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

2010-04-11 Thread Pete Morgan
Mattt wrote: If so, I'd probably recommend calling it an RC or similar. Hopefully, that may stop the (few) whingers on the forum carrying on about how the devs released another version that still isn't ready for prime-time consumption... OTOH, labelling it an RC might keep the others

[Flightgear-devel] Trust

2010-04-07 Thread Pete Morgan
I want to raise this issue again if I may. The FlightGear Trust as an entity, somehow. In my head we need and should be planning a kinda trust, for trademark, copyright and other issues. Think FG_ROOT.2120. The entity will achieve funds from various sources, and use them in the distribution

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Replacement fpr mpserver01.flightgear.org

2010-04-06 Thread Pete Morgan
Whats the bandwidth involved? This is a pretty loaded server ? pete Oliver Schroeder wrote: Hello list. Unfortunatly my sponsor for mpserver01 will quit his contract for the hardware. Thus I am in search for a replacement. If you are interrested in offering a unix host for hosting fgms

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Kids Training Manual

2010-04-05 Thread Pete Morgan
David Megginson wrote: On Wed, Mar 31, 2010 at 1:23 AM, Pete Morgan ac...@daffodil.uk.com wrote: Fanstastic.. had a wuick look and its cool. Can I please lift the page and format it as a slideshow ? All yours -- consider it public domain. It might be worth capturing screenshots

[Flightgear-devel] Website

2010-04-05 Thread Pete Morgan
Here's another version, This one's php flavoured and reads files directly from cvs http://flightgear.daffodil.uk.com/ regards pete -- Download Intel#174; Parallel Studio Eval Try the new software tools for yourself.

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Website

2010-04-05 Thread Pete Morgan
placeholder websites. -- Kyle On Apr 5, 2010, at 6:46 PM, Pete Morgan wrote: Here's another version, This one's php flavoured and reads files directly from cvs http://flightgear.daffodil.uk.com/ regards pete -- Cheers, Mattt. SpotSafe - WiFi Hotspot solution

[Flightgear-devel] New Website

2010-04-01 Thread Pete Morgan
Its April the first, not a time or day to announce a new FlightGear site in foss, non propriety, php. Includes a portal http://flightgear.simpits.org/ A development version of the website http://flightgear.simpits.org/web.php A web developers guide with class documentation

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Callsign and latin characters

2010-03-30 Thread Pete Morgan
James Sleeman wrote: On 30/03/10 14:47, Pete Morgan wrote: I'm playing with an MP map, and have bumped into some issues with callsign's containing strange characters (can mess with json encoding). I'd suggest the MPMap should be fixed so that user data doesn't create an issue

Re: [Flightgear-devel] v2.0 Aircraft Download Page

2010-03-30 Thread Pete Morgan
Curtis Olson wrote: On Mon, Mar 29, 2010 at 10:39 PM, Tom P zomm...@gmail.com mailto:zomm...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Curt, To provide an even greater user experience, what if we link entries in the Aircraft download page to each aircraft page on wiki.flightgear.org

Re: [Flightgear-devel] v2.0 Aircraft Download Page

2010-03-30 Thread Pete Morgan
Gijs de Rooy wrote: Hi guys! Curt wrote: I'm open to that, however the aircraft download page is automatically script generated based on content in the aircraft-set.xml file. The easiest approach I think would be to add some sort of wiki or external page tag inside the -set.xml

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Callsign and latin characters

2010-03-30 Thread Pete Morgan
That's all very well, but... a) The callsign ISN'T an aircraft registration code. You need only look at the MP to see that. Some people use an aircraft-rego-like code (like me, zk-jrs), but others don't. Some use their name. When was the last time you saw Joe Bloggs as a callsign

[Flightgear-devel] Kids Training Manual

2010-03-30 Thread Pete Morgan
Problem I got with newbies.. Is there a simple set of instruction we can create (and laminate) of :: how to take off, make and ewe drop and come back and miss the first landing then go around another way and come back to land? no wind etc.. just for kids?

