[Flightgear-devel] 777 vs 787

2008-12-18 Thread Durk Talsma
Gentlemen,

Please note that earlier in the week, I upgraded the 787 in CVS. Like I had 
mentioned previously, I would be inclined to swap the 777 in the base package 
for the 787. I am still open to that suggestion, but I have hardly had a 
chance to play with the new 787. I will try to do some testing tonight. In the 
mean time, can somebody please have a look and give some advice?

Cheers,
Durk

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Re: [Flightgear-devel] FlightGear-1.99.5-RC2

2008-12-18 Thread Stuart Buchanan
John Denker wrote:

 On 12/17/2008 08:04 PM, Csaba Halász wrote:
 
  I assume you are not using sync-to-vblank or fps throttle. 
 
 That's a correct assumption.  Forsooth, I've never heard of 
 sync-to-vblank or fps throttle in this context.  The names
 sound nice, but
 -- They are not mentioned in --help --verbose
 -- They do not appear in the drop-down menus AFAICT.
 -- They do not appear in the getstart manual or in
   any of the plain-text documents in data/Docs AFAICT.

Good point.

If I get the chance before the release I'll check the manual 
and make sure they are mentioned.

 I mention this because I'm trying to test things from
 the user's point of view.  If these features are going
 to be important to users, it would be useful to put
 them where users can find them.
 
 Or ... maybe turn them on by default.  Recomputing the
 image at a rate that exceeds the refresh rate of the
 display seems kinda pointless, unless I'm overlooking
 something.

That is a fair point, but I don't think we have any easy way
to determine the refresh rate of the display.

Setting the fps throttle by default in preferences.xml might be
worthwhile. I don't have it set myself, but I believe that many 
people use it to provide more consistent frame-rates.

-Stuart



  

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Re: [Flightgear-devel] 777 vs 787

2008-12-18 Thread Gijs de Rooy

Hi Durk,
 
I've just implented the livery selection dialog (working over MP)
for the 787 yesterday. You can download it from the forum:
 
http://flightgear.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=4t=1001p=23180#p23180
If wanted, you can commit it to CVS.

Regards,
Gijs Please note that earlier in the week, I upgraded the 787 in CVS. Like I 
had  mentioned previously, I would be inclined to swap the 777 in the base 
package  for the 787. I am still open to that suggestion, but I have hardly 
had a  chance to play with the new 787. I will try to do some testing tonight. 
In the  mean time, can somebody please have a look and give some advice?
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Re: [Flightgear-devel] NAV display proof-of-concept

2008-12-18 Thread James Turner

On 18 Dec 2008, at 01:17, Syd wrote:


 On the gps display , the default scale is 5nm full deviation,in  
 approach
 arm mode 1 nm full, but I didnt animate that ... there are still  
 dozens
 of pages that need done yet. Ive been tempted to switch to the kln89
 instead of trying to do this with nasal ...

Just a heads up, I'm planning to deprecate (and remove!) the KLN89 C++  
code, in favour of my enhanced 'regular' GPS code, some custom panel  
layers, and Nasal script.

The rational for this is that the 'common' pieces (direct-to modes,  
route handling, etc) are all common to every GPS and FMS we might ever  
want to model, while putting the logic about pages, cursors and  
messages into C++ seems pointless to me. Once I create a specialised  
text panel layer to handle the screen of the KLN89/90/94, it's 'just'  
a case of cranking out Nasal scripts to setup and drive each page if  
they're displayed.

The panel layer is the part I'm still working out how to do, it's one  
of my Christmas projects. Essentially I'm hoping to create a row/ 
column addressable two-dimensional text area, which can contains  
'chunks' like the current text layer, but with some extra control from  
Nasal - eg making a chunk inverted its display, or blink. I think such  
a layer would be useful in implementing many small digital displays in  
a wide range of instruments.

James

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Re: [Flightgear-devel] NAV display proof-of-concept

2008-12-18 Thread James Turner

On 18 Dec 2008, at 06:54, Syd wrote:

 Ok , I did some test flights , now I see what you mean 
 With the EFS 40/50 the deviation scale units depend on the  navigation
 source:

 VOR/TAC  1 dot = 5 degrees
 ADF 7.5 degrees
 LNAV or RNAV 2.5 NM
 LNAV/RNAV appr  0.625 NM
 GPS ENROUTE 2.5NM
 GPS TERMINAL   0.5   NM
 GPS APPROACH0.15 NM

 Hope that helps , I'm going over the animations again to see if I got
 the scale right.

