Re: [Flightgear-devel] FlightAware flight tracking
From: Martin Spott [EMAIL PROTECTED] Josh Babcock wrote: Sounds like a good reason to fly VFR. I wonder if they have considered the safety implications of this. I know in the US you can request that ATC watch you while you are flying VFR, but I don't know if you need to give your tail number when you do. I would guess that you do. We call this Flight Information Service, FIS - [...] In the US, you request VFR Flight Following from the ATC sector. If approved, you receive Traffic Advisory service (no separation). --- [This E-mail scanned for viruses by Declude Virus] - Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT business topics through brief surveys -- and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.phpp=sourceforgeCID=DEVDEV ___ Flightgear-devel mailing list Flightgear-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/flightgear-devel
[Flightgear-devel] Small bug fix for Cessna Citation-Bravo radio stack
Couldn't find Syd's email address, so I figured I could get a fix to him here... And anyone having problems with the ADF down button on the Bravo's radio stack can fix it by removing that back tick character. Pure chance I noticed, but I remembered that button not working when I tried it earlier. Who knows, might already have been caught, but just in case... Hope nobody minds me posting the patch here... It's the only place I could think of to let someone know. On line 517, there's an extra character that shouldn't be there before the number. Here's a patch:*** radiostack.xml.orig 2006-10-07 03:03:19.0 -0400--- radiostack.xml 2006-10-07 03:27:17.0 -0400** 514,520 button0/button x38/x y-35/y! w`12/w h16/h binding commandproperty-adjust/command--- 514,520 button0/button x38/x y-35/y! w12/w h16/h binding commandproperty-adjust/commandAnd Syd, very nice work! Having fun with this one right now. I'd love to hear what else you might be planning on doing to it. It's great as it is, but it does look like there are a few areas still being worked on and a few things missing - not complaining here, mind you :). Would love to know what's planned for the Primus 1000's MFD stuff, and it would sure be awesome if the radar/weather stuff actually worked. Probably dreaming there :). BTW, in passing and a little off topic, if anyone knows where I can find the Bravo's rotation speed, stall speed, V1, V2, and some other useful parameters, I'd love to know exactly. WIsh there was a list like that for each aircraft. It would really help speed up learning to fly each one. I have the Primus 1000 docs, but very little for the Bravo (or any other plane). Will just have to experiment, I suppose. And thanks to everyone for such an awesome sim!Mike. - Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT business topics through brief surveys -- and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.phpp=sourceforgeCID=DEVDEV___ Flightgear-devel mailing list Flightgear-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/flightgear-devel
Re: [Flightgear-devel] FlightAware flight tracking
On Thu, 5 Oct 2006, Martin Spott wrote: Frederic Bouvier wrote: And don't tell me a PA28 is an airliner ;-) but hey, it is equipped with a mode S transponder, which only few light aircraft have nowadays (at least here in Germany), the Mode S code you see in the FAA registration is a reserved code for that particular tail number. In fact, a lot of transponders are not like that, and if you look up the tail number 33966 (an SGS 2-33A that I happen to have some time in), you'll discover an aircraft with a mode S code listed, but no transponder (actually, no electrical system at all) on board! However, if whenever in the future it is equipped to have one, the mechanic will use the particular mode S code reserved for this very aircraft to program into the hardware. Vassilii - Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT business topics through brief surveys -- and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.phpp=sourceforgeCID=DEVDEV ___ Flightgear-devel mailing list Flightgear-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/flightgear-devel
[Flightgear-devel] Bug in concorde (MP)
Hello, the concorde visualization has a small bug. When I fly the bo and another pilot is flying the concorde (in multiplayer) and I look from a outside view, everything is ok. But when I use (as normal) the cockpit view, the concorde is only partly drawed. It seems, that the concorde 3D-model has two drawings, one for the cockpit view, and one for the outside view. It checks, which view is active. But in this case, always the outside would be correct. Maik - Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT business topics through brief surveys -- and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.phpp=sourceforgeCID=DEVDEV ___ Flightgear-devel mailing list Flightgear-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/flightgear-devel
