[Flightgear-devel] New Email Address for Dave Perry

2013-09-14 Thread Dave Perry
I am sending this to all my contacts. My new e-mail address is skida...@gmail.com Please update your contacts if you think you might need to contact me in the future. Thanks, Dave Perry -- LIMITED TIME SALE - Full Year

Re: [Flightgear-devel] auto-coordination

2012-03-10 Thread dave perry
Also, the real pa22 Tri-Pacer has a spring rudder interlock with the ailerons so it can be overridden by the pilot when he wants to have cross control as in a cross wind. Dave P. On 03/09/2012 02:45 PM, Adam Dershowitz, Ph.D., P.E. wrote: Few, but at least one:

Re: [Flightgear-devel] a small set of minor aircraft model question...

2012-03-05 Thread dave perry
On 03/05/2012 06:40 PM, Gene Buckle wrote: On Mon, 5 Mar 2012, Gary Neely wrote: Flying means I need to be able to actually read the instrument, so I often prefer larger fonts and bolder lines than perhaps the original had. +1 I'd think that real aircraft engineers would seek to minimize

[Flightgear-devel] Link error in fg make install (was git question)

2012-02-20 Thread dave perry
Hi again, Thanks for the pointers (should have checked the wiki.flightgear first). System Description: newly installed hard drive with fresh f16 install (not upgrade or preupgrade) i7 processor with nvidia GF260 XT and proprietary nvidia driver 290.10 fltk and fltk-fluid yum

Re: [Flightgear-devel] New Build Process?

2012-02-20 Thread dave perry
On 02/20/2012 11:45 AM, Martin Spott wrote: castle...@comcast.net wrote: The writeup on the wiki seems a little thin; [...] that's just because CMake is s easy to use ;-)) Cheers, Martin. Thanks to the several people that responded to point me to both git and cmake

[Flightgear-devel] git question

2012-02-19 Thread dave perry
Hi All, I have been gone for almost a year. I want to start new source trees for simgear and flightgear and track on going development. Which git branches should I check out in this new set of directories? And from the e-mails I have read from the developers list, is appears that fgdata

Re: [Flightgear-devel] git question

2012-02-19 Thread dave perry
On 02/19/2012 02:06 PM, Torsten Dreyer wrote: Am 19.02.2012 21:54, schrieb dave perry: Hi All, I have been gone for almost a year. I want to start new source trees for simgear and flightgear and track on going development. Which git branches should I check out in this new set

Re: [Flightgear-devel] FGData Split Completed - a.k.a. Life after the Split

2011-10-18 Thread dave perry
On 10/18/2011 10:24 AM, Cedric Sodhi wrote: = IMPORTANT NOTICE TO EVERYONE INVOLVED WITH THE DEVELOPMENT OF FGDATA OR AIRPLANES THEREIN = Thanks to the concentrated effort of all people involved, most notably Jorg - who I'd hereby like to thank on behalf of all of us, for spending three

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Understanding the design of aircraft nasal scripts

2011-05-09 Thread dave perry
On 04/08/2011 10:40 PM, Catherine James wrote: Recently, I've been spending a good bit of time attempting to program all of my most-used aircraft so that I can engage and disengage the autopilot through the joystick. I've been able to get this to work on the Seneca II with a short nasal

Re: [Flightgear-devel] c172p scissors interpolations and main rotation interpolations

2011-02-14 Thread dave perry
On 02/14/2011 11:58 AM, Torsten Dreyer wrote: On 02/12/2011 12:59 PM, Torsten Dreyer wrote: By the way. The filtering that will remain in the c172p action-sim.nas for the nav radio could be moved to navradio.cxx. Here again, the needle damping and the needle behavior when tuned to an

[Flightgear-devel] c172p updates (minimize action-sim)

2011-02-13 Thread dave perry
Hi Guys, I have a clean local c172p ready to push that includes: - working nose gear link animation in terms of compression-norm using xml interpolation - working main gear animation in terms of compression-norm using xml interpolation - moved NAV0 and NAV1 needle deflection filters to

Re: [Flightgear-devel] c172p updates (minimize action-sim)

2011-02-13 Thread dave perry
On 02/13/2011 12:43 PM, Stuart Buchanan wrote: On 13 Feb 2011, at 19:26, dave perry wrote: Hi Guys, I have a clean local c172p ready to push that includes: - working nose gear link animation in terms of compression-norm using xml interpolation - working main gear animation in terms

Re: [Flightgear-devel] c172p scissors interpolations and main rotation interpolations

