Re: [Flightgear-devel] FG GIT update with JSBSIM cvs

2010-11-26 Thread Ron Jensen
On Friday 26 November 2010 08:39:16 henri orange wrote: > Hi, devel > > I am working on models which are jsbsim FDM. > My target is to update these models in order to get it, last jsbsim version > compatible. > How can i build FG with the most recent jsbsim version ? > Since , the FG Gitorious does

Re: [Flightgear-devel] FSP facebook ads

2010-11-22 Thread Ron Jensen
On Monday 22 November 2010 14:41:42 Chris Wilkinson wrote: > Hi guys/gals, > > I notice a big step up in frequency of seeing those pesky FSP ads on > facebook. Sometimes I'm seeing 2 of them on the same page. My response to > those is to click the little 'X' and respond that its either misleading,

Re: [Flightgear-devel] FlightProSim advert on FaceBook

2010-11-11 Thread Ron Jensen
On Thursday 11 November 2010 03:36:02 Mally wrote: > ?Arnt > > > ..url to your facebook page? Would be the useful > > one url I meant. ;o) > > Effectively, once I'm logged in, the URL to my personal facebook page is > still just http://www.facebook.com/ . Unless you're logged in as me, you're > no

Re: [Flightgear-devel] METAR stopped working

2010-11-06 Thread Ron Jensen
On Saturday 06 November 2010 03:51:28 James Turner wrote: > On 6 Nov 2010, at 08:46, Maik Justus wrote: > > to avoid this happen again in the future: > > > > Is it possible to add a metar-server functionality to the mpservers? If > > the NOAA protocol / access changes we only have to modify the mps

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Performance and Paris

2010-10-24 Thread Ron Jensen
On Sunday 24 October 2010 05:02:23 Csaba Halász wrote: > On Sun, Oct 24, 2010 at 12:53 PM, wrote: > > A snapshot of the on screen statistics (in Debug) shows: > > > > Update: 23.44 > > Call: 25 46 > > Draw: 33.40 > > GPU: 40.34 > > Call: 4.66 > > Draw: 1.96 > > GPU: 1.66 > > > > How should these

Re: [Flightgear-devel] 747-400 causing crash of fgfs

2010-10-16 Thread Ron Jensen
On Saturday 16 October 2010 02:27:09 Gijs de Rooy wrote: > Hi mifi, Jentron, > > first of all thanks for reporting these errors mifi! It is really > appreciated. > > All the FDM erros I got with the 744 from SVN (the 744 has its private > repository, once in a while the version in Git is updated, a

Re: [Flightgear-devel] 747-400 causing crash of fgfs

2010-10-14 Thread Ron Jensen
On Wednesday 13 October 2010 10:46:46 Ron Jensen wrote: > On Wednesday 13 October 2010 04:02:10 fiers...@zonnet.nl wrote: > > Hmmm, > > > > The GIT version of yesterday is generating core dumps. Reproducable when > > I use the 747-400 made by Gijs and Ivan. It crashes w

Re: [Flightgear-devel] 747-400 causing crash of fgfs

2010-10-13 Thread Ron Jensen
On Wednesday 13 October 2010 04:02:10 fiers...@zonnet.nl wrote: > Hmmm, > > The GIT version of yesterday is generating core dumps. Reproducable when > I use the 747-400 made by Gijs and Ivan. It crashes while loading the > models. > > The console log shows: > > error binding to port 5505 > Processi

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Yasim, Quadcopter and MatLab

2010-09-19 Thread Ron Jensen
On Sunday 19 September 2010 13:31:58 Julien Peeters wrote: > Great to know that. I thought JSBSim cannot model rotor based aircrarft. > > Some one knows when this will be released? > Julien, It is in the "next" branch of the official flightgear git repository now. Ron --

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Yasim, Quadcopter and MatLab

2010-09-19 Thread Ron Jensen
On Sunday 19 September 2010 09:04:12 Maik Justus wrote: > Hi Julien, > > Julien Peeters schrieb am 19.09.2010 11:29: > > Hi, I've just used you model. But I have few bugs. > > > > The first one is that the quadcopter stays under the ground when I > > launch FG. > > there is no 3d-model for the qu

Re: [Flightgear-devel] A puzzling problem with FG XML parsing

2010-09-14 Thread Ron Jensen
On Monday 13 September 2010 19:57:55 Alasdair wrote: > I have recently been delving into FG's innards, with a view to fixing > some problems with the speech handling capabilities. This has led > indirecly to my having to understand how XML files are parsed. > > Now in SG's XML folder is a program c

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Aircraft dirs (and noisy output atlog-level=info)

2010-09-05 Thread Ron Jensen
On Sunday 05 September 2010 13:26:45 Durk Talsma wrote: > Hi Ron, > The correct option is --fg-aircraft. --aircraft-dir is (presumably) an > older option that is unrelated to the new aircraft infrastructure recently > developed by James. > > I actually ran into the same issue earlier on. I can't re

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Aircraft dirs (and noisy output atlog-level=info)

2010-09-05 Thread Ron Jensen
On Sunday 05 September 2010 05:26:33 James Turner wrote: > On 5 Sep 2010, at 11:29, Alan Teeder wrote: > > All runs until I attempt Auto Engine Start from the Lightning > > Configuration menu, when fgfs crashes. > > > > If I restore the original Lightning aircraft directory in FGROOT, even > > afte

Re: [Flightgear-devel] JSBSim - how to model piston engine exhaust thrust?

