Re: [Flightgear-devel] FlightGear/Simulink/LabVIEW Interface

2012-07-11 Thread Viktor Radnai
Hi Andy, I didn't see anyone else respond so I thought I'd give you some pointers. The Matlab plugin seems to be part of Simulink's Aerospace blockset. I'm by no means an expert on Matlab, but I would think that it should come with the Matlab installer as an optional component to install... I

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Yasim static friction?

2012-07-06 Thread Viktor Radnai
out of my league for both the knowledge of C++ and the Flightgear codebase. Could someone please help me with this? Thanks in advance! Cheers, Vik On 07/05/2012 09:34 PM, Andy Ross wrote: (Happened to be browsing in time to see a question) On 07/05/2012 06:21 AM, Viktor Radnai wrote: I

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Yasim static friction?

2012-07-06 Thread Viktor Radnai
Well, I am giving it a shot, but it seems it won't be that easy. See my other (long) mail sent on this topic :) Cheers, Vik On 07/06/2012 05:48 PM, Andy Ross wrote: On 07/05/2012 02:41 PM, Viktor Radnai wrote: Thanks for that! So just to clarify -- this is a bug in Yasim code (or more like

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Yasim static friction?

2012-07-05 Thread Viktor Radnai
that the brakes are always slightly set, but what do I do for the prop? Cheers, Vik On 07/05/2012 03:30 PM, Emilian Huminiuc wrote: On Thursday 05 July 2012 15:21:24 Viktor Radnai wrote: 1. When the aircraft is parked with no parking brake, it will usually start to roll slowly backwards -- pushed

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Yasim static friction?

2012-07-05 Thread Viktor Radnai
You mean when the wind is blowing from the front-left of the plane? Cheers, Vik On 07/05/2012 04:14 PM, Hyde Yamakawa wrote: Does this happen only left wind, right? Or happens on right wind too? Hyde (2012年07月05日 10:02), Viktor Radnai wrote: Technically, you also have the compression

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Yasim static friction?

2012-07-05 Thread Viktor Radnai
the aircraft or the prop. On 07/05/2012 04:14 PM, Hyde Yamakawa wrote: Does this happen only left wind, right? Or happens on right wind too? Hyde (2012年07月05日 10:02), Viktor Radnai wrote: Technically, you also have the compression of the wheels -- when the wheel turns, part of the tire

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Merge request: SF-25 Falke

2012-06-14 Thread Viktor Radnai
Hi Thorsten, Thanks for the comments, glad you liked it :) You're right about the radio stack -- in fact this Falke is rather over-instrumented compared to most of its brethren. The instrument panel is roughly based on the one I'm doing my PPL on, and I've added this radio because it looked

[Flightgear-devel] Merge request: SF-25 Falke

2012-06-06 Thread Viktor Radnai
Hi all, I've created a merge request to update the SF-25 Falke. Do I need to do anything else to get it merged? https://gitorious.org/fg/fgdata/merge_requests/108 Also this is only my third merge request so the whole process is fairly new to me. I'd appreciate it if someone could take a look

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Starting engine using FGNetCtrls

2012-06-02 Thread Viktor Radnai
not consistently switched on? On Fri, Jun 1, 2012 at 2:46 PM, Viktor Radnai viktor.rad...@gmail.com mailto:viktor.rad...@gmail.com wrote: Actually the engine rpm is usually oscillating between 430 and 450 rpm. Therefore it must be shutting down and starting up repeatedly, or at least

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Starting engine using FGNetCtrls

2012-06-01 Thread Viktor Radnai
-standard stuff. Also make sure you're not sitting with a strong tailwind as that can affect some propeller configurations and make them harder to turn. Ron On Thursday 31 May 2012 15:16:42 Viktor Radnai wrote: Hi all, I'm going to use Flightgear for developing/testing UAV code (yep, another

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Starting engine using FGNetCtrls

