPbufferPtr() failed.
Initialising callsign using
Melchior FRANZ writes
It is beyond me why nobody seems to understand the purpose of the UFO.
It was never meant to be a serious aircraft. It is the scenery
exploration tool. It doesn't need to have a cockpit or a realistic
FDM. It uses up 76 kB uncompressed, and 10.8 kB compressed! Even
Curt wrote in web page
http://www.flightgear.org/~curt/Models/Special/Rascal110_2/
We were disappointed with the data rate we were getting (maybe 5hz.)
This prevented us from doing any serious flying under the hood.
But I think we validated our approach and when we track down our
data rate
Ilan wrote:
At the moment both the speakers committee and community relations
committee are seeking contributions:
Call For Papers: http://www.socallinuxexpo.org/pr/pr_20050620.php
Call For .Orgs:http://www.socallinuxexpo.org/pr/pr_20051017.php
I'm secure enough now that I'm shopping to build a new machine. I'm looking
at AMD64 motherboards and one of the newer nvidia cards. And what I'm
wondering is whether any fgfs developers can speak to building and running
fgfs, on linux, on an AMD64 box, and/or with the nv 6600's/6800's etc.
Does anybody tried to compile FG with gcc 4.0? Did you encounter any
problems, serious warning like uninitialized variable is used?
GCC 4.0.1 is the default in Debian Testing and therefore gets picked
up when you run the ordinary build scripting associated with CVS.
It seems to work fine; there
In the southern california deserts, there are beige lines wandering
around the countryside that randomly cross the brown road lines.
The road layout makes sense, but I can't figure out what the beige
lines are supposed to be; their paths don't match obvious landscape
features. If they're supposed
Unless I'm missing something, someone has committed bad code to CVS.
The ch variable on line 377 is of class SGIOChannel, which doesn't
support the eof() method, and not of class SGFILE, which does.
~/fs/source/utils/GPSsmooth$ make
if g++ -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I. -I../../src/Include -I../../src
From: Erik Hofman
George Patterson wrote:
Tonight I cvs checkout the simgear sources tonight from cvs to
recompile FlightGear. I was getting the following error. (Also got the
same error in swap_test.* but worked around that problem by remove the
file and references to it.
Could you test
From: Curtis L. Olson
What would people think of abandoning our mailing lists and converting
over to online/web-based forums?
I wouldn't subscribe to the forum; but if there was a daily digest
(like the list currently has) then I might consider receiving that.
- I'm getting really sick of
From: Richard Bytheway [EMAIL PROTECTED]
needs root privs for the make install sections.
Look at the command sudo.
Also, you may want to over-ride the default install command to
add the -p option, so that incremental rebuilds work properly.
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However, those data did not make it to the current scenery release as
TerraGear choked, obviously due to the massive density of data. I'm
going to further investigate this - maybe with a little help from the
experts on this list - and I hope that we can at some point release at
least some
From: Josh Babcock [EMAIL PROTECTED]
I know that the fg magnetic compass code models errors due to tilt
pretty well, but it occurs to me that a lot of these compasses are
gimbaled and remain flat for a few degrees as the plane tilts. Is this
aspect modeled?
I believe you misunderstand the
Got an idea for a new aircraft (not airplane) you'd like to try ?
http://www.dodsbir.net/Topics/Default.asp
Topic: A05-208
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From: Ampere K. Hardraade [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Why should the electrical system be made generic?
It shouldn't. There is a whole class of physical systems that
act as a network with two valued paths. Voltage/Current,
Pressure/Velocity, Density/Massflow, some aerodynamics, etc etc.
All of these
http://www.usenix.org/events/usenix05/bofs.html
Title: Adapting the FlightGear Flight Simulator - Customizing your Cockpit
Name: John Wojnaroski
Affil: FlightGear project, Developer
eMail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Room: Salon 3, Tuesday April 12, 7pm to 8pm
Site: Marriott Anaheim, 700 West
From: Paul Surgeon [EMAIL PROTECTED]
I'm an ASEL pilot (without glider training) but I was of the impression
that the variometer was a slightly modified pitot tube connected to a VSI.
That sounds about right.
As far as I know one can hook up most variometers to any TE probe.
The easy
1. Create a new Variometer instrument module i C++.
If I was able to create a Total Energy Tube module it still leaves me
without a way to perform calculations and logic that are vario specific.
