[Flightgear-devel] Initializing OpenAL sound manager

2004-07-22 Thread Matthew
Good day, Thought I'd post here instead of IRC, in case anyone hits the same issue: >fgfs Initializing OpenAL sound manager Aborted Splash screen appears, then the above appears. Using SuSE 9.1, OpenAL development is installed along with openal-20030811-196 Sound does work and I am using usi

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Initializing OpenAL sound manager

2004-07-22 Thread Matthew
Just installed OpenAL via CVS, no difference...Still aborts. Matt On Thu, 2004-07-22 at 19:03, Ampere K. Hardraade wrote: > I have had the same problem. I fixed it by compiling and installing the > latest OpenAL CVS. > > Regards, > Ampere > > On July 22, 2004 08

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Aircraft updates in CVS

2003-01-09 Thread Matthew
>> The first one is the TSR2: --aircraft=tsr2-yasim. > >> Lee did a really interesting job with the animation of the tail >> surfaces. [...] > > Yep, this really looks 'terrific' (is this the correct US American way > to express great pleasure ? ;-)) > Depends on which part of the US probably. J

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Aircraft updates in CVS

2003-01-10 Thread Matthew
> >> > Talking British (well, European): how about Concorde, followed by >> some nice little Fokker 50 or ATR? Just make sure the Concorde's >> wings move as it accelerates on the ground... >> >> Concorde has fixed wings - I don't think they are supposed to move >> ;-) The nose moves down for bette

[Flightgear-devel] compilation error

2002-04-01 Thread matthew law
Hello, Could someone help me out please? - I'm having a trouble compiling after checking out a copy of CVS today. I have the correct versions of PLIB, SimGear, and MetaKit installed in /usr/local/ - pretty much as per the docs. When I cd into /usr/local/src/FlightGear and run autogen.sh it c

[Flightgear-devel] OT: USB yoke and pedals?

2002-04-20 Thread matthew law
Hi all, I'm thinking of treating myself to CH Products' (http://www.chproducts.com/) USB Pro Pedals and USB flight Yoke (the one with throttle, mixture, and prop levers). Are these supported by Flightgear under Linux and to what level (I expect that not all the levers work?). Regards, Mat

[Flightgear-devel] Re: Flightgear-devel digest, Vol 1 #989 - 14 msgs

2002-09-17 Thread Matthew Law
> ..it is also possible to use an "how-to on using cvs to minimize the > download requirements", as a bait to fish people into using cvs and > then into development. ;-) I would love to do some development on FG, but I'm a lowly PHP guy who is currently wrestling with creating FG models and get

[Flightgear-devel] CVS question...

2002-09-19 Thread Matthew Law
After many newbie-fied mistakes and misunderstanding I have now setup /home/cvsroot on my linux box and checked out up-to-date copies of the devel releases into: /home/cvsroot/SimGear /home/cvsroot/FlightGear /home/cvsroot/fgfsbase I also have a stable and working FGFS 0.8 which I'd like to ke

[Flightgear-devel] Thanks and a small nit...

2002-09-20 Thread Matthew Law
Thanks to everyone who helped me this last week - I now have an up-to-date, compiled and running CVS version of FGFS. I noticed when flying the 3D C172 model that if you zoom back from the panel and push the yoke in it disappears behind the gauges and partially into the panel. It's a minor 'n

[Flightgear-devel] RE: Electrical system

2002-09-24 Thread Matthew Law
To avoid things getting very complex very quickly it might be easier to take a very simplistic apporach and model the batteries chief characteristics such as terminal voltage, and ampere/hour capacity. Since there is no such thing as a perfect power source you could go to much more detail - mod

[Flightgear-devel] Caravan model

2002-09-24 Thread Matthew Law
I took it upon myself to email cessna last night in the hope that they might be able to supply me with some line drawings and a few useful bits of technical data for the caravan model. I did point out that the info would be used solely for this project and as such would be re-distributed under

[Flightgear-devel] Re: Flightgear-devel digest, Vol 1 #1016 - 15 msgs

2002-09-24 Thread Matthew Law
On Tue 24 September 2002 10:16, Elad Yarkoni wrote: > > Since there is no such thing as a perfect power source you could go to > > much more detail - modelling the internal resistance of the battery and > > it's own capacitive and inductive load characteristics for example. > > I think it's not

[Flightgear-devel] RE: Caravan model

2002-09-24 Thread Matthew Law
Jim Wilson wrote: > Or for just about any aircraft there's always the auctions: > http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=1565095164 Cheers, Jim. I Emailed the guy and he might consider shipping it to the UK. If he won't I could always purchase it and initially have it shipped to so

[Flightgear-devel] CVS error?