[Flightgear-devel] Portal Idea

2010-03-30 Thread Pete Morgan
comment please.. need cool list .. http://fg-master.appspot.com/ and its yes its hard coded and statick atmo.. ;-) pete -- Download Intel#174; Parallel Studio Eval Try the new software tools for yourself. Speed

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Kids Training Manual

2010-03-30 Thread Pete Morgan
PM, Pete Morgan ac...@daffodil.uk.com wrote: Problem I got with newbies.. Is there a simple set of instruction we can create (and laminate) of :: how to take off, make and ewe drop and come back and miss the first landing then go around another way and come back to land? no wind etc

[Flightgear-devel] Callsign and latin characters

2010-03-29 Thread Pete Morgan
I'm playing with an MP map, and have bumped into some issues with callsign's containing strange characters (can mess with json encoding). Should the callsign not be restricted to the characters - and 0-9, a-z, A-Z ? recent notable examples online $bling% $%^ kind regards pete

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Web Site + MpServer Status

2010-03-25 Thread Pete Morgan
Geoff McLane wrote: He added some new things, which is great, like the mp server status, but assume this depends on the python to get information, so this may not be portable, but would certainly like to incorporate this in my example also, if possible... How to do it is the question? A

[Flightgear-devel] Sponsorship letter idea

2010-03-25 Thread Pete Morgan
Dear Richard Branston, I'm sending this letter as an individual and am representing FlightGear, which is an Open Source Flight Simulator released under the General Public Licence GPL ie free and open source. I am speaking on behalf of the FlightGear team, comprising a bunch of people of all

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Web Site

2010-03-25 Thread Pete Morgan
Martin Spott wrote: Geoff McLane wrote: So again, we should consider who OWNS the site, and fully RESPECT what he might want, [...] I firmly object: The way how the web site is being managed is very contradictory to the nature of the entire project. I'm not advertizing anarchy

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Web Site

2010-03-25 Thread Pete Morgan
Roland Haeder wrote: Hello all, the problem on those CMS systems (python-written and PHP-written likewise) is that they sometimes have security holes where a cracker can more or less easily own www.flightgear.org and put his Owned by some-fool-cracker message in there. Please clarify:

[Flightgear-devel] Google App Engine

2010-03-25 Thread Pete Morgan
Advantages * relies on Google infrastructure * does not require one to setup and maintain their own servers * can be coded in python or java * each application scales to three million page views a month or around 1.2 requests a second before it costs * can switch app versions at the click of a

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Web Site

2010-03-25 Thread Pete Morgan
Roland Haeder wrote: They (Drupal/WordPress are good examples) really have a lot holes, just checkout www.securityfocus.com and they brothers (not the whistle-blower websites). Were agreeing that some applications are badly coded. Thats why I prefer to steer clear of apps; unless their

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Web Site

2010-03-23 Thread Pete Morgan
There does not seem any need to go totally Googly when all that Pete has done can be done to the current site, in an incremental page-by-page way... Am I missing something here? Can I clear something up here once and for all re the fg-www.appspot.com site 1) The site is presently

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Web Site

2010-03-23 Thread Pete Morgan
But his good work _IS_ being used, extensively - 1 left TOC 2 CSS design 3 XHTML 1.0 Can I suggest a way forward as we are probably replicating work... 1) create a branch of the cvs website in git. (maybe on gitorious/fg) 2) give commit rights to whoever gonna contribute 3) design the

[Flightgear-devel] Github and aircraft

2010-03-21 Thread Pete Morgan
I've been using GitHub and its API recently on a couple of projects. That got me thinking about using github for aircraft, with each aircraft as a repository, as an experiment. I've already created a little python application to create the local and remote git repositories and to push changes.

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Money and Contributions

2010-03-21 Thread Pete Morgan
Curtis Olson wrote: 2. No one has stepped forward and offered to invest the time and expertise for setting up a true non-profit. I personally do not have the knowledge or experience, nor do I have the time to maintain such an organization, keep records, file taxes, etc. etc. I don't

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Operating System

2010-03-20 Thread Pete Morgan
Make sure you get an install Windows7 CD and create a dual boot, that's what I,ve got , although I rarely use m$ wind. pete Leonardo Fabian Grodek wrote: Hi, I'm planning to buy a new PC with operating system. Is there any OS that is not supported by FlightGear? I want to be sure I'll be

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Web Site

2010-03-19 Thread Pete Morgan
Alex Perry wrote: On Tue, Mar 9, 2010 at 2:56 AM, Pete Morgan ac...@daffodil.uk.com wrote: - Do we want to lock ourselves into google? These issues worry me also, and indeed pointing www.flightgear.org to fg-www.appspot.com is likely to have other problems (major 404's will need

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Web Site

2010-03-18 Thread Pete Morgan
Martin Spott wrote: Pete Morgan wrote: A Major issues is that GAE does not support binary files very well, eg gallery, so I'm not sure how this would work. One possibility would be to rename the current machine as www2. or stash. and using it as the binary storage. To my

Re: [Flightgear-devel] News from FlightProSim!