I'm an ASEL pilot (without glider training) but I was of the impression
that the variometer was a
From: Ampere K. Hardraade [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On February 18, 2005 04:11 am, Erik Hofman wrote:
It also looks to me like a pleasant isle of joy in an
otherwise boring event (am I right about that?).
lol... I have a similar thought about the event.
The FGFS booth was busy pretty much the whole
As I mentioned earlier, last weekend I attended
Southern California Linux Expo (SCALE) in Los Angeles:
http://www.socallinuxexpo.org/
The FlightGear project had booth space in the expo hall:
http://www.socallinuxexpo.org/exhibitions/flightgear.php
John Wojnarowski's amazing 747
The SCALE website has some pictures up from the event:
http://www.socallinuxexpo.org/scale3x_day1.php
In particular, this one may be of interest ...
http://www.socallinuxexpo.org/images/pictures/scale3x_day1_7.jpg
I took some pictures of the booth too, but haven't looked at them yet.
Why can't we have a tiny little app that is just intelligent enough
to find the XML file, check whether we should be splashing ourselves,
knows to abort quietly if not, and otherwise brings up a splash window?
Given something like that, with very very few library dependencies,
we should be able
I think the existing external telnet access is an excellent feature.
It would be nice to put some effort into making the underlying code
more efficient so that the simulator doesn't mind it being used a lot.
On a separate note, I propose the following feature (if not present):
1. A command on
From: Boris Koenig [EMAIL PROTECTED]
David Megginson wrote:
I understand
that there are USB devices that you can wear on your head to control
the view in games, and those would probably work in FlightGear, but it
would be hard to survive the ridicule from family, friends, and
neighbours
From: Martin Spott [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Ampere K. Hardraade wrote:
Sigh... and I thought ATI is supposed to be Linux-friendly?!
Things have changed a bit these days, but the r200 chip is still one of
the best supported GPU's in the OpenSource world. The problem on _your_
computer is not ATI's
(Maybe we should fork the subject to the open and closed source alternatives)
From: Steven Beeckman [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Alex Perry wrote:
I can give you advice on the fglrx route (which is what I'm using),
PS: Alex: what's fglrx? The drivers from ATI? I've tried the rpm I
think, but it didn't
On November 8, 2004 11:12 am, Alex Perry wrote:
Martin isn't kidding. ?You have to pick _one_ route, either the open
source one or the closed source one, and get your whole 3D system,
from user libraries through to kernel modules, lined up to support
just that execution path ... end
Also, in the XFree86.0.log, this keeps coming up:
(EE) fglrx(0): [agp] could not determine AGP since mode=0x
I did some googlings but I couldn't find anything related to this problem
If my memory serves me correctly, this is referring to the mask by which
you specify which AGP modes
The bits I thought were relevant:
(II) PCI: 01:02:0: chip 1002,5964 card 148c,2074 rev 01 class 03,00,00 hdr 00
(--) PCI: (0:2:0) Intel Corp. 82845G/GL [Brookdale-G] Chipset Integrated
Graphics Device rev 1, Mem @ 0x2000/27
(--) PCI:*(1:2:0) ATI Technologies Inc unknown chipset (0x5964)
From: Ampere K. Hardraade [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: [Flightgear-devel] ATI 9200 Direct Rendering problem on Linux
(wasAI Carrier)
I didn't follow the prior thread title due to too much day work.
First, I assume you have the correct version from the ATI website,
use the alien package
From: Curtis Olson [EMAIL PROTECTED]
I was there with ATC flight simulators to demo their ATC-610 upgrade
package which turns their old 100% analog ATC-610 into a new, modern
digital flight simulator using FG as the visual system, and the core
software infrastructure, along with proprietary
From: David Megginson [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Wed, 08 Sep 2004 21:35:30 +0200, Erik Hofman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I do think so, don't we.
I mean, this is an essential part of airfields, but don't know enough
about this subject to assert that the numbers are always right this way.
There's
On Wed, 8 Sep 2004 22:01:29 -0400
David Megginson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Wed, 8 Sep 2004 18:35:07 -0400, Chris Metzler
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
5. I don't know anything about how these signs are handled outside
the U.S. If you do, let me know.
I'd be interested in knowing
I've just tried the 0.7.5 release and there is no wet compass turning error.
When did that go away ? It's kinda important ...
