[Flightgear-devel] initializing /environment/clouds/layer variables is broken

2009-01-02 Thread dave perry
For the last couple of weeks, cvs fgfs does not allow initialization by --prop:/environment/clouds/layer[0]/elevation-ft= --prop:/environment/clouds/layer[0]/thickness-ft= --prop:/environment/clouds/layer[0]/coverage= either using fgrun or from the command line. What I am getting is two layers

Re: [Flightgear-devel] initializing /environment/clouds/layer variables is broken

2009-01-02 Thread dave perry
Stuart Buchanan wrote: Dave Perry wrote: For the last couple of weeks, cvs fgfs does not allow initialization by --prop:/environment/clouds/layer[0]/elevation-ft= --prop:/environment/clouds/layer[0]/thickness-ft= --prop:/environment/clouds/layer[0]/coverage= either using fgrun or from

[Flightgear-devel] new side affect of recent change to camera-group

2009-01-01 Thread dave perry
Hi All and Happy New Year, After updating SimGear and fgfs source from cvs yesterday, I noticed that at low throttle near or on the ground, there is a vertical plane in the field of view such that all the view beyond the prop disc and beyond this plane is darker. This is in the pa24-250 which

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Supply (voltage) for instruments: True, 1.0, 12.0, !=0 ?

2009-01-01 Thread dave perry
John Denker wrote: Hi -- On 01/01/2009 01:17 PM, Torsten Dreyer wrote: Please find attached a patch as a proof of concept that has been in my head for a while now. Here is a short description of what it does: Check if /systems/electrical/outputs/dme exists (but don't create) If yes:

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Supply (voltage) for instruments: True, 1.0,

2009-01-01 Thread dave perry
John Denker wrote: On 01/01/2009 05:05 PM, Martin Spott wrote: Different aircraft are equippped with electrical systems of different nominal voltage. You can buy most of the common instruments for at least two different voltages, I have no objection to standardizing on real volts

Re: [Flightgear-devel] the garden of forking xml

2008-12-26 Thread dave perry
John Denker wrote: Question: In the current CVS, why are there five inequivalent copies (six copies total) of kr87.xml? Similarly, why are there four inequivalent copies of kx165*1.xml? And other examples Other things being equal, such lack of modularity might be somewhat

[Flightgear-devel] fgfs lock up that is repeatable

2008-12-24 Thread dave perry
This may have already been reported. This is with cvs fgfs and SimGear and osg from svn all updated last Monday and plib-1.8.5 running with up-to-date f9 on a amd athlon XP 3200+ with 2 GB ram and a GeForce 7800 SG OC with 256 MB GDDR3 from BFG. I took off in the pa24-250 from Dare CO KMQI

[Flightgear-devel] default trim at startup

2008-12-20 Thread dave perry
Typically, the bendable trim tabs on aileron and rudder are used in real life to get near hands off performance at typical cruise with the ball centered. So a modeller will use the property browser and adjust the values to achieve this so the ball is centred with wings level and no aileron

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Final (?) 3D clouds patch

2008-12-10 Thread dave perry
Stuart Buchanan wrote: dave perry wrote: You were correct. I had not set the weather scenario to METAR. I ran fgfs once with 3D clouds and once w/o 3D clouds, both with real-weather-fetch and scenario METAR. I only got 1 fps with the 3D clouds. Earlier with 3D clouds, I got about

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Final (?) 3D clouds patch

2008-12-08 Thread dave perry
gerard robin wrote: On lundi 08 décembre 2008, Stuart Buchanan wrote: Heiko wrote: The clouds looking great now- the order problem is 99% solved so much as I can see! Yes - I think we're pretty much done. I see only some few problems still: -against a second

Re: [Flightgear-devel] c172p pitch at cruise question

2008-12-08 Thread dave perry
Jon S. Berndt wrote: The JSBSim C172 FDM assumes the thrust line is the X axis. I'm not sure what the angle of incidence of the wing is, but it seems that at rest on the runway the pitch of the C172 should be 5 degrees, according to the picture you attached. Jon But as others have

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Final (?) 3D clouds patch

2008-12-08 Thread dave perry
Stuart Buchanan wrote: Dave Perry wrote: The 3D cloud appearance is much improved. Thanks to all involved! Several questions and comments. 1. At night, the emmissive seems very very bright. 2. Are you intending that the 3D cloud base should match the lowest level in the current

[Flightgear-devel] c172p radio order?