2010-03-17 Thread Pete Morgan
I spent some time using Pete's menu css and trying to build a column of menus down the left side of the screen. I have an initial version. Some of that I like, but I'm just not happy with how it's coming together yet. Curt. Your going to be running around in circles until its got

Re: [Flightgear-devel] [OT] Bizarre Experiment

2010-03-16 Thread Pete Morgan
is it on webcam ? Durk Talsma wrote: Hi Folks, This is a little off-topic, but I thought I'd write a little about a rather bizarre experiment I'm currently running, involving one high-powered 64-bit Linux machine, my currently still cold living room, a central heating system, and a

Re: [Flightgear-devel] News from FlightProSim!

2010-03-15 Thread Pete Morgan
One idea which I've used before, would be to create the flightprosim.flightgear.org subdomain. then link sites (eg wiki, 3rd party) to the subdomain. This gets it well up in the rankings and is easy to implement. When end up on that domain is a nice notice explaining what flightprosim. Also

Re: [Flightgear-devel] multiple --generic record/playback errors

2010-03-15 Thread Pete Morgan
Is it the same as this bug Chase-view broken http://code.google.com/p/flightgear-bugs/issues/detail?id=99 pete Anders Gidenstam wrote: On Mon, 15 Mar 2010, Peter Brown wrote: As noted by John in February, but I did not see it addressed in this thread, is the chase view issue in 2.0.

Re: [Flightgear-devel] News from FlightProSim!

2010-03-15 Thread Pete Morgan
Just sent an email to New Zealand open Source and got this reply, pete Hello Peter, Thanks for bringing this to our attention. Please recognise that the GPL does not in any way preclude people from packaging up and selling a software application *so long as they comply with the terms of the

Re: [Flightgear-devel] [PATCH] jsclient and jsserver 64 bit support and 6 axes

2010-03-10 Thread Pete Morgan
Thanks for the positive repsonse ;-) however... I have pasted your replies into the bug tracker so the original filer(david) can have a trackable chain as the submitter who is not on this mailing list. http://code.google.com/p/flightgear-bugs/issues/detail?id=100 Should this have been a

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Web Site

2010-03-10 Thread Pete Morgan
Martin Spott wrote: Pete Morgan wrote: A Major issues is that GAE does not support binary files very well, eg gallery, so I'm not sure how this would work. One possibility would be to rename the current machine as www2. or stash. and using it as the binary storage. To my

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Google Summer of Code

2010-03-10 Thread Pete Morgan
/issues/detail?id=101 pete On Tue, Mar 9, 2010 at 9:39 AM, Curtis Olson wrote: On Tue, Mar 9, 2010 at 8:08 AM, Pete Morgan wrote: Has/Does FlightGear participate ? http://google-opensource.blogspot.com/2010/03/google-summer-of-code-applications-now.html We have

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Web Site

2010-03-09 Thread Pete Morgan
Curtis Olson wrote: Hi Pete, Definitely nice work on the page layout. It's my job to play devil's advocate so to speak, so don't take this as criticism, but instead I'm just trying to think through all the important issues beyond hey that looks really nice. I'm not very familiar with

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Web Site

2010-03-09 Thread Pete Morgan
Heiko Schulz wrote: I heard Google will rename our planet soon in GoogleEarth;-) I admit to Curt in a lot of points here. The only advantage is there is no advertisement, which makes the current page look really bad. Adverts can be dropped in where required. However an observation

[Flightgear-devel] Google Summer of Code

2010-03-09 Thread Pete Morgan
Has/Does FlightGear participate ? http://google-opensource.blogspot.com/2010/03/google-summer-of-code-applications-now.html pete -- Download Intel#174; Parallel Studio Eval Try the new software tools for yourself. Speed