2010-09-02 Thread Ron Jensen
On Thursday 02 September 2010 01:39:52 thorsten.i.r...@jyu.fi wrote: > A few comments to your math: > > I haven't done anything (yet) with Hal's exhaust thrust function. I was > > waiting for someone else to work out the math... > > > > The exhaust thrust function should return a force. Newton te

Re: [Flightgear-devel] JSBSim - how to model piston en gine exhaust thrust?

2010-09-01 Thread Ron Jensen
On Tuesday 31 August 2010 21:08:32 Jon S. Berndt wrote: > Ron, Hal, > > Just a reminder that this feature (arbitrary functions in engine > definitions) - I believe - works and is now in JSBSim CVS. Maybe it should > be moved to FlightGear? > > Jon I tend to keep my FlightGear up-to-date with the

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Extracting stability derivative s in JSBsim/Yasim

2010-08-23 Thread Ron Jensen
On Monday 23 August 2010 21:37:06 Ampere K. wrote: > Thank you very much Jon and Ron. That certainly cleared things up for me. You're welcome > I only have one question left, which is my original question regarding > turbofan in JSBsim. How does JSBsim simulates a turbofan engine? I am far fr

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Extracting stability derivative s in JSBsim/Yasim

2010-08-21 Thread Ron Jensen
On Saturday 21 August 2010 15:57:30 Jon S. Berndt wrote: > > Now I am getting confused. I need an example. > > > > Say if I have the following entry: > > > > Drag_at_zero_lift > > > > aero/qbar-psf > > metrics/Sw

Re: [Flightgear-devel] JSBSim - how to model piston en gine exhaust thrust?

2010-08-17 Thread Ron Jensen
On Tuesday 17 August 2010 16:33:27 Hal V. Engel wrote: > This seems to be working. A few comments. > > The 70 lb thrust figure was for an early merlin spitfire (IE 1938) with > about 1200 HP war emergency power and with the pre NACA exhaust pipes. The > spitfire used in the NACA tests in 1942 had

Re: [Flightgear-devel] JSBSim - how to model piston en gine exhaust thrust?

2010-08-16 Thread Ron Jensen
On Monday 16 August 2010 21:19:35 Ron Jensen wrote: > On Monday 16 August 2010 20:58:44 Jon S. Berndt wrote: > > What's your second thought? O.k. third thought. An FCS function (so it will work in current flightgear) applied by external forces at the correct area... I'm wo

Re: [Flightgear-devel] JSBSim - how to model piston en gine exhaust thrust?

2010-08-16 Thread Ron Jensen
On Monday 16 August 2010 20:58:44 Jon S. Berndt wrote: > > Hi again :) > > > > The jsbsim piston engine uses the propeller model for thrust > > calculations, so > > in and of itself, it can't model exhaust thrust. > > > > My first though for modeling this extra bit of thrust is to add a pair > > of

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Crash with new p51d-jsbsim

2010-08-16 Thread Ron Jensen
On Monday 16 August 2010 20:56:17 Jon S. Berndt wrote: > > Hi Hal, > > > > Would you elaborate on the error in CDde? It looks like the same CDde > > used in > > most aeromatic aircraft so if there is an error in the P51d we (still) > > have > > an error in many jsbsim aircraft. > > > > Thanks, > >

Re: [Flightgear-devel] JSBSim - how to model piston engine exhaust thrust?

2010-08-16 Thread Ron Jensen
On Monday 16 August 2010 19:21:34 Hal V. Engel wrote: > For the P-51D model I would like to model the thrust created by the exhaust > system. On the real thing this is about 10% of the thrust created by the > engine under at least some circumstances. Early tests done with the > Spitfire in the la

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Crash with new p51d-jsbsim

2010-08-16 Thread Ron Jensen
On Monday 16 August 2010 18:57:35 Hal V. Engel wrote: > Stuart, > > I've got some other things "in the oven" for the P51D JSBSim model. Among > other things I found a significant error in one of the drag functions, > CDde, and this cascaded changes to other areas to get things working the > way th

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Crash with new p51d-jsbsim

2010-08-13 Thread Ron Jensen
On Thursday 12 August 2010 22:15:57 Hal V. Engel wrote: > On Thursday, August 12, 2010 07:24:36 pm Ron Jensen wrote: > > In yesterday's standalone JSBSim the p51d aborts because some properties > > are being used without being declared. Try the attached patch to the > &

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Crash with new p51d-jsbsim

2010-08-12 Thread Ron Jensen
On Thursday 12 August 2010 18:52:28 Hal V. Engel wrote: > On Wednesday, August 11, 2010 02:10:07 pm Stuart Buchanan wrote: > > Hi All, > > > > I'm getting consistent crashes with the new p51d-jsbsim. Backtrace below. > > > > My simgear and flightgear source are up to date (as far as I can tell). >

