Re: [Flightgear-devel] Next FlightGear Release - upcoming.

2006-03-10 Thread Ron Jensen
On Thu, 2006-03-09 at 10:59 -0600, Curtis L. Olson wrote: > > 3. Any other major issues? > Curt, Last month I suggested a change[1] to TACAN_freq.dat and carrier_nav.dat to enable TACAN to work on the proper channels. I'd like to see this go in so the F4E I'm working on can use the TACAN. Si

[Flightgear-devel] AI objects with hardened surface not possible? Dave Culp?

2006-03-10 Thread Georg Vollnhals
Hi, for my upcoming Bremen scenery I tried to get moving ships which follow the river Weser. There should be at least a hardened hull (deck) to be landable for the BO105. Of course the ship-model is hardened when put into the scenery as a static object. It also works when I make a moving ship-obj

[Flightgear-devel] Curtis - small change of UFO.cxx possible?

2006-03-10 Thread Georg Vollnhals
Hi Curtis, starting a scenery project some weeks ago I found out that I could not place any object at the "right" coordinates which I got from very detailled official plans (and made a cross-check to public sources) because the whole FG-scenery seems to be "shifted" so that the models were pl

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Sound Barrier

2006-03-10 Thread Erik Hofman
Ben Clark wrote: While flying some supersonic aircraft in Flightgear today I noticed there seems to be no support for the various things that happen when approaching the speed of sound. Does anyone have any plans to implement any of this? E.g Sonic Boom and pressure wave, less stability at cl

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Re: Next FlightGear Release - upcoming.

2006-03-10 Thread Ampere K. Hardraade
On Friday 10 March 2006 03:16, Stefan Seifert wrote: > > Am I right in thinking there might also be an issue with crashes at the > > point of the "now clear of my airspace" message? > > Could be. I experienced one of these last weekend, a few minutes after > take-off. Have been running FG in gdb e

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Bugtracker

2006-03-10 Thread Thomas Förster
Am Freitag 10 März 2006 16:12 schrieb Vassilii Khachaturov: > There is also an existing bug tracker over at > http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?group_id=583&atid=100583 > which has been there for several years already; > at one point when I looked for a place to write down > the bugs that bother me b

[Flightgear-devel] 3D models

2006-03-10 Thread Berndt, Jon S
Title: 3D models Is anyone aware of a converter that takes Moray 3D models to Blender? Jon --- This SF.Net email is sponsored by xPML, a groundbreaking scripting language that extends applications into web and mobile media. Attend th

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Re: Next FlightGear Release - upcoming.

2006-03-10 Thread Olaf Flebbe
Hi,2006/3/9, David Luff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: Melchior FRANZ writes:> * Curtis L. Olson -- Thursday 09 March 2006 17:59:> > 2. We need to aggressively hunt down any random crashes>> I'm aware of four crashes:>> (A) tower.cxx /AI -- old, but very annoying. Happens occasionally.> Very hard to repr

[Flightgear-devel] Sound Barrier

2006-03-10 Thread Ben Clark
While flying some supersonic aircraft in Flightgear today I noticed there seems to be no support for the various things that happen when approaching the speed of sound.Does anyone have any plans to implement any of this? E.g Sonic Boom and pressure wave, less stability at close to SoS, etc?Seeing

[Flightgear-devel] 737-300 cvs

2006-03-10 Thread Justin Smithies
Dont know if anyone else would agree but here goes Wouldnt it be better for everyone involved in the 737 project to start uploading their code / gfx etc into the cvs ? Even if say Marcus's electrical system is not finished it doesnt have to be activated on the model until its ready . I.E. It

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Re: Next FlightGear Release - upcoming.

2006-03-10 Thread Durk Talsma
On Friday 10 March 2006 14:38, Melchior FRANZ wrote: > * Melchior FRANZ -- Thursday 09 March 2006 19:43: > > (D) "-1000 ft" crash. Don't remember the exact message. Doesn't > > seem related to any "special" subsystem. > > "Attempting to schedule tiles for bogus lon and lat = (-1000,0) > Thi

[Flightgear-devel] 737-300 cockpit photos

2006-03-10 Thread Justin Smithies
As the www.b737.org.uk seems to be offline i thought id post this url for 737-300 cockpit photos. http://www.flyingzone.co.uk/boeing737infocus/cockpitphotopage.htm Cheers Justin Smithies --- This SF.Net email is sponsored by xPML, a groundbre

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Next FlightGear Release - upcoming.

