[Flightgear-devel] PA24-250 model under development

2005-12-21 Thread Dave Perry
Seeing the PA34 model is encouraging. David Megeson (sp) encouraged me more than a year ago to model the Piper Comanche in fgfs when I posted that I had just become 1/3 owner of a 1962 PA24-250 (poor mans Bonanza, constant speed prop, retracts, 156 kt cruise). Last week I started editing his

Re: [Flightgear-devel] PA24-250 model under development

2005-12-26 Thread Dave Perry
Torsten Dreyer wrote: For using AC3D I got a lot of help from this page: http://www.holycows.net/ac3d.html Some downloadable videos showing the aircraft creating process. When I click on any of the Modeling Tutorial rar links, I get sent to a Network Solutions, This Site Under Construction

[Flightgear-devel] pa24-25 (Piper Comanche) 3d model ready to apply textures-help

2006-01-02 Thread Dave Perry
I will ask this question with a specific example. I used David Meginson's pa28-161 as a guide and borrowed his 3d panel. The Comanche needs a manifold pressure gage (constant speed prop). The gage is the same size as the tach, so I edited the .../Aircraft/Instruments-3d/tach/tach.jpeg,

[Flightgear-devel] Help creating textures in gimp

2006-01-07 Thread Dave Perry
I am still trying to add textures to the pa24-250 model for fgfs. I have unfolded the ac3d file and saved a square screen capture as a .png file. An outline of what I thought should be done follows: 1. open the png file in the gimp and scale to 512x512 pixels 2. outline the unfolded parts

[Flightgear-devel] Help creating textures in gimp

2006-01-07 Thread Dave Perry
-Original Message- From: Dave Perry Jim Wilson wrote: You might even want a larger texture. Thanks for the suggestions. I did rescale in the gimp to 1024x1024. snip If not check to make sure your opacity isn't zero, or your select feathering isn't on and a huge value

[Flightgear-devel] rosey Comanche

2006-01-08 Thread Dave Perry
Curt Olson wrote: Rosey red/white checkerboard usually means that the flightgear model loader (via plib) couldn't find the texture. You might make sure that the paths are correct, spelling is correct, case is correct, etc. Where is the path to the texture specified? The path to pa24-250.ac

Re: [Flightgear-devel] rosey Comanche

2006-01-09 Thread Dave Perry
Eric Hofman wrote: One thing to check (and double check) is that the textures really are 256x256 (and not 255x256 as has happened to me more than once). Thanks to both Curt and Eric; that was it! I found it just before I read Eric's note. I had scaled to 1024x1024 in gimp and never checked

[Flightgear-devel] Feedback on new Scenery from Colorado

2006-01-22 Thread Dave Perry
also checked out Chicago, Battle Creek/Kalamazo, MI, and the Des Moines, IA areas. All look good. The Des Moines area is very much improved with the missed elevation area West of Des Moines fixed. Realistic VFR is much improved with this new scenery. Thanks to Curt and others involved! Dave

[Flightgear-devel] pa24-250 update and some questions

2006-02-18 Thread Dave Perry
Thanks to Erik Hofman and David Megginson for putting the original model and two sets of patches into cvs. This was my first attempt at adding a model to fgfs and I learned a lot by browsing other aircraft, especially the pa28-161 and the dh2. Some things that are done in this model that may

[Flightgear-devel] turn indicator assumes 24 volt electrical system

2006-02-19 Thread Dave Perry
that do not have a 24 volt electrical system. Thanks in advance, Dave Perry --- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Splunk Inc. Do you grep through log files for problems? Stop! Download the new AJAX search engine that makes searching your log

Re: [Flightgear-devel] pa24-250 update and some questions

2006-02-21 Thread Dave Perry
David Megginson wrote: 2. At manifold pressures below 20 in hg, the AC has much too much power compared to the real AC. I normally use 16 in of manifold pressure in procedure turns and then with the gear down and 15 deg. of flaps, the descent and airspeed fall in place at the outer marker.

[Flightgear-devel] min and max in annimation?

