RE: [Flightgear-devel] Flightgear review in FlightXPress

2002-06-02 Thread Michael Basler
Arnt, Does the magazine ever mention http://eaa.org/ type planes? Geek fliers build their planes. ;-) No. ..how about flight dynamics in the review? ..I'm curious; this magazine reviews other sims flight dynamics, did they miss all our FDM's? It's a 1 page review including 4 screen

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Flightgear review in FlightXPress

2002-06-02 Thread Erik Hofman
Michael Basler wrote: Arnt, ..I'm curious; this magazine reviews other sims flight dynamics, did they miss all our FDM's? It's a 1 page review including 4 screen shots. There are no details on flight dynamics. The author does not even mention/compare different FDMs. Hmm, this makes me

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Flightgear review in FlightXPress

2002-06-02 Thread Arnt Karlsen
On Sun, 2 Jun 2002 09:29:39 +0200, Michael Basler [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Arnt, Does the magazine ever mention http://eaa.org/ type planes? Geek fliers build their planes. ;-) No. ..how about flight dynamics in the review? ..I'm curious; this

RE: [Flightgear-devel] Flightgear review in FlightXPress

2002-06-02 Thread Michael Basler
To all those interested, I don't know if it's worth the trouble, but I made a scan of the FlightXpress article plus an ASCII (OCR) version plus an English translation by myself (given I work as a technical translator for a living I just didn't want to leave the job to a machine :-). I will ask

[Flightgear-devel] Flightgear review in FlightXPress

2002-06-01 Thread Michael Basler
Dear developers, I received the June issue of FlightXPress, a German language (actually THE German language) language journal on Flight simulation (http://www.flightxpress.de/) today. To begin with: I've been reading FlightXPress for 2 years now and judge it as a quite fair journal in general

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Flightgear review in FlightXPress

2002-06-01 Thread Jim Wilson
Michael Basler [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: This said, we might perhaps be better off re-thinking a few prorities than just spitting on the guy who wrote this. Nice email. Let me just say that some people haven't a clue how to evaluate open source projects. Some software is developed for the

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Flightgear review in FlightXPress

2002-06-01 Thread Cameron Moore
* [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Michael Basler) [2002.06.01 10:44]: Dear developers, I received the June issue of FlightXPress, a German language (actually THE snip/ This issue has a one page review on Flightgear written by a Marc Stoering ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) who seems to belong to the editors (not

RE: [Flightgear-devel] Flightgear review in FlightXPress

2002-06-01 Thread Michael Basler
Cameron, What version of FG did he review? That's (unfortunately) not explicitly stated, but from the screenshots I suppose (based on the panels and the yellow/blue glider) it's 0.7.9. Someone with Suse 8.0 might want to check what comes bundled. I think this is a fair characterization of

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Flightgear review in FlightXPress

2002-06-01 Thread Andy Ross
Michael Basler wrote: I received the June issue of FlightXPress, a German language (actually THE German language) language journal on Flight simulation (http://www.flightxpress.de/) today. This issue has a one page review on Flightgear written by a Marc Stoering This actually seems mostly

RE: [Flightgear-devel] Flightgear review in FlightXPress

2002-06-01 Thread Jon Berndt
Some of the models are awful. Some are very much not. There's far too much variation across our flight models (across different code bases and even between individual aircraft in the same FDM) to permit a blanket statement like this one. It's just kibitzing. If he had specific complaints

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Flightgear review in FlightXPress

2002-06-01 Thread John Check
On Saturday 01 June 2002 11:43 am, Michael Basler wrote: Dear developers, I received the June issue of FlightXPress, a German language (actually THE German language) language journal on Flight simulation (http://www.flightxpress.de/) today. snip Unfortunately the review on FG as such is

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Flightgear review in FlightXPress

2002-06-01 Thread Arnt Karlsen
On Sat, 01 Jun 2002 17:23:02 -0400, John Check [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On Saturday 01 June 2002 11:43 am, Michael Basler wrote: Dear developers, I received the June issue of FlightXPress, a German language (actually THE German language) language journal