2002-09-27 Thread Matthew Law
I'm now seeing this when I do a 'cvs update -dP' in the development CVS tree. cvs server: cannot open directory /var/cvs/FlightGear-0.9/FlightGear/src/Systems/Vacuum: No such file or directory cvs server: skipping directory src/Systems/Vacuum Is this anything I've done locally? FlightGear/src/

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Static port and altimeter

2002-09-27 Thread Matthew Law
Alex Perry wrote: > Pitot source errors occur mostly > 1. In slips, especially in full forward slips > 2. At unusual angles of attack, especially no-flap slow flight IIRC, I read that the EuroFighter uses a system which selects the best source of data for this stuff taking into account the last

[Flightgear-devel] CVS gripes

2002-11-11 Thread Matthew Law
Hi all, I've been having problems updating Simgear for a few days. I've tried everything - including moving the lot and starting again but it continually gets stuck at: cvs server: Updating src-libs U src-libs/.cvsignore U src-libs/Makefile.am U src-libs/metakit-2.4.3-33.tar.gz U src-libs/zlib-1

[Flightgear-devel] RE: CVS gripes

2002-11-12 Thread Matthew Law
Thanks for the help guys! I always run my CVS updates as root so that didn't appear to be the problem. The update only completes if I explicitly override my config with -z0 to drop the compression completely. Hopefully if anyone else is having the same problem then this might work for you too

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Latest stupid helicopter trick

2003-11-27 Thread Matthew Law
On 07:50 Thu 27 Nov , Martin Spott wrote: > The first is correct, the latter is not (see above). Pilots love this > helicopter because of his outstanding manouverability. It's even > capable of doing serious aerobatic - up to inverted flying (AFAIR with > a modified gear box lubrication), Chec

Re: [Flightgear-devel] FG logo Slovenian flag

2003-11-27 Thread Matthew Law
On 10:47 Thu 27 Nov , Erik Hofman wrote: > Yeah, but then you'd get a fight over which flag is put in first and > which flag is shows just for 0.1 usec (e.g. the last flag) ... > > Erik Maybe randomise the order ? All the best, Matt ___ Flightge

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Latest stupid helicopter trick

2003-11-27 Thread Matthew Law
On 14:48 Thu 27 Nov , Jon Stockill wrote: > I remember seeing the army display team at RAF Waddington a couple of > years ago - 4 gazelle & 1 lynx all lined up in the hover, then the lynx > pilot backflipped the aircraft out of the lineup. The first time you see > it you really can't believe wh

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Grass Runway Textures

2003-11-27 Thread Matthew Law
On 18:49 Tue 25 Nov , Erik Hofman wrote: > >So 75x75 textures of these types of surfaces are required, then? I might > >have a go at these during my attempts at modelling EGNF. Are there any > >restrictions to the making of textures that I need to be aware of oether > >than size and color d

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Grass Runway Textures

2003-11-28 Thread Matthew Law
> One of the problems with these type of photographs is the fact that they > cover a very small area. When using these for textures you would end up > with a hight degree of very annoying repetitiveness. > > Another problem is the fact that they aren't shot straight down, making > the textures

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Grass Runway Textures

2003-12-02 Thread Matthew Law
On Fri, 2003-11-28 at 17:46, Julian Foad wrote: > Matthew Law wrote: > > > > Speaking of which, would it be possible to change the texture above a > > certain height AGL? We could have a texture with more detail for low > > altitudes and a shinier, more gaussian t

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Playing with textures

2003-12-02 Thread Matthew Law
On 09:56 Tue 02 Dec , Curtis L. Olson wrote: > This is something that has been considered, but it will be a massive > amount of work to do this and preserve all the existing functionality. > > Massive might be slightly overstated, but it probably means tearing > everything down and rebuilding

Re: [Flightgear-devel] (OT) Kid's day at work

2003-12-03 Thread Matthew Law
On 22:13 Tue 02 Dec , David Culp wrote: > I brought my son to work for a day, and he had a wonderful time. > > http://home.comcast.net/~davidculp2/kidsday.jpg At least he didn't have to hold on for much longer :) All the best, Matt ___ Flightgea

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Video card recommendation

2003-12-05 Thread Matthew Law
On 18:08 Fri 05 Dec , [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I have a Geforce 4 Ti 4200 and this card works perfectly with flightgear under > Linux. Me too. Using the latest drivers i still see the sky flash from blue to black occasionally... All the best, Matt ___

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Kool site of the day ...

