Re: [Flightgear-devel] [Flightgear-cvslogs] CVS: data/Aircraft/b1900d b1900d-set.xml, 1.32,

2008-09-23 Thread James Turner
On 24 Sep 2008, at 01:19, Syd wrote: Hi James , Im no expert coder , but I did take a look at it myself , and the lack of comments made that a no go for me. I tried to visit some of the sites he listed as reference material , but either they don't exist anymore or I just can't get to

Re: [Flightgear-devel] [Flightgear-cvslogs] CVS: data/Aircraft/b1900d b1900d-set.xml, 1.32,

2008-09-23 Thread Syd
James Turner wrote: I did some reading last night and it's probably the most accurately modelled piece of equipment in FG - down to fault handling and so on. But the configuration interface is big - there's several pages of tabular data and many properties that are used. Most of them do

Re: [Flightgear-devel] [Flightgear-cvslogs] CVS: data/Aircraft/b1900d b1900d-set.xml, 1.32,

2008-09-22 Thread Martin Spott
Syd, Syd Adams wrote: Update of /var/cvs/FlightGear-0.9/data/Aircraft/b1900d In directory baron.flightgear.org:/tmp/cvs-serv18391 Modified Files: b1900d-set.xml b1900d.xml b1900dsplash.rgb instrumentation.xml Removed Files: b1900d-sound.xml Log Message: Converting to

Re: [Flightgear-devel] [Flightgear-cvslogs] CVS: data/Aircraft/b1900d b1900d-set.xml, 1.32,

2008-09-22 Thread Erik Hofman
Martin Spott wrote: Syd, Converting to OSG , a lot of small updates stll to do... Added a simple nasal gpws since the mk-viii appears to misbehave... Did you already communicate the issue about the MK-VIII to other developers in order to get it fixed ? Yes, please report any

Re: [Flightgear-devel] [Flightgear-cvslogs] CVS: data/Aircraft/b1900d b1900d-set.xml, 1.32,

2008-09-22 Thread James Turner
On 22 Sep 2008, at 08:20, Erik Hofman wrote: Did you already communicate the issue about the MK-VIII to other developers in order to get it fixed ? Yes, please report any problems that (seems to) have been introduced recently, there was a lot of needed overhauling and just leaving it buggy

Re: [Flightgear-devel] [Flightgear-cvslogs] CVS: data/Aircraft/b1900d b1900d-set.xml, 1.32,

2008-09-22 Thread Heiko Schulz
Martin Spott wrote: Syd, Converting to OSG , a lot of small updates stll to do... Added a simple nasal gpws since the mk-viii appears to misbehave... Did you already communicate the issue about the MK-VIII to other developers in order to get it fixed ? Yes,

Re: [Flightgear-devel] [Flightgear-cvslogs] CVS: data/Aircraft/b1900d b1900d-set.xml, 1.32,

2008-09-22 Thread Erik Hofman
Heiko Schulz wrote: So much as I know James Turner is working on that. And the MKVIII was never ever working right, I can understand Syd doing a workaround. Last time I heard he was awaiting feedback. Erik - This

Re: [Flightgear-devel] [Flightgear-cvslogs] CVS: data/Aircraft/b1900d b1900d-set.xml, 1.32,

2008-09-22 Thread Heiko Schulz
O.k. Yep, it's entirely possible that I messed up aspects of the GPWS, but I need a better test case than 'acting weird'. Most of all, I need to know an aircraft where it definitely worked correctly in the past, because it's never worked 'well' for me in any version of FG. I'm not

Re: [Flightgear-devel] [Flightgear-cvslogs] CVS: data/Aircraft/b1900d b1900d-set.xml, 1.32,

2008-09-22 Thread Christian Schmitt
Heiko Schulz wrote: The last errors I had were: -Bank-Angle-Callouts with real zero-angle after lift off or shortly above rwy while landing. - the callouts 50 40 30 20 10 could be never heard at all- even with a very low sink rate Low-Terrain-warning on a corrct ILS-glidepath

Re: [Flightgear-devel] [Flightgear-cvslogs] CVS: data/Aircraft/b1900d b1900d-set.xml, 1.32,

2008-09-22 Thread Syd
`Did you already communicate the issue about the MK-VIII to other evelopers in order to get it fixed ? Martin. A long long time ago I tried to contact Jean for pointers no response... Well, this sounds like a case for a knowledgeable person to explain instead of silently

Re: [Flightgear-devel] [Flightgear-cvslogs] CVS: data/Aircraft/b1900d b1900d-set.xml, 1.32,

2008-09-22 Thread Erik Hofman
Syd wrote: In the meantime , IRC is a much freindlier , helpful place. Unfortunately IRC (like the forum) is not the place where problems are solved, only the developers mailinglist is. This is because not everyone can follow all he places where discussions are taking place. Erik

Re: [Flightgear-devel] [Flightgear-cvslogs] CVS: data/Aircraft/b1900d b1900d-set.xml, 1.32,

2008-09-22 Thread James Turner
On 23 Sep 2008, at 20:26, Syd wrote: So I gather your telling me I can't change my aircraft ? The gpws issues have been known for a long time , and I,m sure you well know that . I wont post bugs here because of exactly this My past questions were largely ignored , my minor patches

Re: [Flightgear-devel] [Flightgear-cvslogs] CVS: data/Aircraft/b1900d b1900d-set.xml, 1.32,

2008-09-22 Thread Syd
James Turner wrote: The problem seems to be very bad in the case of the GPWS, because it's actually a very complex instrument, and the author (who seems to be ... absent?) clearly put in a lot of very accurate functionality, but almost no documentation. Because it's so complex, I assume