Re: [Flightgear-devel] Reverse for 737-300 model (patch)

2009-05-17 Thread Gene Buckle
> > Many thanks to all of you for this very interesting feedback which, > honestly, was unexpected. I have attached an updated patch (added a > check that the AGL altitude is lower than 10', removed the drag > calculation and corrected the reverser-angle-rad value). Of course, > feedback is very we

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Reverse for 737-300 model (patch)

2009-05-17 Thread Bertrand Coconnier
First of all, sorry for sending so many e-mails to the mailing list. I grouped the answers to several other e-mails in this one in order to stop flooding everybody's mailbox. 2009/5/15 John Wojnaroski : > Perhaps Dave might want to expand on this or correct any errors > > There are reverse "RE

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Reverse for 737-300 model (patch)

2009-05-17 Thread Gene Buckle
On Sun, 17 May 2009, Bertrand Coconnier wrote:  In the real aircraft there is no "indication" that the reversers are on. I think it is quite not true. Deployment of the reverse must be controlled and monitored by the pilots since its inadvertent deployment can be catastrophic. See the crash of

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Reverse for 737-300 model (patch)

2009-05-17 Thread Heiko Schulz
Hi, >Is it possible to have a copy of your model ? Of course: www.hoerbird.net/737-classic.zip It includes the 737-300 and the 737-400. But there will be maybe still some bugs and it needs work thoughBut should work with 1.9.1 and CVS >This is an interesting remark and I did not think abo

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Reverse for 737-300 model (patch)

2009-05-17 Thread Alan Teeder
-Original Message- From: Bertrand Coconnier [mailto:bcoco...@gmail.com] So I can hardly believe there is no indication of the correct deployment of the T/Rs on the cockpit panel. Cheers, Bertrand. -- It is quite obv

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Reverse for 737-300 model (patch)

2009-05-17 Thread Bertrand Coconnier
Or may be the indication is only available on the more modern aircrafts ? 2009/5/17 Bertrand Coconnier : > Hi Gene, > > 2009/5/15 Gene Buckle : >> >> The thrust reversers require that you go to idle power to engage them. >> However, after that you can run the power back up. > > This is a very inte

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Reverse for 737-300 model (patch)

2009-05-17 Thread Bertrand Coconnier
Hi Heiko, 2009/5/15 Heiko Schulz : > > Hi, > > Some time ago, I started to improve the 737-300. I let it stall: no times, > experiences I had with the development of the c172p and some personal things. > I have still a copy on my local system but give up development > There are some people which

Re: [Flightgear-devel] terrain elevation under a solid AI aircraft

2009-05-17 Thread Gijs de Rooy
> I seem to remember it is possible to make an object solid or not. I > Gijs' case this means the shelter should be made non-solid. > I can't remember how to do that though. Wouldn't that mean that the object becomes un-crashable? Or can I make things solid for AI traffic only? Regards, G

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Reverse for 737-300 model (patch)

2009-05-17 Thread Bertrand Coconnier
Hi Gene, 2009/5/15 Gene Buckle : > > The thrust reversers require that you go to idle power to engage them. > However, after that you can run the power back up. This is a very interesting information. Thank you. > In the real aircraft > there is no "indication" that the reversers are on. I thin

Re: [Flightgear-devel] terrain elevation under a solid AI aircraft

2009-05-17 Thread Erik Hofman
Alexis Bory - xiii wrote: > Note: In the case of the tanker and for my particular needs, it is a > very, very, very minor wish... It is just a matter of knowing if adding > this feature to FG would be a big deal in the core code, and also if > this elevation/AI problem is encountered in other ma

Re: [Flightgear-devel] terrain elevation under a solid AI aircraft

2009-05-17 Thread Alexis Bory - xiii
Alexis Bory - xiii wrote: > Hi, When trying to get the terrain elevation under a solid AI (like a > tanker) we only get the elevation of the AI, maybe that's because it > is solid... But it can be useful to get the real terrain elevation, > for instance if we want to know the AI AGL. A workarou

[Flightgear-devel] AI Traffic on objects

2009-05-17 Thread Gijs de Rooy
Hi, I'm working on a military airport and I would like to place AI aircraft within their shelters (as startup locations). However, the system places the aircraft on top of any object that is in the way. So instead of in the shelter, they are on the shelter. Is they any way to fix that? Or

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Segfault

2009-05-17 Thread Nicolas
To complete backtrace : (gdb) backtrace full #0 0x085b15e0 in SGGeodesy::SGGeodToCart (ge...@0x19, ca...@0xbff93d40) at SGGeodesy.cxx:100 h = 78.0288004 n = -2.9997860811925778 #1 0x084698da in FGPositioned::cart (this=0x11) at /usr/local/include/simgear/math/SGVec3.hxx:1

[Flightgear-devel] Segfault

2009-05-17 Thread Nicolas
Hi, Program received signal SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault. [Switching to Thread 0xb6215730 (LWP 28660)] 0x085b15e0 in SGGeodesy::SGGeodToCart (ge...@0x19, ca...@0xbff93d40) at SGGeodesy.cxx:100 100 SGGeodesy::SGGeodToCart(const SGGeod& geod, SGVec3& cart) (gdb) list 95geod.setLatitudeRad