PS. I'm not receiving e-mail at my usual address for a while. Use this
address or the list (since I can watch the archive).
David mentioned:
Carb icing is common on humid days in certain Continental engines such as
the one in the Cessna 150 and the old (pre-1967) 172, but it is very rare in
engines like the Lycoming O-320 (used in the Warrior and post-1967 Cessna
172's). The warnings in the later 172 POH's
From: David Megginson [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Alex Perry wrote:
That's a point. Once the engine stutters/quits due to carb ice,
you have to make it take a while for the ice to go away again.
... and it takes quite a while ...
Once the engine quits, it's too late for carb heat, isn't
From: Ampere K. Hardraade [EMAIL PROTECTED]
System spec:
CPU: Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 1.70 GHz
Memory: 512MB
Graphic card: Intel Corp. 82845G/GL[Brookdale-G]/GE Chipset Integrated
Graphics Device (rev01)(prog-if 00 [VGA])
Sound card: Multimedia audio controller: Intel Corp. 82801DB
Curt: Please add to the Events page. It is not yet clear _when_
the FGFS talk and demo will occur during the three day conference.
Leeds, England
August 6 thru August 8, 2004.
http://www.ukuug.org/events/linux2004/programme/abstract-APerry-2.shtml
Linux 2004
A wide
Today's CVS checkout of: OpenAL, PLIB, SimGear, FlightGear and Base package.
On my usual laptop, everything works fine as normal in both configurations:
Config 1= fglrx driver for ATI9600, Kernel 2.4, Debian Testing, 32 bit x86
Config 2= xfree86 unaccelerated, Kernel 2.6, Debian Unstable, pure 64
On July 17, 2004 04:54 pm, Erik Hofman wrote:
This is the penalty for those who want eye-candy. If specular
highlighting is supported it will be enabled an make FlightGear slower.
From: Ampere K. Hardraade [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Please tell me that you don't play FlightGear in wireframe mode. =P
From: Chris Horler [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Are the problems you're experiencing with
the drivers only experience on a 64 bit system?
No. The driver is completely unusable in 64 bit mode. In 32 bit mode,
it works fine providing you don't try to use the most recent kernel.
The 2.4.x series is fine,
Chris Horler wrote:
I'm going to buy a laptop very soon (pay day approaches).
You specifically need to decide whether weight is a factor for you:
(a) a desk top replacement, will weigh about 8 lb ... a luggable
(b) a lightweight powersaver, will weigh about 4 lb ... no gaming
I'm using an
If you *really* want the attitude information, your best bet is to buy one
of the new, portable backup gyros like this:
http://www.icarusinstruments.com/microEFIS.html
They're not cheap, but they'd be an order of magnitude cheaper than trying
to set something up to interface with the
Several years ago, we added the aircraft carrier into the static scenery
so people could land and take off ... but it didn't move or have effects
for relative wind, deck motion or the burble around tail and superstructure.
Is there a summary of its status and maybe recent screenshots somewhere ?
From: Chris Metzler [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Martin Spott [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Ampere K. Hardraade wrote:
On June 28, 2004 05:32 pm, Curtis L. Olson wrote:
I have just reregistered the flightgear.org domain name for another
year...
I sense someone is asking for a donation... lol
PayPal !?
I recently
modelled a 40-story building I wanted to put in its real-life location;
the latlong I'd dug up for the building didn't match any of the antenna
locations, so I didn't know what to substitute for.
If you live in the area you could drive over with a gps and survey the
building
On Tuesday 15 June 2004 19:55, Curtis L. Olson wrote:
I would like to propose that we set the default weather to zero winds,
zero turbulence, and maybe (?) zero clouds.
I propose the default weather be ...
1. Low altitudes below 6k' have a stable airmass with an inversion
layer, which is a
Compiling FlightGear source (after make clean) on a M6805 laptop:
For pure 32-bit it took 00:10:03 using Debian Sarge
For pure 64-bit it took 00:10:10 using Debian Sid
The use of two Debian versions probably led to the timing difference.
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is not in use.
As a side note, FGFS's dependency tree is fairly reliable,
so you can use make -j on a SMP machine or mosix cluster.
From: Giles Robertson [EMAIL PROTECTED]
How long does FG take to compile with that spec?
