Re: [Flightgear-users] Airplanes

2005-01-04 Thread Andrew Midosn
--- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Also, how do you close the cockpit canopy on the YF-22 simm - it stays open throughout flights. Ooh, ooh - I think I know the answer to this one! I believe that the cockpit canopy is linked to the parking brake - so if you release the brake the canopy should

Re: [Flightgear-users] Re: fgfs 0.9.6 scenery instalation

2004-12-08 Thread Andrew Midosn
--- Erik Hofman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Are you familliar with fgrun: http://sourceforge.net/projects/fgrun I wasn't - I am now. :-) I'm not sure whether to be pleased that someone has saved me the effort of building my own version, or upset that I spent valuable flying time on something

Re: [Flightgear-users] Re: fgfs 0.9.6 scenery instalation

2004-12-08 Thread Andrew Midosn
--- Charalampos Alexopoulos [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: fgrun is great utility but have binaries only for Windows, for me was really easier to build my own in Java than to mess around with compilation in C++.My level in C++ is less than elementary. The only real problem I had compiling

Re: [Flightgear-users] NASA Worldwind

2004-12-08 Thread Andrew Midosn
--- Paul Surgeon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Just out of interest has anyone ever done a poll to find out who uses what OS for FG? It would be interesting and possibly useful info to see what OS's are the most popular for FG especially amongst the developer community. I'm not a

Re: [Flightgear-users] Re: fgfs 0.9.6 scenery instalation

2004-12-07 Thread Andrew Midosn
--- David Luff [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 12/7/04 at 9:52 AM Melchior FRANZ wrote: * Ampere K. Hardraade -- Tuesday 07 December 2004 05:48: Perhaps it will be a good idea to think about having a config-file that is loaded everytime Flightgear starts? Good Idea. We could call

Re: [Flightgear-users] Very slow FlightGear

2004-12-06 Thread Andrew Midosn
--- Chris Metzler [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Do the command glxinfo and see if you see a line near the top (3 lines in or so) that says: } direct rendering: Yes If it says No, that's your problem, and it's time to play with your drivers and X configuration. Many thanks - that's it. I'm

[Flightgear-users] Very slow FlightGear

2004-12-05 Thread Andrew Midosn
Over the weekend I had to re-install the OS on my PC (Suse Linux 9.1), so I decided that I would build FlightGear from source (I have used the RPM's before). I downloaded the 0.9.6 source code, plus the latest versions of SimGear (0.3.7), OpenAL and PLib. Everything appears to build OK, but

Re: [Flightgear-users] Small Problems

2004-11-21 Thread Andrew Midosn
--- Dave Perry [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: But you must fly coordinated with any joystick or real airplane. In the real ac, you get used to using the rudder to keep the force on you straight down into your seat, even in a bank. When the ball is not centered, the g-force vector is

[Flightgear-users] Small problems

2004-11-13 Thread Andrew Midosn
I have been playing with FlightGear recently, having not looked at it for a while, and have a couple of questions. The first is - should the Cessna constantly turn to the left? I know that planes don't fly straight and level without input from the pilot, but this seems extreme. With my hands off

Re: [Flightgear-users] Small problems

2004-11-13 Thread Andrew Midosn
--- Craig Goodyear [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I was having the same problem. I corrected it by adjusting the aileron trim. Go to Browse Internal Properties and select controls/flight/aileron-trim to enter the required value. That was it! Thanks to everyone that offered advice. It's