2008-12-06 Thread dave perry
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Re: [Flightgear-devel] c172p pitch at cruise question

2008-12-04 Thread dave perry
dave perry wrote: Hi All, snip Would it not be more realistic to rotate the 3D model about -3 or -4 degrees about the ac3d z-axis. I did not make myself clear in the initial questiion. The video link only detracted from my point. The model in the .ac file is just a rigid body

Re: [Flightgear-devel] stall horn sound

2008-12-01 Thread dave perry
Curtis Olson wrote: Hi Dave, I just commited a tweak to FlightGear cvs that relaxes the check for a stationary versus moving view point to account for the moving view offset as the aircraft flies by. See if things work any better for your now. Thanks Curt, This fixed it so the doppler

Re: [Flightgear-devel] stall horn sound

2008-11-30 Thread dave perry
Curtis Olson wrote: I've done some work on the sound system in main.cxx and have attached a patch for folks to review if they want to look at what I did. I made a simplifying assumption that the listener is either stationary (stationary enough) or it is tracking with the aircraft model

Re: [Flightgear-devel] stall horn sound

2008-11-30 Thread dave perry
Curtis Olson wrote: Hmmm, I don't see anything obvious in the code that would cause this. Actually, you should only get the doppler effect in stationary views. Chase views will inherit the model velocity. But you should get doppler effect in the fly-by view and tower views ... is this

[Flightgear-devel] dramatic drop in frame rate with either osg from svn or osg-2.7.5

2008-11-24 Thread dave perry
Hi all, Over the weekend, I compiled osg from svn update, SimGear from cvs update, and FlightGear source from cvs update. My frame rate is now less than 10 fps and it was a solid 31 fps with --prop:/sim/frame-rate-throttle-hz=30 and 50 to 70 fps w/o the frame-rate-throttle. The before

Re: [Flightgear-devel] dramatic drop in frame rate with either osg from svn or osg-2.7.5

2008-11-24 Thread dave perry
dave perry wrote: Hi all, Over the weekend, I compiled osg from svn update, SimGear from cvs update, and FlightGear source from cvs update. My frame rate is now less than 10 fps and it was a solid 31 fps with --prop:/sim/frame-rate-throttle-hz=30 and 50 to 70 fps w/o the frame-rate

Re: [Flightgear-devel] eyecandy: landing lights

2008-10-14 Thread dave perry
Heiko Schulz wrote: The Noratlas Landing light is crude, not perfect. Versus the snapshots from Torsten which is smooth and more realistic :) Smooth? The lightcircles could need a bit more segments, but for me it looks like your approach. Nethertheless- fine that you both

[Flightgear-devel] 3D instruments vanished with today's cvs

2008-09-13 Thread dave perry
and recompiled all three. The 3D instruments were still not visible. - Dave Perry - This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Moblin Your Move Developer's challenge Build the coolest Linux based applications with Moblin SDK win great

[Flightgear-devel] FG menu bar small and no text?

2008-05-23 Thread dave perry
Hi, I just rebuilt fgfs with plib-1.8.5, OpenSceneGraph-2.4.0, and cvs SimGear and FG source. The menu bar is now very small and has no text. Has something changed so I need something else? - Dave Perry - This SF.net

Re: [Flightgear-devel] FG build fails with plib 1.8.5 and SLD

2008-03-15 Thread dave perry
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Re: [Flightgear-devel] electrical updates to kt70.xml break it

2008-03-02 Thread dave perry
Ron Jensen wrote: On Sat, 2008-03-01 at 20:37 -0700, dave perry wrote: I just noticed that the recent electrical updates to the kt170.xml submitted by Ron Jenson make the kt70 bright white if the instrument lights are turned on in the pa24-250 and the pa28-161. This is because