Re: [Flightgear-devel] Looking for a Dutch crew
On Thursday 21 September 2006 21:29, Robin van Steenbergen wrote: Martin Spott schreef: Robin van Steenbergen wrote: I might be able to donate a few bits of hardware (yoke etc) to the FG booth and if someone is capable of doing a pickup from the Eindhoven region, I can do a lot more, [...] Well, the way from Moenchengladbach to Lelystad by car is going past Eindhoven. As our local airport closes early on sunday evening I guess I'll have to take the car because I won't be able to return in time after the show closes. As for the closing hours of the Aviodrome, the show opens at 10 or 11 but stand holders may enter earlier. The show closes at 1700 and we have some time after that to clean things up. Here's a little overview of what I can bring to the Aviodrome, depending on the space available: 1 PC, Intel Pentium D940 (3,2 GHz), 1GB RAM, Nvidia 6800XT @ NU, lots of harddisk. 2 x Acer AL1715 17 TFT display 1 x Apple Mac Mini (Intel Core Duo) CH Flight Sim Yoke USB Microsoft Sidewinder Racing Wheel (for the pedals) Laptop, Intel Pentium-M 1,4, 512MB RAM, integrated video Just let me know what you will be needing. I hope I can tie my own software to FlightGear in the period in between, to show everyone that it's possible to connect these bits. I may even be able to write up a piece of software that uses FS2004 or FSX in slave mode as a scenery renderer. If we could get a projector up this would be marvellous. If we can arrange something with Frans we might even be able to do a presentation or a demo in the video room. I haven't received a personal confirmation from Frans, yet, but he put our logo on the FSWeekend website, so it looks like we're in. http://www.fsweekend.com/exhibitors.php Robin, it would be great if you could bring an additional desktop. I will bring two desktops and a laptop. I'm installing a stock 0.9.10 windows install on my windows desktop and have the bleeding edge development version running on my Linux box (including lots of traffic, a brand new 3D model of EHAM, the full worldwide scenery database, and the full archive from Jon Stockill's object database). I'm also planning to install the full worldwide scenery database on the windows machine, but other than that, I'd like to keep that one pretty basic. As for giving a demo in the video room, that sounds interesting. If you can work something out, that would be great. Also, feel free to send me your powerpoint presentation, so I can put it on my laptop. It might be a good idea to plan a bit ahead with regard to the type of demo we'd like to give. I'm trying to build a few more groundnetworks for various airports, so that we could demo some small commuter type airline flights between some of the major European airports (e.g. between Amsterdam and London, or Amsterdam and Paris). In order to make it look smooth and professional, it might be a good idea to have some flightplans ready for these flights. I'm currently updating Atlas / plib / and Taxidraw on my laptop, so we could use the laptop to demonstrate these programs as well. The hosts of the show, the Aviodrome museum, has requested that exhibitors involve the public in their demos, and make it an educational event, especially for children. Another thing to think of is that we don't have internet access in the Aviodrome, so automatic metar weather fetch won't work. It might be neat to set-up some interesting weather scenario's. I can probably borrow a surplus 17 CRT from work, and if worst comes to worst, I can also borrow my work computer's keyboard / mouse. I also have a network switch, and loads of ethernet cable, which I'll bring along. Cheers, Durk - Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT business topics through brief surveys -- and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.phpp=sourceforgeCID=DEVDEV ___ Flightgear-devel mailing list Flightgear-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/flightgear-devel
Re: [Flightgear-devel] 3D model for Eurocopter Ec 135