2006-03-10 Thread Ralf Gerlich
Hi, It seems that it's exactly that. I wasn't yet able to verify that, but it seems that the Great Lakes are not part of the landmass and are thus zeroed in altitude. I'm not sure why that worked in the previous releases. I haven't looked at the TerraGear code for a long time, but in the past

Re: [Flightgear-devel] 737-300 development (was: 737-300 electrical systems)

2006-03-10 Thread Justin Smithies
Just a quick question. I am currently building a diy 737-300 cockpit , and i am going to link all the real switches / lights etc to a pc that will read / write directly from the FG prop tree based on values there. So i take it the way this project is going that there will be switches and inditc

Re: [Flightgear-devel] fix mouse view regression

2006-03-10 Thread Jean-Yves Lefort
On Fri, 10 Mar 2006 08:14:17 +0100 Mathias Fröhlich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thursday 09 March 2006 21:19, Jean-Yves Lefort wrote: > > This change actually breaks the view mode with PU_USE_GLUT (at least > > for me). It was working properly before the change; now the view jumps > > whenever

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Next FlightGear Release - upcoming.

2006-03-10 Thread David Megginson
On 10/03/06, Ralf Gerlich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > It seems that it's exactly that. I wasn't yet able to verify that, but > it seems that the Great Lakes are not part of the landmass and are thus > zeroed in altitude. I'm not sure why that worked in the previous releases. I haven't looked at

[Flightgear-devel] Compiling a custom windows executable

2006-03-10 Thread Curtis L. Olson
I've contacted Fred B. who is our primary windows .exe builder, but I haven't heard back from him and haven't seen any mailing list posts from him this week so I fear he may be out of town. Is there anyone else here who is setup to do a quick windows build of the CVS source code (preferably wi

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Next FlightGear Release - upcoming.

2006-03-10 Thread Curtis L. Olson
Ralf Gerlich wrote: Hi, David Megginson schrieb: The problem, though, is not the accuracy of the shorelines (though that's obviously important), but the type -- for some reason, TerraGear has started to misinterpret the Great Lakes as ocean rather than lake, and thus, it's cutting them right

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Next FlightGear Release - upcoming.

2006-03-10 Thread Martin Spott
Hello David, "David Megginson" wrote: > GSHHS is excellent for ocean shorelines and bays, but wildly > inaccurate for large inland bodies of water (especially the Great > Lakes). You should have a look at the new 1.3 dataset from October last year, this is where the split between the different t

Re: DME fixed (was Re: [Flightgear-devel] Next FlightGear Release - upcoming.)

2006-03-10 Thread Ralf Gerlich
Hi, David Megginson schrieb: On 09/03/06, Ralf Gerlich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: The problem may be that Robin changed the nav.dat format to contain two DME-types instead of only one (http://x-plane.org/home/robinp/Nav810.htm) There's no difference between the types except their type number

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Next FlightGear Release - upcoming.

2006-03-10 Thread Ralf Gerlich
Hi, David Megginson schrieb: The problem, though, is not the accuracy of the shorelines (though that's obviously important), but the type -- for some reason, TerraGear has started to misinterpret the Great Lakes as ocean rather than lake, and thus, it's cutting them right out of the scenery rath

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Bugtracker

2006-03-10 Thread Vassilii Khachaturov
There is also an existing bug tracker over at http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?group_id=583&atid=100583 which has been there for several years already; at one point when I looked for a place to write down the bugs that bother me but which I am not planning to work on in the nearest future, I began p

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Next FlightGear Release - upcoming.

2006-03-10 Thread David Megginson
On 10/03/06, David Megginson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > GSHHS is excellent for ocean shorelines and bays, but wildly > inaccurate for large inland bodies of water (especially the Great > Lakes). It often puts the shoreline more than 1km off from where it > should be, so that airports near the s

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Next FlightGear Release - upcoming.

2006-03-10 Thread David Megginson
On 10/03/06, Martin Spott <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > VMAP0 is about political boundaries so it appears not so much to care > about small details in the shoreline. GSHHS is very accurate at those > places where I had a look at and is now split into four categories: > coastline, lakes, islands in

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Re: Next FlightGear Release - upcoming.

2006-03-10 Thread Arnt Karlsen
On Thu, 9 Mar 2006 22:07:08 -0500, Chris wrote in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > On Thu, 9 Mar 2006 19:43:13 +0100 > Melchior FRANZ wrote: > > > > * Curtis L. Olson -- Thursday 09 March 2006 17:59: > > > 2. We need to aggressively hunt down any random crashes > > > > I'm aware of four crashes:

Re: [Flightgear-devel] *.flightgear.org?

2006-03-10 Thread Martin Spott
"Buchanan, Stuart" wrote: > P.S. Yes, I know that the HTML version of the manual on the FG website is > now quite out of date. We/I should get that sorted for the new release. Indeed, I wanted to have that already done but covered myself with other stuff Martin. -- Unix _IS_ user

Re: [Flightgear-devel] *.flightgear.org?