2011-02-13 Thread dave perry
On 02/12/2011 12:59 PM, Torsten Dreyer wrote: By the way. The filtering that will remain in the c172p action-sim.nas for the nav radio could be moved to navradio.cxx. Here again, the needle damping and the needle behavior when tuned to an out-of-range frequency or when the gs is out of range

Re: [Flightgear-devel] c172p scissors interpolations and main rotation interpolations

2011-02-12 Thread dave perry
I am having trouble getting the modified gearscissors.nas to run with the stand alone nasal. after adding the three numbers in gedit and saving the file, I get $ nasal gearscissors.nas GearScissorInterpolation.xml Runtime error: undefined symbol at gearscissors.nas, line 1 If I don't edit

Re: [Flightgear-devel] c172p scissors interpolations and main rotation interpolations

2011-02-12 Thread dave perry
Hi All, I also have the interpolation for the nose gear scissors done and working. The main gear rotation interpolation is also done and working. I have been busy on other projects today, so have not had time to clean this up for a git push. The main gear requires a different script based on

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Sinking feeling - c172 on gravel runway

2011-02-11 Thread dave perry
On 02/11/2011 10:28 AM, Stuart Buchanan wrote: On Fri, Feb 11, 2011 at 5:18 PM, Ron Jensen wrote: On Friday 11 February 2011 10:07:11 Geoff McLane wrote: Hi Curt, No probs, now that it seems Ron might have found something, thus the thread is hovering on closing, so chat away... While we

Re: [Flightgear-devel] list of aircraft that don't load in fgdata

2011-01-26 Thread dave perry
On 01/26/2011 01:31 PM, Anders Gidenstam wrote: On Tue, 25 Jan 2011, dave perry wrote: I have tried to load several AC that did not load with filed to load file name errors. So I did a survey of the entire up-to-date fgdata. I used an up-to-date fgrun and went through all the AC

[Flightgear-devel] list of aircraft that don't load in fgdata

2011-01-25 Thread dave perry
I have tried to load several AC that did not load with filed to load file name errors. So I did a survey of the entire up-to-date fgdata. I used an up-to-date fgrun and went through all the AC. The following do not load even to the viewer in fgrun: 737-100, 737-300, AG-14, Airwave Xtreme 150,

[Flightgear-devel] fgfs crash after about 1 hour 15 min

2011-01-22 Thread dave perry
With yesterday's git for fgfs and simgear, after about 1.25 hours, fgfs froze and I had to use System Monitor to end process fgfs. All seemed normal up to the freeze. OS, up-to-date FC14 on an I7 desktop with nvidia GeForce GTX 260, NVIDIA driver Version: 260.19.29. Command line (from fgrun

Re: [Flightgear-devel] git question

2011-01-11 Thread dave perry
On 01/10/2011 02:19 PM, dave perry wrote: I am ready to push some committed fgdata changes from my *master. But I lost my notes. Don't want to mess up. What is the syntax? git push master/origin? Thanks, Dave Never mind. Answer found by git push --help. Sorry, should have done

[Flightgear-devel] git question

2011-01-10 Thread dave perry
I am ready to push some committed fgdata changes from my *master. But I lost my notes. Don't want to mess up. What is the syntax? git push master/origin? Thanks, Dave -- Gaining the trust of online customers is

Re: [Flightgear-devel] fgfs configure error

2011-01-06 Thread dave perry
On 01/06/2011 03:01 AM, Jari Häkkinen wrote: find / -name version.h | grep simgear I had already looked at config.log. The check was against simgear/version.h. But since --prefix=$FG_ROOT, the config checks for $FG_ROOT/include/simgear/version.h before it checks for

[Flightgear-devel] fgfs configure error

2011-01-05 Thread dave perry
With today's simgear and flightgear source from git, after compiling and installing simgear, fgfs ./configure CFLAGS=-march=native CXXFLAGS=-march=native --prefix=$FG_ROOT fails with checking simgear/version.h usability... yes checking simgear/version.h presence... yes checking for

Re: [Flightgear-devel] [Announce] fog/mist/haze layer now active

2010-12-15 Thread dave perry
Torsten, I just used an fgfs_update script that updates simgear, then fgfs, and then fgdata. The compile of fgfs terminated with the following error: Making install in Environment make[2]: Entering directory `/home/dad/source-osg/flightgear/src/Environment' g++ -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I.