Josh Babcock schrieb: Maik Justus wrote: Hi Heiko, interesting link. I think I have to improve the rotor simulation to cover rotors with different airfoils along the blade. But first we need the drag/lift curves for these airfoils. My short search at the web was not successful. I am a little bit surprised, that the ec135 uses the same airfoil than the tiger. Several years ago a eurocopter test pilot of the tiger told me, that the tiger is nearly not capable to autorotate. It's not impossible, but he told it's rather sporty and it's not unlikely to damage the helicopter. I think they want to avoid overspeed of the rotor at extreme flight attitudes and therefore the rotor does not speed up in autorotation. This is in agreement with his statement, that it is not possible to damage the tiger while in flight. But I expect the ec135 to be able to autorotate. Maybe the twisting is different? (But I heard, that the enignes would be damaged, if you train autorotation, and therefore the ec135 for the german Heeresflieger (army) got a modification to be capable to train autorotation). It's a very common EMS helicopter here, and I think in Europe as well. I can't see an EMS agency or company buying a helo without good autoratation capabilities. EMS is one of the most dangerous types of flying. Josh Hi, I just had a short discussion with a real life professional pilot with EC135 experience: 1. The EC135 autorotates pretty well, has a nice speeding up of the rotor - rpm in autorotation 2. Although autorotation could be done if necessary it is not anymore in his company due to risk of damages mainly at the Fenestron case. The position of the Fenestron/case of the EC135 is lower to earth compared to other helicopters and you have to do a pronounced ground-near flare before setting the bird on ground. This implies the danger of these Fenestron-case damages (which costs a lot of money). 3. The common meaning is that a two engine equipped helicopter with fire-extinguishers has no high risk of being forced to autorotate although it could be done if necessary (see 1 and 2) 4. Even in check-flights with the BK117 a real autorotation is not asked for anymore. You have to do it hot (engines running, collective pitch down) to demonstrate for your checker that you are able to select the right place for the emergency landing and get there in the autorotation mode but you increase collective near the ground and won't land. Regards Georg HeliFlyer EDDW - Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT business topics through brief surveys -- and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.phpp=sourceforgeCID=DEVDEV ___ Flightgear-devel mailing list Flightgear-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/flightgear-devel
[Flightgear-devel] Bravo...
From: Mike Dusseault [EMAIL PROTECTED] Couldn't find Syd's email address, so I figured I could get a fix to him here... And anyone having problems with the ADF down button on the Bravo's radio stack can fix it by removing that back tick character. Pure chance I noticed, but I remembered that button not working when I tried it earlier. Who knows, might already have been caught, but just in case... Hope nobody minds me posting the patch here... It's the only place I could think of to let someone know. On line 517, there's an extra character that shouldn't be there before the number. Here's a patch: *** radiostack.xml.orig 2006-10-07 03:03:19.0 -0400 --- radiostack.xml 2006-10-07 03:27:17.0 -0400 *** *** 514,520 button0/button x38/x y-35/y ! w`12/w h16/h binding commandproperty-adjust/command --- 514,520 button0/button x38/x y-35/y ! w12/w h16/h binding commandproperty-adjust/command And Syd, very nice work! Having fun with this one right now. I'd love to hear what else you might be planning on doing to it. It's great as it is, but it does look like there are a few areas still being worked on and a few things missing - not complaining here, mind you :). Would love to know what's planned for the Primus 1000's MFD stuff, and it would sure be awesome if the radar/weather stuff actually worked. Probably dreaming there :). BTW, in passing and a little off topic, if anyone knows where I can find the Bravo's rotation speed, stall speed, V1, V2, and some other useful parameters, I'd love to know exactly. WIsh there was a list like that for each aircraft. It would really help speed up learning to fly each one. I have the Primus 1000 docs, but very little for the Bravo (or any other plane). Will just have to experiment, I suppose. And thanks to everyone for such an awesome sim! Mike. Hi Mike, Glad you like it ! I hadn't noticed the error , I haven't used the ADF much , but I see the error now that you pointed it out. I'm actually in the middle of redoing the panel , PFD ,radios , and MFD displays are now 2D , and I'll