[Flightgear-devel] New aircraft: SF-25

2011-08-15 Thread Viktor Radnai
Hi all, Athanasios Goritsas (cc-d) created a nice Falke 3D model with a basic Yasim profile, based on the aircraft he flew with. I would like to develop his model further (I'm doing my PPL on the real thing atm). We would both like to see it in Git (under a GPL license), maybe more people woul

Re: [Flightgear-devel] New aircraft: SF-25

2011-08-16 Thread Viktor Radnai
Hi guys, Thanks for this. Gary, I gave your yasim xml a spin. (sorry, long mail ahead) I don't have enough experience with the plane yet to comment on everything. The real thing seems to behave a bit better on takeoff when there is no crosswind -- haven't done a crosswind takeoff or landing ye

Re: [Flightgear-devel] New aircraft: SF-25

2011-08-16 Thread Viktor Radnai
grass airfield, after a point, the planes will take care of the lawnmowing :D On 08/16/2011 02:29 PM, Gene Buckle wrote: > On Tue, 16 Aug 2011, Viktor Radnai wrote: > >> http://www.avatarzenekar.hu/files/P1020617.JPG >> http://www.avatarzenekar.hu/files/P1020618.JPG >> > Am

Re: [Flightgear-devel] New aircraft: SF-25

2011-08-16 Thread Viktor Radnai
from anyone familiar with the type would be very much welcome. Cheers, Vik I can't really follow the discussion on the Yasim internals On 08/16/2011 02:29 PM, Gene Buckle wrote: > On Tue, 16 Aug 2011, Viktor Radnai wrote: > >> http://www.avatarzenekar.hu/files/P1020617.JPG >>

Re: [Flightgear-devel] YASIM Comment (was New aircraft: SF-25)

2011-08-16 Thread Viktor Radnai
Hi Adrian, On 08/16/2011 12:46 PM, Adrian Musceac wrote: > Viktor, > During the long hours which have been spent by Emilian and I tweaking the > IAR80 FDM, I have found out that three tag parameters have a very heavy > influence on the solver: [approach aoa="" glide-angle=""] and [cruise glide- >

Re: [Flightgear-devel] New aircraft: SF-25

2011-08-23 Thread Viktor Radnai
ers, Vik On 08/17/2011 02:10 AM, Viktor Radnai wrote: > Hi all, > > I have updated the model. Please download and test again if you are > interested. > http://www.avatarzenekar.hu/files/sf25b.tar.bz2 > > Many thanks to all especially Gary aka Buckaroo for his yasim xml and

[Flightgear-devel] FG hangs while waiting for METAR data?

2011-08-24 Thread Viktor Radnai
Hi all, I could be wrong but it appears to me that FG will hang if the METAR server is unreachable. I was using FG while connected to the Internet via my phone (through wifi). Whenever my phone reboots or connectivity is lost, FG would produce a square wave pattern on my CPU meter. It would ru

Re: [Flightgear-devel] FG hangs while waiting for METAR data?

2011-08-24 Thread Viktor Radnai
Hi James, Thanks for that. I just wanted to report it in case noone did yet. Cheers, Vik On 24 August 2011 10:35, James Turner wrote: > > On 24 Aug 2011, at 08:57, Viktor Radnai wrote: > >> I could be wrong but it appears to me that FG will hang if the METAR >> server

Re: [Flightgear-devel] New aircraft: SF-25

2011-08-24 Thread Viktor Radnai
takeoff and especially landing. Any help would be appreciated. Also I promise that if someone sets up the model in FG git, I'll stop spamming the list every time I update it :) Cheers, Vik On 23 August 2011 17:22, Viktor Radnai wrote: > Hi all, > > I have uploaded a newer versio

Re: [Flightgear-devel] New experimental mapserver

2011-09-10 Thread Viktor Radnai
Hi all, If you are looking for airports with extreme runway slope for testing, may I suggest Lukla, Nepal (VNLK). If that one comes out looking right, I'd say you've got the code sorted :) Cheers, Vik On 09/10/2011 02:47 PM, Christian Schmitt wrote: > Curtis Olson wrote: > >> I won't say this

Re: [Flightgear-devel] ccmake problems with flightgear git latest

2012-01-11 Thread Viktor Radnai
Hi all, I had the same issue. It's quite odd. Git status was showing my tree as unmodified but I had to do the same thing (clone a new copy) with simgear otherwise it was not finding OSG in /usr/include. I think it was only looking in /usr/local/include for some reason. Cheers, Vik On 12/06/2

