Re: [Flightgear-devel] Improved c172p autopilot

2007-01-03 Thread woodyst
On 1/3/07, Dave Perry [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, 2007-01-03 at 03:08 +0100, woodyst wrote: I've arrived to that conclusion when I saw that the plain wasn't unable of performing a 0-0 visibility approach with ILS. The ILS minimums for non CAT II or CAT III approaches are usually no

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Improved c172p autopilot

2007-01-03 Thread Joacim Persson
On Wed, 3 Jan 2007, Ralf Gerlich wrote: Disabling joystick inputs alltogether should not be an option, except - perhaps - if you only disable a single axis. Assume that your AP is in ALT hold mode and you want to do turns. You are right about that of course. And using a separate channel is

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Improved c172p autopilot

2007-01-03 Thread Ralf Gerlich
Hi, Joacim Persson wrote: OTOH if we're not that much after exact internal modelling, we might as well use the trim channel ;-) The piloting of the aircraft, including AP, should be realistic. In this case that involves adjusting the pitch trim (manually) -- why there are warning lights

Re: [Flightgear-devel] CH53e data

2007-01-03 Thread wim van hoydonck
I just noticed that there might be/is a typo in the ch53e-yasim.xml file. change: ground-effect-constatnt=1.25 to: ground-effect-constant=1.25 Greetings, Wim On 1/3/07, wim van hoydonck [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi there, I just checked Janes' All the world aircraft (versions 1979-1880 and

[Flightgear-devel] Gold mine of helicopter airfoil data

2007-01-03 Thread Joacim Persson
Thought I'd share this find -- discovered it just now: http://ntrs.nasa.gov/ Document-ID: 19770018207 Title: US Army helicopter design datcom. Volume 1 Airfoils Author: Leo Dadone Abstract: This report contains airfoil data of interest for rotor applications. The data is presented

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Gold mine of helicopter airfoil data

2007-01-03 Thread Heiko Schulz
Hi, Real nice. But from 1976 - newer one would be good too! But Maybe this will lead to some nice helos! Greets HHS --- Joacim Persson [EMAIL PROTECTED] schrieb: Thought I'd share this find -- discovered it just now: http://ntrs.nasa.gov/ Document-ID: 19770018207 Title: US Army helicopter

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Gold mine of helicopter airfoil data

2007-01-03 Thread Joacim Persson
On Wed, 3 Jan 2007, Heiko Schulz wrote: Hi, Real nice. But from 1976 - newer one would be good too! If there is a volume 2 somewhere... Leo Dadone is a Boeing guy btw, so I suspect the 40-some listed airfoils should at least cover the Boeing rotorcrafts up to 1977. Many of the airfoils

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Improved c172p autopilot

2007-01-03 Thread Roy Vegard Ovesen
On Wednesday 03 January 2007 10:27, woodyst wrote: It can be fixed in kap140.nas file, I think. I would study that file well and if I can, I will send another patch. I've overhauled kap140.nas quite extensively. I've changed to more sensible property data types like boolenas instead of text.

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Gold mine of helicopter airfoil data

2007-01-03 Thread GWMobile
Look for the naca files on the internet to find them all in a better format. I think they actually have them in database or spreadsheet form somewhere unless they have gotten rid of it. On Wed, 3 Jan 2007 12:24 pm, Joacim Persson wrote: On Wed, 3 Jan 2007, Heiko Schulz wrote: Hi, Real

Re: [Flightgear-devel] location-in-air ... magnetic bearings from the reference

2007-01-03 Thread Curtis Olson
On 1/3/07, John Denker [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: First, some background information. Suppose we are up in the air, 10 nm west of KXYZ airfield (which is colocated with the XYZ vortac). [snip] To summarize: With rare exceptions, locations are specified using the bearing /from/ the reference.

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Yasim glider

2007-01-03 Thread Maik Justus
Hi all, tonight a nice aerotow was performed (thanks to AJ), some winch starts and the J3 as external cargo with the CH47 (thanks to Joacim). I will do some clean up in the code, and add the gravity force of the tow... Maik Maik Justus schrieb am 01.01.2007 15:57: Hi Heiko, I am thinking of

Re: [Flightgear-devel] location-in-air ... magnetic bearings from the reference

2007-01-03 Thread John Denker
On 01/03/2007 04:00 PM, Curtis Olson wrote: we do want this to work intuitively so I would welcome any changes to improve the in-air reposition dialog box. :-) I think it makes a lot more sense to focus on the gui dialog box. Agreed. I'm coming at this from the perspective of an

Re: [Flightgear-devel] location-in-air ... magnetic bearings from the reference

2007-01-03 Thread John Denker
I found a way to make it do what I want. Here's my version http://www.av8n.com/fly/fgfs/location-in-air.xml and the diff against the cvs version: http://www.av8n.com/fly/fgfs/location-in-air.diff On 01/03/2007 05:19 PM, Curtis Olson wrote: Only if you are relocating to a nearby position.

Re: [Flightgear-devel] out-of-date mailing-list addresses

2007-01-03 Thread Arnt Karlsen
On Wed, 3 Jan 2007 02:37:09 +0100, Arnt wrote in message [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On Tue, 2 Jan 2007 15:53:21 -0600, Curtis wrote in message [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On 1/2/07, John Denker [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: How about starting with places like these: --

[Flightgear-devel] The version parameter is missing in FG?

2007-01-03 Thread Ampere K. Hardraade
Is it just me or does FG currently lack a version parameter for returning its version number? Ampere - Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to

Re: [Flightgear-devel] location-in-air ... magnetic bearings from the reference

2007-01-03 Thread Dave Perry
On Wed, 2007-01-03 at 15:36 -0500, John Denker wrote: First, some background information. Suppose we are up in the air, 10 nm west of KXYZ airfield (which is colocated with the XYZ vortac). 1) If we were inbound to the field, I would report our position as 10 nm west, inbound on the

Re: [Flightgear-devel] The version parameter is missing in FG?

2007-01-03 Thread Curtis Olson
On 1/3/07, Ampere K. Hardraade [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is it just me or does FG currently lack a version parameter for returning its version number? In the old days we just printed the version # to the console when we started up. A --version options sounds like a good idea to me. Curt. --

Re: [Flightgear-devel] radials

2007-01-03 Thread John Denker
On 01/03/2007 09:07 PM, Dave Perry wrote: This may seem a nit. I had the following quote drilled into my mind by Don Berman in one of his well know Instrument Written Ground School seminars. Radials eminate from the station; direction of flight has nothing to do with location. 1)