Re: [Flightgear-devel] Multiple channel autopilot controllers

2008-02-12 Thread Jeff McBride
Thanks for your comments - they fit with what I'm finding thinking. Sure, in piloted aircraft takeoff is handled by the pilot, who is able to cope with a wide range of possible failures at this critical phase of flight, but I'm trying to work towards a UAV control framework, from takeoff

Re: [Flightgear-devel] framerate hesitations...

2007-04-10 Thread Jeff McBride
On 4/10/07, Syd Sandy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all , Not sure how to describe this , I get a barely visible hesitation in framerates while flying, about once a second . Noticed it in the Aerostar , so I suspected my Nasal electrical routine was causing it but after changing the loop

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Interfacing Visual Basic 6 with Flight Gear 0.9.8

2007-03-21 Thread Jeff McBride
On 3/21/07, LucaG_libero [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: hello, i'm beginning now to use flightgear simulator and i'm not a phaenomenon in programming, so i'm sorry if my questions will seem to you too much unimportant. i'm implementing an inerttial measurement platform with Gyroscope and

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Yard Stik 3d model?

2006-10-25 Thread Jeff McBride
On 10/21/06, Curtis Olson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: snip My plan in the upcoming weeks is to instrument this Rascal, carefully collect some specific flight data, and use that to refine our Rascal JSBSim model even further. I already have modeled a set of autopilot configs in FG, but once I

Re: [Flightgear-devel] YF-23/yasim: how to climb to 163000 ft

2006-07-28 Thread Jeff McBride
Actually, sometimes if you get it right (well, I did it once), you can go a lot faster than that. I managed to get the speed to diverge rapidly up to 5 or 6 digits once and then FG crashed. I wasn't able to do it consistently though. -Jeff On 7/28/06, Melchior FRANZ [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Introduction to community and Autopilot Replacement

2006-06-01 Thread Jeff McBride
it out, communication with FG is pretty easy. I've just created a C# class to handle all I/O to FG, and can drop it in where needed. -Jeff Jeff McBride Master's Student, Electrical and Computer Engineering Virginia Commonwealth University ___ Flightgear