2006-02-27 Thread Dave Perry
conditions, but I thought that min and max would do this also. Dave Perry --- This SF.Net email is sponsored by xPML, a groundbreaking scripting language that extends applications into web and mobile media. Attend the live webcast and join

[Flightgear-devel] model maintainers using Instruments-3d - take note

2006-02-27 Thread Dave Perry
When I did the dual nav for the pa24-250, I created a vor2.xml that could be eliminated by using params and property alias. If I edit vor.xml and use params and property alias to specify which nav in the calling model, and remove vor2.xml, will I break any models. I will make the small

Re: [Flightgear-devel] min and max in annimation?

2006-02-27 Thread Dave Perry
/SimGear to try and include the type of units in the property names when they are known (e.g. -ft, -m, -deg). It is easy to forget though, when playing with animations. Jim, Thanks! Adding -deg to the tags fixed the problem. Dave Perry

[Flightgear-devel] terminate called after throwing an instance of 'std::string'

2006-02-28 Thread Dave Perry
animations. Can any of you spot the problem? Thanks in advance, Dave Perry --- This SF.Net email is sponsored by xPML, a groundbreaking scripting language that extends applications into web and mobile media. Attend the live webcast and join the prime

[Flightgear-devel] Flaps and landing gear extend and retract with no power? OK to add voltage checks?

2006-03-05 Thread Dave Perry
I would like to add a voltage check before moving the flaps or landing gear in data/Nasal/controls.nas. The proposed changes are underlined. flapsDown = func { if(arg[0] == 0) { return; } _if(getprop(/systems/electrical/outputs/flaps) 8.0) {return; } # Dave Perry added a check

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Flaps and landing gear extend and retract with no power? OK to add voltage checks?

2006-03-06 Thread Dave Perry
AJ MacLeod wrote: On Sunday 05 March 2006 00:41, Dave Perry wrote: I would like to add a voltage check before moving the flaps or landing gear in data/Nasal/controls.nas. The proposed changes are underlined. snipped proposed new flapsDown etc Since the pa24-250 configs and nasal

[Flightgear-devel] Are the sourceforge lists not working?

2006-03-11 Thread Dave Perry
was also off-list; perhaps I should have copied you. If he is satisfied with my explanation(s), no need. Thanks again, Dave Perry --- This SF.Net email is sponsored by xPML, a groundbreaking scripting language that extends applications

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Re: Are the sourceforge lists not working?

2006-03-12 Thread Dave Perry
Melchior FRANZ wrote: * Dave Perry -- Sunday 12 March 2006 04:20: By the way, Melchior FRANZ sent me a note off-list [... report ...] My response was also off-list; perhaps I should have copied you. If he is satisfied with my explanation(s), No he isn't. But he doesn't like when

Re: [Flightgear-devel] pa24-250

2006-03-12 Thread Dave Perry
one!) Thanks for the interest! This is what is great about open source. As another Dave says, All the best, Dave Perry --- This SF.Net email is sponsored by xPML, a groundbreaking scripting language that extends applications into web

[Flightgear-devel] prop disc disapears smoothly with rpm increase

2006-03-13 Thread Dave Perry
more visible as you retard the throttle on base. Once you have full flaps, and increase the MP to 16 in to control the descent, the disc again disappears until you pull the throttle for the flare out. Very realistic! I will submit the patch tomorrow evening. Dave Perry

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Re: [Flightgear-cvslogs] CVS: data/Aircraft/pa24-250/Models pa24-250.ac,1.6,1.7

2006-03-27 Thread Dave Perry
mixture control. Since I live in Colorado and my base airport is over 5000 ft MSL, I use it every run-up. Dave Perry --- This SF.Net email is sponsored by xPML, a groundbreaking scripting language that extends applications into web

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Re: [Flightgear-cvslogs] CVS: data/Aircraft/pa24-250/Models pa24-250.ac,1.6,1.7

2006-03-27 Thread Dave Perry
in the FGShortRef in the Doc folder tab 3, you will find P Toggle instrument panel on/off. The same happens in all the other AC I tried (c172p, pa28-161, and others) with the exception that in some cases the set.xml files assign their own 2D pannel (e.g. f16-3d). ;-) Dave Perry