2012-06-01 Thread Viktor Radnai
this. But your engine should have 'started' as it exceeded 440 RPM... Anyway, glad it works now, and we can revisit this after FlightGear syncs JSBSim. Ron On Friday 01 June 2012 09:39:52 Viktor Radnai wrote: Hi Ron, A quick test confirms that you were indeed right: Engine state: 0, mag: 3, starter

[Flightgear-devel] Starting engine using FGNetCtrls

2012-05-31 Thread Viktor Radnai
Hi all, I'm going to use Flightgear for developing/testing UAV code (yep, another one of those :) ). I'm currently putting together an SDL app that communicates with FG. I'm using the FGNetCtrls structure from net_ctrls.hxx. I'm trying to start the C172's engine but when I set startup_power =

Re: [Flightgear-devel] ccmake problems with flightgear git latest

2012-01-11 Thread Viktor Radnai
Hi all, I had the same issue. It's quite odd. Git status was showing my tree as unmodified but I had to do the same thing (clone a new copy) with simgear otherwise it was not finding OSG in /usr/include. I think it was only looking in /usr/local/include for some reason. Cheers, Vik On

Re: [Flightgear-devel] ccmake problems with flightgear git latest

2012-01-11 Thread Viktor Radnai
Thanks for that. One of these days I'll actually learn git I promise :) Unfortunately I already nuked the old tree so I can't figure out what was left over that was causing the error. Cheers, Vik On 01/11/2012 01:50 PM, Stefan Seifert wrote: On Wednesday 11 January 2012 13:27:04 Viktor Radnai

Re: [Flightgear-devel] New experimental mapserver

2011-09-10 Thread Viktor Radnai
Hi all, If you are looking for airports with extreme runway slope for testing, may I suggest Lukla, Nepal (VNLK). If that one comes out looking right, I'd say you've got the code sorted :) Cheers, Vik On 09/10/2011 02:47 PM, Christian Schmitt wrote: Curtis Olson wrote: I won't say this is

[Flightgear-devel] FG hangs while waiting for METAR data?

2011-08-24 Thread Viktor Radnai
Hi all, I could be wrong but it appears to me that FG will hang if the METAR server is unreachable. I was using FG while connected to the Internet via my phone (through wifi). Whenever my phone reboots or connectivity is lost, FG would produce a square wave pattern on my CPU meter. It would

Re: [Flightgear-devel] FG hangs while waiting for METAR data?

2011-08-24 Thread Viktor Radnai
Hi James, Thanks for that. I just wanted to report it in case noone did yet. Cheers, Vik On 24 August 2011 10:35, James Turner zakal...@mac.com wrote: On 24 Aug 2011, at 08:57, Viktor Radnai wrote: I could be wrong but it appears to me that FG will hang if the METAR server is unreachable

Re: [Flightgear-devel] New aircraft: SF-25

2011-08-24 Thread Viktor Radnai
on takeoff and especially landing. Any help would be appreciated. Also I promise that if someone sets up the model in FG git, I'll stop spamming the list every time I update it :) Cheers, Vik On 23 August 2011 17:22, Viktor Radnai viktor.rad...@gmail.com wrote: Hi all, I have uploaded a newer

Re: [Flightgear-devel] New aircraft: SF-25

2011-08-23 Thread Viktor Radnai
/17/2011 02:10 AM, Viktor Radnai wrote: Hi all, I have updated the model. Please download and test again if you are interested. http://www.avatarzenekar.hu/files/sf25b.tar.bz2 Many thanks to all especially Gary aka Buckaroo for his yasim xml and explanations. List of changes: - CG

Re: [Flightgear-devel] New aircraft: SF-25

2011-08-16 Thread Viktor Radnai
Hi guys, Thanks for this. Gary, I gave your yasim xml a spin. (sorry, long mail ahead) I don't have enough experience with the plane yet to comment on everything. The real thing seems to behave a bit better on takeoff when there is no crosswind -- haven't done a crosswind takeoff or landing