fix the hotspots. Current changes are an improved FDM ,a working dc-550 (PFD controller), updating the flightdirector / autopilot to work Primus 1000 style (which is going to require me writing a how-to manual)... an FMS mode , using the autopilot route-manager, transparent cockpit glass , a pilot :), exhaust haze , and more I cant think of right now . The MFD might be longer in development , but right now displays , true heading , Autopilot settings, current lat and lon , wxradar in the process of being added , and just for fun , MP and AI aircraft radar for multiplayer... So a lot of changes , and more to come fairly soon... Most of the flight dynamics info I got from the www.cessna.com website , and the Bravo Primus1000 manual I cant find anymore , thank god I saved it to CD . Cheers, Syd - Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT business topics through brief surveys -- and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.phpp=sourceforgeCID=DEVDEV ___ Flightgear-devel mailing list Flightgear-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/flightgear-devel
Re: [Flightgear-devel] 3D model for Eurocopter Ec 135
Hi at all, So, the exterior model is up to 75% ready. The interior is sticky - if convert my blend.file with the interior flightgear aborts. :-( Well, tomorrow I will try it again - 10.000 vertices at all can't be too much. Have a look: www.hoerbird.de/bilder/ec135.prototype2.jpg Greetings HHS --- Maik Justus [EMAIL PROTECTED] schrieb: Hi Heiko, interesting link. I think I have to improve the rotor simulation to cover rotors with different airfoils along the blade. But first we need the drag/lift curves for these airfoils. My short search at the web was not successful. I am a little bit surprised, that the ec135 uses the same airfoil than the tiger. Several years ago a eurocopter test pilot of the tiger told me, that the tiger is nearly not capable to autorotate. It's not impossible, but he told it's rather sporty and it's not unlikely to damage the helicopter. I think they want to avoid overspeed of the rotor at extreme flight attitudes and therefore the rotor does not speed up in autorotation. This is in agreement with his statement, that it is not possible to damage the tiger while in flight. But I expect the ec135 to be able to autorotate. Maybe the twisting is different? (But I heard, that the enignes would be damaged, if you train autorotation, and therefore the ec135 for the german Heeresflieger (army) got a modification to be capable to train autorotation). Maik Heiko Schulz schrieb: Hi, I hope to finish the helicopter soon- you see, there is some work to do. I used Google and found this wonderful site - maybe interesting for the wiki: www.ae.uiuc.edu/m-selig/ads/aircraft.html --The Incomplete Guide to Airfoil Usage For the EC 135 I found out that the EC 135 uses the DFVLR DM-H3 inboard and DFLVR DM-H4 outboard - the same than the Tiger uses. Maybe it helps a little bit. Greetings HHS --- Maik Justus [EMAIL PROTECTED] schrieb: Hi Heiko, I am happy to hear of a new heli for flightgear. Of course I try to help modeling the parameters for the FDM. Enclosed you can find a very first trial. (Fortunately I have done this a few weeks ago. I hope I will get feedback from experienced ec135 pilots quite soon to optimize the parameters to fit the real heli.) But up to now I do not have the airfoils, therfore I use the naca23012 with small modifications to meet the performance of the ec135. (Up to now I did not try very hard to achieve the overall performance like climb speed or maximum speed. My first aim is to achieve realistic dynamic behavior, and if this is done I will try to do the rest.) Best regards, Maik Heiko Schulz schrieb: Hi at all, While I'm working on a ASK 21 glider, I began to model the Eurocopter Ec 135. The exterior model is up to 50-60% ready, the interior model still 0% but in few days it goes with this on. @Maik: I hope you read this - is there any chance to get a flightmodel for the Ec 135? I got some perfomance data, found on the Euocopter Homepage and a hint for the airfoil. Greetings to all HHS Picture: www.hoerbird.de/bilder/ec135.prototype.jpg ___ Der frühe Vogel fängt den Wurm. Hier gelangen Sie zum neuen Yahoo! Mail: http://mail.yahoo.de - Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT business topics through brief surveys -- and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.phpp=sourceforgeCID=DEVDEV ___ Flightgear-devel mailing list Flightgear-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/flightgear-devel - Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT business topics through brief surveys -- and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.phpp=sourceforgeCID=DEVDEV ___ Flightgear-devel mailing list Flightgear-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/flightgear-devel ___ === message truncated === ___ Telefonate
