RE: [Flightgear-users] Radios and other stuff.

2004-12-24 Thread Vivian Meazza
Someone known as [EMAIL PROTECTED] asked: Vivian Meazza wrote: It is, of course absolutely necessary to fully test and evaluate one's work :-) Having just completed my nth carrier landing, to try to find track down a bug. Can you do Carrier landings in FlightGear? Where,

RE: [Flightgear-users] Radios and other stuff.

2004-12-24 Thread Bill Galbraith
Can you do Carrier landings in FlightGear? Where, how??? You can't - yet. This is still work in progress by Mathias Froelich and others. We are hoping that we will be able to include something in the upcoming release, but we still have some problems to solve. ...and would

RE: [Flightgear-users] Radios and other stuff.

2004-12-24 Thread Vivian Meazza
Bill Galbraith wrote: Can you do Carrier landings in FlightGear? Where, how??? You can't - yet. This is still work in progress by Mathias Froelich and others. We are hoping that we will be able to include something in the upcoming release, but we still have some problems to

RE: [Flightgear-users] Radios and other stuff.

2004-12-24 Thread Bill Galbraith
Can you do Carrier landings in FlightGear? Where, how??? You can't - yet. This is still work in progress by Mathias Froelich and others. We are hoping that we will be able to include something in the upcoming release, but we still have some problems to solve.

RE: [Flightgear-users] Radios and other stuff.

2004-12-24 Thread Vivian Meazza
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:flightgear-users- [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Bill Galbraith Sent: 24 December 2004 14:30 To: 'FlightGear user discussions' Subject: RE: [Flightgear-users] Radios and other stuff. Can you do Carrier landings

RE: [Flightgear-users] Radios and other stuff.

2004-12-24 Thread w1dgeteye
Someone known as [EMAIL PROTECTED] asked: Vivian Meazza wrote: It is, of course absolutely necessary to fully test and evaluate one's work :-) Having just completed my nth carrier landing, to try to find track down a bug. Can you do Carrier landings in FlightGear? Where,

Re: [Flightgear-users] Radios and other stuff.

2004-12-23 Thread David Luff
On 12/21/04 at 8:10 AM David Megginson wrote: http://www.navfltsm.addr.com/ snip What a fantastic site :-) That's FlightGear/TaxiDraw coding down the drain for a while whilst I actually fly the plane for a change! Cheers - Dave This message has been scanned but we cannot guarantee

Re: [Flightgear-users] Radios and other stuff.

2004-12-23 Thread David Megginson
On Thu, 23 Dec 2004 13:28:19 +, David Luff [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What a fantastic site :-) That's FlightGear/TaxiDraw coding down the drain for a while whilst I actually fly the plane for a change! When you're done that, See How It Flies has a good section on VFR navigation:

Re: [Flightgear-users] Radios and other stuff.

2004-12-23 Thread Chris Metzler
On Thu, 23 Dec 2004 13:28:19 + David Luff wrote: That's FlightGear/TaxiDraw coding down the drain for a while whilst I actually fly the plane for a change! I know how you feel. My single biggest impediment to completing stuff I want to develop for FlightGear is FlightGear. Every time I

RE: [Flightgear-users] Radios and other stuff.

2004-12-23 Thread Vivian Meazza
Chris Metzler wrote David Luff wrote: That's FlightGear/TaxiDraw coding down the drain for a while whilst I actually fly the plane for a change! I know how you feel. My single biggest impediment to completing stuff I want to develop for FlightGear is FlightGear. Every time I sit down

Re: [Flightgear-users] Radios and other stuff.

2004-12-23 Thread Curtis L. Olson
Vivian Meazza wrote: It is, of course absolutely necessary to fully test and evaluate one's work :-) Having just completed my nth carrier landing, to try to find track down a bug. For what it's worth, I used to play a fair amount of video games, up until about 1997 when FlightGear became

Re: [Flightgear-users] Radios and other stuff.

2004-12-23 Thread w1dgeteye
Vivian Meazza wrote: It is, of course absolutely necessary to fully test and evaluate one's work :-) Having just completed my nth carrier landing, to try to find track down a bug. Can you do Carrier landings in FlightGear? Where, how??? ___

Re: [Flightgear-users] Radios and other stuff.

2004-12-22 Thread Sid Boyce
Dave Martin wrote: On Tuesday 21 Dec 2004 13:10, David Megginson wrote: It took 3 months of solid 8 hours a day in aicraft radio school to learn how these systems work.And I am not sure 30 years later that I fully understand or believe what I was taught. Were you learning how to build or maintain

RE: [Flightgear-users] Radios and other stuff.

2004-12-21 Thread Innis Cunningham
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes 1) Do the radios actually do anything? What do they do? Yes the navigation radio's provide signals to the flight instruments to show the pilot were he is (NAV1 NAV2).The communication radio's provide a signal to the pilot to tell him were he is(COM1 COM2) 2) If so,

Re: [Flightgear-users] Radios and other stuff.

2004-12-21 Thread David Megginson
On Tue, 21 Dec 2004 16:26:45 +0800, Innis Cunningham [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Probably takes about two years of flying to get a basic knowledge. That's a bit of an exaggeration. A couple of hours spent reading through http://www.navfltsm.addr.com/ should make a good start. A pilot

Re: [Flightgear-users] Radios and other stuff.

2004-12-21 Thread Dave Martin
On Tuesday 21 Dec 2004 13:10, David Megginson wrote: It took 3 months of solid 8 hours a day in aicraft radio school to learn how these systems work.And I am not sure 30 years later that I fully understand or believe what I was taught. Were you learning how to build or maintain the

[Flightgear-users] Radios and other stuff.

2004-12-20 Thread w1dgeteye
1) Do the radios actually do anything? What do they do? 2) If so, where can I learn how to use them, (the ones in flightgear). 3) How can I learn how to use the IFR, I think that's what it's called, The compasses with the adjustable pointers on them that are supposed to guide you into the