[Flightgear-devel] MS sidewinder force feedback2 xml update

2006-04-22 Thread Dave Perry
with the Saitek joystick with my notebook, so others may want to use the same features with the MS joystick. Here is the edited file for the MS joystick. I others like it better than the one in CVS, it should be put in CVS. Dave perry ?xml version=1.0? !-- $Id: sidewinder-force-feed2.xml,v 1.00 2006-04-22

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Memory leak

2006-06-19 Thread Dave Perry
I have had lock-ups on longer X-C flights with the pa24-250 recently that could be from a memory leak. So I used the system monitor to check on VM growth. The only 2D pannel used in the pa24-250 is the radio stack. So I tried commenting out various components of the radio stack in the file

Re: [Flightgear-devel] pa24-250

2006-07-17 Thread Dave Perry
, if you add this to the radio-panel.xml file, it will hide the dme which I moved to y295/y in my file. Thanks for any suggestions, Dave Perry - Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay

[Flightgear-devel] KLN89B implementation question

2006-07-27 Thread Dave Perry
the dme which I moved to y295/y in my file. Thanks for any suggestions, Dave Perry - Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions

[Flightgear-devel] desktop launcher for fgrun not working in KDE desktop (FC5)

2006-09-25 Thread Dave Perry
:/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin in my .bashrc for both accounts. Any ideas? Dave Perry -- Dave Perry [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll

Re: [Flightgear-devel] desktop launcher for fgrun not working in KDE

2006-09-27 Thread Dave Perry
that did not work with the launcher. Such js calibration instructions could be added to this file instead of putting them in .bashrc which appears to be ignored by the launcher Thanks again, Dave Perry -- Dave Perry [EMAIL PROTECTED

[Flightgear-devel] JSBSim AC not loading - today's cvs

2006-09-30 Thread Dave Perry
error. Checked several YASim AC, all loaded. -- Dave Perry [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions

Re: [Flightgear-devel] JSBSim AC not loading - today's cvs

2006-09-30 Thread Dave Perry
the fdm to YASim in the fgrun - Advanced - Flight Model option. Thanks, -- Dave Perry [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance

Re: [Flightgear-devel] OT: First solo

2006-10-01 Thread Dave Perry
write well. My first solo was in a Cessna 150 8/7/1962 at a rural Iowa airport with 1 runway that was so narrow we called it the sidewalk. Now almost 2000 hours later, I still remember that day in terms similar to your description. Thanks again for sharing, -- Dave Perry [EMAIL PROTECTED

[Flightgear-devel] compiling OpenSceneGraph

2006-10-31 Thread Dave Perry
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Re: [Flightgear-devel] compiling OpenSceneGraph

2006-10-31 Thread Dave Perry
On Tue, 2006-10-31 at 21:17 -0600, Curtis Olson wrote: This is just from experince with other libs, but usually there is a libxyz (for runtime libs only) and then a matchin libxyz-devel which includes the headers and static versions of the libs. libgif-devel? Thanks Curt, After a yum

[Flightgear-devel] FG compile problem: error: 'osg' has not been declared

2006-11-02 Thread Dave Perry
/Airports' make[1]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1 make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/local/FlightGear-0.9/source/src' make: *** [all-recursive] Error 1 Did I miss a fix? -- Dave Perry [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Using Tomcat but need to do

[Flightgear-devel] Problem compiling SimGear

2006-11-17 Thread Dave Perry
-recursive] Error 1 Did a search on jpgfactory in the developers list. The only hit since August was a patch from Melchior Franz on 10/24/06, but I don't see ho this could cause my problem. Any ideas? -- Dave Perry [EMAIL PROTECTED

[Flightgear-devel] OSG feedback

2006-11-18 Thread Dave Perry
like the smooth performance. Thanks Mathias for all the work! Looking forward to new features OSG allows. -- Dave Perry [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay

Re: [Flightgear-devel] GPL Violation?