Re: [Flightgear-devel] Flight Sim Development
On Friday 29 September 2006 03:21, Vivian Meazza wrote: Hi, You might find this an amusing take on someone else's Flight Sim http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tcW3hbnR2EI Made me laugh anyway, Vivian Today, I was wondering what's someone else's take on FlightGear is, so I did some googling and came across this thread: http://forums.x-plane.org/lofiversion/index.php?t16495.html Happy reading, Ampere - Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT business topics through brief surveys -- and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.phpp=sourceforgeCID=DEVDEV ___ Flightgear-devel mailing list Flightgear-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/flightgear-devel
Re: [Flightgear-devel] Flight Sim Development
On Saturday 07 October 2006 20:58, Ampere K. Hardraade wrote: On Friday 29 September 2006 03:21, Vivian Meazza wrote: Hi, You might find this an amusing take on someone else's Flight Sim http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tcW3hbnR2EI Made me laugh anyway, Vivian Today, I was wondering what's someone else's take on FlightGear is, so I did some googling and came across this thread: http://forums.x-plane.org/lofiversion/index.php?t16495.html Happy reading, Ampere Whoops, I forgot these two forums that I came across: http://www.happypenguin.org/show?Flight%20Gear%20Flight%20Simstart=10 http://digg.com/software/Awesome_Free_Flight_Sim Ampere - Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT business topics through brief surveys -- and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.phpp=sourceforgeCID=DEVDEV ___ Flightgear-devel mailing list Flightgear-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/flightgear-devel
[Flightgear-devel] Is the serial port communication working by dir = bi?
Hello all,I want to receive and send data by JUST ONE serial.When i use 2 COMs (COM1 and COM2) with these commands:--generic=serial,in,1,COM1,9600,Autopilot_serial--generic=serial,out,1,COM2,9600,Autopilot_serial the Autopilot_serial.xml is:?xml version=1.0?PropertyListgeneric output line_separatornewline/line_separator var_separator,/var_separator !-- Instrumentation -- chunk nameindicated-turn-rate/name typefloat/type format%f/format node/instrumentation/turn-indicator/indicated-turn-rate/node /chunk chunk nameaileron/name typefloat/type format%f/format node/controls/flight/aileron[0]/node /chunk /output input line_separatornewline/line_separator var_separator,/var_separator !-- Flight Controls -- chunk nameaileron/name typefloat/type node/controls/flight/aileron/node /chunk /input/generic/PropertyList It works perfect like I want. BUT I would like to use just one COM, so I tried this way:--generic=serial,bi,1,COM1,9600,Autopilot_serialI DIDN'T receive or send anything.I am running in the windows and i use the Program Lite program ( http://www.moxa.com/support/download_pcommlite_info.htm).Is there anyone that ran by bi, by windows or linux? Is there any problem to use the same property (aileron) to out and in? Regards,Thiago Holanda-- Antes de magoar um coração, veja se não está dentro dele. Pois se um dia chorei, não foi porque perdi e sim porque amei.Que a paz esteja contigo. - Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT business topics through brief surveys -- and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.phpp=sourceforgeCID=DEVDEV___ Flightgear-devel mailing list Flightgear-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/flightgear-devel
[Flightgear-devel] Weekly CVS Changelog Summary: FlightGear data
=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= 2006-10-07_06:02:53 (fredb) /var/cvs/FlightGear-0.9/data/Aircraft/Citation-Bravo/Panel/radiostack.xml Fix a typo =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= 2006-10-07_11:57:48 (vmmeazza) /var/cvs/FlightGear-0.9/data/Aircraft/Concorde/Models/Concorde_ba.xml Remove leading / in property/property tags 2f585eeea02e2c79d7b1d8c4963bae2d - Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT business topics through brief surveys -- and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.phpp=sourceforgeCID=DEVDEV ___ Flightgear-devel mailing list Flightgear-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/flightgear-devel