Re: [Flightgear-devel] JSBSIm drop tanks

2010-07-31 Thread Ron Jensen
On Saturday 31 July 2010 13:33:51 Hal V. Engel wrote: > I am working on a model that has drop tanks. Recently I built FG GIT so > that I could test against the latest code and also so that I could use new > features to enhance my model. I noticed that this has a menu for > > Equipment -> Fuel and

Re: [Flightgear-devel] svginstr

2010-07-04 Thread Ron Jensen
On Sunday 04 July 2010 16:26:30 Melchior FRANZ wrote: > * HB-GRAL -- Sunday 04 July 2010: > > what is your reference for this torque instrument? > > This may have been the (main) reference: > > > http://www.airliners.net/photo/Generalitat-de-Catalunya/MBB-BO-105CBS-

Re: [Flightgear-devel] svginstr

2010-07-04 Thread Ron Jensen
On Sunday 04 July 2010 15:05:06 Melchior FRANZ wrote: > BTW, the instrument is in RL mounted 90 degrees rotated to the left. > Some bo105 have it rotated 45 degrees, and only few have it upright. > I don't know for sure why that is the case. (It's rotated 90 deg even > in the pilot manual's panel

Re: [Flightgear-devel] GIT question: How to deal with local changes that should remain local

2010-06-20 Thread Ron Jensen
On Sunday 20 June 2010 12:07:02 Torsten Dreyer wrote: > > Hi All, > > > > I currently have a number of local changes in my fgdata tree that should > > either be kept local, or be stored elsewhere. More specifically, I have > > created a custom camera-settings file that drives three monitors, I have

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Uncompressing apt.dat et al

2010-06-06 Thread Ron Jensen
On Sunday 06 June 2010 05:25:14 Martin Spott wrote: > Ron Jensen wrote: > > However, I think it would be better to unzip nav.dat and apt.dat in our > > git so that local changes can be made and tracked. We are staying with > > an obsolete version of apt.dat for the near fut

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Uncompressing apt.dat et al

2010-06-05 Thread Ron Jensen
On Saturday 05 June 2010 20:51:45 George Patterson wrote: > The file nav.dat is a database supplied by Robin Peel and (AFAIK) is > not intended to be updated by the FG project. If there are mistakes or > omissions they should be submitted upstream. > > Regards > > > George However, I think it wou

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Is something amiss with altimeter settings?

2010-05-30 Thread Ron Jensen
Indeed. We are currently running atmosphere code written by John Denker, et al, that takes lapse rate into account. The reason pressure-sea-level-inhg doesn't match the altimeter setting is because it doesn't in real life. The altimeter setting number is chosen so the altimeter reads the fie

Re: [Flightgear-devel] git question: .gitignore ignored

2010-05-23 Thread Ron Jensen
On Sunday 23 May 2010 03:04:04 Torsten Dreyer wrote: > Hi, > > I just pushed new .gitignore files to simgear: >simgear/magvar/.gitigore >simgear/route/.gitignore >simgear/screen/.gitignore >simgear/serial/.gitignore > and modified the existing .gitignore in simgear`s

Re: [Flightgear-devel] How to stereo?

2010-05-13 Thread Ron Jensen
On Thursday 13 May 2010 20:43:06 小龙 陈 wrote: > Hi, > I use a Flightgear under windows, so How can I enable the stereo to see the > red and cyan effect in Flightgear? Thanks! You must set ENVIRONMENT VARIABLES for OSG. I can not tell you how to do that on windows as I do not use that operating sy

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Windows Telnet Problem

2010-05-10 Thread Ron Jensen
There is a rough edge with the windows install. On linux a sensible data location is compiled in. On windows that is not the case. You can also set the global environmental variable %FG_ROOT% to contain your data path so it does not need to be specified on the command line. Most people don't

Re: [Flightgear-devel] William Earnest

2010-05-03 Thread Ron Jensen
On Monday 03 May 2010 12:26:04 Curtis Olson wrote: > I just got an email from Bill Earnest's wife that he is in the operating > room right now undergoing heart surgery after having some chest pains. I > met Bill and his wife one time when they were here in Minneapolis. He is a > pilot and and all

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Bug(s) in geo_inverse_wgs_84

2010-04-26 Thread Ron Jensen
On Monday 26 April 2010 11:20:38 Brian Schack wrote: > The function geo_inverse_wgs_84 either produces a segmentation fault or > goes into an infinite loop in some situations. I've attached a short > program that illustrates some of the problems. I can't suggest any > fixes, as the math is beyond

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Using Nasal to create a protocol

2010-04-13 Thread Ron Jensen
On Wednesday 14 April 2010 00:24:41 Erik Hofman wrote: > Brian Schack wrote: > > I posted this question a few days ago, but got no response, so here we > > go again ... > > > > Is it possible to use Nasal to create a new FlightGear protocol? None > > of the existing protocols (including generic) w