2003-12-16 Thread Matthew Law
On 14:53 Tue 16 Dec , Erik Hofman wrote: > >Kool Sites are informative, weird, stylish, offbeat or unique > > So, what exactly is the FlightGear site? I'd go for Informative, stylish, and unique ;-) All the best, Matt ___ Flightgear-devel maili

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Re: Cockpit Hardware Building

2003-12-18 Thread Matthew Law
On 12:42 Thu 18 Dec , Alan King wrote: > Rudder pedals. Been a while since I was at the controls in a Cessna > etc, how much control throw is normal? With a one foot seperation > between the pedals 4" seems like a lot, maybe too much. Currently have > 2" in and 2" out for the 4" total,

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Re: Cockpit Hardware Building

2003-12-18 Thread Matthew Law
27; cord to centre and resist on my yoke. Mainly because springs are quite difficult to come by and can be noisy to boot. All the best, Matthew ___ Flightgear-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.flightgear.org/mailman/listinfo/flightgear-devel

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Adding a runway to runways.dat

2003-12-18 Thread Matthew Law
On 00:42 Fri 19 Dec , Matthew Law wrote: > What are the fields? I'm guessing at some here: Sorry. I just found the doc on the FGFS site. I've got to start RTFMing more often :-) All the best, Matt ___ Flightgear-devel mailin

[Flightgear-devel] Adding a runway to runways.dat

2003-12-18 Thread Matthew Law
make the width and length a little wrong. All the best, Matthew ___ Flightgear-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.flightgear.org/mailman/listinfo/flightgear-devel

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Adding a runway to runways.dat

2003-12-19 Thread Matthew Law
On 02:34 Fri 19 Dec, Ivo wrote: > Also check: > > http://baron.flightgear.org/pipermail/flightgear-devel/2003-December/023555.html > > After adding the runway manually, you could use TaxiDraw to add the > taxiways. > > As for the bug I mentioned in that thread, David Luff sent me a > debug-ena

[Flightgear-devel] Trim position and speed to external hardware

2003-12-23 Thread Matthew Law
How do I export the trim position and IAS to a serial port? I'd like to use these values to drive some stepper motors which crudely simulate control load and trim effects. All the best, Matt. --- A merry xmas and a happy new year. ___ Flightgear-dev

Re: [Flightgear-devel] ATC Talk

2003-12-29 Thread Matthew Law
On 03:15 Mon 29 Dec , Ivo wrote: > Or we could have multiple people around the world recording the sentences, > so we'll hear the right accent when approaching for example New Delhi or > Mexico City or Frankfurt. Maybe even bilingual, though I don't know if they > use their native language (

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Contribution to flightgear

2003-12-29 Thread Matthew Law
Hi Prabhu, Please read and digest the docs on the flightgear website and the documentation on scenery editing at the simgear website (see the link to simgear from the flightgear site) before getting started. If you still have questions there are plenty here who will help once you've read the d

Re: [Flightgear-devel] ATC Talk

2003-12-30 Thread Matthew Law
I agree with you totally. My sentiment was that there have also been many accidents caused by ATC talking in a foreign language (English) to another pilot who also doesn't speak English as a first language. The possible problems which can be introduced by a conversation in effect being transla

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Autocoordination

2004-01-08 Thread Matthew Law
As David said, there is very little adverse yaw from aileron input on modern aircraft designs. Now, I have no experience of anything but Cessnas but on an A320 for example, I would be surprised if the aileron input required to perform say, a 20 deg. bank turn would require *any* rudder input at

Re: [Flightgear-devel] [Fwd: Linux User & Developer Expo 2004]