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Web Site

2010-03-09 Thread Pete Morgan
, 2010 at 4:07 AM, Pete Morgan wrote: Heiko Schulz wrote: I heard Google will rename our planet soon in GoogleEarth;-) I admit to Curt in a lot of points here. The only advantage is there is no advertisement, which makes the current page look really bad

[Flightgear-devel] [PATCH] jsclient and jsserver 64 bit support and 6 axes

2010-03-09 Thread Pete Morgan
bug #100 recently submitted is a fix for 64bit system. http://code.google.com/p/flightgear-bugs/issues/detail?id=100 pete -- Download Intel#174; Parallel Studio Eval Try the new software tools for yourself. Speed

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Web Site

2010-03-06 Thread Pete Morgan
Curtis Olson wrote: Hi Pete, Here's one possible idea. Why not whip together a replacement front page and maybe a sample sub-page, put it in a temporary location, and we can take a look. That way we could present some different ideas and see if we like them, but at the same time, you

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Aircraft and Debian Packages

2010-03-06 Thread Pete Morgan
Francesco Angelo Brisa wrote: On Fri, 05 Mar 2010 12:06:09 +, Pete Morgan ac...@daffodil.uk.com wrote: Has anyone looked at packaging individual aircraft as *.debs ? Are there any problems with trying this? no, in fact I already did it from the cvs ones, categorizing them

[Flightgear-devel] Aircraft and Debian Packages

2010-03-05 Thread Pete Morgan
Has anyone looked at packaging individual aircraft as *.debs ? Are there any problems with trying this? I assume a core package would be the Aircraft/generic, Aircraft/instruments*. and then each aircraft eg flightgear-777-200-stable.deb flightgear-bravo-dev.deb regards Pete

[Flightgear-devel] flightgear-bugs and the dev list

2010-02-26 Thread Pete Morgan
Its quite easy to forward all New Issueses and Comments to the mailing list. Shall I switch it on? If it doesn't work, then it can just as easily be disabled, by any of the administrators (under Administer Issue Tracking) pete

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

2010-02-25 Thread Pete Morgan
Stuart Buchanan wrote: also, without a clear central repository, aircraft bit-rot as soon as their author leaves the project. At least with CVS (or another central repository) there is an easy way for someone else to maintain orphaned aircraft. ... as is the case with the B787, its

[Flightgear-devel] 503

2010-02-14 Thread Pete Morgan
I thinks that this ball is now firmly in Curt's court.. http://74.126.30.121/ep/503.shtml and this issue http://code.google.com/p/flightgear-bugs/issues/detail?id=53q=wiki Wish this could be resolved sooner rather than later. Its rather disappointing for new users. kind regards Pete

Re: [Flightgear-devel] 503

2010-02-14 Thread Pete Morgan
I AM SORRY.. everyone.. guess I replied in haste of emotion. apologies all pete Alex Perry wrote: Pete, perhaps we need to create a separate queue for flightgear-usability-bugs-that-gene-doesnt-care-about. --

[Flightgear-devel] Web Site

2010-02-12 Thread Pete Morgan
Who is the active developer of the main flightgear.org website? pete -- SOLARIS 10 is the OS for Data Centers - provides features such as DTrace, Predictive Self Healing and Award Winning ZFS. Get Solaris 10 NOW

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Web Site

2010-02-12 Thread Pete Morgan
Heiko Schulz wrote: Who is the active developer of the main flightgear.org website? pete Well, maybe the guy which name can be read at the bottom of flightgear.org? ;-) He's not on this site http://www.flightgear.pl/ or this one http://www.flightgear.jpn.org/ for example.