Re: [Flightgear-devel] New reelase(?) (Was: User selectable quality level for effects)

2010-04-13 Thread Ron Jensen
On Sunday 11 April 2010 03:21:54 Erik Hofman wrote: > Frederic Bouvier wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I commited changes to help users to tune their rendering quality > > according to their available hardware. As a picture is worth a thousand > > words, see : > > http://frbouvi.free.fr/flightsim/fgfs_quali

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Issue with default starting scenario

2010-04-06 Thread Ron Jensen
On Wed, 2010-04-07 at 00:06 +0100, James Turner wrote: > I've started creating some properties under /sim/realism (mostly > booleans for the moment), with the expectation that at some point we > can create a GUI, and also use some Nasal to batch-configure the > individual settings for different app

Re: [Flightgear-devel] DIY drones "virtual" UAV competition

2010-04-01 Thread Ron Jensen
On Thu, 2010-04-01 at 10:22 -0600, Ron Jensen wrote: > > There is a (very) rough cut of an EasyStar on gitorious: > http://gitorious.org/ron-s-hanger/easystar-rc/ > > It can be had as a tarball from here: > http://gitorious.org/ron-s-hanger/easystar-rc/archive-tarball/master

Re: [Flightgear-devel] DIY drones "virtual" UAV competition

2010-04-01 Thread Ron Jensen
On Sun, 2010-03-28 at 09:58 -0500, Curtis Olson wrote: > Hi, > > > I could use a little help from one of our aerodynamics experts. > > > First a little background. DIYdrones.com is a group of hobbiests with > an interest in building hobby / open-source uav's. Actual projects > vary widely, bu

Re: [Flightgear-devel] FG - Helicopter FAA - AATD

2010-03-31 Thread Ron Jensen
On Wed, 2010-03-31 at 07:21 -0400, Christian Menge wrote: > Hi Guys, > > Appreciate the comments. We come from the X-Plane and ESP world. > Personally I have just over 1000 hrs flight time in many Bell > products, Bell 206, 204 / 205, 212 and 412. Currently I'm running a > simulation consulting co

Re: [Flightgear-devel] DIY drones "virtual" UAV competition

2010-03-28 Thread Ron Jensen
On Sun, 2010-03-28 at 09:58 -0500, Curtis Olson wrote: > Hi, > > > I could use a little help from one of our aerodynamics experts. > > > First a little background. DIYdrones.com is a group of hobbiests with > an interest in building hobby / open-source uav's. Actual projects > vary widely, bu

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Web Site

2010-03-23 Thread Ron Jensen
On Tue, 2010-03-23 at 09:17 +0100, Erik Hofman wrote: > Michael Sgier wrote: > > Yea not bad but still a little low-tech. What about such: > > > > http://www.activision.com/index.html#home|de_DE > > I hate websites that consists only of flash content. > In fact I've added a flash blocker because

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Elevator control loading

2010-03-22 Thread Ron Jensen
On Mon, 2010-03-22 at 10:03 -0700, cas...@mminternet.com wrote: > Hi, > > Can anyone shed some light on the following question? > > Does JSBSim calculate elevator position and control hinge moments based on > the general equation of motion, including inertial coupling, is described > by Etkin( 19

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Bounce at startup.

2010-03-20 Thread Ron Jensen
On Sat, 2010-03-20 at 12:32 +, Alan Teeder wrote: > -- > From: "Erik Hofman" > Sent: Saturday, March 20, 2010 10:04 AM > To: "FlightGear developers discussions" > > Subject: Re: [Flightgear-devel] Bounce at startup. > > > Alan Teeder wrote: >

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Interesting glider model...

2010-03-15 Thread Ron Jensen
On Mon, 2010-03-15 at 19:23 -0700, Gene Buckle wrote: > http://home.att.net/~m--sandlin/bug.htm > > This gent is having some issues getting an accurate flight model for his > gliders in X-Plane. Apparently "cruise" speed is 20kts. Anyone care to > give this a shot? > > g. > I know not of th

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Airliners and Auto Pitch-Trim

2010-03-07 Thread Ron Jensen
On Sun, 2010-03-07 at 15:15 +, Heiko Schulz wrote: > Hi, > > > > > > Hi Guys > > I think you will find on all Boeing aircraft if the > > elevator is out of neutral > > for a set amount of time the horizontal stabilizer runs to > > return the elevator to > > the null position.Hence retriming

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Duplicate files in base package

2010-02-27 Thread Ron Jensen
On Sat, 2010-02-27 at 07:56 -0500, David Megginson wrote: > On Fri, Feb 26, 2010 at 10:21 PM, Ron Jensen wrote: > > >> I still support the idea common shared directories idea for such things as > >> instruments > > > This is a nice, happy thought. But i

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Duplicate files in base package

2010-02-26 Thread Ron Jensen
On Fri, 2010-02-26 at 21:13 +, Alan Teeder wrote: > I still support the idea common shared directories idea for such things as > instruments > > Alan This is a nice, happy thought. But in the real world it hasn't worked out so well. Since we model such a huge variety of aircraft, and di

Re: [Flightgear-devel] build on Windows; dependencies?