[Flightgear-devel] electrical updates to kt70.xml break it

2008-03-01 Thread dave perry
I just noticed that the recent electrical updates to the kt170.xml submitted by Ron Jenson make the kt70 bright white if the instrument light are turned on in the pa24-250 and the pa28-161. This is because the material animation factor should be between 0 and 1 and this change makes it equal

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Flying over an island

2008-02-17 Thread dave perry
LeeE wrote: On Monday 11 February 2008 13:59, Melchior FRANZ wrote: * Thomas Förster -- Monday 11 February 2008: At least I think conservative is the right term. Oh, I didn't think that it was wrongly used. It's just that the decision was meant to be reasonable for the

Re: [Flightgear-devel] making a garmin 496 respond to fgfs serial port

2008-02-13 Thread dave perry
Curtis Olson wrote: On Feb 13, 2008 2:59 PM, dave perry wrote: I have the thread from 2006-08-26 between Curt Olson and Frederic Bouvier on this subject. The connection to the 496 is via a db-9 to super small usb cable I got from garmin as suggested in the garmin user's

[Flightgear-devel] making a garmin 496 respond to fgfs serial port

2008-02-13 Thread dave perry
I have the thread from 2006-08-26 between Curt Olson and Frederic Bouvier on this subject. The connection to the 496 is via a db-9 to super small usb cable I got from garmin as suggested in the garmin user's guide. From a dmesg, I expect that com1 is /dev/ttyS0 on my f7 system. I use the

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Garmin Series 400 Aviation In data format

2008-02-02 Thread dave perry
Hi Curt and Frederic, My wife gave me a Garmin GPSmap 496 for Christmas. Nice wife, huh! Anyway, I recalled this thread and want to confirm whether either of you have had success with the --AV400 beyond what was reported in this thread. Did you get FlightGear to drive the Garmin GPS III

Re: [Flightgear-devel] clearer patch to renderer.*xx - accomodates non 4:3 aspect ratios with osg

2008-01-29 Thread dave perry
Tim Moore wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 dave perry wrote: | Tim Moore wrote: | -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- | Hash: SHA1 | | dave perry wrote: | | Tim Moore wrote: | | -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- | | Hash: SHA1 | | | | I've checked in a fix

Re: [Flightgear-devel] clearer patch to renderer.*xx - accomodates non 4:3 aspect ratios with osg

2008-01-26 Thread dave perry
Tim Moore wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 dave perry wrote: | Tim Moore wrote: | -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- | Hash: SHA1 | | I've checked in a fix that addresses the non 4:3 problem and also fixes the osgviewer | distortion issue. It turned out to be pretty

Re: [Flightgear-devel] clearer patch to renderer.*xx - accomodates non 4:3 aspect ratios with osg

2008-01-21 Thread dave perry
dave perry wrote: Tim Moore wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 dave perry wrote: | Patch adds a member function to FGRenderer class that returns the | current aspect ratio. Uses this in place of 4.0/3.0 in setFOV and | setNearFar. | | The diff follows

Re: [Flightgear-devel] clearer patch to renderer.*xx - accomodates non 4:3 aspect ratios with osg

2008-01-19 Thread dave perry
Tim Moore wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 dave perry wrote: | Patch adds a member function to FGRenderer class that returns the | current aspect ratio. Uses this in place of 4.0/3.0 in setFOV and | setNearFar. | | The diff follows: | This seems a little confusing

[Flightgear-devel] clearer patch to renderer.*xx - accomodates non 4:3 aspect ratios with osg

2008-01-16 Thread dave perry
Patch adds a member function to FGRenderer class that returns the current aspect ratio. Uses this in place of 4.0/3.0 in setFOV and setNearFar. The diff follows: ? renderer.diff Index: renderer.cxx === RCS file:

Re: [Flightgear-devel] two issues (bugs?) with fresh osg, Simgear, flightgear

2008-01-15 Thread dave perry
this is happening to no avail. But I am still just learning c++. Can someone help me chase this down? dave perry wrote: Hi all, I have not had a working osg build since late September when I installed F7. Yesterday, I did fresh check outs of osg, simgear, and flightgear source and data. I now have