2006-11-18 Thread Dave Perry
the license info to the screen shot page and any new screen shots are submitted with this in place so the issue is settled. -- Dave Perry [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's

[Flightgear-devel] OSG feedback - more observations

2006-11-18 Thread Dave Perry
as the rotating aircraft looks as in fgfs plib. I hope this difference can be improved. I looked at other aircraft. Straight lines in textures look worse in OSG so far. -- Dave Perry [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Take Surveys. Earn Cash

[Flightgear-devel] OSG update question?

2006-11-22 Thread Dave Perry
Mathias, Should we be updating OSG source from CVS now or are the most recent updates still coming out in tar balls? -- Dave Perry [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join

[Flightgear-devel] gear strut compression animation

2006-11-23 Thread Dave Perry
-a*a/2)); Hope others can use this. -- Dave Perry [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT business

Re: [Flightgear-devel] gear strut compression animation

2006-11-24 Thread Dave Perry
On Thu, 2006-11-23 at 22:51 -0500, Ampere K. Hardraade wrote: On Thursday 23 November 2006 10:19, Dave Perry wrote: The required computation was done in Nasal. It include solving the nonlinear equation (H - C)/2L = sin(phi - theta) hmm... nonlinear equation? Wouldn't Law

[Flightgear-devel] radio stack showing through wings, etc in osg

2006-12-15 Thread Dave Perry
I saw a note about a week ago concerning this issue. Under osg cvs, for both the c172p with 3d panel and the pa24-250, the radios show through the wings, tail, gear, but not the fuselage. This does not happen under the plib version for these ac. -- Dave Perry [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Improved c172p autopilot

2007-01-02 Thread Dave Perry
course inbound heading while the HDG annunciator is flashing. The modeled KAP140 requires the HDG bug to be set to the reverse heading (the reciprocal of the documentation bug setting). -- Dave Perry [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Improved c172p autopilot

2007-01-02 Thread Dave Perry
On Tue, 2007-01-02 at 23:01 -0700, Dave Perry wrote: For whatever reason, the KAP140 gives more realistic performance in the pa24 than in the c172p. I did not include an autopilot config xml in the pa24 implementation, i.e. it is using the default configuration. Correction: I am using

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

2007-01-03 Thread Dave Perry
: With rare exceptions, locations are specified using the bearing /from/ the reference. since radial have to do with location, not heading. Best regards, Dave -- Dave Perry [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence

Re: [Flightgear-devel] radials

2007-01-04 Thread Dave Perry
. The inbound statement should communicate your approximate magnetic course, but since you have reported two totally contradictory positions, your course is unknown from this report. The controller should ask for clarification. Happy New Year and please close this flight plan, Dave -- Dave Perry [EMAIL

Re: [Flightgear-devel] pick animation

2007-01-10 Thread Dave Perry
while still flying the AC with the yoke. Many of us use fgfs to practice instrument approaches. As has been pointed out before, we will start to tune, scan and correct, tune some more, scan and correct. This requires one handed tuning, switch toggeling, etc. Regards, Dave -- Dave Perry [EMAIL

Re: [Flightgear-devel] c182 revision version?

2007-01-15 Thread Dave Perry
the problem was. So for both the horn and the gear locked down green light, I am checking all the gear (in the fgfs model). I still have to submit the patch with the gear and stall warning implementation. -- Dave Perry [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: [Flightgear-devel] kap140 bug+fix

2007-01-15 Thread Dave Perry
near the intercept, you click on APR and while the HDG is flashing, moved the hdg bug to the LOC mag heading? Regards, -- Dave Perry - Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel

Re: [Flightgear-devel] kap140 bug+fix

2007-01-15 Thread Dave Perry
apr_arm_from_rol change: -setprop(Locks, roll-arm, gs-arm); +setprop(Locks, pitch-arm, gs-arm); with the OSG head. Are you saying this patch does not work for you? Regards, -- Dave Perry [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Take

[Flightgear-devel] autopilot broken by recent osg branch fgfs update

2007-01-22 Thread Dave Perry
. The altitude capture still works but the HDG, APR, and NAV do nothing except wing level. Turning the HI heading bug has no affect. The locks are updating in the property list. Are others seeing this behavior? Regards, -- Dave Perry [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: [Flightgear-devel] autopilot broken by recent osg branch fgfsupdate

2007-01-23 Thread Dave Perry
only one call of pow (i.e. exp and ln) I will send you the working kap140.nas with these changes off-list. It is working well here. Regards, -- Dave Perry - Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join

[Flightgear-devel] radials revisited

2007-01-29 Thread Dave Perry
and dangerous assertion that you report your position differently when on an inbound radial. Regards, -- Dave Perry [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel

Re: [Flightgear-devel] where to put optional Nasal addon script?