From: Alex Perry [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
e-Machines M6805. The next up model
Alex Perry wrote:
The framerate was just over 1fps, but that's because the laptop has
the ATI 9600 chipset so I have to choose between the unaccelerated
open source driver or the 32-bit only accelerated closed source
From Arnt Karlsen [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
..which laptop and which X?
e
I just noticed that the Debian autobuilder had quietly gone off and made
AMD64 packages to run FlightGear 0.9.4 and all its dependencies in 64-bit.
I did sudo apt-get install flightgear and fgfs ... and it ran fine.
The framerate was just over 1fps, but that's because the laptop has the
ATI 9600
For people who might be in Boston (MA, USA) at the end of June:
There will be a FlightGear Birds-Of-a-Feather (BOF) session [1] on
Wednesday June 30 2004, 7pm to 9pm ... and I encourage you to come.
There is no charge to attend the BOFs, but you need to register [2]
if you're not already
From: Curtis L. Olson [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Recently I added support for adjusting the DME readout based on an
optional per transmitter bias that is part of Robin's nav data.
[...] so it reads 0.00 at the touch down point.
It is only in specific countries where the goal is to have it read zero.
http://www.livejournal.com/users/debaday/
Tuesday, May 25th, 2004
flightgear - Flight Gear Flight Simulator
This thing is huge. This package comes to our attention from Paul, a student at
Griffith University in Australia. Paul says that this very large OpenGL flight
simulator requires eleven
On Sunday 02 May 2004 17:20, Jonathan Richards wrote:
Firstly, a title.
Runway behind you ... one of the three classic things, useless to a pilot
NewsGear ... in line with Curt's naming pattern
The shouting wind ... from High Flight (better for the mailing list tho)
Joystick and Pedal ... our
From: Frederic Bouvier [EMAIL PROTECTED]
From: Avi Levy [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[...] Is there a way to disable sound
support (besides the runtime parameter)? I would
like to know this, since I did not dive into the
OpenAl stuff yet, and really dont use sound anyway..
I don't thing it is
://www.sandpyt.org
Alex Perry will be giving a talk on Flightgear and Python:
The FlightGear Flight Simulator and its Python Class
Alexander Perry a l e x . p e r r y @ i e e e . o r g
April 15th
FlightGear
Having just rebuilt from scratch, I'm consistently getting segfaults
so the display never gets beyond the splash screen. Is there something
I should know about ? Debian/Testing with XFree 4.3 - PLIB examples ok.
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From: Jon Berndt [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[...]. This resulted in a little tumble, but when I came out of it and
regained level flight, the ADI showed I had a left roll of about 40 degrees,
but the visual scene (and more importantly for me) the FDM property that
drives it showed a roll angle of
From: Roy Vegard Ovesen [EMAIL PROTECTED]
I've created a new model for the spinning gyro (Instrumentation/gyro.*xx).
[...]
Now, I know that the existing gyro model and heading indicator and attitude
indicator work great and that some might think that I am trying to fix
something that is
I was just rebuilding FGFS's binary when I noticed these warnings.
Depending on what your compiler does, the runtime effect could be bad.
Someone was mentioning having occasional crashes.
source='tower.cxx' object='tower.o' libtool=no \
depfile='.deps/tower.Po' tmpdepfile='.deps/tower.TPo' \
I tried doing --enable-clouds3d and FGFS exits with a trap.
What am I supposed to do ? The code doesn't look like it's disabled.
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I've been looking for some new FGFS applications, compared to two years ago,
but none seem to be public ... as far as the website is concerned anyway.
Do any of you know of some that you just haven't mentioned on the list yet ?
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On Wed, 24 Mar 2004, Curtis L. Olson wrote:
I'm seeing a last minute flurry of people trying to get final model
tweaks into the base package (which is good--great work guys![1]), but
haven't heard any other complaints about the pre2 release. Are we
getting pretty close to making this release
gcc -g -O2 -L/usr/X11R6/lib -o gl-info gl-info.o -lGLU -lGL -lXmu -lXt -lSM -lICE
-lXi -lXext -lX11 -ldl -lm -lglut
/usr/lib/gcc-lib/i486-linux/3.3.3/../../../libglut.so: undefined reference to
`glXBindChannelToWindowSGIX'
/usr/lib/gcc-lib/i486-linux/3.3.3/../../../libglut.so: undefined
g++ -DPKGLIBDIR=\/usr/local/lib/FlightGear\ -g -O2 -D_REENTRANT -L/usr/X11R6/lib -o
fgfs bootstrap.o ../../src/Main/libMain.a ../../src/Aircraft/libAircraft.a
../../src/ATC/libATC.a ../../src/Cockpit/libCockpit.a
../../src/Cockpit/built_in/libBuilt_in.a ../../src/Controls/libControls.a
From: Alex Perry [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[...]