Re: [Flightgear-devel] two issues (bugs?) with fresh osg, Simgear, flightgear

2008-01-15 Thread dave perry
dave perry wrote: Concerning the first bug; snip In the osg branch, it seems to me that the verital and horizontal fov are simply scaled the same which results in the distortion. I have looked in the source to try and find where this is happening to no avail. But I am still just

[Flightgear-devel] renderer.cxx patch - fix non-4:3 aspect ratio distortion

2008-01-15 Thread dave perry
Patch fixes the bad assumption in osg fgfs that aspect ratio is always 4:3. I tested all the standard views and also resizing the window. Would someone with cvs submit capability check the patch and then commit it. - Dave P. ? renderer.diff Index: renderer.cxx

Re: [Flightgear-devel] renderer.cxx patch - fix non-4:3 aspect ratio distortion

2008-01-15 Thread dave perry
dave perry wrote: Patch fixes the bad assumption in osg fgfs that aspect ratio is always 4:3. I tested all the standard views and also resizing the window. The testing done above was with no sdl or osgviewer (just freeglut). This works fine. But with --enable-sdl or with --enable

[Flightgear-devel] two issues (bugs?) with fresh osg, Simgear, flightgear

2008-01-06 Thread dave perry
Hi all, I have not had a working osg build since late September when I installed F7. Yesterday, I did fresh check outs of osg, simgear, and flightgear source and data. I now have two problems that are not there with V1.0, or the plib cvs branch. 1. Wrong ASPECT RATIO on non 4:3 monitors

Re: [Flightgear-devel] view options

2008-01-05 Thread dave perry
the effective fov, not the aspect ratio. - Dave Perry - This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft Defy all challenges. Microsoft(R) Visual Studio 2005. http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/vse012070mrt/direct/01

[Flightgear-devel] all flight trims initialize to 0.0?

2008-01-04 Thread dave perry
Hi all, I searched this list for a change to trim initialization but did not find any. This is from the plib branch, essentially V1.0. I have initial values specified in the -set.xml file for /controls/flight/elevator-trim /controls/flight/aileron-trim /controls/flight/rudder-trim which are

Re: [Flightgear-devel] all flight trims initialize to 0.0?

2008-01-04 Thread dave perry
dave perry wrote: Hi all, I searched this list for a change to trim initialization but did not find any. This is from the plib branch, essentially V1.0. I have initial values specified in the -set.xml file for /controls/flight/elevator-trim /controls/flight/aileron-trim /controls/flight

[Flightgear-devel] One-line patch to century3.nas - allows step-down ILS with GS acquire

2007-12-27 Thread dave perry
I noticed that with the mode selector set LOC NORM, if you turned off the ALT to use PITCH to do a step-down, and then went back to ALT on, the GS would never be acquired. This one-line patch fixes this problem that affected both the pa24-250 and the SenecaII. Would someone please commit

Re: [Flightgear-devel] shadows question(s)

2007-12-24 Thread dave perry
LeeE wrote: On Monday 24 December 2007 02:37, dave perry wrote: dave perry wrote: I was enjoying the new gallery pictures when I noticed that the rudder and vertical stab of the comanche do not cast a shadow on the stabilator. So I tried to discover why not. With shadows

[Flightgear-devel] shadows question(s)

2007-12-23 Thread dave perry
. But they do cast a shadow on the trim tab even with transparency on. The model was done in ac3d. I could have not yet found documentaion on shadows on aircraft. What do I need to change to correct this? Dave Perry - This SF.net

Re: [Flightgear-devel] shadows question(s)

2007-12-23 Thread dave perry
dave perry wrote: I was enjoying the new gallery pictures when I noticed that the rudder and vertical stab of the comanche do not cast a shadow on the stabilator. So I tried to discover why not. With shadows on and transparency off, the rudder and vertical stab do cast a shadow

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Pre-final aircraft selection

2007-12-11 Thread dave perry
that better matches the specifications ? -Dave Perry - SF.Net email is sponsored by: Check out the new SourceForge.net Marketplace. It's the best place to buy or sell services for just about anything Open Source. http