2010-02-26 Thread Ron Jensen
On Fri, 2010-02-26 at 16:39 -0600, stan.mar...@l-3com.com wrote: > Update on my own post, regarding the "missing" files... > > All the files which moved (apparently) from ATC to ATCDCL were > corrected. > > A few others were found in other locations in the source tree. > > I am left with referen

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Negative-drag-bug in 20 aircraft models

2010-02-20 Thread Ron Jensen
On Sat, 2010-02-20 at 18:08 +0100, andrea...@gmx.net wrote: > >> just a "quick" fix like this can break an aircraft if it was > "tweaked" to fly correctly with this bug. > Okay... but if a model is tweaked this way, that would mean that the > tweaking only is active when the yoke is pulled back...

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Negative-drag-bug in 20 aircraft models

2010-02-19 Thread Ron Jensen
On Fri, 2010-02-19 at 08:37 -0700, Ron Jensen wrote: > On Fri, 2010-02-19 at 10:20 +0100, andrea...@gmx.net wrote: > > Hi everyone! > > > > I think I found a little bug in a couple of JSBSim-aircraft: > > The property > > /fdm/jsbsim/aero/coefficient/CDde

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Negative-drag-bug in 20 aircraft models

2010-02-19 Thread Ron Jensen
On Fri, 2010-02-19 at 10:20 +0100, andrea...@gmx.net wrote: > Hi everyone! > > I think I found a little bug in a couple of JSBSim-aircraft: > The property > /fdm/jsbsim/aero/coefficient/CDde (Drag_due_to_Elevator_Deflection) > > takes negative values when the elevator moves up, so the elevator

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Proposed new set of splash screens

2010-02-19 Thread Ron Jensen
On Fri, 2010-02-19 at 10:13 +0100, Erik Hofman wrote: > Stefan Seifert wrote: > > On Friday 19 February 2010 09:48:51 Erik Hofman wrote: > >> I've created a new set of splash screens based on the images Durk > >> created about two weeks ago. > >> Does anyone have any objections to committing them o

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Grass Runways? (was Outerra)

2010-02-10 Thread Ron Jensen
On Wed, 2010-02-10 at 09:40 +, AJ MacLeod wrote: > We have a more basic problem though - there's something very odd indeed about > the way our grass runway textures are mapped, which was beyond my > capabilities > to fix when I looked at it (quite some time ago now). AJ, A few weeks ago I

Re: [Flightgear-devel] scenery bug: KSQL stray building

2010-02-09 Thread Ron Jensen
On Tue, 2010-02-09 at 10:45 +, Jon Stockill wrote: > George Patterson wrote: > > On Tue, Feb 9, 2010 at 8:48 AM, John Denker wrote: > >> At KSQL there is reproducibly a building sitting > >> partially on a taxiway and even extending onto > >> the runway a little bit. > >> > >> http://www.av8n

Re: [Flightgear-devel] configuration snafu

2010-02-06 Thread Ron Jensen
On Sat, 2010-02-06 at 23:02 +, leee wrote: > On Saturday 06 Feb 2010, Martin Spott wrote: > > leee wrote: > > > On Saturday 06 Feb 2010, Martin Spott wrote: > > >> John Denker wrote: > > >> > The fact that workarounds exist for this bug seems to > > >> > be rather strong evidence that the bug e

Re: [Flightgear-devel] GUI dialogs suck

2010-01-29 Thread Ron Jensen
First let me echo Erik. An offensive, adversarial approach isn't the best way when you are asking someone else to do something for you for free. On Fri, 2010-01-29 at 07:55 +, Pete Morgan wrote: > * they do not maintain last position This needs to be handled very carefully, right now its pos

Re: [Flightgear-devel] GUI dialogs suck

2010-01-29 Thread Ron Jensen
On Fri, 2010-01-29 at 06:54 -0800, Gene Buckle wrote: > On Fri, 29 Jan 2010, Curtis Olson wrote: > > > Here's the thing. FlightGear uses a gui widget set that is implemented on > > top of OpenGL. This has many advantages from a portability standpoint and > > from the standpoint of integrating wi

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Autopilot tuning

2010-01-29 Thread Ron Jensen
On Fri, 2010-01-29 at 15:34 +0100, Anders Gidenstam wrote: > On Fri, 29 Jan 2010, Jari Häkkinen wrote: > > > Ok, and then the final step is the bits.test(bar,0). I spent a couple of > > minutes searching the web but could not find docs for the bits.test > > function. I assume bits.test(oddnumber,0

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Autopilot tuning

2010-01-28 Thread Ron Jensen
On Thu, 2010-01-28 at 21:59 +0100, Jari Häkkinen wrote: > For me the Nasal function looks strange. I can't understand what the > addition of 0.001 to freq does? For me it seems to be a waste of > precious CPU time. > > > Jari var bar=int((freq+0.001)*10)-int(freq)*10; The 0.001 ensures we get

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Autopilot tuning

2010-01-28 Thread Ron Jensen
On Thu, 2010-01-28 at 21:21 +0100, Jari Häkkinen wrote: > I can't read Nasal so I can't say if the function below is correct. For > what it is worth: A frequency between 108.100 and 111.950 (including end > points) is a localizer frequency if the first decimal is an odd number. > > > Jari > R

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Deprecating Nasal?

