Re: [Flightgear-devel] [OT]: Range of radios

2007-02-14 Thread Dene
Holger Wirtz wrote: On Tue, Feb 13, 2007 at 05:49:48PM +, Steve Hosgood wrote: [...] So, Holger, if you arrange that all radio transmission packets in FG/MP carry the transmitter's wattage and the location of the source, you can work out the straight-line distance from yourself

Re: [Flightgear-devel] [OT]: Range of radios

2007-02-14 Thread Holger Wirtz
Dene, On Wed, Feb 14, 2007 at 09:02:54PM +1300, Dene wrote: [...] I've had a chance to review the path loss formulae Very simply, the height factors of the TX and Rx aerials is only used to translate what might be an oblique angle into a horizontal distance, in all reality when ATC

[Flightgear-devel] for modellers: script for checking sanity

2007-02-14 Thread Sébastien MARQUE
hi all, I just made a little perl script for sanity check of pathes used in xml files for aircrafts. I've done it to find out what's wrong when fgfs reports failure to open a file at launch. it must be used from the FGROOT directory. usage: tests.pl [relative] aircraft where: relative is

[Flightgear-devel] Holes in the ground with OSG - Origin of problem found

2007-02-14 Thread Sebastian Bechtold
Sebastian Bechtold schrieb: Hello! Actually, it's hard to believe that this has not been discussed before, but since I failed to find any accordant postings, here is mine: Ever since the first win32-build of FG-OSG, there are at least two huge ground scenery holes in the area