2006-03-10 Thread Buchanan, Stuart
--- Thomas Förster <> wrote: > Am Freitag, 10. März 2006 13:32 schrieb Pigeon: > > As we know, we have some FG docs and tips online written by many > > people, and then there's the seedwiki site. And now we have a bug > > tracker (i always liked one btw). > Regarding documentation I can als

[Flightgear-devel] Re: Next FlightGear Release - upcoming.

2006-03-10 Thread Melchior FRANZ
* Melchior FRANZ -- Thursday 09 March 2006 19:43: > (D) "-1000 ft" crash. Don't remember the exact message. Doesn't > seem related to any "special" subsystem. "Attempting to schedule tiles for bogus lon and lat = (-1000,0) This is a FATAL error. Exiting!" triggered by FGTileMgr::schedule

[Flightgear-devel] SV: [Flightgear-devel] KAP140 query

2006-03-10 Thread Roy Vegard Ovesen
På 10.03.2006 00:31 CET skrev David Luff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >After setting the vertical speed on the KAP140, the display of vertical speed >disappears after a few seconds, even though the autopilot is still holding (or >trying to) the target vertical speed. Is this correct, or should the target

Re: [Flightgear-devel] *.flightgear.org?

2006-03-10 Thread Thomas Förster
Am Freitag, 10. März 2006 13:32 schrieb Pigeon: > As we know, we have some FG docs and tips online written by many > people, and then there's the seedwiki site. And now we have a bug > tracker (i always liked one btw). > > > Things are a bit here and there, basically everywhere. It's > diff

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Weird network problem

2006-03-10 Thread Arnt Karlsen
On Wed, 8 Mar 2006 08:19:49 -0500, Drew wrote in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > You mean flip them like this? > > fgfs --native-ctrls='socket,in,30,,5060,udp' \ > --native-fdm='socket,out,30,192.168.1.103,5050,udp' \ > fgfs --native-fdm='socket,out,30,192.168.1.103,5050,udp' \ >--native-

[Flightgear-devel] *.flightgear.org?

2006-03-10 Thread Pigeon
As we know, we have some FG docs and tips online written by many people, and then there's the seedwiki site. And now we have a bug tracker (i always liked one btw). Things are a bit here and there, basically everywhere. It's difficult for new FG users to follow and find answers. It's rat

[Flightgear-devel] FYI: $ fgfs --airport=kmry --runway=10r

2006-03-10 Thread Melchior FRANZ
Starting airport ICAO id, tower id, and runway number can now be lower case, too, no matter from where they are set (command line, dialogs, telnet, etc.) This was an *old* usability issue. m. PS: Yes, mixed case is possible, too. But don't tell anyone! :-}

[Flightgear-devel] Bugtracker

2006-03-10 Thread Thomas Förster
Hi, I just set up a bug tracker for FlightGear at http://his.biologie.hu-berlin.de/flightgear If you want to become a supporter, that is being able to work on the tickets, create an account on the site (via Join in the upper right corner) and write me a PM with your username. The schema of th

Re: [Flightgear-devel] inflight / on ground / on airport

2006-03-10 Thread Markus Barenhoff
Ron Jensen wrote: > On Fri, 2006-03-10 at 02:22 +0100, Markus Barenhoff wrote: >> hi, >> >> are there properties in tree where i can read from if the aircraft is >> currently in air, on ground or even on ground/on airport? it would be >> nice to have (i need it for the 737 electrical system, to swi

Re: [Flightgear-devel] 737-300 development (was: 737-300 electrical systems)

2006-03-10 Thread AJ MacLeod
On Friday 10 March 2006 01:19, Innis Cunningham wrote: > One thing I would like to know is it possible currently to add > hotspots to individual 3D instruments.As far as I know you can > only add a general hotspot sheet which covers the 3D instruments > roughly infront of the pilot. You can many h

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Next FlightGear Release - upcoming.

2006-03-10 Thread Martin Spott
Martin Spott wrote: > While the machine performs quite well as WWW-, FTP- and database server > (as well as our local fileserver !), is was not sized to to the job of > an online web mapping server. The server is running only with 256 MByte > of RAM at a 400 MHz clock cycle, [...] Sorry: 440 MHz

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Next FlightGear Release - upcoming.

2006-03-10 Thread Martin Spott
"David Megginson" wrote: > The TerraGear scenery bug with the Great Lakes (and possibly other > large inland lakes?) is pretty serious -- it leaves many midwest U.S. > and central Canadian cities perched on giant cliffs overlooking the > lakes. I'd call this an early pre-release, especially becau

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Re: Next FlightGear Release - upcoming.

2006-03-10 Thread Stefan Seifert
David Luff wrote: Melchior FRANZ writes: OK, you've pricked my consciensce. I'll make a concerted effort to track that one down, since it's undoubtably one of mine :-( I thought it might have been fixed, since I haven't seen it since a couple of bug-fixes were added to that bit of code be so