2010-01-28 Thread Ron Jensen
On Thu, 2010-01-28 at 21:39 +0100, Jari Häkkinen wrote: > Why change the subject? James did not ask for deprecating Nasal, he > simply wanted to avoid multiple implementation of functionality. Less > error prone and if the available functionality does not fit ones need, > then fall back on Nasal

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Deprecating Nasal?

2010-01-28 Thread Ron Jensen
On Thu, 2010-01-28 at 20:25 +, Martin Spott wrote: > Roland wrote: > > > And one thing more when I read the subject line which came across me: > > How many airplane developer will you loose if you remove the Nasal > > engine from FGFS because they can write Nasal code but not C++ code? > > Di

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Deprecating Nasal?

2010-01-28 Thread Ron Jensen
On Thu, 2010-01-28 at 09:24 +, James Turner wrote: > On 28 Jan 2010, at 03:45, Ron Jensen wrote: > > > Here is a nasal function to determine if a frequency is a localizer. It > > accepts a frequency in megahertz and returns "1" if the frequency is an > >

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Newbie Question

2010-01-27 Thread Ron Jensen
On Wed, 2010-01-27 at 09:33 +, Peter Meyer wrote: > Hi all, > > Can some one tell me how excatly i can cvs checkout the latest Source? > In the Manuals are only Version 0.9 is described but i want to acces the > latest > Stable and Devel sources. I have try to Modify Flightgear-0.9 to 1.9 an

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Autopilot tuning

2010-01-27 Thread Ron Jensen
On Wed, 2010-01-27 at 09:06 +, Pete Morgan wrote: > I just noticed the info below about localiser on the "Flight Simulation > Naviagtion" site > http://www.navfltsm.addr.com/ > > Is there an easy way to determine is the NAV is a Lcoaliser, I cant see > that in Prop tree. > > pete Localizer

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Bugs: CitationX

2010-01-21 Thread Ron Jensen
On Fri, 2010-01-22 at 04:59 +, Pete Morgan wrote: > This is another cool plane, but the autopilot is also a bit confused. > *** Nav Hold - VOR track *** > Passing over a NAV/VOR station causes the aircraft to violently wobble > for a few moments. > --- > Intermittently, the aircraft will ente

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Terragear-cs genapts stopway bug...

2010-01-11 Thread Ron Jensen
On Mon, 2010-01-11 at 18:58 +, Martin Spott wrote: > Gijs de Rooy wrote: > > > Erik, I actually used that template to create the stopway texture you see in > > Ron's screenshot. However, it does not match the current runway textures. > > Please note also that the piece of the runway which is

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Terragear-cs genapts stopway bug...

2010-01-10 Thread Ron Jensen
On Sat, 2010-01-09 at 19:42 -0700, Ron Jensen wrote: > Cool, Ralf added code to generate stopways to flightgear! But wait, the > grass strip around the stopways is too big. 1/0.3048 times to big, to > be exact: > > http://www.jentronics.com/fgfs/temp/genapts-ante.jpg > http://

[Flightgear-devel] Terragear-cs genapts stopway bug...

2010-01-09 Thread Ron Jensen
Cool, Ralf added code to generate stopways to flightgear! But wait, the grass strip around the stopways is too big. 1/0.3048 times to big, to be exact: http://www.jentronics.com/fgfs/temp/genapts-ante.jpg http://www.jentronics.com/fgfs/temp/genapts-current.jpg http://www.jentronics.com/fgfs/temp

Re: [Flightgear-devel] how to gray out autopilot menu?

2009-12-24 Thread Ron Jensen
On Thu, 2009-12-24 at 14:25 -0700, dave perry wrote: > Hi, > > I have searched both the c172p and SenecaII folder for "autopilot" or > "gui" or just "menu" and I can not find how these AC gray out the > autopilot menu. What's the secret? > > Dave P. In Nasal/gui.nas is this line: menuEnable(

Re: [Flightgear-devel] auto-coordination broken

2009-12-21 Thread Ron Jensen
On Mon, 2009-12-21 at 17:45 -0700, John Denker wrote: > On 12/21/2009 02:36 PM, Anders Gidenstam wrote: > > > It seems to work ok here. > > Interesting Another thread hijacked. > > Are you sure you don't have some noisy input > > device like a joystick or pedals connected that might affec

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Braking Power - rate of deceleration

2009-12-19 Thread Ron Jensen
On Sat, 2009-12-19 at 12:07 -0500, Peter Brown wrote: > Hi Ron, > > I did find the bindings and nasal properties as you mentioned here, > but thank you for the additional explanations. For the time being I'm > going to look at some more normalized braking forces per aircraft > based on the follow

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Braking Power - rate of deceleration

2009-12-19 Thread Ron Jensen
On Fri, 2009-12-18 at 14:35 -0500, Peter Brown wrote: > Hey all. > > Does anyone know of a way to provide more realistic braking power? > The deceleration rate seems to be an across-the-board-standard between > all aircraft, and from a user point of view I'm not sure it takes > weight, mass, or an

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Model animation help?

