On Friday 23 April 2010 08:33:49 am Torsten Dreyer wrote:
Best things in life are free - so is FlightGear!
Thanks for all the suggestions so-far. I think that should contain some
interesting information for a nice column.
Cheers,
Durk
Although I have a fair idea what those unique features might be, this might
be an excellent opportunity to incorporate some input from real-life
pilots. Any suggestions are welcome though.
Best things in life are free - so is FlightGear!
As an instrument rated pilot, I use FlightGear
What makes FG outstanding is, that it models not only the regular
behaviour of systems but also the system errors. That is gyro drift,
compass
errors and side lobes on ILS signals to name just a few.
This is news to me. Which instrument models the drift ? I thought none did ,
so I created a
This is news to me. Which instrument models the drift ? I thought none did
, so I created a nasal gyro
that drifts at 3 degrees/15 minutes for my own use. Apparently I haven't
looked close enough at the instrument code .
From heading_indicator.cxx:
// Next, calculate time-based precession
Thanks Torsten , I'll give that a try .
And yes , there are still things about FlightGear I probably dont know about
;)
Cheers
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On Thu, 22 Apr 2010 20:27:54 -0700 (PDT), cas...@mminternet.com wrote
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c522ef471c7c0d60a035ceb157caf083.squir...@www.mminternet.com:
Just to be pendantic.. ;-)
wgs-84 is an oblate spheroid and an equipotential gravity model which
is what I think we all meant by round. I would
Don't forget to mention that one of the best features of FlightGear is that
it is open source. Complete source code is available to all and we have an
open community of developers that anyone can plug into and ask questions.
This is less concern perhaps to end users, but still is one of our most
2010/4/23 Arnt Karlsen a...@c2i.net:
..earlier on, I believe Microsoft used a cylinder model to
model planet Earth, did they switch before FSX?
Apparently they did: http://forums1.avsim.net/index.php?showtopic=224048
/JanM
On Fri, Apr 23, 2010 at 3:11 AM, syd adams adams@gmail.com wrote:
This is news to me. Which instrument models the drift ? I thought none did ,
so I created a nasal gyro
that drifts at 3 degrees/15 minutes for my own use. Apparently I haven't
looked close enough at the instrument code .
On Fri, Apr 23, 2010 at 9:42 AM, David Megginson
david.meggin...@gmail.comwrote:
On Fri, Apr 23, 2010 at 3:11 AM, syd adams adams@gmail.com wrote:
This is news to me. Which instrument models the drift ? I thought none
did ,
so I created a nasal gyro
that drifts at 3 degrees/15
We actually try to emulate the aircraft's systems (vacuum, pitot,
static, electrical, etc.), so failure modes are much more realistic.
Instruments update more realistically, with suitable lags and other errors.
MSFS X has improved its flight models, but in general, I still find
that both JSBSim
On 23/04/10 08:44, David Megginson wrote:
Easy to set up for the command line, so you can launch straight into a
practice approach without clicking through a bunch of screens (and can
randomize things like wind).
Unfortunately, lets be honest, many (most) of our fellow pilots wouldn't
know
Don't forget fgrun :-)
And you can check
http://wiki.flightgear.org/index.php/Category:FlightGear_Newsletter
for new features
and http://www.flightgear.org/Gallery-v2.0/
At least the cloud is the best in all of flight simulator :-D
--Buganini
Here are a couple things off the top of my head ...
- FlightGear is currently powering several FAA certified pilot training
devices (www.atcflightsim.com)
- Flightgear uses a wgs-84 round earth model so you can fly from your real
aviation charts and hit all the intersections and radials and
I think FSX uses a round earth model and non-flat runways as well.
David
On Apr 22, 2010 9:29 PM, Curtis Olson curtol...@gmail.com wrote:
Here are a couple things off the top of my head ...
- FlightGear is currently powering several FAA certified pilot training
devices (www.atcflightsim.com)
Just to be pendantic.. ;-)
wgs-84 is an oblate spheroid and an equipotential gravity model which is
what I think we all meant by round. I would image FSX also uses it, if
not then this a definite plus
for you math types, it can be modeled using 2nd order Bessel functions for
orbital
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