Re: [Flightgear-devel] [Atlas-devel] problem linking SimGear-2.0.0 for Atlas build

2010-12-09 Thread dave perry
-devel package). I know there are a couple of fedora patches applied to simgear, a.o. a patch for the linker. Stefan 2010/12/9 Brian Schackbschack-flightg...@usa.net: Dave == dave perry writes: Dave Hi, I just upgraded to fedora 14. FlightGear builds OK from Dave yesterday's git

[Flightgear-devel] problem linking SimGear-2.0.0 for Atlas build

2010-12-08 Thread dave perry
Hi, I just upgraded to fedora 14. FlightGear builds OK from yesterday's git with current svn osg and current simgear from git. Also fgrun builds OK. But I have not been able to build Atlas from yesterday's Atlas cvs. I get the following link error compiling SimGear-2.0.0 (from a tar) for

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Aircraft model/cockpit rating

2010-12-01 Thread dave perry
On 12/01/2010 08:14 AM, Gene Buckle wrote: I like the work that Thorsten has done with the rating system, but you guys are getting all tangled up in the details. Why not build a pretty objective score card and then rate the aircraft on that? For example, you can have a list like this:

[Flightgear-devel] Strange texture difference on two machines

2010-11-04 Thread dave perry
I made changes to pittss1c/Models/sc1.ac from my desktop (i7 with NV GTX 260) that were part of animating main gear flex and wheel spin. These were pushed and then pulled to my notebook (core duo, NV 9300M). The left main wheel on the notebook is not textured (all white). To make sure the

[Flightgear-devel] pa24 and pitts changes committed

2010-11-02 Thread dave perry
pa24-250 changes The light cone approach to landing lights has not worked for some time. I reverted to my original landing light emulation. Is someone working on light effects? pitts s1c changes 1. fixed typos in sound.xml 2. changes both wing incidence to 1.5 deg. and the horizontal stab

Re: [Flightgear-devel] recent environment changes break airport elevation with metar altimeter settings

2010-10-07 Thread dave perry
On 10/07/2010 11:08 AM, Torsten Dreyer wrote: After 18 minutes sitting on the runway with the altimeter setting matching the current METAR, the altimeter is still showing 100 ft too high. Questions: Q1: Since there has not been a METAR change, why is interpolation smoothing necessary at

Re: [Flightgear-devel] recent environment changes break airport elevation with metar altimeter settings

2010-10-04 Thread dave perry
On 10/04/2010 05:54 PM, Csaba Halász wrote: On Tue, Oct 5, 2010 at 1:28 AM, dave perryskida...@mindspring.com wrote: Before I set the altimeter to 30.35 (i.e. as launched at 29.92), the altimeter reads aprox. 643 and it noticeably drifts down from that acceptable value. If I set the

Re: [Flightgear-devel] GIT and FGDATA

2010-08-06 Thread dave perry
I am not seeing the slowdown. I just ran a simple script that updates simgear, flightgear source, and fgdata. I would estimate that the git pull origin run in fgdata took about 3 minutes. This performance has been typical for me. I ran System Monitor (F12) during the fgdata pull and the

Re: [Flightgear-devel] git question

2010-08-01 Thread dave perry
On 08/01/2010 01:07 PM, dave perry wrote: Need some help, I did some clean up of the pa24-250 on my desktop which included creating a pa24-250/Nasal folder and moving all the nasal files to that folder. I also created pa24-250-base.xml that contained all the common lines for the set file

Re: [Flightgear-devel] git question

2010-08-01 Thread dave perry
perry wrote: On 08/01/2010 01:07 PM, dave perry wrote: Need some help, I did some clean up of the pa24-250 on my desktop which included creating a pa24-250/Nasal folder and moving all the nasal files to that folder. I also created pa24-250-base.xml that contained all the common lines

Re: [Flightgear-devel] git questions

2010-07-03 Thread dave perry
On 07/03/2010 02:52 AM, Tim Moore wrote: On Fri, Jul 2, 2010 at 10:21 PM, dave perry skida...@mindspring.com mailto:skida...@mindspring.com wrote: Thanks Tim, Here's the result: [...@dave-pc fgdata]$ git push origin master fatal: protocol error: expected sha/ref, got

Re: [Flightgear-devel] git questions

2010-07-02 Thread dave perry
. --' Do I need authorization to be able to push changes to fgdata? On 07/02/2010 11:48 AM, Tim Moore wrote: On Fri, Jul 2, 2010 at 5:43 PM, dave perry skida...@mindspring.com mailto:skida...@mindspring.com wrote: I am having syntax issues trying to push changes to the git

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

2010-04-06 Thread dave perry
On 04/06/2010 06:05 PM, David Megginson wrote: On Tue, Apr 6, 2010 at 7:34 PM, Peter Brownsmoothwater...@adelphia.net wrote: In terms of simplicity, I would like to offer a suggestion of using one (or more) of the parking positions at airports with (current) parking positions. If

