Re: [Flightgear-devel] possible solution to online flying (VATSIM)?!

2006-05-16 Thread Martin Spott
Major A wrote: that there might arise some chance to let FG participate in a VATSIM network as - I didn't verify this information ! - significant changes to their network protocol are supposed to happen which could obsolete the political reasons to keep FG outside their network, That's

Re: [Flightgear-devel] possible solution to online flying (VATSIM)?!

2006-05-10 Thread Major A
Paul, How about this idea ... Since the X-Plane XSquawkBox module is cross platform why don't we just write a proxy app for it that pretends to be X-Plane and interfaces directly to FG in the background? That sounds really good, although it's probably a lot more work than just interfacing

Re: [Flightgear-devel] possible solution to online flying (VATSIM)?!

2006-05-08 Thread Martin Spott
Major A wrote: I've just had an idea, maybe some of you find it interesting. I'm currently in a big dilemma -- I fly on VATSIM more or less regularly, As you might expect we had the opportunity at our booth at LinuxTag to talk to several people about this dilemma. One of our guests expressed

Re: [Flightgear-devel] possible solution to online flying (VATSIM)?!

2006-05-08 Thread John Wojnaroski
Major A wrote: John, Interesting... I'm about to delve into XPlane and have zero understanding regards how the third party plugins or datarefs work. I'm afraid I can't say much more than that at this point -- the only source I have myself is

Re: [Flightgear-devel] possible solution to online flying (VATSIM)?!

2006-05-08 Thread Major A
John, FG-XP: -- position -- attitude -- time derivatives of position and attitude -- NAV frequencies -- transponder settings -- PTT (we might be able to use XPLMCommandButtonPress() and XPLMCommandButtonRelease() ) Certain of the first four, will have to poke around in

Re: [Flightgear-devel] possible solution to online flying (VATSIM)?!

2006-05-08 Thread Paul Surgeon
On Saturday 06 May 2006 03:39, Major A wrote: John, Interesting... I'm about to delve into XPlane and have zero understanding regards how the third party plugins or datarefs work. I don't know what happened to my reply with all the SF mailing list troubles but ... If we write a proxy

Re: [Flightgear-devel] possible solution to online flying (VATSIM)?!

2006-05-08 Thread Major A
I've just had an idea, maybe some of you find it interesting. I'm currently in a big dilemma -- I fly on VATSIM more or less regularly, As you might expect we had the opportunity at our booth at LinuxTag to talk to several people about this dilemma. One of our guests expressed that there

Re: [Flightgear-devel] possible solution to online flying (VATSIM)?!

2006-05-08 Thread Paul Surgeon
How about this idea ... Since the X-Plane XSquawkBox module is cross platform why don't we just write a proxy app for it that pretends to be X-Plane and interfaces directly to FG in the background? That way : 1. you don't need to purchase X-Plane and run it on another PC 2. all FG users can

Re: [Flightgear-devel] possible solution to online flying (VATSIM)?!

2006-05-08 Thread Major A
The only big question is whether the internal FDM of X-Plane or MSFS can be overridden with external data just like that. Why would you need to override the FDM of X-Plane ot MSFS? Last time I played with WideFS all it did was put the slave MSFS machines into slew mode and pump them

Re: [Flightgear-devel] possible solution to online flying (VATSIM)?!

2006-05-06 Thread Paul Surgeon
On Friday 05 May 2006 21:43, Major A wrote: Hi all, I've just had an idea, maybe some of you find it interesting. I'm currently in a big dilemma -- I fly on VATSIM more or less regularly, and I'm fed up with clicking radios etc. on the screen, so I'm planning to build my own flight deck. Now

Re: [Flightgear-devel] possible solution to online flying (VATSIM)?!

2006-05-05 Thread John Wojnaroski
Interesting... I'm about to delve into XPlane and have zero understanding regards how the third party plugins or datarefs work. OTH I can do FG in my sleep. Perhaps there is any opportunity for some common sharing and help. Contact me off list JW Major A wrote: Hi all, I've just had

Re: [Flightgear-devel] possible solution to online flying (VATSIM)?!

2006-05-05 Thread Curtis L. Olson
John Wojnaroski wrote: Interesting... I'm about to delve into XPlane and have zero understanding regards how the third party plugins or datarefs work. OTH I can do FG in my sleep. Perhaps there is any opportunity for some common sharing and help. Contact me off list I got far enough