2007-02-02 Thread Dave Perry
where kap140.nas belongs, I will move it on my system and recheck that all 6 AC work and resubmit the patch. Regards, -- Dave Perry [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Using Tomcat but need to do more? Need to support web services, security

[Flightgear-devel] OT - trim and autopilot Hell - for real

2007-02-05 Thread Dave Perry
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Re: [Flightgear-devel] J7W Shinden

2007-02-05 Thread Dave Perry
designed so the cannard stalls first. This is true for your model of the j7w also. I moved the x coordinate of the main gear aft for the duration of this experiment to assure the AC sat with the nose gear on the ground as I moved the CG back and forth. Give this config a try. -- Dave Perry

Re: [Flightgear-devel] J7W Shinden

2007-02-06 Thread Dave Perry
On Tue, 2007-02-06 at 12:47 -0800, Tatsuhiro Nishioka wrote: Dave, On Feb 5, 2007, at 8:35 PM, Dave Perry wrote: I made an estimate from the 3D model as to approximately where the CG should be. The main wing should carry most of the weight, so since the wing is swept, I tried

[Flightgear-devel] small pa24 bugs

2007-02-06 Thread Dave Perry
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Re: [Flightgear-devel] Possible error in KAP140.xml

2007-02-07 Thread Dave Perry
, these files needed to be updated also to use bool variables. 2. Dave Perry had added logic to the original kap140.nas file to check for autopilot power so that the KAP140 would respond correctly to the master switch and the avionics master switch in the pa24-250. 3. It was decided via list discussion

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Possible error in KAP140.xml

2007-02-07 Thread Dave Perry
On Wed, 2007-02-07 at 07:09 -0700, Dave Perry wrote: Related File locations: Aircraft/Generic/kap140.nas -- KAP140 logic engine Aircraft/Instruments/KAP140TwoAxis.xml and Aircraft/Instruments/KAP140TwoAxisAlt.xml -- 2d KAP140 Instruments

Re: [Flightgear-devel] C172p strange behaviour with --flight-plan

2007-02-08 Thread Dave Perry
. If it is there, my changes are not causing this problem. -- Dave Perry [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Using Tomcat but need to do more? Need to support web services, security? Get stuff done quickly with pre-integrated technology

Re: [Flightgear-devel] DME for pa28-161

2007-02-10 Thread Dave Perry
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Re: [Flightgear-devel] incorrect altimetry

2007-02-11 Thread Dave Perry
that the the target altitude differs from the altimeter display even when the baro setting and the altimeter setting agree. Have you looked for bugs? Regards, Dave -- Dave Perry [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Using Tomcat but need to do more

Re: [Flightgear-devel] incorrect altimetry

2007-02-11 Thread Dave Perry
On Sun, 2007-02-11 at 08:02 -0700, Dave Perry wrote: Have you looked for bugs? I just looked at altimeter.cxx and altimeter.hxx. The indicated-altitude-ft is the result of a LowPass (taking into account the last altitude) of an iterpolation of a table created from an array in altimeter.cxx. I

Re: [Flightgear-devel] incorrect altimetry

2007-02-11 Thread Dave Perry
On Sun, 2007-02-11 at 13:42 -0500, John Denker wrote: On 02/11/2007 10:02 AM, Dave Perry wrote: So the altimeter setting is the same thing as the mean-sea-level barometric pressure. Huh? That does not follow at all. The quoted passage does not say that at all. Your own paper implies

Re: [Flightgear-devel] building the library of 3D instruments (was: DME for pa28)

