Re: [Flightgear-devel] Formation Flying

2006-05-11 Thread Julien Pierru
RonI like the instrument (HSI) you have in the F4, so it would be great to have it in the OV-10. However since the OV-10 is Dave's baby i'll let him decide.Regards, Julien

RE: [Flightgear-devel] Weekly CVS Changelog Summary: FlightGeardata

2006-05-11 Thread dene maxwell
Thanks Ron, Yes running 098a win32... doubt i'll *hose* anything important /var/cvs/FlightGear-0.9/=http://cvs.flightgear.org/cgi-bin/viewcvs/viewcvs.cgi/?cvsroot=FlightGear-0.9 from there I navigate the folders as listed ...worked for the model-howto.html Thanks Ron :-D ene From: Ron

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Help About Coding

2006-05-11 Thread Erik Hofman
m umair wrote: Hi I am a computer science student an interesting in flight simulations and my final proj of BSC is Simulation of F-16 It is basic prototype of Flight simulator game. Now I want to enhance my simulator using flightgear. I would be thank full to you if you would let me know

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Frames of Reference in jsbsim

2006-05-11 Thread Steve Hosgood
Jon S. Berndt wrote: I just *know* I'm going to get totally flamed for this, but can someone please tell me how the CG, Eyepoint, AERORP and VRP are interconnected? Yeah, I know - RTFM. I'd say that, but there really isn't much of one, yet! :-( You won't get flamed. It's

[Flightgear-devel] Re: [Flightgear-cvslogs] CVS: FlightGear/src/Autopilot route_mgr.cxx,1.12,1.13 route_mgr.hxx,1.8,1.9

2006-05-11 Thread Martin Spott
Melchior Franz wrote: Update of /var/cvs/FlightGear-0.9/FlightGear/src/Autopilot In directory baron:/tmp/cvs-serv16823 Modified Files: route_mgr.cxx route_mgr.hxx Log Message: only activate heading altitude lock when in air (and even then it should probably be configurable?).

[Flightgear-devel] Re: [Flightgear-cvslogs] CVS: FlightGear/src/Autopilot route_mgr.cxx,1.12,1.13 route_mgr.hxx,1.8,1.9

2006-05-11 Thread Melchior FRANZ
* Martin Spott -- Thursday 11 May 2006 12:24: Melchior Franz wrote: Log Message: only activate heading altitude lock when in air (and even then it should probably be configurable?). It probably makes much sense to couple this to the minimum safe altitude as a default instead of simply

[Flightgear-devel] Re: [Flightgear-cvslogs] CVS: FlightGear/src/Autopilot route_mgr.cxx,1.12,1.13 route_mgr.hxx,1.8,1.9

2006-05-11 Thread Melchior FRANZ
* Martin Spott -- Thursday 11 May 2006 12:24: It probably makes much sense to couple this to the minimum safe altitude as a default instead of simply '!on_ground', say at least 500 ft AGL in unpopulated areas, [...] What I forgot to mention: the route manager only locks the AP when when a

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Frames of Reference in jsbsim

2006-05-11 Thread Josh Babcock
Steve Hosgood wrote: Before I say anything, I'd like to commend you Jon, along with Dave Culp and Erik Hofman for your three replies to my original question. *None* of you flamed me or anyone else, and answered pretty much all my questions really neatly. You're not subscribed to [EMAIL

RE: [Flightgear-devel] Frames of Reference in jsbsim

2006-05-11 Thread Jon S. Berndt
Steve Hosgood wrote: Before I say anything, I'd like to commend you Jon, along with Dave Culp and Erik Hofman for your three replies to my original question. *None* of you flamed me or anyone else, and answered pretty much all my questions really neatly. You're not subscribed to

[Flightgear-devel] Re: Bug in FGRouteMgr::make_waypoint

2006-05-11 Thread Melchior FRANZ
* George Patterson -- Thursday 11 May 2006 14:39: #0 0x2c4d805a in strtof_l () from /lib/libc.so.6 #1 0x0060099f in FGRouteMgr::make_waypoint ( this=value optimized out, wp=0x7faae918, [EMAIL PROTECTED]) at stdlib.h:327 I have saved the full backtrace for

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Formation Flying

2006-05-11 Thread Vassilii Khachaturov
Great flying and great pics! How did you folks coordinate? just pre-flight briefing or did you maintain a voice com channel (speakeasy)? V --- Using Tomcat but need to do more? Need to support web services, security? Get stuff done quickly

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Formation Flying

2006-05-11 Thread Dave Culp
On Thursday 11 May 2006 08:24 am, Vassilii Khachaturov wrote: Great flying and great pics! How did you folks coordinate? just pre-flight briefing or did you maintain a voice com channel (speakeasy)? We used the unruly gaggle method :) Some of the participants have got TeamSpeak running, and

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Formation Flying

2006-05-11 Thread Julien Pierru
shavlir, Eow and I were all on my Teamspeak server while Dave was on IRC, but I hope we can fix is voice issue so that all of us can be on TS. The voice is really important since you can't really take your hands off the stick and throttle to type... Julien