[Flightgear-devel] link problem on new 64 bit system

2010-04-03 Thread dave perry
I get the following error compiling fgfs. /usr/bin/ld: cannot find -lopenal But /usr/lib64/libopenal.so.0 = libopenal.so.1 = libopenal.so.1.11.753. My .bashrc has the line export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/usr/lib:/usr/lib64:/usr/local/lib:/usr/local/lib64:/usr/local/lib/osgPlugins so I don't see why

Re: [Flightgear-devel] link problem on new 64 bit system

2010-04-03 Thread dave perry
On 04/03/2010 11:34 AM, John Denker wrote: On 04/03/2010 10:21 AM, dave perry wrote: I get the following error compiling fgfs. /usr/bin/ld: cannot find -lopenal But /usr/lib64/libopenal.so.0 = libopenal.so.1 = libopenal.so.1.11.753. Note that libopenal.so (with no suffix

Re: [Flightgear-devel] material animation still breaks pick highlights

2010-02-01 Thread dave perry
On 01/31/2010 11:16 PM, Tim Moore wrote: On Thu, Jan 21, 2010 at 5:45 PM, dave perry skida...@mindspring.com mailto:skida...@mindspring.com wrote: Hi, I just added a pick object to a material animation so it would be illuminated when cockpit lighting is turned on. This pick

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Many updates to the pa24-250

2010-01-21 Thread dave perry
On 01/21/2010 01:12 AM, Gijs de Rooy wrote: Dave Perry wrote: I have just submitted the last update from a hit list I started for the pa24 over the holidays. Very nice updates! One small thing seems to be missing though, the payload does not change when baggage is loaded. ;) Yeah, I

[Flightgear-devel] material animation still breaks pick highlights

2010-01-21 Thread dave perry
Hi, I just added a pick object to a material animation so it would be illuminated when cockpit lighting is turned on. This pick object was highlighted as expected via ctrl-C before adding it to the material animation, but now even with the cockpit lighting off, the pick highlight no longer

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Many updates to the pa24-250

2010-01-21 Thread dave perry
On 01/21/2010 06:35 AM, Torsten Dreyer wrote: On 01/21/2010 01:12 AM, Gijs de Rooy wrote: Dave Perry wrote: I have just submitted the last update from a hit list I started for the pa24 over the holidays. Very nice updates! One small thing seems to be missing though

[Flightgear-devel] Many updates to the pa24-250

2010-01-20 Thread dave perry
Hi All, I have just submitted the last update from a hit list I started for the pa24 over the holidays. Updates: * full 3D interior including animated cabin door, animated visors, arm rests. * animated baggage compartment door with baggage loaded and removed by menu. *

[Flightgear-devel] adding CenturyIIB and CenturyIII to AP list in gui.nas

2009-12-30 Thread dave perry
Hi, Does anyone object to graying out the autopilot menu for tw additional autopilots used by several aircraft? If not, would someone with commit authority please apply the following simple patch? Index: gui.nas === RCS file:

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

2009-12-24 Thread dave perry
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. -- This SF.Net email is sponsored by

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Glide slope (ILS) range

2009-12-18 Thread dave perry
On 12/18/2009 02:53 PM, John Denker wrote: More generally: Limiting the GS service volume to 10nm or thereabouts is a significant departure (if you'll pardon the expression) from previous FGFS behavior, but it is not wrong. It is a feature, not a bug. Agreed. I often do the ILS rwy

[Flightgear-devel] Inadvertant change to c172p p_factor

2009-12-09 Thread dave perry
I just noticed that the patch to animate the c172p nose gear strut scissors that I sent to James Turner to commit also picked up a local change I made to decrease the p_factor. RCS file: /var/cvs/FlightGear-0.9/data/Aircraft/c172p/c172p.xml,v retrieving revision 1.24 diff -u -p -r1.24 c172p.xml

[Flightgear-devel] fgfs compile error, today's cvs

2009-12-09 Thread dave perry
I am getting the following error compiling fgfs from cvs today on two different systems. $ make Making all in tests make[1]: Entering directory `/home/dad/source-osg/source-fgfs/tests' make[1]: *** No rule to make target `est-epsilon.c', needed by `est-epsilon.o'. Stop. make[1]: Leaving

Re: [Flightgear-devel] releases +- bugs

2009-12-08 Thread dave perry
On 12/01/2009 11:38 AM, John Denker wrote: On 12/01/2009 11:19 AM, Heiko Schulz wrote: To your note: So the c172p has now: -struts animation The reported bug http://www.av8n.com/fly/fgfs/htm/bug-list.htm#bug-x1768 concerns the nutcracker, which as of 1 Dec 2009 looks

