Re: [Flightgear-devel] Further FGRunway work

2008-08-25 Thread Melchior FRANZ
* James Turner -- 8/20/2008 1:44 PM: But, doing this, I wondered - there's these displaced threshold and stopway values in Robin's data, which we are parsing, storing in memory, and which are never used by any C++ code - they do get passed to Nasal, but I'd bet some money no one on that

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Further FGRunway work

2008-08-25 Thread James Turner
On 25 Aug 2008, at 07:31, Melchior FRANZ wrote: I just made all internal runway data available in the Nasal query function, without considering any possible use case. So far I only used those elements that I needed for finding the touchdown point ($FG_ROOT/Nasal/glide_slope_tunnel.nas).

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Startup position offsets (fg_init)

2008-08-25 Thread James Turner
On 25 Aug 2008, at 03:25, Curtis Olson wrote: Hi James, I think this was all done intentionally because it's quite common to want to start a flight simulator on a 5 or 7 or 10 mile approach so you can practice ILS landing. The start-offset-m value I believe was added later to account

Re: [Flightgear-devel] AI Carrier with Aircraft, and the last JSBSim version

2008-08-25 Thread Jon S. Berndt
Hello, ... In order to get these data into the JSB FDM, the crude solution could be, to include the yasim calculation part into JSBSim. I feel that won't be the more elegant solution, and i am not sure that Jon would agree on it. :) Though, i am not aware, about the FG source

[Flightgear-devel] Another OpenSource FlightSim based on OSG

2008-08-25 Thread Heiko Schulz
Hi, Just a quick note: Today I found another OpenSource FlightSim which uses OSG. It is under GPL-licence, and has as features like: Carrier landing mission. Motion blur (-motion-blur). Sky dome. Sound effects (PLIB) Particle-system (improved explosions). Collision-detection. Can download

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Startup position offsets (fg_init)

2008-08-25 Thread John Denker
On 08/24/2008 01:53 PM, James Turner wrote: Doing this, I came across something which seems counter-intuitive to me: I agree, it's counterintuitive, to say the least. default azimuth to offset by is the *reciprocal* runway heading. This means to start 10nm 'out' from the threshold, one can

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Startup position offsets (fg_init)

2008-08-25 Thread Curtis Olson
On Mon, Aug 25, 2008 at 3:12 AM, James Turner wrote: On 25 Aug 2008, at 03:25, Curtis Olson wrote: Hi James, I think this was all done intentionally because it's quite common to want to start a flight simulator on a 5 or 7 or 10 mile approach so you can practice ILS landing. The

Re: [Flightgear-devel] [Jsbsim-devel] AI Carrier with Aircraft, and the last JSBSim version

2008-08-25 Thread gerard robin
On lun 25 août 2008, Jon S. Berndt wrote: Hi Gerard, I think the ultimate solution would be for FlightGear to move this code out of the FDM's and into the FDM interface class. Dave I firmly agree: determining carrier location and orientation should not be an FDM specific function.

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Startup position offsets (fg_init)

2008-08-25 Thread John Denker
On 08/25/2008 02:45 PM, Curtis Olson wrote: Can you further explain what the bug involves? In my experience, placing the aircraft on the glide slope several miles out and flying the glide slope all works fine, or am I missing something here? In my experience, the glideslope initialization

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Startup position offsets (fg_init)

2008-08-25 Thread Curtis Olson
Hmmm, ok I suppose that is possible. I have done this with an external FAA certified flight dynamics model, but I am letting the flightgear code compute the final longitude and latitude and altitude and just passing that over. This has worked as recently as 2 weeks ago. I don't know that I've

[Flightgear-devel] UNC, Argentina:JSBsim Compilation

2008-08-25 Thread Gonzalo Rubio
Hello, My name is Gonzalo Rubio, i`m a studing Aeronautics Engineering at the National University of Cordoba (UNC) in Argentina. We are developing a project in wich we will use Flight Gear with JSBsim as the equations solver for simulating an airplane that was developed and design on the