[Flightgear-devel] F-16 upgraded to 'production' status

2008-08-15 Thread Erik Hofman
Hi, I have been busy updating the F-16 flight computer lately which turned out the have quite some problems. After extensive (and many, many hours of) work I'm pleased to announce it is finished now. I know others have been using this FDM to model other aircraft, so I've added a bit of

Re: [Flightgear-devel] F-16 upgraded to 'production' status

2008-08-15 Thread Jon S Berndt
On Fri, 15 Aug 2008 10:52:38 +0200 Erik Hofman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I have been busy updating the F-16 flight computer lately which turned out the have quite some problems. After extensive (and many, many hours of) work I'm pleased to announce it is finished now. I know others

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Nord 2501; Was: Particle Submodel OSG format

2008-08-15 Thread gerard robin
On jeu 14 août 2008, gerard robin wrote: SNIP With Noratlas, the last piston update, has made some change, now i get less power, i must update the Engine spec However i can take off with it (slowly, and carefully) Cheers No i was wrong, N2501 is right with the most recent JSBSim update ,

Re: [Flightgear-devel] F-16 upgraded to 'production' status

2008-08-15 Thread AJ MacLeod
On Friday 15 August 2008 09:52:38 Erik Hofman wrote: I have been busy updating the F-16 flight computer lately which turned out the have quite some problems. After extensive (and many, many hours of) work I'm pleased to announce it is finished now. I know others have been using this FDM to

Re: [Flightgear-devel] black out behavior

2008-08-15 Thread gerard robin
On jeu 14 août 2008, Erik Hofman wrote: Hi, Ever since I switched to the CVS version of FlightGear I wondered whether the black-out behavior really is that realistic . Although I never experienced it I couldn't imagine this would happen in real life, at least not with an anti-g suit. In an

Re: [Flightgear-devel] black out behavior

2008-08-15 Thread gerard robin
On ven 15 août 2008, gerard robin wrote: I have not the answer :( , so, having access to an external parameter/property ( evaluated and given by the Model Aircraft developer) which modify the conditions/values of black-out would be the best. Now when using any modern fighter with G-Suit

Re: [Flightgear-devel] black out behavior

2008-08-15 Thread Alexis Bory - xiii
Erik Hofman wrote: Hi, Ever since I switched to the CVS version of FlightGear I wondered whether the black-out behavior really is that realistic . Although I never experienced it I couldn't imagine this would happen in real life, at least not with an anti-g suit. In an excerpt from a

[Flightgear-devel] FGNavList oddity

2008-08-15 Thread James Turner
I encountered the following code, in the middle of FGNavList::findNavFromList: == // LOC, ILS, GS, and DME antenna's could potentially be // installed at the opposite end of the runway. So it's not // enough to

Re: [Flightgear-devel] FGNavList oddity

2008-08-15 Thread Curtis Olson
James, I was perusing the cvs logs online for this source file and this code goes back quite a ways ... http://cvs.flightgear.org/viewvc/source/src/Navaids/navlist.cxx?view=log Revision *1.7* - (viewhttp://cvs.flightgear.org/viewvc/source/src/Navaids/navlist.cxx?revision=1.7view=markup)

Re: [Flightgear-devel] FGNavList oddity

2008-08-15 Thread John Denker
On 08/15/2008 01:30 PM, James Turner wrote: I encountered the following code, in the middle of FGNavList::findNavFromList: [snip] Now, there's two bad things here: (I think) - in the DME case (type == 12 or 13), hdg is left 0.0 - hdg, having been computed, isn't then used: I assume it

Re: [Flightgear-devel] FGNavList oddity

2008-08-15 Thread James Turner
On 15 Aug 2008, at 23:07, John Denker wrote: Possibly constructive suggestions: 1) In the case of paired transmitters, turn on the one that serves the runway _favored by the wind_. Do this regardless of the location of the aircraft. Remark: This works even in multiplayer

[Flightgear-devel] FGPositioned refactoring

2008-08-15 Thread James Turner
I'm planning to do a slightly intensive re-factoring - creating a base class where one didn't exist before. The (draft) base class is attached - it will become a base for the following: FGAirport FGRunway FGFix FGNavRecord ATCData The members are