Re: [Flightgear-devel] releases +- bugs

2009-12-01 Thread dave perry
On 12/01/2009 12:47 PM, Stuart Buchanan wrote: Hi John, Thanks for the list. A number of the c172p issues are on my to-do list (I've indicated relative priorities - let me know if you think they are wrong), and others should have been fixed recently. I've put some comments inline, along

[Flightgear-devel] fgfs sound crystal clear /w pulseaudio in FC12

2009-11-30 Thread dave perry
Hi Erik, For any Fedora users, I recommend preupgrade to FC12. All the fgfs sounds work and are crystal clear, no crackle! This includes ATC, ATIS, vor and loc ident, marker beacons, cockpit sounds (switch clicks, flaps, etc.). I encountered several potential gotchas: 1. If you have an

Re: [Flightgear-devel] fgfs sound crystal clear /w pulseaudio in FC12

2009-11-30 Thread dave perry
On 11/30/2009 09:44 AM, dave perry wrote: Hi Erik, For any Fedora users, I recommend preupgrade to FC12. All the fgfs sounds work and are crystal clear, no crackle! This includes ATC, ATIS, vor and loc ident, marker beacons, cockpit sounds (switch clicks, flaps, etc.). I encountered

Re: [Flightgear-devel] FC12 openal and pulseaudio question

2009-11-29 Thread dave perry
: On Sat, Nov 28, 2009 at 8:31 PM, dave perry wrote: Hi, I used the preupgrade to FC12 from FC10 this Saturday on my ASUS notebook (Intel core2 duo). This installed openal-soft-1.10.622-2 openal-soft-devel-1.10.622-2 and pulseaudio-0.9.21-1 I had to use

Re: [Flightgear-devel] FC12 openal and pulseaudio question

2009-11-29 Thread dave perry
Problem fixed. Great sound including vor and loc idents. The problem was FC10 rpms that did not get removed. alsa-plugins-pulseaudio were the issue. Sorry for the noise. dave perry wrote: Update on symptoms: I went back to osg-2.8.2, updated SimGear, fgfs, and data from cvs. Recall

[Flightgear-devel] FC12 openal and pulseaudio question

2009-11-28 Thread dave perry
Hi, I used the preupgrade to FC12 from FC10 this Saturday on my ASUS notebook (Intel core2 duo). This installed openal-soft-1.10.622-2 openal-soft-devel-1.10.622-2 and pulseaudio-0.9.21-1 I had to use OpenSceneGraph-2.9.5 as the svn up for osg broke fgfs link. With the above I either get

Re: [Flightgear-devel] more sound problems with Tuesday cvs update

2009-11-26 Thread dave perry
Erik Hofman wrote: dave perry wrote: Before the recent updates, both had normal cockpit sound but no marker beacon or nav ident sounds as well as working Doppler in fly-by view. Just to be sure: did it have proper Doppler (reading the previous line might say just the opposite

Re: [Flightgear-devel] more sound problems with Tuesday cvs update

2009-11-26 Thread dave perry
Erik Hofman wrote: dave perry wrote: Yes, Doppler was working before the cvs update. [...@dadsoffice bin]$ ./al-info AL_VENDOR = OpenAL Community AL_RENDERER = Software Alright, the same version as Georg; then it should be fixed in CVS. Erik

[Flightgear-devel] more sound problems with Tuesday cvs update

2009-11-25 Thread dave perry
Hi Erik, I have two systems running fgfs. (1) AMD Athlon XP 3200+ with-up to-date FC10 (pulseaudio-0.9.14-3.fc10.i386) (2) Intel Core 2 duo with-up to-date x86_64 FC10 (pulseaudio-0.9.14-3.fc19.x86_64) Before the recent updates, both had normal cockpit sound but no marker beacon or nav

Re: [Flightgear-devel] more sound problems with Tuesday cvs update

2009-11-25 Thread dave perry
Hi Victhor, I tried yum erase pulseaudio which also removed the plugins that depend on pulseaudio, and the sound problems are the same. Victhor Foster wrote: Uninstall PulseAudio. I used to have those problems and they're gone after I removed it. 2009/11/25 Heiko Schulz aeitsch...@yahoo.de:

Re: [Flightgear-devel] more sound problems with Tuesday cvs update

2009-11-25 Thread dave perry
Thanks Stefan, I plan to after Thanksgiving and before Christmas. I need both the 32bit and 64 bit DVDs, so two long downloads. Dave P. stefan riemens wrote: Alternatively, upgrade to something newer. I have found PulseAudio has much improved since f10. (I'm a long-time fedora user myself

