Re: [Flightgear-devel] Instrument-altimeter unable to indicate altitude above 61831 feet

2007-07-06 Thread gh.robin
On Fri 6 July 2007 01:41, John Denker wrote: On 07/05/2007 06:57 PM, gh.robin wrote: When i opened that topic , it was to know if we could hope any FG update to get an altitude instrument which can be able to indicate more than 61000 ft. We have had a lot of discussion on it , but

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Instrument-altimeter unable to indicate altitude above 61831 feet

2007-07-06 Thread gh.robin
On Fri 6 July 2007 01:41, John Denker wrote: On 07/05/2007 06:57 PM, gh.robin wrote: When i opened that topic , it was to know if we could hope any FG update to get an altitude instrument which can be able to indicate more than 61000 ft. We have had a lot of discussion on it , but

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Instrument-altimeter unable to indicate altitude above 61831 feet

2007-07-05 Thread gh.robin
On Mon 18 June 2007 10:06, Stefan Seifert wrote: John Denker wrote: If you want to know exactly why FGFS poops out at approximately 62,000 feet, look at line 88 of Environment/environment.cxx You can contrast that with the ISA table that goes up to 278,000 feet as found e.g. at

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Instrument-altimeter unable to indicate altitude above 61831 feet

2007-07-05 Thread John Denker
On 07/05/2007 06:57 PM, gh.robin wrote: When i opened that topic , it was to know if we could hope any FG update to get an altitude instrument which can be able to indicate more than 61000 ft. We have had a lot of discussion on it , but nothing which could give the right answer. Do we have

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Instrument-altimeter unable to indicate altitude above 61831 feet

2007-06-18 Thread Stefan Seifert
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 John Denker wrote: If you want to know exactly why FGFS poops out at approximately 62,000 feet, look at line 88 of Environment/environment.cxx You can contrast that with the ISA table that goes up to 278,000 feet as found e.g. at the

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Instrument-altimeter unable to indicate altitude above 61831 feet

2007-06-18 Thread John Denker
On 06/18/2007 04:06 AM, Stefan Seifert wrote: If you want to know exactly why FGFS poops out at approximately 62,000 feet, look at line 88 of Environment/environment.cxx Just for my understanding: this table is only used for instrumentation, isn't it? Both JSBSim and YASim have their own

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Instrument-altimeter unable to indicate altitude above 61831 feet

2007-06-18 Thread gh.robin
On Mon 18 June 2007 10:06, Stefan Seifert wrote: John Denker wrote: If you want to know exactly why FGFS poops out at approximately 62,000 feet, look at line 88 of Environment/environment.cxx You can contrast that with the ISA table that goes up to 278,000 feet as found e.g. at

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Instrument-altimeter unable to indicate altitude above 61831 feet

2007-06-18 Thread Vivian Meazza
John Sent: 18 June 2007 10:41 To: FlightGear developers discussions Subject: Re: [Flightgear-devel] Instrument-altimeter unable to indicate altitude above 61831 feet On 06/18/2007 04:06 AM, Stefan Seifert wrote: snip 4) By the way, did you ever wonder what osi means

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Instrument-altimeter unable to indicate altitude above 61831 feet

2007-06-18 Thread Jon S. Berndt
John Denker wrote: That's an interesting question. So there's not a clean division between instrumentation and other. 2) But wait, there's more. The FDM's model of the atmosphere model is blissfully ignorant of the properties of the actual air mass. If you change the local barometric

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Instrument-altimeter unable to indicate altitude above 61831 feet

2007-06-17 Thread John Denker
On 06/16/2007 09:12 PM, gh.robin wrote: I notice a some strange behaviours with the Instrument Altimeter The Instrument Altimeter is unable to indicate more than 61831 feet Here the snapshot of property: instrument/altimeter/indicated-altitude-ft== 61831 position/altitude-ft

[Flightgear-devel] Instrument-altimeter unable to indicate altitude above 61831 feet

2007-06-16 Thread gh.robin
Hello, I notice a some strange behaviours with the Instrument Altimeter The Instrument Altimeter is unable to indicate more than 61831 feet Here the snapshot of property: instrument/altimeter/indicated-altitude-ft== 61831 position/altitude-ft == 75793