2004-01-14 Thread Matthew Law
Curt, Let me check with the lady first :-) All the best, Matt. On 09:28 Wed 14 Jan , Curtis L. Olson wrote: > Martin Spott wrote: > >"Curtis L. Olson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > >>FlightGear has been offered free .org booth space and a possible speaker > >>slot at the Linux User

[Flightgear-devel] Re: UK Linux Expo 2004

2004-01-15 Thread Matthew Law
want to risk public transport. Alternatively, if anyone is attending who lives reasonably near to Sheffield and wishes to car share I'd be happy to take a car and drive down with them to cut costs. All the best, Matthew. ___ Flightgear-devel mailing li

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Scenery

2004-01-28 Thread Matthew Law
That's pretty good scenery! Is that straight from TerraGear or ripped from the MS Scenery add-ons? All the best, Matt. On 23:31 Wed 28 Jan , Erik Hofman wrote: > But I must also admit that after looking at the new screen shots from > Mat Churchill I might want to change my mind: > > > h

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Re: Scenery

2004-01-29 Thread Matthew Law
I'm interested in how you did this as I thought of extracting the files from the MS FS VFR scenery discs I have and somehow stitching it together for use in FGFS..? In theory you should be able to get at the data as Reiser should still be able to give you everything since the last time it wrote

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Re: Scenery

2004-01-29 Thread Matthew Law
The ones I have are from www.visualflight.co.uk and are about 20GBP per region. I bought the regions aroung my airfield to help with VFR practice in MSFS but I'd like to see them in FGFS much more :-) An extension script to rip these into FG for people who have purchased the images would be us

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Re: Scenery

2004-02-01 Thread Matthew Law
Hi Mally, I wasn't aware that you were an MSFS developer and since I currently do a bit of x-country practice in MSFS with the VisualFlight scenery I'd like to congratulate you on an awesome job! I for one would be elated to see a commercially available version of the getmapping derived scener

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Voice Capability

2004-02-03 Thread Matthew Law
> BTW, what does the 'S' stand for in 'No SVFR' that's printed next to KSFO > and some other large international airports on the VFR charts? In the UK it means 'Special VFR' and allows a pilot under VFR and in VMC conditions to be guided to an airfield which is inside a control zone. You see it q

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Voice Capability

2004-02-03 Thread Matthew Law
Thanks :-) I thought it was the hardest of all the exams so far and I just got through with 87.5% (pass is 75%). Since you are under the JAA you will also have to learn the semi-pointless and brain numbing Chicago convention stuff too... I have my Radio Practical exam in a couple of hours :-/

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Voice Capability

2004-02-04 Thread Matthew Law
Thankyou all, I passed btw :-) All the best, Matt On 17:07 Tue 03 Feb , David Luff wrote: > Good Luck! > > (Although you probably should have set off by the time this hits your inbox > given the traffic in the UK these days!) > > Cheers - Dave ___

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Voice Capability

2004-02-04 Thread Matthew Law
I checked out the traffic at KEMT last weekend. Good job, Dave! I went for a ride toward the mountains and came back a while later. It was just like a busy Sunday at EGNF - I couldn't squeeze into the circuit anywhere. In real life you don't get away with flying through the other guys to land

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Voice Capability

2004-02-04 Thread Matthew Law
Hi Dave, thanks for the info - I'll mess with the density and see what that yields. Do the AI aircraft appear at small UK airfields? I was planning on doing a basic collision detection between the AI aircraft and the user aircraft. Initially not between AI planes until you were finished worki

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Voice Capability

2004-02-04 Thread Matthew Law
Thanks! - it was my practical. I got 97% in the written :-D Ironically, I almost failed for not requesting SVFR before the required 15 miles/5 mins to the zone boundary. Which was the subject of the original comment! All the best, Matt On 12:57 Wed 04 Feb , David Megginson wrote: > Congrats!

Re: [Flightgear-devel] [OT] Commercial Ticket..

2004-02-05 Thread Matthew Law
Well Done! All the best, Matt. On 16:11 Wed 04 Feb , Ryan Larson wrote: > I just got back from taking my Commercial Pilot, Airplane Multiengine > Land checkride, and I am happy to say that I passed! Doing a single > engine ILS down to minimums is lots of fun! I took the test in a Piper > Az

Re: [Flightgear-devel] [OT] Commercial Ticket..