[Flightgear-devel] Re: Bug in FGRouteMgr::make_waypoint

2006-05-11 Thread Melchior FRANZ
* George Patterson -- Thursday 11 May 2006 14:39: Version: Flightgear CVS with latest data SimGear CVS/HEAD, too? (Although it shouldn't compile without that, but one never knows.) I have saved the full backtrace for all three threads if required. Please send this to me. The main thread is

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Frames of Reference in jsbsim

2006-05-11 Thread Jim Wilson
From: Erik Hofman Steve Hosgood wrote: I just *know* I'm going to get totally flamed for this, but can someone please tell me how the CG, Eyepoint, AERORP and VRP are interconnected? Yeah, I know - RTFM. It basically comes down to this, *you* decide where (0,0,0) is referenced and

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Frames of Reference in jsbsim

2006-05-11 Thread Dave Culp
On Thursday 11 May 2006 04:56 am, Steve Hosgood wrote: Do you confirm that the AERORP is the point from which the tail arm and rudder arm are referenced? Since it doesn't seem possible to specify a wing arm, do I assume that the AERORP must be sited at the 0.25 chord point of the main wing?

[Flightgear-devel] OT: Crash Tenders

2006-05-11 Thread Erik Hofman
Hi, I thought I had to share this, it's almost as futuristic as an modern jet fighter. It's is the latest Emergency vehicle for all our main airports in The Netherlands and has replaced the aging crash tenders now. From my local airport: http://www.hofman.com/EHTW/E-One.jpg

[Flightgear-devel] Re: OT: Crash Tenders

2006-05-11 Thread Melchior FRANZ
* Erik Hofman -- Thursday 11 May 2006 16:35: I thought I had to share this, it's almost as futuristic as an modern jet fighter. This shouldn't be a mine is bigger than yours, but Austrian Rosenbauer has built such thingies since around 20 years. Nice to see that others are slowly catching up.

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Formation Flying

2006-05-11 Thread alexander babichev
Julien Pierru wrote: shavlir, Eow and I were all on my Teamspeak server while Dave was on IRC, but I hope we can fix is voice issue so that all of us can be on TS. The voice is really important since you can't really take your hands off the stick and throttle to type... There are few other

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Formation Flying

2006-05-11 Thread Anders Gidenstam
On Fri, 12 May 2006, alexander babichev wrote: Head tracking is very handy for formation flying too. I'm using TrackIR device and I'm going to add TrackIR support to FlightGear. I've got TrackIR SDK from NaturalPoint. Unfortunately, it is impossible to use TrackIR SDK in open source

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Frames of Reference in jsbsim

2006-05-11 Thread Dave Culp
On Thursday 11 May 2006 11:08 am, Steve Hosgood wrote: Things are becoming a bit more transparent. Trouble is, an aircraft modeller usually starts by knowing just physical parameters (location of wings and things, location of tail, rudder etc along with amount of dihedral, angle of incidence

[Flightgear-devel] Re: OT: Crash Tenders

2006-05-11 Thread Jim Wilson
From: Melchior FRANZ * Erik Hofman -- Thursday 11 May 2006 16:35: I thought I had to share this, it's almost as futuristic as an modern jet fighter. This shouldn't be a mine is bigger than yours, but Austrian Rosenbauer has built such thingies since around 20 years. Nice to see that

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Re: OT: Crash Tenders

2006-05-11 Thread Erik Hofman
Melchior FRANZ wrote: This shouldn't be a mine is bigger than yours, but Austrian Rosenbauer has built such thingies since around 20 years. Nice to see that others are slowly catching up. :-} http://www.rosenbauer.com/

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Formation Flying

2006-05-11 Thread Paul Surgeon
On Thursday 11 May 2006 17:10, alexander babichev wrote: Head tracking is very handy for formation flying too. I'm using TrackIR device and I'm going to add TrackIR support to FlightGear. I've got TrackIR SDK from NaturalPoint. Unfortunately, it is impossible to use TrackIR SDK in open

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Help About Coding

2006-05-11 Thread m umair
Hi DearThank you for giving me time. I think Its my fault that I count not make it clear. I made a video game like flight simulator with all graphics using Directx. But there are some limitatins such as terrain is very heavy and I load all at once, not all flight controlls and dynamics are

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Formation Flying

2006-05-11 Thread alexander babichev
Anders Gidenstam wrote: Is TrackIR available for Linux, IRIX and other platforms? There are some drivers for Linux, but nothing that really works. TrackIR manufacturer wants to develop such drivers, but dislike making it open source for some reason. -- Best regards, Alexander Babichev

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Formation Flying

2006-05-11 Thread alexander babichev
Paul Surgeon wrote: If you use a network connection between your binary wrapper and FlightGear it will allow anyone running FG on Linux,Sun,SGI,Mac OS X, etc. to use TrackIR on a second Windows PC. OK, I'll use UDP based protocol to allow such configurations. I'll publish detailed protocol