/usr/lib/gcc-lib/i486-linux/3.3.3/../../../libglut.so:
undefined reference to `glXChannelRectSGIX'
[...]
Never mind. It looks like Debian Testing has managed to temporarily
have insufficient dependency constraints. It is currently possible
to have
All the recent stuff in the gallery is for nice, cloudless skies.
Has anybody got a screenshot that shows off our cloud support well ?
If not, I'll try to set up something picturesque in the morning.
PS. I _don't_ want a picture of the sky bowl infelicities. 8-)
Is the utils/fgadmin supposed to be portable selfcontained code?
It references a bunch of header files that are not in its own tree
and are not part of FLTK version 1.0.11-5 that's in Debian Stable.
Should there be a version number check inserted into configure?
source='fgadmin.cxx'
From: Norman Vine [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Steve Baker writes:
I just updated the current tarball at SourceForge
http://plib.sourceforge.net/dist/current.tgz
I will manually force a tarball update if and when I see any CVS commit
messages between now and the release so that the tarball is truely
Orthonormalize wrote:
2) there seems to be a lot of code that is in transition, like the
WeatherCM, Scripting modules. i was only able to compile after deleting
these.
WeatherCM and the scripting code is working and has been stable for several
years. I think it is wrong to suggest that
Orthonormalize wrote:
-my solution: prebuild a few Lowest Common Denominator configurations
(say lynux,windows and mac) and then call it a day.
A key advantage of FlightGear is that it _does_ support high end platforms.
What's the point in having a simulator that only runs on low end
From: Martin Spott [EMAIL PROTECTED]
David Megginson wrote:
Fuel costs don't help, obviously, but they're a relatively small percentage
of the cost of operating a plane (i.e. doubling the fuel cost might increase the
cost of flying by 25%). Is maintenance more expensive? Is it taxation
I haven't heard much talk about the python class wrapper for FGFS's
telnet remote access to the property tree. The scripting directory
in CVS appears to have been untouched for the last couple of years.
Is it still a stable bit of code whose capabilities we promote ?
I'm asking because I've been
Great news!
Usenix have accepted my abstract so I'm going to write the talk
and the paper over the next few weeks.
Title: The FlightGear Flight Simulator
Author(s): Alexander R Perry, PAMurray
FlightGear has come a long way since first
being showcased at LinuxWorld in San Jose.
The IEEE smart sensor standard is currently being updated from the
previous release, including the networked sensor array stuff that
is intended for the likes of Boeing when performing flight testing.
It occurs to me that the people who are interested in monitoring the
FDM behavior (i.e. the JSB
Put onto the FGFS list in case east coast FGFS people are interested.
Subject: [Fwd: Planning Community Based FOSS Event in NYC]
From: Joe Phillips [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: Debian Events NA list [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: 07 Feb 2004 13:05:02 -0500
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
David said:
SVFR means something entirely different in North America. [...]
His was a good summary. It did not address the pilot qualifications
and currencies needed to use SVFR, which exist in part because SVFR
is often used for scud running ... which is extremely dangerous.
The reason for
From: Roy Vegard Ovesen [EMAIL PROTECTED]
I am currently in the process of implementing the Bendix/King KAP 140
autopilot. This is a rate based autopilot, it uses the turn rate and rate
of climb as its primary inputs. The turn indicator instrument implements a
low-pass filter so that the
From: Erik Hofman [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Innis Cunningham wrote:
Erik Hofman writes
Is it true that apron/platform/hardstand lights should be red instead
of blue?
If we are talking about area lighting I would think yellow to
light orange.
I meant the edge lighting (just like the taxiway
Making all in filtersjb
make[1]: Entering directory `/home/alex/fs/FlightGear/src/FDM/JSBSim/filtersjb'
make[1]: Nothing to be done for `all'.
make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/alex/fs/FlightGear/src/FDM/JSBSim/filtersjb'
make[1]: Entering directory `/home/alex/fs/FlightGear/src/FDM/JSBSim'
I have no idea whether I can make it. I am at serious risk of negative
spare time from August through November, and won't know for a while.