2007-02-11 Thread Dave Perry
On Sat, 2007-02-10 at 14:35 -0500, John Denker wrote: On 02/10/2007 09:48 AM, Dave Perry wrote: On my system, I have the following running: 1. Moved the pa24 radio stack to Aircraft/Instruments-3d/, along with the required changes to the pa24-250. [etc.] Yes, that's a good move

Re: [Flightgear-devel] incorrect altimetry

2007-02-12 Thread Dave Perry
On Mon, 2007-02-12 at 01:41 -0500, John Denker wrote: On 02/11/2007 11:29 PM, Dave Perry wrote: By the way, I agree that the current algorithm in altimeter.cxx is wrong. This evening, I had time to look at your posted patch and I think it would give the right hi. It is, for now

Re: [Flightgear-devel] incorrect altimetry

2007-02-12 Thread Dave Perry
in this case? I am glad you changed your mind! When will you put this in cvs? Regards, Dave -- Dave Perry [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Using Tomcat but need to do more? Need to support web services, security? Get stuff done quickly

Re: [Flightgear-devel] incorrect altimetry

2007-02-12 Thread Dave Perry
On Mon, 2007-02-12 at 17:24 -0700, Dave Perry wrote: On Mon, 2007-02-12 at 11:33 -0500, John Denker wrote: Overnight I thought of a non-disgusting way to optimize the code. A new, muuuch better patch is now at: http://www.av8n.com/fly/fgfs/altimeter.diff The new patch gets

Re: [Flightgear-devel] incorrect altimetry

2007-02-12 Thread Dave Perry
Hi John, Thanks for answering my questions. I did not realize the interpolation table was for the first three layers. On Mon, 2007-02-12 at 21:18 -0500, John Denker wrote: The tabulated numbers come from a three-layer model, namely layers 0 through 2 as defined in the table at the front

Re: [Flightgear-devel] altimetry method ... alpha version

2007-02-18 Thread Dave Perry
On Sun, 2007-02-18 at 12:22 -0500, John Denker wrote: On 02/12/2007 08:43 PM, Dave Perry wrote: What I am proposing is to create a C++ function (say height_ft) that has two arguments, P0 and P1 that does the interpolation in John's new patch using his constants. Then the kap140.nas

Re: [Flightgear-devel] altimetry method ... alpha version

2007-02-19 Thread Dave Perry
On Sun, 2007-02-18 at 18:02 -0700, Dave Perry wrote: I am not sure the new patch is giving the same results, but I have not done any controlled comparisons;... I will double check and compare some examples with the previous patch. I was wrong. Both are giving the same results, much

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Aircraft/Instruments-3d/mag.sw/

2007-02-19 Thread Dave Perry
for a switch. Melchior, Please rename Aircraft/Instruments-3d/mag.sw to Aircraft/Instruments-3d/magneto-switch and apply the attached patch, both in cvs. -- Dave Perry ? Instruments-3d/magneto-switch ? j7w/j7w.xml.dp Index: pa24-250/Models/pa24-250.xml

[Flightgear-devel] altimeter, encoder, and kap140

2007-02-24 Thread Dave Perry
. Is the encoder used anywhere other than by the KAP140? If so, we should use a separate instantiation as suggested by John. Regards, -- Dave Perry altimetry.tar.gz Description: application/compressed-tar - Take Surveys. Earn Cash

Re: [Flightgear-devel] altimeter, encoder, and kap140

2007-02-25 Thread Dave Perry
On Sun, 2007-02-25 at 01:55 -0500, John Denker wrote: On 02/25/2007 12:30 AM, Dave Perry wrote: I have been communicating off and on with both John Denker and Roy Vegard Ovesen off list concerning this topic. I am running an edit of John's most recent altimetry patch and have modified

Re: [Flightgear-devel] altimeter, encoder, and kap140

2007-02-25 Thread Dave Perry
On Sun, 2007-02-25 at 06:39 -0700, Dave Perry wrote: On Sun, 2007-02-25 at 01:55 -0500, John Denker wrote: On 02/25/2007 12:30 AM, Dave Perry wrote: The altitude capture in the current cvs kap140.nas used altFt = pressureAltitude + hpartial * (baroSetting - 29.92