Re: [Flightgear-devel] New aircraft: SF-25

2011-08-16 Thread Viktor Radnai
airfield, after a point, the planes will take care of the lawnmowing :D On 08/16/2011 02:29 PM, Gene Buckle wrote: On Tue, 16 Aug 2011, Viktor Radnai wrote: http://www.avatarzenekar.hu/files/P1020617.JPG http://www.avatarzenekar.hu/files/P1020618.JPG Am I the only one that noticed that someone

Re: [Flightgear-devel] New aircraft: SF-25

2011-08-16 Thread Viktor Radnai
with the type would be very much welcome. Cheers, Vik I can't really follow the discussion on the Yasim internals On 08/16/2011 02:29 PM, Gene Buckle wrote: On Tue, 16 Aug 2011, Viktor Radnai wrote: http://www.avatarzenekar.hu/files/P1020617.JPG http://www.avatarzenekar.hu/files/P1020618.JPG

Re: [Flightgear-devel] YASIM Comment (was New aircraft: SF-25)

2011-08-16 Thread Viktor Radnai
Hi Adrian, On 08/16/2011 12:46 PM, Adrian Musceac wrote: Viktor, During the long hours which have been spent by Emilian and I tweaking the IAR80 FDM, I have found out that three tag parameters have a very heavy influence on the solver: [approach aoa= glide-angle=] and [cruise glide- angle=]

[Flightgear-devel] New aircraft: SF-25

2011-08-15 Thread Viktor Radnai
Hi all, Athanasios Goritsas (cc-d) created a nice Falke 3D model with a basic Yasim profile, based on the aircraft he flew with. I would like to develop his model further (I'm doing my PPL on the real thing atm). We would both like to see it in Git (under a GPL license), maybe more people

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Solved: Shift key stuck once pressed

2010-04-02 Thread Viktor Radnai
Hi all, This problem is also present in 2.0. I do not know what software contains the bug, but the issue is related to switching between keyboard layouts. Specifically if I configure Gnome keyboard layout preferences in a way that both shift keys together change the layout, I get the issue. I

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Shift key stuck once pressed

2010-02-17 Thread Viktor Radnai
of another library or an out of date keyboard mapping file? (although I think I use the one from CVS as well...) Cheers, Vik Csaba Halász wrote: On Tue, Feb 16, 2010 at 6:05 PM, Viktor Radnai viktor.rad...@gmail.com wrote: Hi there, There's a lot of output and some other information may also

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Shift key stuck once pressed

2010-02-16 Thread Viktor Radnai
not finding libosgFX.so.62.) What should I try next? Cheers, Vik Csaba Halász wrote: On Mon, Feb 15, 2010 at 11:37 PM, Viktor Radnai viktor.rad...@gmail.com wrote: It's version 2.8.2-1 that comes with Debian unstable. Should I try 2.9.6 instead? Yes. 2.8.2 reportedly also has the [ ] key

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Shift key stuck once pressed

2010-02-16 Thread Viktor Radnai
, Feb 16, 2010 at 3:10 PM, Viktor Radnai viktor.rad...@gmail.com wrote: Hi again, I've built OSG 2.9.6 and rebuilt the latest CVS version of Simgear Flightgear against it. Unfortunately I still get the problem. (It's fairly certain that I use the latest OSG as my freshly built fgfs won't

[Flightgear-devel] Handley-Page Victor K2 case sensitivity problem

2010-02-15 Thread Viktor Radnai
Hi there, The panel on the Victor doesn't show (on Linux) due to a case sensitivity issue. Please apply attached patch to fix it. Cheers, Vik Index: Aircraft/victor/Models/Panel.xml === RCS file:

[Flightgear-devel] controls.throttleAxis mod for throttle factor and offset

2009-07-01 Thread Viktor Radnai
Hi all, I wanted to share my modification of the axisHandler Nasal function (the one that implements control.throttleAxis, mixtureAxis, etc). Purpose of the mod: I have one of those joysticks that uses only 50% of the available movement range for the throttle. Unfortunately for me, if a