Re: [Flightgear-devel] 3d instruments

2007-12-09 Thread dave perry
made the final product significantly better and this joint effort is one of the most rewarding aspects of being a part of FlightGear. Regards, Dave Perry But I will go with what the consensus becomes on this issue. - SF.Net

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Pre-final aircraft selection

2007-12-09 Thread dave perry
a model of this AC to FlightGear. -Dave Perry - SF.Net email is sponsored by: Check out the new SourceForge.net Marketplace. It's the best place to buy or sell services for just about anything Open Source. http

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Pre-final aircraft selection

2007-12-09 Thread dave perry
dave perry wrote: The same pair owned a copy of the Curtis-Wright pusher with a real gnome rotary (stationary crank with rotating case and cylinders). That flew quite well and was very maneuverable although the rotary caused a lot of precession force with maneuvers. Correction

Re: [Flightgear-devel] nonzero turbulence set by Preferences.xml?

2007-12-07 Thread dave perry
response and aileron inputs from the AP almost 180 degrees out of phase. If you turn on auto coordination, the oscillations disappear. I tried Jon Berndt's suggestion of adding a scaling value. It had only minimal affect. Even with this set to 0.0, the yaw problem persists. -Dave Perry

[Flightgear-devel] nonzero turbulence set by Preferences.xml?

2007-12-06 Thread dave perry
for the c172p with the kap140 autopilot and the SenecaI with the AltimaticIIIc autopilot. Setting turbulence = 0.0 from fgrun will not zero these values. Using --turbulence=0.0 on the command line will result in all the turbulence values being zero. -Dave Perry

[Flightgear-devel] rotation sense error remains in JSBSim FGPropeller.cpp

2007-12-04 Thread dave perry
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[Flightgear-devel] [Fwd: Re: [Flightgear-users] Seneca II - couple of user comments]

2007-12-04 Thread dave perry
dave perry wrote: Laurence Vanek wrote: I believe, however, that something else is going on with the A/P during ILS approach. I do not get the behavior you report on approach. The A/P begins to make large over corrections about one mile out, to the point where I need to disable

Re: [Flightgear-devel] FlightGear prerelease

2007-12-04 Thread dave perry
\ data/Aircraft/wrightFlyer1903 \ Cheers, Durk -Dave Perry - SF.Net email is sponsored by: The Future of Linux Business White Paper from Novell. From the desktop to the data center, Linux is going mainstream. Let

[Flightgear-devel] [Fwd: Re: [Flightgear-users] Seneca II - couple of user comments]

2007-12-02 Thread dave perry
approaches even in light turbulence. Original Message Subject:Re: [Flightgear-users] Seneca II - couple of user comments Date: Sun, 02 Dec 2007 19:10:05 -0700 From: dave perry [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: FlightGear user discussions [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: [Flightgear-devel] global still showing up on MP

2007-11-25 Thread dave perry
SydSandy wrote: Hi all , still seeing the global error message pop up on MP , so I did a check and found these still using global. I'd be happy to fix them , but they aren't mine :) Instruments-3d/Century-III/AltimaticIIIc.xml Instruments-3d/Century-III/CenturyIII.xml I just emoved the

Re: [Flightgear-devel] New aircraft for CVS - Pitts S1C

2007-11-11 Thread dave perry
, Dave Perry ? pitts.diff Index: pittss1c.xml === RCS file: /var/cvs/FlightGear-0.9/data/Aircraft/pittss1c/pittss1c.xml,v retrieving revision 1.1 diff -p -u -r1.1 pittss1c.xml --- pittss1c.xml 10 Nov 2007 17:18:47 - 1.1

Re: [Flightgear-devel] New aircraft for CVS - Pitts S1C

2007-11-11 Thread dave perry
dave perry wrote: Stuart Buchanan wrote: The model and FDM are fairly basic, but it is quite fun to fly, and a challenge to land. Comment and any modifications are very welcome. This is my first YASim aircraft, so I'm sure the FDM could benefit from some tuning. Stuart

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Minor keyboard reassignment

2007-11-10 Thread dave perry
started with what you need to be ready to take-off. Regards, Dave Perry - This SF.net email is sponsored by: Splunk Inc. Still grepping through log files to find problems? Stop. Now Search log events and configuration files