2009-12-15 Thread Ron Jensen
On Tue, 2009-12-15 at 16:53 +, Ron Jensen wrote: > Coordinates are in ac3d units centered about the origin of the model. Oh, and the coordinate system is slightly altered between ac3d and fg, too: AC3D FG X X (fwd/aft) Y Z (up/down) Z-Y (s

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Model animation help?

2009-12-15 Thread Ron Jensen
On Tue, 2009-12-15 at 10:25 -0600, Curtis Olson wrote: > Hi, > > I'm looking for a developer who can help me get over the hump with > animating and AC3d model. This model is of a human figure. It is a > very basic/simple model, but unfortunately I don't have permission to > openly share it. I c

Re: [Flightgear-devel] basic flight dynamics

2009-12-12 Thread Ron Jensen
On Sat, 2009-12-12 at 07:29 +, Ron Jensen wrote: > On Fri, 2009-12-11 at 10:44 -0700, John Denker wrote: > > But there may also be issues with the prop efficiency at ultra-low > > airspeed (high blade angle of attack). > > Low blade angle of attack? Increasing airspee

Re: [Flightgear-devel] nan-a-palooza

2009-12-12 Thread Ron Jensen
On Sat, 2009-12-12 at 16:21 -0700, John Denker wrote: > On 12/12/2009 02:03 PM, Heiko Schulz wrote: > > I could solve that issue with disabling AI-Traffic (Not the Interactive > > Traffic) > > I hate to ask silly questions, but ... are you suggesting > >--disable-ai-models Disable t

Re: [Flightgear-devel] basic flight dynamics

2009-12-11 Thread Ron Jensen
On Fri, 2009-12-11 at 10:44 -0700, John Denker wrote: > On 12/03/2009 10:18 AM, Stuart Buchanan wrote: > > >> I took the opportunity to check the PoH against the simulator > >> experience. While I didn't go as far as getting the OAT exactly > >> right, the errors I came across were fairly signfic

[Flightgear-devel] [Fwd: [Simgear-cvslogs] Compile Simgear error]

2009-12-09 Thread Ron Jensen
Just noticed this sitting im my CVS e-mail folders and thought I'd forward it along to the -dev list... Ron Forwarded Message > From: hujingfei529 > To: simgear-cvsl...@lists.sourceforge.net > Subject: [Simgear-cvslogs] Compile Simgear error > Date: Mon, 07 Dec 2009 11:46:02 +

Re: [Flightgear-devel] ground effect +- h_b-mac-ft +- documentation

2009-12-04 Thread Ron Jensen
On Fri, 2009-12-04 at 09:21 +, Stuart Buchanan wrote: > > Thanks for the analysis Ron! > > I'll take a look at the JSBSim config and try tuning the prop thrust. > > -Stuart I think I found the ground speed issue. The first line in aero/function/kCDge is wrong by an order of magnitude. It

Re: [Flightgear-devel] ground effect +- h_b-mac-ft +- documentation

2009-12-04 Thread Ron Jensen
On Thu, 2009-12-03 at 17:18 +, Stuart Buchanan wrote: > As I think you've noted before, the climb rate is too high - I > consistently see 1000ft/min up to 8000ft ASL, instead of approx > 800ft/min at sea level, and 400ft/m at 8000ft ASL. Also, our Cessna loads in with 264 pounds of fuel, a sin

Re: [Flightgear-devel] ground effect +- h_b-mac-ft +- documentation

2009-12-03 Thread Ron Jensen
On Thu, 2009-12-03 at 19:40 +, Ron Jensen wrote: > Hmm, climb too high and cruise too low... Someone installed a climb > propeller on our aircraft? :D > > For example: > http://forums.cessnaowner.org/read/1/7599 > "I have a 172H and this summer I had the pitch

Re: [Flightgear-devel] ground effect +- h_b-mac-ft +- documentation

2009-12-03 Thread Ron Jensen
On Thu, 2009-12-03 at 17:18 +, Stuart Buchanan wrote: > John Denker wrote: > > > On 12/01/2009 12:47 PM, Stuart Buchanan asked: > > > > > You suggest two possible explanations. Not having access to a C-172, > > > nor enough flight time to be able to guess which is correct, I'm not > > > sure

Re: [Flightgear-devel] releases +- bugs

2009-12-01 Thread Ron Jensen
On Tue, 2009-12-01 at 11:38 -0700, John Denker wrote: > On 12/01/2009 11:19 AM, Heiko Schulz wrote: > > > thank your for the bug report. > > :-) > > > But it would be great if you could update your datas and FGFS > > generally, there was some smaller changes done on the c172p and other > > thin

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Yaw pitch and roll from MP position message

2009-12-01 Thread Ron Jensen
On Tue, 2009-12-01 at 19:20 +0100, Marco Lecora wrote: > Hi, > > I would like to know if it is possible to get yaw pitch and roll > values wrt the local frame from a multiplayer position message. > > Thank you in advance > > Marco Yes, it is. Ron ---

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Ubuntu 9.10, Pulseaudio - anybody had luck lately?