2004-02-05 Thread Matthew Law
There's also various scenarios of asymetric thrust - two running engines but one running roughly or not developing as much power for a plethora of possible reasons. These incidents have killed many pilots on take off as they think they have plenty of power, and they do, but the situation easily

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Voice Capability

2004-02-05 Thread Matthew Law
No not yet. I have about 25hrs and need to sit the written exams for Flight Planning, Nav, Met, Human Factors and Aircraft Technical. I have sat and passed RT written and Practical and Air Law so far... Hopefully I'll get my PPL sometime later this year but I'm in no rush really. Also, like C

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Voice Capability

2004-02-05 Thread Matthew Law
I was sitting my RT Practical. It's a basic test of skill on the radio and ability to request and act on clearances along a preset route etc. Hence the near failure for not requesting SVFR into a zone at or before 15miles/5 min. All the best, Matt. On 16:36 Wed 04 Feb , David Megginson wrote

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Voice Capability

2004-02-06 Thread Matthew Law
Well, the main difference here is the geography. There aren't many flights (possibly non!) that I could do from my base airfield where a single leg of > 300 miles would leave me still in the UK. I _will_ be going to France and the Netherlands but it's extra expense and hassle that I don't want

Re: [Flightgear-devel] SVFR

2004-02-06 Thread Matthew Law
I'm going to have a look at the Air Navigation Order to check the accuracy of my original post. As far as I know, without a IMC or IR a PPl is not permitted into the kind of airspace which would be home to a airport the size of KSFO regardless of the ceiling etc. SVFR does partially waive some

Re: [Flightgear-devel] SVFR

2004-02-07 Thread Matthew Law
Straight out of the manual: --- "Special VFR allows the relaxation by ATC, in certain circumstances, of some restrictions to facilitate the operation of a flight without lowering the flight safety to an unacceptable level. SVFR is usually applied by ATC in Class D or E Control Zones, when weat

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Baby

2004-02-19 Thread Matthew Law
On Wed, 18 Feb 2004 13:55:40 -0600, Curtis L. Olson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi, quick announcement ... baby! Amelia Esther, 8lbs 1oz, born 6:12am this morning, less than 1 hour from first contraction to delivery. 12 minutes from arrival at the hospital to delivery. Everyone is doing good.

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Baby

2004-02-19 Thread Matthew Johnson
On Wed, 2004-02-18 at 11:55, Curtis L. Olson wrote: > Hi, quick announcement ... baby! Amelia Esther, 8lbs 1oz, born 6:12am this > morning, less than 1 hour from first contraction to delivery. 12 minutes > from arrival at the hospital to delivery. Everyone is doing good. I'll be > pretty muc

Re: [Flightgear-devel] PC Pilot Review

2004-02-21 Thread Matthew Law
On Sat, 21 Feb 2004 17:31:30 -0600, Curtis L. Olson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: This month's edition of PC Pilot (http://www.pcpilot.net) has a nice 6 page review of FlightGear. They include tons of screen shots and say a lot of nice things. I *think* you can find PC Pilot in large bookstores

[Flightgear-devel] OT: Linux Simulations website.

2004-02-22 Thread Matthew Johnson
Sorry for the OT message: Just got http://www.linuxsimulations.org up and running again, seriously lacking in much at the moment. Hopefully will be better this time! Especially as I live in a house, much less likely to be moving soon :). Many thanks, Matt PS Also now back with broadband means

Re: [Flightgear-devel] A load of YASim engine stuff

2004-03-03 Thread Matthew Law
On Tue, 02 Mar 2004 18:53:34 -0500, David Megginson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: It varies with throttle and mixture. At 75% power, mine indicates about 5 psi running lean of peak or about 7 psi running rich of peak. I don't remember what it indicates in a full-rich, full-power climb. Is it usua

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Re: [BUG] Hunter noise & UV face singularity

2004-03-04 Thread Matthew Johnson
On Thu, 2004-03-04 at 00:57, Melchior FRANZ wrote: > * Vivian Meazza -- Thursday 04 March 2004 09:44: > > Vivian, Vyvyan = male > > Bah ... you were kidding, weren't you? > http://images.google.com/images?q=vivian > > m. :-P Watch the BBC's 80's comedy, "the Young Ones", the punk was called Vi

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Re: Spitfire & Hurricane manuals