[Flightgear-devel] Bug Report

2010-02-12 Thread Pete Morgan
Solved bugs ;-) #19 - landing lights thanks vivian http://code.google.com/p/flightgear-bugs/issues/detail?id=19can=1 #18 by stuart.. realised it wasnt a bug anymore http://code.google.com/p/flightgear-bugs/issues/detail?id=18can=1 #35 by zakalawe ==Jaames Fixed the font select bug.. ta

[Flightgear-devel] Bug #52 MPChat - invalid length error

2010-02-10 Thread Pete Morgan
bug #52 is quite frustrating, particular when ATC'ing It does not directly crash FG, however the terminal output and/or the error makes it run slow and means an FG restart, thereby loosing all ATC context. http://code.google.com/p/flightgear-bugs/issues/detail?id=52 pete

[Flightgear-devel] Wiki and 503 error - resource limit exceeded

2010-02-10 Thread Pete Morgan
This error at wiki.flightgear.org is happening more often, indeed I'd say a 1 in 4 chance = 25% Is anyone experiencing this, and if so as traffic ramps up, then maybe we'll have no wiki at all !!! pete -- SOLARIS 10

Re: [Flightgear-devel] FlightGear 2.0.0 Announcement text + Summary of ChangeLog

2010-02-10 Thread Pete Morgan
Cant this cos be in .html instead of .rtf please YOSHIMATSU Toshihide wrote: Hi all, Just for reference, I attached nice document, that was written by Tat and included in 2.0.0-pre3 package for Mac OS X. - TXT.rtf (Rich Text Format) Cheers, Toshi

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

2010-02-09 Thread Pete Morgan
can you file this bug formally at http://code.google.com/p/flightgear-bugs/issues/list so we can track it ta pete John Denker wrote: At KSQL there is reproducibly a building sitting partially on a taxiway and even extending onto the runway a little bit.

Re: [Flightgear-devel] 777-200ER another little bug

2010-02-09 Thread Pete Morgan
The 777 is totally in dev.. and making all sorts of capers.. I guess we have to sit back and wait for Syd to decide the aircraft and its systems is worthy of testing. In the meantime its a pointless task as the path is not identified, or indeed the path mapped. So come back later (BTW there is

[Flightgear-devel] MP Errors

2010-02-07 Thread Pete Morgan
With ATC2, I keep getting a Nasal error, which results in having to restart. Nasal runtime error: nil used in numeric context at /home/flight-sim/flight-gear-9/data/Nasal/multiplayer.nas, line 285 http://code.google.com/p/flightgear-bugs/issues/detail?id=51 kind regards Pete

Re: [Flightgear-devel] property browsing

2010-02-07 Thread Pete Morgan
yo John Denker We are working on the same goal, in identifying bugz, and other little imperfections ;-) Please join the google code bugs experiment for FG = R+D. ie a list of bugs. Its an independant tangent, like your spreadsheet, except its online and you can use it also..

Re: [Flightgear-devel] 747-400

2010-02-05 Thread Pete Morgan
Gijs, why not just create a clone of 747 series in github, or gitorious , and then that can be merges into CVS later maybe. pete Gijs de Rooy wrote: Hi, Just wanted to know if anybody was working on it so I don't duplicate wnat other people are doing. Do I understand correctly you are

[Flightgear-devel] FlightGear Foundation

2010-02-02 Thread Pete Morgan
thinking Maybe we do really need to set up some legal entity... for a variety of reasons. Its noted that setting up an entity does have huge ramifications in time and admin, such as legal status, cash flow, etc.. etc..atc.. and it does mean responsibility ie personally involved..

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Money and Contributions

2010-01-30 Thread Pete Morgan
I would expect my donation to go to infrastructure costs, eg wiki Hosting which often complains about limit exceeded. pete Martin Spott wrote: syd adams wrote: Where does the donation money go ? To who ? And for what ?I dont like donating money when I have no idea what Im donating to.

Re: [Flightgear-devel] GUI dialogs suck

2010-01-29 Thread Pete Morgan
Erik Hofman wrote: Pete Morgan wrote: GUI dialogs suck And now? Erik very helpful erik. pete -- The Planet: dedicated and managed hosting, cloud storage, colocation Stay online with enterprise data

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Autopilot tuning

2010-01-29 Thread Pete Morgan
Thanks James. It seems to work with my test buzzing london and associated VOR/ILS am now trying to refine autopilot in concert. pete James Turner wrote: On 28 Jan 2010, at 04:00, syd adams wrote: you can also check the instrumentation/nav/nav-loc , but it seems to stay stuck on true

Re: [Flightgear-devel] GUI dialogs suck

2010-01-29 Thread Pete Morgan
Stuart Buchanan wrote: We are to some extent hamstrung by the rather old GUI toolkit we use. However, replacing that is going to be non-trivial, and it would affect not just the core GUI but also all the dialog boxes that have been set up for particular aircraft. -Stuart That is

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Nasal library maintainer?