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Strange sound performance with recent cvs update

2007-11-07 Thread dave perry
Melchior FRANZ wrote: * dave perry -- Wednesday 07 November 2007: There is a strange worble in the sound [...] Please update (src/Main/main.cxx) and try again. That fixes this issue. Thanks! While testing this, I noticed another issue. When one switches on the nav1 ident

[Flightgear-devel] Strange sound performance with recent cvs update

2007-11-06 Thread dave perry
on the ground seem normal. Dave Perry - This SF.net email is sponsored by: Splunk Inc. Still grepping through log files to find problems? Stop. Now Search log events and configuration files using AJAX and a browser. Download your

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Strange sound performance with recent cvs update

2007-11-06 Thread dave perry
dave perry wrote: I just did a cvs up -dP for SimGear, fgfs, and data and then compiled both for the plib branch. There is a strange worble in the sound that gets worse at high angles of attach. This was not there after a similar update last weekend. I have only checked the pa24

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Warrior changes

2007-10-12 Thread dave perry
both. Side comment. There are some AC in fgfs that start with the engine off, but no hot spots or help to point to how to get the AC started. This definitely is bad. AC designers need to include starting help. Really great to have you back! All the best, Dave Perry

Re: [Flightgear-devel] autopilots, adverse aileron yaw and jsbsim questions

2007-10-08 Thread dave perry
leee wrote: On Monday 08 October 2007 02:17, dave perry wrote: While optimizing the aitopilot config files for the Century IIB and III autopilots for the pa24 and the Altimatic IIIc for the SenecaII, a significant difference between the values of parameters (gains in particular) that give

[Flightgear-devel] Century IIB, Century IIII, and Altimatic IIIc 3d autopilots submitted to cvs

2007-10-07 Thread dave perry
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[Flightgear-devel] autopilots, adverse aileron yaw and jsbsim questions

2007-10-07 Thread dave perry
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[Flightgear-devel] Century IIB autopilot modeled

2007-08-27 Thread dave perry
to complete that model for the SenicaII. Between the approach to handling the coupler mode selector and the roll knob and the kap140.nas from Vegard Ovesen, this should not be more than a few evenings work. Any problem with contributing to you fine model? Regards, Dave Perry

Re: [Flightgear-devel] cmake error building osg

2007-08-19 Thread dave perry
dave perry wrote: I am getting the following error building osg: CMake Error: Error in cmake code at /usr/local/source-osg/OpenSceneGraph-2.1.5/src/osgPlugins/osgFX/CMakeLists.txt:15: Unknown CMake command SETUP_PLUGIN. I get it withOpenSceneGraph/trunk as well as with 2.1.5 from

[Flightgear-devel] cmake error building osg

2007-08-18 Thread dave perry
I am getting the following error building osg: CMake Error: Error in cmake code at /usr/local/source-osg/OpenSceneGraph-2.1.5/src/osgPlugins/osgFX/CMakeLists.txt:15: Unknown CMake command SETUP_PLUGIN. I get it withOpenSceneGraph/trunk as well as with 2.1.5 from the zip archive. I am

Re: [Flightgear-devel] cmake error building osg

2007-08-18 Thread dave perry
gh.robin wrote: On sam 18 août 2007, dave perry wrote: I am getting the following error building osg: CMake Error: Error in cmake code at /usr/local/source-osg/OpenSceneGraph-2.1.5/src/osgPlugins/osgFX/CMakeLists. txt:15: Unknown CMake command SETUP_PLUGIN. I get

[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,

[Flightgear-devel] FIXME patch to kt_70.cxx

2007-08-05 Thread Dave Perry
Curt, You left a FIXME comment that the altitude should be for 29.92 inHg and rounded. The encoder reports mode-c-alt-ft, so this patch points the altitude node to this value and removes the redundant + 50 from the FL rounding routine. This requires a working encoder. Any AC using the encoder

[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

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:

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] 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

[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] 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] 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] 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] 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] 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] 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] 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

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

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

2007-02-25 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

[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] 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

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