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

2009-11-24 Thread dave perry
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 would be better to do: # constants ... var radTOdeg = 57.295779; var ftTOmeter = 0.3048; ... # Right main var

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

2009-11-19 Thread dave perry
Heiko Schulz wrote: Hello. First thanks for comitting the changes to the c172p. For all, I don't see me as main author, just as another one beside the already known, just made a new 3d-model and 3d-panel. So thanks for Dave Perry as another contributer for the instruments-lights! I see

Re: [Flightgear-devel] boost library version

2009-11-19 Thread dave perry
Geoff McLane wrote: On Thu, 2009-11-19 at 00:18 +1100, George Patterson wrote: 2009/11/17 Diego Fernando Rodríguez Varón diegorodrigu...@gmail.com: Hello everyone. I was experiencing the segmentation fault reported by Nicolas before so I just tried updating and compiling. But I

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

2009-11-16 Thread dave perry
Heiko Schulz wrote: The Model-Author of the c172p has this on his list, but did not find any time to change this... Hi Heiko (and anyone who is maintaining the c172P), Several questions: First, who is the Model-Author for the c172p? A search of the c172 folder only yields David

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

2009-11-16 Thread dave perry
Heiko Schulz wrote: Hello Dave, I did the the 3d-model incl. the 3d-panel, but there was still a lot of issues. All other things (fdm, wrapping xml's, 2d-panels etc) I left untouched. Hi Heiko (and anyone who is maintaining the c172P), Several questions: First, who is the

[Flightgear-devel] proposed small change to navradio.cxx

2009-11-10 Thread dave perry
Hi All, Presently, the gs deflection retains it's final value when the nav frequency is changed to a station that has no glide slope or when the gs goes out of range. I had been using the select animation to overcome this, but that does not allow using a nasal filter to smoothly park the gs

Re: [Flightgear-devel] New Sound system committed

2009-10-29 Thread dave perry
Erik Hofman wrote: Scott Hamilton wrote: On Thu, 2009-10-29 at 13:57 +0100, Erik Hofman wrote: Hi ya Erik, I just tried out the test3, no sound what so ever... I've committed the current state of my local code to see if it fixes anything. Erik Hi Erik, Updated

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Altimeter setting does not produce correct field altitude

2009-10-28 Thread dave perry
Tim Moore wrote: On 10/27/2009 01:49 PM, dave perry wrote: Tim Moore wrote: On 10/17/2009 07:42 PM, Ron Jensen wrote: On Sat, 2009-10-17 at 11:24 -0600, dave perry wrote: With current cvs update on my notebook, I am not getting the correct field

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Altimeter setting does not produce correct field altitude

2009-10-27 Thread dave perry
Tim Moore wrote: On 10/17/2009 07:42 PM, Ron Jensen wrote: On Sat, 2009-10-17 at 11:24 -0600, dave perry wrote: With current cvs update on my notebook, I am not getting the correct field elevation when I set the altimeter to match the real weather altimeter setting. It is off

Re: [Flightgear-devel] New Sound system committed

2009-10-27 Thread dave perry
.i386 freealut-1.1.0-6.fc9.i386 FC10 up to date Alan Teeder wrote: I had no sound yesterday evening – but this was an aircraft that I am working on (JSBSim) and didn’t investigate why this should be suddenly so. As with Dave Perry I have an Athlon 32 bit machine

Re: [Flightgear-devel] New Sound system committed

2009-10-26 Thread dave perry
Erik Hofman wrote: It would be nice to know who of you who have problems run on 64-bit and if any one with these problems (sounds not playing) actually runs in 32-bit. Erik -- Come build with us! The BlackBerry(R)

Re: [Flightgear-devel] New Sound system committed

2009-10-26 Thread dave perry
dave perry wrote: Erik Hofman wrote: It would be nice to know who of you who have problems run on 64-bit and if any one with these problems (sounds not playing) actually runs in 32-bit. Erik -- Come build

Re: [Flightgear-devel] New Sound system committed

2009-10-21 Thread dave perry
Erik Hofman wrote: dave perry wrote: dave perry wrote: With an update this morning from cvs, I still only hear ATC and that with frequency distortion. Did I miss a required library change? I have openal-0.0.9-0.15.20060204cvs.fc9.i386 and freealut-1.1.0-6.fc9.i386 with fc10

Re: [Flightgear-devel] New Sound system committed

2009-10-19 Thread dave perry
James Sleeman wrote: On 20/10/09 00:07, James Sleeman wrote: On 19/10/09 23:42, Erik Hofman wrote: Ok I think I've ironed out most of the bugs. I hope also the one that James reported but I don't hold my breath for it just yet. So far so good, compiles and runs, and produces