Re: [Flightgear-devel] altimeter, encoder, and kap140

2007-02-25 Thread Dave Perry
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Re: [Flightgear-devel] altimeter, encoder, and kap140

2007-02-25 Thread Dave Perry
On Sun, 2007-02-25 at 15:14 -0500, John Denker wrote: On 02/25/2007 02:39 PM, Roy Vegard Ovesen wrote: I have not, and I don't think Dave Perry has either, expressed optinions to indicate that the pressure altitude should not be quantized. What we have said is that indicated altitude

Re: [Flightgear-devel] altimeter, encoder, and kap140

2007-02-25 Thread Dave Perry
On Sun, 2007-02-25 at 16:19 -0700, Dave Perry wrote: What is contested is how to model the baro shift. What you suggest is retrieve the indicated altitude and then subtract the PA to get the encoder baro shift and then add back in the PA. This means the kap140.nas has to retrieve the value

Re: [Flightgear-devel] altimeter, encoder, and kap140

2007-02-25 Thread Dave Perry
On 2/12 Dave Perry wrote: It occurred to me that we should use John's interpolation function in several other places: 1. We use a form of this function in kap140.nas without the efficiency of the interpolation. 2. The encoder uses a similar interpolation that a general form

Re: [Flightgear-devel] altimeter, encoder, and kap140

2007-02-26 Thread Dave Perry
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Re: [Flightgear-devel] altimeter, encoder, and kap140

2007-02-27 Thread Dave Perry
are really serious about putting this in cvs. The options are of course with and without the 2 lines of code to save the kollsman shift. After sharing this analysis with the list, I will go with what the community sees as the best option. Comments from others? Dave P -- Dave Perry

Re: [Flightgear-devel] altimeter, encoder, and kap140

2007-02-27 Thread Dave Perry
On Tue, 2007-02-27 at 19:07 -0700, Dave Perry wrote: Sorry, I copied from the wrong version. I will add the missing line and delete a declaration: Here is an obvious fix for this bug in the update code: void Altimeter::update (double dt) { if (_serviceable_node-getBoolValue

[Flightgear-devel] encoder/altimeter kap140.nas

2007-03-01 Thread Dave Perry
against cvs and let others test them before submitting both to cvs. I am attaching a tar.gz patch against cvs for what I am presently running so others can try it. It includes the bug fix. Regards, -- Dave Perry alt-encode-kap140.tar.gz Description: application/compressed-tar

Re: [Flightgear-devel] encoder/altimeter kap140.nas

2007-03-02 Thread Dave Perry
Quick response with a few factual corrections: On Fri, 2007-03-02 at 00:56 -0500, John Denker wrote: On 03/01/2007 08:02 PM, Dave Perry wrote: there are only 3 options still being put forward; all having to do with how the kap140 gets the baro shift. These are: 1

[Flightgear-devel] error compiling osg with fresh fc6 install

2007-03-16 Thread Dave Perry
I get the following compile error well into the OSG compile on my just installed FC6. Entering directory freetype make[3]: Entering directory `/usr/local/source-osg/OpenSceneGraph/src/osgPlugins/freetype' make[4]: Entering directory

Re: [Flightgear-devel] error compiling osg with fresh fc6 install

2007-03-17 Thread Dave Perry
On Sat, 2007-03-17 at 01:19 -0500, Laurence Vanek wrote: Dave Perry wrote: I get the following compile error well into the OSG compile on my just installed FC6. Entering directory freetype make[3]: Entering directory `/usr/local/source-osg/OpenSceneGraph/src/osgPlugins/freetype

[Flightgear-devel] getting fgrun working with fc6

2007-03-17 Thread Dave Perry
With either the current fc6 fltk and fltk-devel installed (version 1.1.7-2) and fgrun-0.4.8 compiled from from tar ball, both the screen to select AC and the screen to select the airport are blank. I tried removing both fltk and fltk-devel rpms and compiling fltk-1.1.7 (from tarball) with

