Re: [Flightgear-devel] attitude indicator in fgdata aircraft
Anders wrote On Tue, 15 Nov 2011, syd adams wrote: thanks for the heads up ... Im currently updating the CitationX so i'll fix that and check my other aircraft. You said fgdata , does that mean aircraft are back in fgdata ?Is the separation idea abandoned for now? Just asking so i know how to proceed , since im updating mine in the FG-Aircraft repository. And so am I. As far as I'm concerned my aircraft now live in FG-Aircraft and will be developed there. An instrument question: is it common for directional gyros to be cageable too? The Sperry A-2 autopilot seems to have a separate toggle for caging the directional gyro but as far as I could see there is no property for that in FG (it was a while since I looked, though). No there isn't. But I could add one. Vivian -- RSA(R) Conference 2012 Save $700 by Nov 18 Register now http://p.sf.net/sfu/rsa-sfdev2dev1 ___ Flightgear-devel mailing list Flightgear-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/flightgear-devel
[Flightgear-devel] attitude indicator in fgdata aircraft
Here's an interesting copy paste issue: the FG attitude indicator supports caging (button to force the attitude indicator to horizontal position, i.e. useful when it's broken or the indicator is tumbling). This is usually triggered by a push/pull switch next to the indicator. The property to trigger the cage is named caged-flag (usually /instrumentation/attitude-indicator/caged-flag). According to git history, the property has always been named like this (at least as long as I could trace) and the name is consistently used in the sources. However, according to grep, currently 26 of our aircraft incorrectly use the property caged (no -flag), so the feature isn't working for them. It seems the issue was copied from one aircraft to another - and either no one tested it, or thought the feature wasn't working anyway. It's not a major feature - but it's very easy to fix. I could apply a batch patch to fix the issue for all our aircraft in fgdata - but I know some authors prefer to fix things themselves. So, the list of affected aircraft is attached. All of these have references to caged (instead of caged-flag) - which should be corrected. cheers, Thorsten Affected aircraft: 727-230 A24-Viking Albatross Allegro-2000 b26 b29 Carreidas CitationX cri-cri dc8-63 dc8-73 dhc3 ec130 ec135 ercoupe F4U Grob-G109 Grob-G115 Lancair-235 Lionceau pa22 Pioneer-200 Pond-Racer RV-6A Short_Empire Skyvan -- RSA(R) Conference 2012 Save $700 by Nov 18 Register now http://p.sf.net/sfu/rsa-sfdev2dev1 ___ Flightgear-devel mailing list Flightgear-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/flightgear-devel
Re: [Flightgear-devel] attitude indicator in fgdata aircraft
On Tue, 15 Nov 2011, syd adams wrote: thanks for the heads up ... Im currently updating the CitationX so i'll fix that and check my other aircraft. You said fgdata , does that mean aircraft are back in fgdata ?Is the separation idea abandoned for now? Just asking so i know how to proceed , since im updating mine in the FG-Aircraft repository. And so am I. As far as I'm concerned my aircraft now live in FG-Aircraft and will be developed there. An instrument question: is it common for directional gyros to be cageable too? The Sperry A-2 autopilot seems to have a separate toggle for caging the directional gyro but as far as I could see there is no property for that in FG (it was a while since I looked, though). Cheers, Anders - probably not making the cat herding any easier.. :) -- --- Anders Gidenstam WWW: http://gitorious.org/anders-hangar http://www.gidenstam.org/FlightGear/ -- RSA(R) Conference 2012 Save $700 by Nov 18 Register now http://p.sf.net/sfu/rsa-sfdev2dev1 ___ Flightgear-devel mailing list Flightgear-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/flightgear-devel