2010-01-29 Thread Pete Morgan
Anders Gidenstam wrote: On Fri, 29 Jan 2010, Stuart Buchanan wrote: We do, of course, have a set of standard Nasal libraries under data/Nasal/. These were previously maintained by Melchior, who worked hard to ensure that we didn't end up wth lots of slightly different per-aircraft

Re: [Flightgear-devel] GUI dialogs suck

2010-01-29 Thread Pete Morgan
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 with window systems. Pui doesn't have every feature under the sun, but it was never

[Flightgear-devel] Flight Gear Education CD - 2020

2010-01-28 Thread Pete Morgan
The idea is to create a Distribution for use in schools. FG will hopefully be used in the following lessons. * Geography * Geology * Physics * Technical Drawing * Art * Drama * Cooking and food * Maths * woodwork * english To make it the DeFacto, we all need to get our act together. Thats the

[Flightgear-devel] Money and Contributions

2010-01-28 Thread Pete Morgan
I would gladly make a contribution to FlightGear. My small contrib would be around £10 per quarter and I would expect this cash to go towards: * Maintaining servers online and similar Is that mechanism in place ? Is FlightGear.com TradeMark in place? Is there a way I can take FlightGear and

Re: [Flightgear-devel] new MP server / Netherlands

2010-01-28 Thread Pete Morgan
Olivier JACQ wrote: The MP conversation is interesting. Why should people choose between one or another MP Server : 1. Because it is written in the doc (Wiki, ...) 2. Because they check their latency from their location (which is the best option). 3. Because they choose it based on its

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Helicopter Flightsim Event

2010-01-28 Thread Pete Morgan
My birthday is may 16.. and am near Swansea .. cunning flight plan coming... pete Gijs de Rooy wrote: Hi, while searching for flightsim events I came across the Flight Simulator Convention at the *Helicopter Museum in Weston Super Mare, North Somerset, United Kingdom*. As

[Flightgear-devel] GUI dialogs suck

2010-01-28 Thread Pete Morgan
* they do not maintain last position * Cant be resized * label over flow spacing * no Validation on entry * Changes are sometimes immediate, even tapping in or deleting a figure, makes the entries applies to SIM REAL time key entry.. eg trying to change heading from 270 to 280, means

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Autopilot: NAV/Localiser

2010-01-26 Thread Pete Morgan
Curtis Olson wrote: On Tue, Jan 26, 2010 at 2:36 AM, syd adams wrote: It works, but the behaviour is unexpected, or I got it wrong about VOR navigation. Sounds like it could be a faulty config file ,,, but the proper way to do a VOR navigation is :

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Autopilot tuning

2010-01-26 Thread Pete Morgan
Wonderful, brilliant stuff Giuseppe, The way that the autopilot works with those patches is the way I expected. Hope this stuff makes its way into CVS so at least there's a good reference implementation. pete Giuseppe Venanzoni wrote: Hi! I would like to join the discussion about AP

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Autopilot Tuning

2010-01-25 Thread Pete Morgan
thanks lee for the reply, particular about the thinking it through part; and am already thinking about a problem I've encountered, although I'm still trying to get the hang of the autopilot. VNAV. - (don't know how to explain the problem well) I've managed to get the Altitude hold, Vertical

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Autopilot Tuning

2010-01-25 Thread Pete Morgan
Thanks leee.. for all the tips.. Is one of you aircraft in CVS so I cant study the autopilot. pete leee wrote: On Monday 25 Jan 2010, Pete Morgan wrote: thanks lee for the reply, particular about the thinking it through part; and am already thinking about a problem I've encountered

[Flightgear-devel] Autopilot: NAV/Localiser

2010-01-25 Thread Pete Morgan
Am trying to get the autopilot to follow a NAV1 course, correctly. It works, but the behaviour is unexpected, or I got it wrong about VOR navigation. Please have a look at the image link below as I am not good at explaining. http://imgur.com/LL6b9 Approaching a VOR, from say 50nm away, just