Curtis L. Olson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
You don't necessarily need to
be a developer to help with the booth, but a moderate working knowledge
of
From: Matthew Law [EMAIL PROTECTED]
My sentiment was that there have also been many accidents caused by ATC
talking in a foreign language (English) to another pilot who also doesn't
speak English as a first language.
It's a lot worse than that, for simultaneous use of languages, actually.
On Wed, 2003-12-24 at 05:51, David Megginson wrote:
Cameron Moore wrote:
All other things being equal, a plane that flies twice as fast
(say, because of heavy wing-loading)
needs twice as much time and four times as much space
to make a change in its flight path -- that's why a little
From: Martin Spott [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Jon Stockill [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
And the open source drivers don't support some of the newer ATI cards.
Sorry, why do you buy cards that are not supported by OpenSource
drivers ? You are developing OpenSource software, why don't you take
care of
For those people who enjoy this kind of challenge (I don't have time):
If someone has (or will have) a script for making a Knoppix style CD of FGFS,
I think the capability is directly relevant for teaching/instructional use.
The CD, when starting FGFS, might load a default configuration and then
Curt asked:
If anyone is interested in organizing a FlightGear booth at the Linux
World Expo in NY, Jan 20-23 2004, now is the time to apply for booth
space.
Sorry, we cannot guarantee to be in NY then so I cannot be the organizer.
If someone requests a booth, please allocate two exhibitor
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
favorite flight simulator, tell the show organizers and they'll provide space.
I've got the form and contact (keeping addresses out of our list
From: Curtis L. Olson [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Thanks to a kind donation by an anonymous friend of the flightgear
project we have just been able to upgrade our main ftp server [...]
Please thank the anonymous friend from me too, when opportunity arises.
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http://www.linuxdevices.com/articles/AT9733962835.html
There _must_ be a better way to communicate with the remote model aircraft
than to use a web application server as the client software ...
... any ideas ? 8-)
From: Erik Hofman [EMAIL PROTECTED]
http://www.a1.nl/~ehofman/fgfs/gallery/test/san_francisco_natural.jpg
http://www.a1.nl/~ehofman/fgfs/gallery/test/san_francisco_fgfs.jpg
Someone was complaining about the lake in the middle of the city.
I suspect it is the age of the vmap dataset that is to
From: Alex Perry [EMAIL PROTECTED]
I've just been reading the April 2003 issue of EAA's Sport Aviation magazine
and pages 50 through 58 are a nice article titled Virtual Building about
Flight simulation for the homebuilder by Chuck Bodeen. It includes a
discussion comparing the benefits
I don't recall seeing this go past previously; if it has, my apologies.
I've just been reading the April 2003 issue of EAA's Sport Aviation magazine
and pages 50 through 58 are a nice article titled Virtual Building about
Flight simulation for the homebuilder by Chuck Bodeen. It includes a
Given historical precedent of FGFS developers going for flight training...
a magazine gave tips for motion sickness in boats, relevant to acft too.
1. Look at the horizon and try to have your side peripheral vision be
horizon and not the moving side of the vehicle (if feasible).
2. Orient
I have been wondering whether the Outlook autorun feature
could conveniently be used to assist Windows users who would
like to use FlightGear. They sign up for the mailing list
[EMAIL PROTECTED] as usual and their
start of subscription mail message has a PIF attachment
that autoinstalls
Matthew Law writes:
I did my first solo this evening after almost 13hrs.
Congratulations. What are you training in ?
In summary, it went OK. I can't wait for the cross countries, but
I'm sure the inclement UK weather will impede those a little :-(
I much preferred to fly the cross countries
A bit off topic but may be of interest. These people
http://keyholecorp.com/earthviewer/nvidia.html
provide photographic 3D views of the world (at various resolutions)
and it occurs to me that their positioning interface for the viewer
may be scriptable. In that case, one computer could
From: Erik Hofman [EMAIL PROTECTED]
http://www.megascenery.com/images/ba3n.JPG
http://www.megascenery.com/images/ba3w.JPG
http://www.a1.nl/~ehofman/fgfs/gallery/test/VanNuysCA.jpg
Speaking from personal experience,
* I find that omitting horizon haze makes the two MSFS look quite silly.
* The
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