Interesting. That means the GPS/FMS needs to expose its current mode  
in a standard way, which is fine - right now I've added a string  
property called 'mode', but I'm open to any cleaner way of handling  
this.

If something like the KLN89 is slaved to a 'simple' HSI display or NAV  
gauge, I suspect the GPS itself takes care of shifting the  
sensitivity, since what it actually outputs (to drive needle  
deflection) is a voltage, I think. But equally that doesn't make sense  
when driving a 'smart' display like the ones in the B1900.

Not quite sure the best way to handle this, will have a think on it.

James


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[Flightgear-devel] JSBSim Propulsion Work

2008-12-18 Thread Jon S. Berndt
I want to thank Ron, John, and all of you that are discussing the propulsion
/ flight modeling problems for the C172P and moving that forward. I'm trying
to find time to keep up with the discussion. I think that refining the
piston model is a good first task in the job of improving the piston-powered
aircraft models.

Jon



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Re: [Flightgear-devel] FlightGear-1.99.5-RC2

2008-12-18 Thread Durk Talsma
On Wednesday 17 December 2008 22:18:15 I wrote:
 Just to make a blunt suggestion, although not completely of my own
 imagination: would it be an idea to release this version as 2.0?.
 Initially, we wanted to do a 1.9.0 release, because we felt that the OSG
 transition wasn't quite there yet. Since then, enormous progress has been
 made, in particular in the 3D clouds departments. So given this unexpected
 progress, would labeling this release as 2.0 be  a viable option? I know
 that Curt's been in favor of calling this release 2.0. I initially was a
 bit more reluctant, but given the enormous progress, I have to say I'd be
 open to the suggestion.


Okay, of the people who responded, the vote was unanimously against this idea. 
If it's up to me, I vote for going back to our original consensus, and 
releasing this version as 1.9.0. As far as I can tell, this number has the 
majority vote, and although not Curt's preference, he can live with it. 

To be honest, I personally would also not be too happy with the 2.0 version 
number yet.

Cheers,
Durk

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Re: [Flightgear-devel] 777 vs 787

2008-12-18 Thread Durk Talsma
Hi Gijs,

On Thursday 18 December 2008 10:35:45 Gijs de Rooy wrote:
 Hi Durk,

 I've just implented the livery selection dialog (working over MP)
 for the 787 yesterday. You can download it from the forum:

 http://flightgear.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=4t=1001p=23180#p23180
 If wanted, you can commit it to CVS.


Thanks for the link. I will have a look.

Having said that, after some testing this evening, I do see a number of 
problems. Most notably,

- Most of the panel hotspots are not clickable, at least not in my 
configuration.
- The throttle doesn't respond to joystick input. 

I will try to give the 787 another try tomorrow morning, using my laptop. If I 
can't find a way to start the engine, than I'm afraid I will have to stick to 
the 777. Having said that: I do believe that the 787 is looking really good 
and, if it doesn't make it into the base package now, it will be a good 
candidate for the 2.0. release.

Cheers,
Durk

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Re: [Flightgear-devel] 777 vs 787

2008-12-18 Thread Gijs de Rooy

  The throttle doesn't respond to joystick input. 
 
The new throttle doesn't respond before the engines are started 
(they are running, but not started...). The startup procedure is 
described on the wiki: http://wiki.flightgear.org/index.php/Boeing_787
Gijs
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Re: [Flightgear-devel] 777 vs 787

2008-12-18 Thread Heiko Schulz

 Thanks for the link. I will have a look.
 
 Having said that, after some testing this evening, I do see
 a number of 
 problems. Most notably,
 
 - Most of the panel hotspots are not clickable, at least
 not in my 
 configuration.
 - The throttle doesn't respond to joystick input. 

Seems like a wrong version- But It needs some seconds till you can click on the 
overhead panel. The AP-panel is working now.

The throttle reacts here on keyboad input

 
 I will try to give the 787 another try tomorrow morning,
 using my laptop. If I 
 can't find a way to start the engine, than I'm
 afraid I will have to stick to 
 the 777.

Indeed, maybe there can be add a tutorial or a hot-start-button. In the forum 
there is now a description, but useless to the users who don't know the forum 
or the exact location of it. 

 Having said that: I do believe that the 787 is
 looking really good 
 and, if it doesn't make it into the base package now,
 it will be a good 
 candidate for the 2.0. release.
 
 Cheers,
 Durk



  

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Re: [Flightgear-devel] FlightGear-1.99.5-RC2

2008-12-18 Thread Melchior FRANZ
* Durk Talsma -- Thursday 18 December 2008:
 I vote for going back to our original consensus, and 
 releasing this version as 1.9.0.