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Autopilot Tuning

2010-01-25 Thread Pete Morgan
all the PID's active (with history as leee pointed out).. and have a switch between them pete leee wrote: On Monday 25 Jan 2010, Pete Morgan wrote: thanks lee for the reply, particular about the thinking it through part; and am already thinking about a problem I've encountered, although I'm

[Flightgear-devel] 777: patches and bug

2010-01-25 Thread Pete Morgan
Attached is a patch that adds filters to the 777 autopilot's Heading, LNAV and Altitude Major bug is LNAV. The 777 currently doesn't fly on a LNAV/CRS properly. The aircraft ends up on the correct heading, but with no correction, ie parallel to predicted path and not correcting. The values in

Re: [Flightgear-devel] BugFix - Re: Bugs: 787

2010-01-24 Thread Pete Morgan
leee wrote: On Saturday 23 Jan 2010, Pete Morgan wrote: After following the link below.. here is the fix. Not sure what it does, but took a stab at replacing the ax=13.6. The model looks fins in the views.. +++ b/787.xml @@ -55,7 +55,7 @@ Mach 1 = 576.6 kt @ 35,000 ft -- width=5.9

[Flightgear-devel] Autopilot Tuning

2010-01-24 Thread Pete Morgan
I'm having a successful time tuning my first autopilot on the 787. I've managed to get rid of the jerks and wobbles, mainly by using a noise-spike filter with max-rate-of-change. That thanks to Syd Adams for that wonderful tip. All flight level changes, and NAV, heading can be tuned very

[Flightgear-devel] BugFix - Re: Bugs: 787

2010-01-23 Thread Pete Morgan
at startup Pete :-) Csaba Halász wrote: On Fri, Jan 22, 2010 at 2:18 AM, Pete Morgan ac...@daffodil.uk.com wrote: Something has changed recently as I now get these bugs which crash when starting the 787 YASim SOLUTION FAILURE: Zero length fuselage I have reported this error a year ago

[Flightgear-devel] Web + Design Competition

2010-01-23 Thread Pete Morgan
Since were in the new decade, maybe its time for a new look also for the new release, also. A Design competition for the new website and logo would be a nice. Brief. Design a new website and image that will make it cool for flight simulation enviroment, thats functional and will last this

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Web + Design Competition

2010-01-23 Thread Pete Morgan
oops sorry, meant an Extra Large T-Shirt (like mr T and basic T for pilot), a joyStick (I'll cover both) and a really small tshirt, eg to keep your copilot the laptop warm. anyway just a thought pete Victhor wrote: You get two t-shirts and a joystick? Wow! :D Since were in the new

[Flightgear-devel] Bugs: b1900d

2010-01-22 Thread Pete Morgan
## AutoPilot Dialog The IAS and CRS text entry show floats instead on integers. This makes entering new text doffocult and determining current text sometimes impossible. eg CRS = 112.12 IAS=156.12 ## Heading hold On selecting a new heading, the aircraft oscillates throught the turn, until

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Bugs: CitationX

2010-01-22 Thread Pete Morgan
Anders Gidenstam wrote: On Fri, 22 Jan 2010, Pete Morgan wrote: *** Heading Hold *** Wobbles intermittently above 350 knots, 400 knots + and it can crash the aircraft. Hi Pete, It is good with bug reports but I think we need more detailed descriptions of (some of) the problems

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Bugs: b1900d

2010-01-22 Thread Pete Morgan
, same as a real autopilot. I do not have oscillations during turns, selecting new heading or not. As I do not use AP to shoot an ILS I've not seen the other issues. Peter --Original Message-- From: Pete Morgan To: FlightGear developers discussions ReplyTo: FlightGear developers

Re: [Flightgear-devel] External FDM and Multiplayer simultaneously?