Re: [Flightgear-devel] ccmake problems with flightgear git latest

2012-01-11 Thread Viktor Radnai
Thanks for that. One of these days I'll actually learn git I promise :) Unfortunately I already nuked the old tree so I can't figure out what was left over that was causing the error. Cheers, Vik On 01/11/2012 01:50 PM, Stefan Seifert wrote: > On Wednesday 11 January 2012 13

[Flightgear-devel] Starting engine using FGNetCtrls

2012-05-31 Thread Viktor Radnai
Hi all, I'm going to use Flightgear for developing/testing UAV code (yep, another one of those :) ). I'm currently putting together an SDL app that communicates with FG. I'm using the FGNetCtrls structure from net_ctrls.hxx. I'm trying to start the C172's engine but when I set startup_power =

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Starting engine using FGNetCtrls

2012-06-01 Thread Viktor Radnai
e > controlling nasal as the c172 uses some non-standard stuff. Also make sure > you're not sitting with a strong tailwind as that can affect some propeller > configurations and make them harder to turn. > > Ron > > On Thursday 31 May 2012 15:16:42 Viktor Radnai wrote:

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Starting engine using FGNetCtrls

2012-06-01 Thread Viktor Radnai
may help address this. But your engine should have 'started' as it > exceeded 440 RPM... Anyway, glad it works now, and we can revisit this after > FlightGear syncs JSBSim. > > Ron > > On Friday 01 June 2012 09:39:52 Viktor Radnai wrote: >> Hi Ron, >> >>

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Starting engine using FGNetCtrls

2012-06-02 Thread Viktor Radnai
: > It makes me wonder if some other control is battling for the starter > property and it's not consistently switched on? > > On Fri, Jun 1, 2012 at 2:46 PM, Viktor Radnai <mailto:viktor.rad...@gmail.com>> wrote: > > Actually the engine rpm is usually oscillating

[Flightgear-devel] Merge request: SF-25 Falke

2012-06-06 Thread Viktor Radnai
Hi all, I've created a merge request to update the SF-25 Falke. Do I need to do anything else to get it merged? https://gitorious.org/fg/fgdata/merge_requests/108 Also this is only my third merge request so the whole process is fairly new to me. I'd appreciate it if someone could take a look a

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Merge request: SF-25 Falke

2012-06-14 Thread Viktor Radnai
Hi Thorsten, Thanks for the comments, glad you liked it :) You're right about the radio stack -- in fact this Falke is rather "over-instrumented" compared to most of its brethren. The instrument panel is roughly based on the one I'm doing my PPL on, and I've added this radio because it looked

Re: [Flightgear-devel] socket communication

2012-06-24 Thread Viktor Radnai
Hi Sanny, Take a look at this code: http://code.google.com/p/binarymillenium/source/browse/trunk/flightgear/?r=125#flightgear%2Ffgauto The net_fdm.hxx and net_ctrls.hxx files are from Flightgear and define two data structures that can be sent and received by fgfs. In your program you can recei

[Flightgear-devel] Yasim static friction?

2012-07-05 Thread Viktor Radnai
Hi all, I have a Yasim question I can't figure out from the documentation. We're working on the sf25b and noticed that both that, and the Grob g109 (which is a similar aircraft so we use it to reference things) seem to suffer from "lack of static friction". I might be misinterpreting the issue

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Yasim static friction?

2012-07-05 Thread Viktor Radnai
wheels, I can try to make sure that the brakes are always slightly set, but what do I do for the prop? Cheers, Vik On 07/05/2012 03:30 PM, Emilian Huminiuc wrote: > On Thursday 05 July 2012 15:21:24 Viktor Radnai wrote: >> 1. When the aircraft is parked with no parking brake, it wi

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Yasim static friction?

2012-07-05 Thread Viktor Radnai
You mean when the wind is blowing from the front-left of the plane? Cheers, Vik On 07/05/2012 04:14 PM, Hyde Yamakawa wrote: > Does this happen only left wind, right? Or happens on right wind too? > > Hyde > > (2012年07月05日 10:02), Viktor Radnai wrote: >> Technical

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Yasim static friction?

2012-07-05 Thread Viktor Radnai
aircraft or the prop. On 07/05/2012 04:14 PM, Hyde Yamakawa wrote: > Does this happen only left wind, right? Or happens on right wind too? > > Hyde > > (2012年07月05日 10:02), Viktor Radnai wrote: >> Technically, you also have the compression of the wheels -- when the >> wh

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Yasim static friction?