2004-03-07 Thread Matthew Law
On Sun, 7 Mar 2004 11:29:38 -, Vivian Meazza <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Thanks for that pointer. Unfortunately, it's the wrong Mark - IX I think from the canon armament, although some real expert will undoubtedly identify it instantly, and, more importantly, it doesn't show the underwing arra

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Spitfire & Hurricane manuals

2004-03-09 Thread Matthew Law
On Mon, 08 Mar 2004 21:52:04 -0500, David Megginson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: And psychological warfare. From what I've read, the German flight crews were much more frightened of the Spitfires (and British RADAR guidance for interceptions made it look like there were many more planes than the

RE: [Flightgear-devel] Spitfire & Hurricane manuals

2004-03-09 Thread Matthew Johnson
ts of quite a few other types of planes that never get mentioned much, but still played a role (Defiant's, Wellington's, Blenheim's etc). I'd love to see the night fighting aspect explored too. I do recommend getting "The Battle of Britain" by Matthew Parker though, d

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Instrument Settings Dialog; Setting the Altimeter

2004-03-23 Thread Matthew Law
On Tue, 23 Mar 2004 20:57:20 +, David Luff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: millibars or inches? Can FG be set up to use millibars/Hecto Pascals for the Altimeter pressure setting and imperial for the rest of the units as we use in the UK? All the best, Matt. ___

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Instrument Settings Dialog; Setting the Altimeter

2004-03-23 Thread Matthew Law
On Tue, 23 Mar 2004 18:07:34 -0500, David Megginson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: It's a (relatively) simple matter to make instruments calibrated in millibars instead of inches of mercury; localizing dialog boxes will be a bit trickier, though. In general, I think that our policy should be to fo

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Instrument Settings Dialog; Setting the Altimeter

2004-03-23 Thread Matthew Law
On Tue, 23 Mar 2004 22:19:52 +, David Luff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: eg one-zero-one-three-decimal-two You can probably drop the decimal point for millibars. This makes UK flying a lot more realistic now. Thanks :-) All the best, Matt ___ Fli

Re: [Flightgear-devel] AC3D

2004-03-25 Thread Matthew Law
On Thu, 25 Mar 2004 19:17:20 -0600, Jon Berndt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I had the impression that AC3D was a free program, but after visiting their site I seem to be mistaken. True? Jon Some of the older non-Linux and non-win versions are free I believe. All the best, Matt _

Re: [Flightgear-devel] New YASim fuel code

2004-03-27 Thread Matthew Law
On Sat, 27 Mar 2004 10:17:00 -, Vivian Meazza <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: How do we handle fuel in lbs and account for Avgas/JP4? Avgas and Jet A1 have different specific gravities. I can't remember what the Sp.G of Jet A1 is but Avgas here is quoted as 0.7 - i.e. (0.7 x The equivalent volu

[Flightgear-devel] Slightly OT: Is Simgear dead?

2004-04-03 Thread Matthew Law
I'm not getting any response for simgear.org or cvs.simgear.org. Is anyone else having this problem? All the best, Matt. ___ Flightgear-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.flightgear.org/mailman/listinfo/flightgear-devel

Re: [Flightgear-devel] tables and images and borders ... oh my

2004-04-20 Thread Matthew Law
Style sheet? tried something like ? All the best, Matt. ___ Flightgear-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.flightgear.org/mailman/listinfo/flightgear-devel

Re: [Flightgear-devel] tables and images and borders ... oh my

2004-04-20 Thread Matthew Law
Style sheet? tried something like ? All the best, Matt. ___ Flightgear-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.flightgear.org/mailman/listinfo/flightgear-devel

Re: [Flightgear-devel] tables and images and borders ... oh my

2004-04-20 Thread Matthew Law
Jon S Berndt wrote: No, I don't think so, because the previous version worked. To be more descriptive, I am redesigning the left hand side panel at the JSBSim web site, because we have a different set of pages now in-place than before, and because all the items were not previously viewable. Ea

Re: [Flightgear-devel] 2004 Linux User & Developer Expo

2004-04-23 Thread Matthew Law
Lee Elliott wrote: It sounds as though things went really well - round of applause to all concerned. I wish I could have got up there, if only to visit but sadly, there wasn't any way I could make it. Ditto. I'll definitely try and be there next year. Well done guys! All the best, Matt. _

[Flightgear-devel] Slightly OT: Vector math question(s)!