Sounds good to me. With the subtitle: technology preview;
test it, fire up your editors and fix all the bugs.  :-)

1.95 would also have worked for me, but 1.99.5 is really
a bit far-fetched.

m.

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Re: [Flightgear-devel] plib versions and FG 1.99.5

2008-12-18 Thread francesco
Sébastien MARQUE ha scritto:
 Hi all,

 ...
 best regards
 seb

   

solution:

http://brisa.homelinux.net/download_and_compile.sh

use this script for debian / ubuntu or look at it.

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Re: [Flightgear-devel] FlightGear-1.99.5-RC2

2008-12-18 Thread Stuart Buchanan
Durk Talsma wrote:

 Okay, of the people who responded, the vote was unanimously against this 
 idea. 
 If it's up to me, I vote for going back to our original consensus, and 
 releasing this version as 1.9.0. As far as I can tell, this number has the 
 majority vote, and although not Curt's preference, he can live with it. 

OK. I'll update the manual source to say 1.9.0 rather than 1.99.5.

Durk - if you change your mind right before the release, can you make sure
that Martin has checked in a new version of the manual with the new version
number.

Martin - I'll assume you are happy to generate the manual for the release and
check it in. Let me know if you're too busy.

-Stuart



  

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Re: [Flightgear-devel] FlightGear-1.99.5-RC2

2008-12-18 Thread Martin Spott
Stuart Buchanan wrote:

 Martin - I'll assume you are happy to generate the manual for the release and
 check it in.

Definitely    yet I didn't recieve any updates for The Manual from
John D., though  ;-)

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Re: [Flightgear-devel] plib versions and FG 1.99.5

2008-12-18 Thread Sébastien MARQUE
Oh for me it is not a problem as I compile SG-FG cvs, OSG-plib svn using 
the script ./compile which is one of my own and install them in my user 
space (http://seb.marque.free.fr/fichiers/flightgear/compile.tgz can do 
many other things but coffee :)).

Indeed I was mainly thinking about distros that won't be able to package 
FG until they have plib 1.8.5 in their repos, and as this version is 
available for some months now, I wonder why it is not already the case 
(maybe FG 1.99.5 could be the coup de pouce for pushing 1.8.5 in repos)

regards
seb

francesco a écrit :
 Sébastien MARQUE ha scritto:
 Hi all,

 ...
 best regards
 seb

   
 
 solution:
 
 http://brisa.homelinux.net/download_and_compile.sh
 
 use this script for debian / ubuntu or look at it.
 
 bye
 

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[Flightgear-devel] [Patch] trivial extension to SGRoute

2008-12-18 Thread James Turner
As a precursor to submitting my GPS / route-manager work after 1.90 is  
released, here's a tiny extension to SGRoute. A small thing, but an  
important one, at least for my code - it makes the index of the  
current waypoint available directly from SGRoute.




simgear-route-current-index.patch
Description: Binary data




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[Flightgear-devel] FlightGear-1.99.5-RC2 WinXP issue.

2008-12-18 Thread Bohnert Paul

All,

I spent a couple of hours installing all the latest updates.  According to the 
Mirosoft Update site I'm up to date.

I loaded FlightGear-1.99.5-RC2 on my Windows XP Pro. SP3 box.

FlightGear will not start.  Missing MSVCR71.dll not found error.

Is this a file I should have?


Best Regards,

Paul B.


  

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Re: [Flightgear-devel] FlightGear-1.99.5-RC2

2008-12-18 Thread Roy Vegard Ovesen
On Wednesday 17 December 2008 23:04:28 John Denker wrote:
 A couple more six-legged crawly things:

 42:: Instrument: KAP-140: As of rc2, as installed in the c172p and
  presumably others, on initial startup the display of the Sim World
  KAP-140 is blank.  This is already a bug, because the display of the
  Real World KAP-140 is never blank (unless you pull the circuit
  breaker, which is not relevant to the present discussion).  In
  particular, the altitude alerter function is always active and cannot
  be turned off, even in the rather common case where the auto-bank and
  auto-pitch functions are on standby.  In this case, the RW KAP-140
  displays the target altitude.  It would be nice if the SW KAP-140
  did the same.

