[Flightgear-devel] 2 Oct, 8pm USA Eastern time: Heads up, main web server scheduled maintenance.

2013-09-30 Thread Curtis Olson
Here is a quick heads up for everyone. On October 2, at about 8pm USA Eastern Time Zone (GMT-5), the main FlightGear server will be down for scheduled maintenance for about 30-60 minutes. The physical hardware is being relocated to a larger facility. Thanks for your patience! Curt. -- Curtis O

Re: [Flightgear-devel] GPS - merge request

2013-09-30 Thread Dirk Dittmann
Am Montag, 30. September 2013, 12:52:08 schrieb James Turner: > On 30 Sep 2013, at 12:29, Eric van den Berg wrote: > > The other stuff I asked Dirk to add as it makes our extra500 (GPSS) AP > > design a lot easier. > Incidentally if you (Dirk) are looking at this code, the really great thing > wo

Re: [Flightgear-devel] GPS - merge request

2013-09-30 Thread Eric van den Berg
To be honest I did not put any CDI in (yet). And it is coded in JSBSim, not Nasal (want to keep the plane flyable on my not so top-of-the-notch computer). I just turn the aircraft for a certain period of time (based on groundspeed, turn rate, ground track, nex leg course) and than switch over to

Re: [Flightgear-devel] GPS - merge request

2013-09-30 Thread James Turner
On 30 Sep 2013, at 12:29, Eric van den Berg wrote: > The other stuff I asked Dirk to add as it makes our extra500 (GPSS) AP design > a lot easier. Incidentally if you (Dirk) are looking at this code, the really great thing would be to get the turn-anticipation code enabled. All the pieces are

Re: [Flightgear-devel] GPS - merge request

2013-09-30 Thread James Turner
On 30 Sep 2013, at 12:29, Eric van den Berg wrote: > It actually does solve issue 1164 (which I started). > When one switches to the next waypoint, the active leg course and > x-track-error relate to the leg between the previous and active waypoint of > the flightplan (as it should in LEG mode

Re: [Flightgear-devel] GPS - merge request

2013-09-30 Thread Eric van den Berg
It actually does solve issue 1164 (which I started). When one switches to the next waypoint, the active leg course and x-track-error relate to the leg between the previous and active waypoint of the flightplan (as it should in LEG mode). Previously the leg (-course and x-track-error) was forme

Re: [Flightgear-devel] GPS - merge request

2013-09-30 Thread Dirk Dittmann
Am Montag, 30. September 2013, 09:00:19 schrieb James Turner: > On 30 Sep 2013, at 08:47, Dirk Dittmann wrote: > > Improved the Cross track error according to the great circle. > > http://williams.best.vwh.net/avform.htm#XTE. > > Great,. > > > And make the overflight sequence configurable for th

Re: [Flightgear-devel] GPS - merge request

2013-09-30 Thread James Turner
On 30 Sep 2013, at 08:47, Dirk Dittmann wrote: > Improved the Cross track error according to the great circle. > http://williams.best.vwh.net/avform.htm#XTE. Great,. > > And make the overflight sequence configurable for the aircraft. The default > is > the same. > > /instrumentation/gps/c

[Flightgear-devel] GPS - merge request

2013-09-30 Thread Dirk Dittmann
Hello, Improved the Cross track error according to the great circle. http://williams.best.vwh.net/avform.htm#XTE. And make the overflight sequence configurable for the aircraft. The default is the same. /instrumentation/gps/config/over-flight-arm-angle-deg 90 /instrumentation/gps/con