2004-04-28 Thread Matthew Law
I'm about to start writing something in C to calculate the heading required to maintain a track and the resultant ground speed given a wind vector. This is destined to be a simple flight planner for my Palm but I'd like to make an interface to FG so that in theory you could save a real flight

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Slightly OT: Vector math question(s)!

2004-04-29 Thread Matthew Law
Arnt Karlsen wrote: ..be adviced the guys here torched me for suggesting redoing FG in C, so I guess you by "C" really meant C++, no? ;-) No I really did mean C :-) I'm not suggesting redoing anything, just writing an app which may be useful to real pilots and FG pilots too. AFAIK (and I d

[Flightgear-devel] UK VFR Charts up for grabs.

2004-05-18 Thread Matthew Law
The new UK CAA charts are coming out so I currently have last years 1:500,000 Southern England/Wales/NW France chart up for grabs. Shortly to be followed by the Northern England/Scotland chart. I'll give these away free to anyone here who is willing to cover the postage whether you are UK-base

Re: [Flightgear-devel] OpenAL question

2004-05-24 Thread Matthew Law
Curtis L. Olson wrote: It sounds ok to me here on my sound blaster live hardware. Can you hear the morse code beeps, marker beacons, or other sounds ok? Do some aircraft sound ok, or do all of them sound this way? Curt. On my system (gentoo, SB Live 128) I hear what sounds like the turbine sa

[Flightgear-devel] How can I land on a AIShip?

2004-06-08 Thread Gong Matthew
however I modified the FGAIBase::init() like that, globals->get_scenery()->get_terrain_branch()->addKid(aip.getSceneGraph()); ... But the function fgCurrentElev() do not visit this AImodel, so I can not land on a ship, for example a aircraft carrier. Help me. Thank you. ___

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Tried the Spitfire

2004-07-26 Thread Matthew Law
bring the engine back up to full power again. This is a feature that I would love to see working well in FG - especially when the conditions are ripe for carb ice (which sadly, is most of the year in the UK). Would this need to be done seperately for each FDM/engine combo? All the best, Ma

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Tried the Spitfire

2004-07-27 Thread Matthew Law
gher power settings ? } sleep 20 secs; } Please excuse the pseudo code - I've never done any nasal at all. I can't remember what temperature range carb ice most commonly occurs at and I'm not sure that after partial icing, a higher power setting would clear th

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Tried the Spitfire

2004-07-27 Thread Matthew Law
gher power settings ? } sleep 20 secs; } Please excuse the pseudo code - I've never done any nasal at all. I can't remember what temperature range carb ice most commonly occurs at and I'm not sure that after partial icing, a higher power setting would clear th

Re: Carb ice (was Re: [Flightgear-devel] Tried the Spitfire)

2004-07-27 Thread Matthew Law
x27; appears to have been rather hard as the 'plane is a write-off. Thankfully he's OK... I think my Vans RV-9 will have a diesel engine :-) All the best, Matthew. ___ Flightgear-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mai

Re: Carb ice (was Re: [Flightgear-devel] Tried the Spitfire)

2004-07-27 Thread Matthew Law
x27; appears to have been rather hard as the 'plane is a write-off. Thankfully he's OK... I think my Vans RV-9 will have a diesel engine :-) All the best, Matthew. ___ Flightgear-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mai

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Re: Carb ice

2004-07-27 Thread Matthew Law
d go wrong if I didn't use it... It would be useful for FG to catch us out once in a while. Stay frosty (pun intended!). All the best, Matthew ___ Flightgear-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.flightgear.org/mailman/listinfo/flightgear-devel 2f585eeea02e2c79d7b1d8c4963bae2d

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Taildragger takeoff and landing

2004-07-27 Thread Matthew Law
x27;m sure that shouldn't be the case :-) All the best, Matthew. ___ Flightgear-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.flightgear.org/mailman/listinfo/flightgear-devel 2f585eeea02e2c79d7b1d8c4963bae2d

Re: [Flightgear-devel] .RV-9?, was: Carb ice (was Re: Tried the Spitfire)

2004-07-28 Thread Matthew Law
Arnt Karlsen wrote: On Tue, 27 Jul 2004 14:09:24 +0100, Matthew wrote in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: I think my Vans RV-9 will have a diesel engine :-) ..you have a kit started? Which diesel? Arnt, I'm sending a reply off-list to prevent me getting seriously off-topic