2012-07-05 Thread Viktor Radnai
Hi Andy, Thanks for that! So just to clarify -- this is a bug in Yasim code (or more like a missing feature) and I'm welcome to fix it? :) Cheers, Vik On 07/05/2012 09:34 PM, Andy Ross wrote: > (Happened to be browsing in time to see a question) > > On 07/05/2012 06:21 AM, Vikto

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Yasim static friction?

2012-07-06 Thread Viktor Radnai
st modifying Gear.cpp and definitely out of my league for both the knowledge of C++ and the Flightgear codebase. Could someone please help me with this? Thanks in advance! Cheers, Vik On 07/05/2012 09:34 PM, Andy Ross wrote: > (Happened to be browsing in time to see a question) > > On 07/05

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Yasim static friction?

2012-07-06 Thread Viktor Radnai
Well, I am giving it a shot, but it seems it won't be that easy. See my other (long) mail sent on this topic :) Cheers, Vik On 07/06/2012 05:48 PM, Andy Ross wrote: > On 07/05/2012 02:41 PM, Viktor Radnai wrote: >> Thanks for that! So just to clarify -- this is a bug in Yasim co

Re: [Flightgear-devel] FlightGear/Simulink/LabVIEW Interface

2012-07-11 Thread Viktor Radnai
Hi Andy, I didn't see anyone else respond so I thought I'd give you some pointers. The Matlab plugin seems to be part of Simulink's Aerospace blockset. I'm by no means an expert on Matlab, but I would think that it should come with the Matlab installer as an optional component to install... I c

[Flightgear-devel] controls.throttleAxis mod for throttle factor and offset

2009-07-01 Thread Viktor Radnai
Hi all, I wanted to share my modification of the axisHandler Nasal function (the one that implements control.throttleAxis, mixtureAxis, etc). Purpose of the mod: I have one of those joysticks that uses only 50% of the available movement range for the throttle. Unfortunately for me, if a bindin

[Flightgear-devel] Handley-Page Victor K2 case sensitivity problem

2010-02-15 Thread Viktor Radnai
Hi there, The panel on the Victor doesn't show (on Linux) due to a case sensitivity issue. Please apply attached patch to fix it. Cheers, Vik Index: Aircraft/victor/Models/Panel.xml === RCS file: /var/cvs/FlightGear-0.9/data/Aircr

[Flightgear-devel] Shift key stuck once pressed

2010-02-15 Thread Viktor Radnai
Hi all, (Please let me know if it would be more appropriate to report these issues at some bug tracker or the flightgear users list) I built the latest Flightgear version out of CVS and I'm using it with the data directory straight out of CVS as well. I have found a strange problem. When I loa

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Shift key stuck once pressed

2010-02-15 Thread Viktor Radnai
8.2-1 3D scenegraph binary files ii openscenegraph-doc2.8.2-1 3D scenegraph documentation Should I try 2.9.6 instead? Cheers, Vik Csaba Halász wrote: > On Mon, Feb 15, 2010 at 10:42 PM, Viktor Radnai > wrote: >> I built the latest Flightgear version o

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Shift key stuck once pressed

2010-02-16 Thread Viktor Radnai
uld complain about not finding libosgFX.so.62.) What should I try next? Cheers, Vik Csaba Halász wrote: > On Mon, Feb 15, 2010 at 11:37 PM, Viktor Radnai > wrote: >> It's version 2.8.2-1 that comes with Debian unstable. >> >> Should I try 2.9.6 instead? >

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Shift key stuck once pressed

2010-02-16 Thread Viktor Radnai
helps. Let me know what next. Cheers, Vik Csaba Halász wrote: > On Tue, Feb 16, 2010 at 3:10 PM, Viktor Radnai > wrote: >> Hi again, >> >> I've built OSG 2.9.6 and rebuilt the latest CVS version of Simgear & >> Flightgear against it. Unfortunately I still

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Shift key stuck once pressed

2010-02-17 Thread Viktor Radnai
on of the OSG libs. Could this be caused by having an older version of another library or an out of date keyboard mapping file? (although I think I use the one from CVS as well...) Cheers, Vik Csaba Halász wrote: > On Tue, Feb 16, 2010 at 6:05 PM, Viktor Radnai > wrote: >> Hi the

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Solved: Shift key stuck once pressed

2010-04-02 Thread Viktor Radnai
Hi all, This problem is also present in 2.0. I do not know what software contains the bug, but the issue is related to switching between keyboard layouts. Specifically if I configure Gnome keyboard layout preferences in a way that "both shift keys together change the layout", I get the issue.