Re: [Flightgear-devel] New Sound system committed

2009-10-19 Thread dave perry
dave perry wrote: With an update this morning from cvs, I still only hear ATC and that with frequency distortion. Did I miss a required library change? I have openal-0.0.9-0.15.20060204cvs.fc9.i386 and freealut-1.1.0-6.fc9.i386 with fc10. The above is on my desktop (Athlon XP 3200

Re: [Flightgear-devel] SimGear compile error

2009-10-18 Thread dave perry
syd adams wrote: This works for me ... ./configure CFLAGS= -march=athlon CXXFLAGS=-march=athlon --with-jpeg-factory ... once I remembered to do a make clean before make :) Thanks Syd, The make clean turned out to be the problem. This works for me ... ./configure CFLAGS=-march=native

Re: [Flightgear-devel] SimGear compile error

2009-10-17 Thread dave perry
Anders Gidenstam wrote: On Sat, 10 Oct 2009, dave perry wrote: I have --build=i686 as a switch to configure. Where do I supply -march=? You set CXXFLAGS and CFLAGS (but the latter might not be needed). My configure line starts with: configure CFLAGS=-O2 -g -march=core2 -mfpmath

[Flightgear-devel] Altimeter setting does not produce correct field altitude

2009-10-17 Thread dave perry
With current cvs update on my notebook, I am not getting the correct field elevation when I set the altimeter to match the real weather altimeter setting. It is off by 160 feet today at KLMO (field elevation 5052). With my desktop which was last updated from cvs about 10/3, it is very nearly

[Flightgear-devel] SimGear compile error

2009-10-10 Thread dave perry
With today's SimGear CVS, I am getting the following compile error Making all in props make[3]: Entering directory `/home/dad/source-osg/SimGear/simgear/props' g++ -g -O2 -D_REENTRANT -lOpenThreads -o props_test props_test.o libsgprops.a ../../simgear/xml/libsgxml.a

Re: [Flightgear-devel] nontrivial external situations

2009-09-16 Thread dave perry
James Turner wrote: On 15 Sep 2009, at 22:59, Thomas Betka wrote: But each LOC on an airfield has it's own frequency This is where the problems start: http://www.nats-uk.ead-it.com/aip/current/ad/EGPH/EG_AD_2_EGPH_2-1_en.pdf IVG and ITH share the same frequency - 108.9Mhz, and

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Sport-model nav-radio (was Re: GS sensitivity)

2009-09-11 Thread dave perry
James Turner wrote: It adds false LOC and GS signals, a better GS deviation computation, and LOC sensitivity based on the runway dimensions. The last part I'm not totally sure about - it makes localizers *very* sensitive - maybe I've adapted the code incorrectly, but this doc:

Re: [Flightgear-devel] GS sensitivity - especially for aircraft / panel developers

2009-09-09 Thread dave perry
James Turner wrote: On 9 Sep 2009, at 03:01, dave perry wrote: Sorry, I misunderstood you concerning the animation edits. I will be glad to help with the xml edits and testing. Getting rid of the spurious 5x for the glide scope and adding the clamps is a good idea and adding

Re: [Flightgear-devel] GS sensitivity - especially for aircraft / panel developers

2009-09-09 Thread dave perry
James Turner wrote: - secondly, I'm changing (or will) the glideslope deviation to be 'correct' degrees: [-0.7 .. 0.7], i.e removing the spurious 5x scalar that has somehow crept in, and fixing many clients which assumed the range was [-10 .. 10], or something else again. This is in

Re: [Flightgear-devel] GS sensitivity - especially for aircraft / panel developers

2009-09-08 Thread dave perry
Hi James, Your note below caused me to ask if the LOC needle deflection is scaled differently than the VOR needle deflection in navradio.cxx. It is and the comment that it is 4x more sensitive is correct according to notes from Instrument Ground School. From a pilot point of view, what we

Re: [Flightgear-devel] GS sensitivity - especially for aircraft / panel developers

2009-09-08 Thread dave perry
James Turner wrote: - fourthly, and most importantly, I'm not doing a blanket edit - I wish I could! I'm going to have to go through each aircraft, make the changes, and then test that aircraft. I'm sure I'l miss some things, but I still believe it's worth it to kill off the dreaded 5x

Re: [Flightgear-devel] navradio

2009-09-07 Thread dave perry
James Turner wrote: On 6 Sep 2009, at 22:50, dave perry wrote: The height is correct. It looks like every other call of FGNavRadio::updateWithPower gets the wrong value for nav_elev. Hope this helps find the bug. I was wrong about the height being correct. Thought it might