Re: [Flightgear-devel] .RV-9?, was: Carb ice (was Re: Tried the Spitfire)

2004-07-28 Thread Matthew Law
Arnt Karlsen wrote: On Tue, 27 Jul 2004 14:09:24 +0100, Matthew wrote in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: I think my Vans RV-9 will have a diesel engine :-) ..you have a kit started? Which diesel? Arnt, I'm sending a reply off-list to prevent me getting seriously off-topic

Re: [Flightgear-devel] .RV-9?, was: Carb ice (was Re: Tried the Spitfire)

2004-07-28 Thread Matthew Law
Lee Elliott wrote: Hello Matthew, I don't know if it's just me but you seem to be posting everything twice. That is, I seem to be getting two copies of everything you post. That doesn't mean that you're necessarily posting everything twice, but it's a bit odd. LeeE

[Flightgear-devel] Yasim strangeness [was Taildragger takeoff and landing]

2004-07-28 Thread Matthew Law
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Re: [Flightgear-devel] Yasim strangeness [was Taildragger takeoff and landing]

2004-07-28 Thread Matthew Law
ht in the FDM? All the best, Matthew. ___ Flightgear-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.flightgear.org/mailman/listinfo/flightgear-devel 2f585eeea02e2c79d7b1d8c4963bae2d

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Yasim strangeness [was Taildragger takeoff and landing]

2004-07-29 Thread Matthew Law
ept in there somehow... I'll check tonight. All the best, Matthew ___ Flightgear-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.flightgear.org/mailman/listinfo/flightgear-devel 2f585eeea02e2c79d7b1d8c4963bae2d

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Yasim strangeness

2004-08-01 Thread Matthew Law
on or with the engine off. I'm not surprised you couldn't replicate it. I found a pesky old .fgfsrc file containing: [EMAIL PROTECTED] I'll get my coat :-/ All the best, Matthew. ___ Flightgear-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http:/

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Beacons

2004-08-14 Thread Matthew Law
David Megginson wrote: Has anyone ever seen beacons on a tall tower like that in real life? I saw one at Eloy, AZ a few years ago when I was there skydiving. It wasn't a very tall tower though - around 40ft or so I'd say. All the bes

[Flightgear-devel] compilation error after CVS update

2003-01-03 Thread Matthew Law
Hi guys, I just did a fresh CVS update this evening and I got the following error: main.cxx: In function `bool fgMainInit(int, char **)': main.cxx:1608: implicit declaration of function `int glXGetProcAddressARB(...)' make[2]: *** [main.o] Error 1 make[2]: Leaving directory `/home/cvsroot/Flight

Re: [Flightgear-devel] main.cxx: glXGetProcAddressARB undeclared,and warnings

2003-01-03 Thread Matthew Johnson
ably be needed in > > other files eventually > > This isn't needed for my X environment ... debian/testing, nvidia > drivers. > > Regards, > > Curt. Had this issue on SuSE 8.1 with the Nvidia drivers. Not the latest ones from Nvidia, the previous ones (without the 2D

Re: [Flightgear-devel] 747 segfault

2003-01-05 Thread Matthew Johnson
42 token = OBJECT_BASE name = 942042.btg Segmentation fault Hope that helps someone :). > ___ > Flightgear-devel mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://mail.flightgear.org/mailman/listinfo/flightgear-devel -- Matthew Johnson Public Key 9560 AE15 A443 7FE5 E927 84D2 CD17 CF25 405C B240 ___ Flightgear-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.flightgear.org/mailman/listinfo/flightgear-devel

Re: [Flightgear-devel] FlightGear Modification Project

2003-01-05 Thread Matthew Johnson
Actually they made no point of its beta status. Its been left with one positive slide and one negative, should have ended with an errata. Personal thoughts: Where is that Hurricane? Looks like a potentially good model. Perhaps they should have waited until version 1.0 of Flight Gear came out

Re: [Flightgear-devel] 747 segfault

2003-01-06 Thread Matthew Johnson
ECTED]:/var/cvs/FlightGear-0.9" and > ":pserver:[EMAIL PROTECTED]:/home/cvsroot", respectively), no > modifications. I haven't updated plib and SimGear in a while though. > > Hope this helps, > > Andras > > ===

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