Unfortunately I am unable to build FG at the moment but I think this patch 
will display the target altitude at initialisation.

diff --git a/Aircraft/Generic/kap140.nas b/Aircraft/Generic/kap140.nas
index 1b76255..1e129c9 100644
--- a/Aircraft/Generic/kap140.nas
+++ b/Aircraft/Generic/kap140.nas
@@ -226,7 +226,7 @@ var apInit = func {
   annunciatorFpm.setBoolValue(0);
   annunciatorAlt.setBoolValue(0);
   annunciatorAltArm.setBoolValue(0);
-  annunciatorAltNumber.setBoolValue(0);
+  annunciatorAltNumber.setBoolValue(1);
   annunciatorGs.setBoolValue(0);
   annunciatorGsArm.setBoolValue(0);
   annunciatorPtUp.setBoolValue(0);


  The nightmare scenario for the noobie pilot is taking off from an
  airport situated above 1000 MSL and flying to an airport at 950 MSL.
  Since the default target altitude is zero, there will be an alert
  on short final at 1000 MSL == 50 feet AGL.  Unexpected beeping
  warnings at 50 feet AGL are not a good thing.

Displaying the target altitude at all times will of course still result in the 
beeping as you describe, but I guess it will be more expected. Can you 
confirm that the RW KAP-140 behaves like this?

  We note in passing that the instructions at
http://wiki.flightgear.org/index.php?title=Bendix/King_KAP140_Autopilot
  do not even mention the alerter.

I was too lazy to document all the features, so I just pointed to the Pilot's 
Guide :-) Feel free to add a mention of the altitude alerter in the Wiki.


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Re: [Flightgear-devel] FGPiston patch RFC

2008-12-18 Thread John Denker
On 12/17/2008 12:18 AM, Ron Jensen wrote:

 I've made the constant C a configurable item, but I don't have a good
 name for it.  The patch calls it gagg-c but there must be a better
 name...  I just can't think of one.

Physically, this C represents internal friction.  So, maybe 
gagg_friction or some such???

 The Gagg-Farrar equation uses a constant to express the power drop off
 of a piston engine as air density decreases.
 
 sigma= air_density / standard_density
 
 phi = ( sigma - C ) / ( 1 - C )
 
 power *= phi
 
 In early testing it seems to work well.  I used rho_air_manifold for
 air_density and replaced suction_loss, which was based in part on
 throttle position, with phi.  This may resolve one of Torsten's issues
 with the FGPiston model.

There seems to be a consensus that this engine model would 
benefit from some TLC.

The Gagg-Farrar equation is delightfully simple and reasonable.
However, AFAICT it assumes the throttle is wide open.  That
makes sense for the original applications intended by Gagg
and Farrar ... but I don't think it does what FGPiston needs
to get done.

In particular, I call attention to the lines in front of the 
patch Ron contributed:

 suction_loss = RPM  0.0 ? ThrottlePos * MaxRPM / RPM : 1.0;
 if (suction_loss  1.0) suction_loss = 1.0;
 MAP = (something) * suction_loss;

First of all, regarding this quantity suction_loss, it's a 
misnomer to call it a loss ... because as this quantity
becomes greater the MAP becomes greater.

Terminology aside, I don't think we should be multiplying by
throttle/RPM ... instead we should be dividing by (1+RPM/throttle)
roughly speaking.  This is much better behaved, especially 
at low RPM.

Furthermore, these lines seem to be missing a rather important
dependence on ambient pressure.  This is related to the fact
that while dynamic viscosity is insensitive to pressure and
density, the kinematic viscosity is directly sensitive.

I wrote up a first draft of the algebra involved in making a 
quasi-plausible model of this stuff.  It can be found at
  http://www.av8n.com/fly/throttle.htm
This includes a graph of the non-decreasing power versus
revs curve that we discussed yesterday.

The analysis is not 100% complete;  in particular it does 
not include the frictional terms that Gagg-Farrar features.
I reckon if we add that in, we might get something pretty
nice.  In particular, the Gagg-Farrar result should emerge
as a corollary of the more general analysis, applicable to
the special case where the throttle is wide open.


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Re: [Flightgear-devel] FlightGear-1.99.5-RC2 WinXP issue.

2008-12-18 Thread Frederic Bouvier

- Bohnert Paul a écrit :

 All,
 
 I spent a couple of hours installing all the latest updates. 
 According to the Mirosoft Update site I'm up to date.
 
 I loaded FlightGear-1.99.5-RC2 on my Windows XP Pro. SP3 box.
 
 FlightGear will not start.  Missing MSVCR71.dll not found error.
 
 Is this a file I should have?

This is the C runtime. You can get a copy here :
http://www.dll-files.com/dllindex/dll-files.shtml?msvcr71
and you will need
http://www.dll-files.com/dllindex/dll-files.shtml?msvcp71

-Fred

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