2009-11-27 Thread Ron Jensen
On Sat, 2009-11-28 at 02:23 +0100, Csaba Halász wrote: > On Sat, Nov 28, 2009 at 1:48 AM, James Sleeman wrote: > > > > Also, that's double mixing for pulse applications isn't it? Seems a > > fairly bad idea for latency and cpu on everything that goes through > > pulse, which is, pretty well every

Re: [Flightgear-devel] [Flightgear-cvslogs] CVS: data/Aircraft/c172p/Nasal action-sim.nas, 1.1, 1.2

2009-11-24 Thread Ron Jensen
On Tue, 2009-11-24 at 17:58 +0100, Csaba Halász wrote: > On Tue, Nov 24, 2009 at 5:28 PM, Ron Jensen wrote: > > > > The relationship between feet and meters is exactly 0.3048 feet per > > meter. Your conversion value of 12/39.4 is approximately 0.30456... It >

Re: [Flightgear-devel] [Flightgear-cvslogs] CVS: data/Aircraft/c172p/Nasal action-sim.nas, 1.1, 1.2

2009-11-24 Thread Ron Jensen
On Sun, 2009-11-22 at 16:06 -0600, James Turner wrote: > Update of /var/cvs/FlightGear-0.9/data/Aircraft/c172p/Nasal > In directory baron.flightgear.org:/tmp/cvs-serv24918/Nasal > > Modified Files: > action-sim.nas > Log Message: > Dave Perry: > > This patch adds main gear rotations about

Re: [Flightgear-devel] [Flightgear-cvslogs] CVS: data/Aircraft/c172p

2009-11-19 Thread Ron Jensen
On Thu, 2009-11-19 at 09:37 -0700, dave perry wrote: > I believe that the position on the ground should be totally determined > by the gear compression forces and the mass and cg. I.e. it will > correct itself once we implement correct gear compressions. So don't > mess with rotating the 3d m

Re: [Flightgear-devel] BUG - Evening, Rain, Propeller

2009-11-16 Thread Ron Jensen
On Mon, 2009-11-16 at 20:37 +0100, Erik Hofman wrote: > James Turner wrote: > > In general, I would far prefer the C172P to be as high quality (and > > functional as possible), > > I would even say that the default c172p would be the sample > implementation of an aircraft in FlightGear meaning t

Re: [Flightgear-devel] FlightGear logo; Was: t-shirt give away

2009-11-15 Thread Ron Jensen
On Sun, 2009-11-15 at 07:35 -0600, Gene Lege wrote: > I like: Freedom in Flight Hmm... "FlightGear: 7 Degrees of Freedom" -- Let Crystal Reports handle the reporting - Free Crystal Reports 2008 30-Day trial. Simplif

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Center Runway Issue

2009-11-14 Thread Ron Jensen
On Sat, 2009-11-14 at 13:01 -0600, Curtis Olson wrote: > On Sat, Nov 14, 2009 at 12:50 PM, Ron Jensen wrote: > > I commented on the other European-ization thread (about > precision > > marking differences) that perhaps genapts

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Center Runway Issue

2009-11-14 Thread Ron Jensen
On Sat, 2009-11-14 at 12:36 -0600, Curtis Olson wrote: > On Sat, Nov 14, 2009 at 11:53 AM, Ron Jensen wrote: > It would be a trivial patch to genapts to always generate > leading zeros, > > however it appears that all US General Aviation

Re: [Flightgear-devel] TerraGear and International Runway Precision Markings

2009-11-14 Thread Ron Jensen
On Fri, 2009-11-13 at 19:43 -0800, J. Holden wrote: > Hello, > > I've been reading through a lot of the TerraGear code after I've read > the center line problem but I'm interested in tackling a different > problem. It doesn't help I don't have an intimate knowledge of C++, > nor have I ever proper

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Center Runway Issue

2009-11-14 Thread Ron Jensen
On Sat, 2009-11-14 at 09:09 +0100, Gijs de Rooy wrote: > Hi, > > > John Holden wrote: > > I'm using a fairly recent version of the CVS on Windows XP - I can't > tell you which exactly at the > > moment, unfortunately - but whenever I land or take off from a > center runway, I can't get the > > c

Re: [Flightgear-devel] fgfs-construct being killed

2009-11-13 Thread Ron Jensen
On Sat, 2009-11-14 at 10:28 +1100, Jason Cox wrote: > I have changed the setting for both rlim_cur and rlim_max from 300 to > 3 > curious though is that the following section of code seems to set it to > 4000 and then over write it to 300 > > Jason > > > > #if defined( __CYGWIN__ ) ||

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