2010-01-22 Thread Pete Morgan
I tried slaving a while back, but other commitments stopped the dabbling. In the reasearch I had set up the slave socket as another native protocol with a high frame rate of 30, and the multiplayer at frame rate ten. Would to interested to know if its working well? and also how are you using

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Bugs: b1900d

2010-01-22 Thread Pete Morgan
in a cardbox box, a real dodgy scale prototype with Action man as pilot. This is why I've been sensitive about the auotpilot as the wobbles will manifest themselves on the motion platform. regards Pete On Jan 22, 2010, at 3:47 PM, Pete Morgan wrote: Peter Brown wrote: I guess

[Flightgear-devel] Bugs: 777-200ER

2010-01-21 Thread Pete Morgan
With today's cvs On startup I get error, which explains maybe why autp[ilot doesnt work Failed to load autopilot configuration: /home/flight-sim/flight-gear-9/data/Aircraft/777-200/Systems/777-autopilot.xml:not well-formed loading scenario 'nimitz_demo' Also as some point as I start takeoff

[Flightgear-devel] Bugs: 787

2010-01-21 Thread Pete Morgan
Something has changed recently as I now get these bugs which crash when starting the 787 ./787.sh malformed autopilot definition - unrecognized node:target in section True Heading Hold (DG based) Stage 1 Failed to load autopilot configuration:

[Flightgear-devel] Remember Window positions

2010-01-21 Thread Pete Morgan
Would it be possible to make the dialogs eg Autopilot (F11), Comms (F12) remember their positions. For example, I tend to move the Autopilot dialog bottom right, but wish then the next time I press f11 to reopen the dialog, it opens in the last position. regards Pete

[Flightgear-devel] Bugs: Bravo

2010-01-21 Thread Pete Morgan
Bravo is one of my favourite aircraft, however the autopilot has a few bugs. I've tried hacking some of this, but am not experienced in what to change. So I will be following any changes or fixes below with a keen interest. *** Heading Hold is wobbly *** At higher speeds, eg 220+ knots the

[Flightgear-devel] Bugs: CitationX

2010-01-21 Thread Pete Morgan
This is another cool plane, but the autopilot is also a bit confused. *** IAS BUG SPD *** Speed hold has no effect and is inoperative. *** Altitude Hold *** When selecting a new altitude, eg 1000 to 1100 then the aircraft tip up/down almost immediately, indeed each click causes the aim to

[Flightgear-devel] Bug: 747

2010-01-21 Thread Pete Morgan
--aircraft=747 The autopilot xml has a bug, so autopilot does not work.. At the command line it shows malformed autopilot definition - unrecognized node:target in section True Heading Hold (DG based) Stage 1 Failed to load autopilot configuration:

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Bugs: Bravo

2010-01-21 Thread Pete Morgan
Rob Shearman, Jr. wrote: Pete Morgan: {re: http://tinypic.com/r/dndoip/6} The Path in Orange is the path the NAV hold took roughly to approach Barkway, indeed at the screenshot time it was still out. The yellow line is the path I would have expected. Ie the correction is not agressive

[Flightgear-devel] Bugs: 747-400

2010-01-21 Thread Pete Morgan
### Model Broken The model is broken, the captain is sitting with no left panel, just runway below. There are a lot of startup error probably causing this (see bottom ### Wing leveler The yoke oscillates from side to side nicely at around 60bpm, however over a very long period of time eg 5

[Flightgear-devel] Bugs: A320

2010-01-21 Thread Pete Morgan
## Autopilot - Heading bug When selecting a new heading, the the aircraft moved violently left right for a few moments, before settling into the bank angle. --- The autopilot overshoots its new heading, before very slowly moving back to the correct heading, although it always seems to be out by

[Flightgear-devel] Bugs: A380

2010-01-21 Thread Pete Morgan
## Startup and recurring errors. There are numerous start up error/warnings, and Error drawing more current than available! that is constantly ouptut till fg is terminated. See bottom below for full listing. ## Autopilot The autopilot is broken with malformed autopilot definition -

[Flightgear-devel] Bugs: MD11

2010-01-21 Thread Pete Morgan
## Model Broken The engine cowling looks like propellers and are rottating on all the engines in an offset strange way. ## Panel error On startup there is output Error reading panel: Failed to open file at /home/flight-sim/flight-gear-9/data/Aircraft/737/Panels/737-ifr-panel.xml Error reading

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Bugs: A320

2010-01-21 Thread Pete Morgan
syd adams wrote: Looks like your biggest problems are autopilot... what kind of framerate do you normally get ? Yes, my area of focus is the autopilot, navaids. I'm getting generally around 20+, but sometimes as low as 15 on this olde box. Does the frame rate really mess up the autopilot

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