[Flightgear-devel] navradio

2009-09-06 Thread dave perry
I updated SimGear, fgfs source and data yesterday for both my desktop and notebook. The glide slope is now broken. The angle seems correct but it now acts as if the ILS is always from 0 ft MSL. I tried the rw 23 ILS at KBTL with field elevation of 952 ft, rw 23 at KBJC with field elevation

[Flightgear-devel] Major oil leak in real N7764P

2009-08-19 Thread dave perry
Hi all, One of the two co-owners with me of the real N7764P (pa24-250) had the connector of one of the oil cooler hoses break just before entering the pattern at KLMO, where we hangar. We check the oil in preflight to 9 quarts and he had just under 6 quarts at shut down. The left side and

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Till Busch's terrain shaders

2009-08-19 Thread dave perry
Erik Hofman wrote: I wrote: Ahh, that line should read: float n=0.06 + dot(nvL, a); instead of: float n=0.06 + dot(nvL[0], a); Which brings the frame rate back to what it was :-/ Maybe it might be a good idea to specify which of the effects you want to turn on or not?

Re: [Flightgear-devel] startup.nas

2009-07-21 Thread dave perry
Torsten Dreyer wrote: Just commited a hack for envrionment_ctrl.cxx. It now waits for the first METAR to arrive before proceeding with the initialization sequence. This prevents the nasal-dir-initialized signal being fired before a METAR has arrived. I more and more like the idea of

Re: [Flightgear-devel] osg devel and Tims changes

2009-07-20 Thread dave perry
Tim Moore wrote: dave perry wrote: I am getting segmentation fault after updating osg trunk from svn, SimGear from cvs, and fgfs source from cvs. I also tried compiling against osg-2.8.2-rc4. I still get a segmentation fault right after loading aircraft completes. Can you

Re: [Flightgear-devel] osg devel and Tims changes

2009-07-19 Thread dave perry
Tim Moore wrote: Mathias Fröhlich wrote: Hi, With yesterdays checkin from Tim we need a more or less recent osg version to build flightgear. Tim promised to provide come conditional code to work around that. But I would suggest to just have a somehow recent osg version as a

Re: [Flightgear-devel] YASim EGT doesn't change?

2009-07-07 Thread dave perry
(/engines/engine[0]/egt-degf-fix, egt_lowpass.filter(egt)); I ignore the YASim value for egt. Regards, Dave Perry -- Enter the BlackBerry Developer Challenge This is your chance to win up to $100,000 in prizes! For a limited

Re: [Flightgear-devel] pa24 and seneca II autopilots broken

2009-06-16 Thread dave perry
Torsten Dreyer wrote: I just updated SimGear, fgfs source, and data from cvs on my FC10 notebook. The Century IIB, Century III, and Altimatic autopilot hot spots don't show with ctrl-C and they don't work. I checked to see if any of their files in Aircraft/Instruments-3D/ had been changed.

[Flightgear-devel] pa24 and seneca II autopilots broken

2009-06-15 Thread dave perry
I just updated SimGear, fgfs source, and data from cvs on my FC10 notebook. The Century IIB, Century III, and Altimatic autopilot hot spots don't show with ctrl-C and they don't work. I checked to see if any of their files in Aircraft/Instruments-3D/ had been changed. They had not. So I am

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Progress report on the infamous error in TriangleIntersect NAN Problem

2009-05-16 Thread dave perry
Heiko Schulz wrote: I think the pa24-250 is another user of this. Does this aircrafts also cause this NaN-errors? Hi Heiko, The pa24-250 uses Aircraft/Instruments-3d/comp/comp.xml. Regards, Dave P. -- Crystal

[Flightgear-devel] SimGear --build= options?

2009-01-27 Thread dave perry
I am trying to build cvs fgfs on a new notebook running Fedora10 x86_64. I am getting a configure error w/o --build specified. What should I specifiy for --build=?. The processors - Intel(R) Core(tm)2 Duo processor T5800. - Dave P.

Re: [Flightgear-devel] SimGear --build= options?

2009-01-27 Thread dave perry
dave perry wrote: I am trying to build cvs fgfs on a new notebook running Fedora10 x86_64. I am getting a configure error w/o --build specified. What should I specifiy for --build=?. The processors - Intel(R) Core(tm)2 Duo processor T5800. - Dave P

Re: [Flightgear-devel] SimGear --build= options?

2009-01-27 Thread dave perry
Csaba Halász wrote: On Tue, Jan 27, 2009 at 7:10 PM, dave perry skida...@mindspring.com wrote: Sorry, I did not say in the body of the note that the configure error occurs when building SimGear. configure should be able to figure out --build by itself. Look into config.log

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