Re: [Flightgear-devel] error compiling osg with fresh fc6 install

2007-03-17 Thread Dave Perry
On Sat, 2007-03-17 at 08:48 -0500, Curtis Olson wrote: Did you carry over your osg compile tree from a previous install of linux? Perhaps there is some bits and pieces left over from the way your previous system was structured. That was it. Thanks! A clean checkout from svn solved it. Dave

Re: [Flightgear-devel] getting fgrun working with fc6

2007-03-17 Thread Dave Perry
On Sat, 2007-03-17 at 22:36 +0100, _hj_ wrote: Dave Perry wrote: I tried removing both fltk and fltk-devel rpms and compiling fltk-1.1.7 (from tarball) with ./configure --enable-shared --enable-threads You have to add --disable-largefile to the configure line in fltk. Hans Thanks

[Flightgear-devel] altimeter - encoder - kap140.nas

2007-03-23 Thread Dave Perry
Hi all, Does anyone know what happened to John Denker? I am still interested in the improved altimeter/atmosphere model being added to FlightGear. I keep adding these back in after cvs/svn updates. Dave perry - Take

Re: [Flightgear-devel] what happened?

2007-03-24 Thread Dave Perry
On Sat, 2007-03-24 at 12:33 -0400, John Denker wrote: On 03/23/2007 11:01 PM, Dave Perry wrote: Does anyone know what happened to John Denker? Secondly, if he actually cared about my well-being, he would talk *to* me rather than talking *about* me on this list. This is not about you

[Flightgear-devel] problem updating base package

2007-03-25 Thread Dave Perry
I get the following trying to update data. [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]$ cd $FG_ROOT [EMAIL PROTECTED] data]$ su -c 'cvs update -dP' Password: cvs [update aborted]: error writing to server: Connection reset by peer [EMAIL PROTECTED] data]$ Tried last evening and again this morning with the same

Re: [Flightgear-devel] encoder/altimeter kap140.nas

2007-03-27 Thread Dave Perry
On Sat, 2007-03-03 at 08:31 +0100, Melchior FRANZ wrote: * Dave Perry -- Saturday 03 March 2007: Have you asked to have atmo.diff applied to cvs?. I don't think it can be applied as it is. I'm no physicist and can't comment on the logic, but there are some formal aspects to fix IMHO

Re: [Flightgear-devel] encoder/altimeter kap140.nas

2007-03-29 Thread Dave Perry
On Wed, 2007-03-28 at 21:57 -0600, Ron Jensen wrote: Dave, I've been running John's code for a while now and have not noticed any problems with it. I compiled with your patch this morning but have not had a chance to fly it yet. One change I would like see from a neatness point of view:

Re: [Flightgear-devel] FG version 0.9.11

2007-05-15 Thread Dave Perry
On Tue, 2007-05-15 at 11:17 -0500, Curtis Olson wrote: Here's a question for the group. We don't need to decide now, but we need to figure this out before the final official 0.9.11 release. Currently the data package is released with only a subset of all the available aircraft:

[Flightgear-devel] failure to run after cvs update from plib branch

2007-07-10 Thread Dave Perry
After update of simgear, source, and data using cvs up -Pd -rPRE_OSG_PLIB_20061029 for each update, I am getting the error when I run fgfs: Unknown top level section: wxradar Fatal error: Detected an internal inconsistency in the instrumentation system specification file. See earlier errors for

Re: [Flightgear-devel] failure to run after cvs update from plib branch

2007-07-10 Thread Dave Perry
On Wed, 2007-07-11 at 01:26 +0200, Csaba Halász wrote: On 7/11/07, Dave Perry [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: After update of simgear, source, and data using cvs up -Pd -rPRE_OSG_PLIB_20061029 for each update, I am getting the error when I run fgfs: Unknown top level section: wxradar Fatal

[Flightgear-devel] significant updates to pa28-161 and a few updates to the pa24-250

2007-08-05 Thread Dave Perry
I submitted 3 patches via Melchior today. pa28-161 update Last year after I completed the pa24, David Megginson sent me all the detail pictures he had taken of his Piper Warrior II and indicated that I should finish up the details on the pa28-161 in FlightGear. I spent the last three weeks,

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