Re: [Flightgear-devel] Sponsorship letter idea

2010-03-26 Thread Vivian Meazza
-Original Message- From: Pete Morgan [mailto:ac...@daffodil.uk.com] Sent: 26 March 2010 02:40 To: FlightGear developers discussions Subject: [Flightgear-devel] Sponsorship letter idea Dear Richard Branston, I'm sending this letter as an individual and am representing

Re: [Flightgear-devel] English Electric Lightning no longer runs

2010-03-26 Thread Alan Teeder
Hmm - some kind of Nasal issue then? Any kind of error message? Vivian No error messages , it just stops with an Windows crash report. The dos window is, as usual, filled with the usual stream of annoying messages from traffic manager and navaids. At the moment I am looking at the

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Translating getstart.pdf to German

2010-03-26 Thread Jörg Emmerich
I am very positive surprised that more people are interested in this project, than I thought! Some even offer actual help! That is very encouraging for me - I hope that will not get against me when I confess that I might not just do a word-by-word translation but also get some proposals for a

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Sponsorship letter idea

2010-03-26 Thread Victhor
Considering what he has been doing lately, he may end up accepting this. :) BTW, IMO you should write the letter more formally. 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

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Sponsorship letter idea

2010-03-26 Thread Jon S. Berndt
Dear Richard Branston, I'm sending this letter as an individual and am representing FlightGear, Virgin may have a licensing department you would go through rather than sending it to him personally - he'll never personally see the letter.

[Flightgear-devel] Planned downtime of ftp.de

2010-03-26 Thread Martin Spott
Apparently they're going to conduct works on the electricity supply of the entire building, therefore the server is going to shut down at approx. 14:45 UTC. Electricity is supposed to get restored until monday morning at latest, Martin. -- Unix _IS_ user friendly - it's just selective

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Sponsorship letter idea

2010-03-26 Thread George Patterson
2010/3/26 Pete Morgan ac...@daffodil.uk.com: Dear Richard Branston, At risk of being a pedant, I'd imagine that it would have gone in the virtual bin at the point of reading the first line. Attention to details is important. Hi Pete, So you are proposing that a third party airline distributes

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Web Site

2010-03-26 Thread Gene Buckle
On Fri, 26 Mar 2010, Roland Haeder wrote: But like Curt stated before: This has a very big downside, like every medal has (remember, medals have two sides...) a backside. :( And that one is also very clear: Do we, no better does Curt want to put his project into the hand of Google who offers

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Translating getstart.pdf to German

2010-03-26 Thread Maik Justus
Hello Jörg, Jörg Emmerich schrieb am 26.03.2010 10:23: ... For the example of the Helicopter (and similar) I am not yet sure about the best way: But I am convinced also here we do need a chapter about the Basics of how to fly a Helicopter in the manual -- and point to the wiki for enhanced

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Translating getstart.pdf to German

2010-03-26 Thread Martin Spott
Hi Maik, welcome to microlight flying - BTW ;-) Maik Justus wrote: Martin Spott schrieb am 25.03.2010 22:34: Oh, are people really duplicating The Manual on the Wiki ? I don't know. But at least my two cents to The Manual (chapter A Helicopter Tutorial was copied from the Wiki to the

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Translating getstart.pdf to German

2010-03-26 Thread Gijs de Rooy
Hi, Martin Spott wrote: Maik Justus wrote: I don't know. But at least my two cents to The Manual (chapter A Helicopter Tutorial was copied from the Wiki to the manual.) I suspect this has not happened without proper negotiation, or did it ? Maik copied it himself, as you can see

Re: [Flightgear-devel] English Electric Lightning no longer runs

2010-03-26 Thread Alan Teeder
Problem now solved !! In Lighning-electrical.nas, line 378 if(bus_volts 114){setprop(instrumentation/radar/switch,on );} Setting this to on crashes Flightgear on both my computers here. I can do the same by setting the property from the Browse Internal Properties menu. During my

Re: [Flightgear-devel] English Electric Lightning no longer runs

2010-03-26 Thread Vivian Meazza
Alan Teeder Problem now solved !! In Lighning-electrical.nas, line 378 if(bus_volts 114){setprop(instrumentation/radar/switch,on );} Setting this to on crashes Flightgear on both my computers here. I can do the same by setting the property from the Browse Internal Properties