Re: [Flightgear-users] Tutorial - Flight between 2 airports

2005-10-15 Thread David Ginger
On Friday 14 Oct 2005 23:50, Buchanan, Stuart wrote: It took a bit longer than I expected, but I've now finished a cross-country tutorial from KRHV to KLVK. Take a look here: http://www.nanjika.co.uk/flightgear/tutorial.html The idea is to provide a follow-on from Eric's tutorial

Re: [Flightgear-users] Tutorial - Flight between 2 airports

2005-10-15 Thread Erik Hofman
AJ MacLeod wrote: That looks really excellent! Finally we have two cohesive tutorials to point complete flying newbies to that are written with FG in mind (there are a reasonable number of these folk turn up on the IRC channel now and again) Actually, we have three (at least0. In the Docs

Re: [Flightgear-users] Tutorial - Flight between 2 airports

2005-10-15 Thread Erik Hofman
Erik Hofman wrote: Actually, we have three (at least). Actually, there's four: http://www.flightgear.org/Docs/Tutorials/circuit/ Erik ___ Flightgear-users mailing list Flightgear-users@flightgear.org

Re: [Flightgear-users] Tutorial - Flight between 2 airports

2005-10-15 Thread David Ginger
On Saturday 15 Oct 2005 10:01, Erik Hofman wrote: Erik Hofman wrote: Actually, we have three (at least). Actually, there's four: http://www.flightgear.org/Docs/Tutorials/circuit/ Erik In my opinion, the more tutorials the better. Particularly if they are written by different people, and

Re: [Flightgear-users] Tutorial - Flight between 2 airports

2005-10-15 Thread wino
On Sat, 15 Oct 2005 10:49:52 +0200, Erik Hofman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Would it be possible to combine these documents somehow to get to one comprehensive manual, preferably in PDF format? NOOO! not more pdf! pdf is closed , proprietary difficult to modify, huge and generally bad. it

Re: [Flightgear-users] Tutorial - Flight between 2 airports

2005-10-15 Thread Erik Hofman
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: NOOO! not more pdf! pdf is closed , proprietary difficult to modify, huge and generally bad. So what do you suggest as a cross-platform alternative? (And don't mention OpenOffice since it hasn't been ported to many platforms and is way overkill for just reading

Re: [Flightgear-users] Tutorial - Flight between 2 airports

2005-10-15 Thread Christian Mayer
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Sorry, but you are wrong [EMAIL PROTECTED] schrieb: pdf is closed , proprietary difficult to modify, huge and generally bad. PDF is an standard, there are even 2 different ISO standards now (one for professional printing and one for archiving it,

Re: [Flightgear-users] Tutorial - Flight between 2 airports

2005-10-15 Thread David Ginger
On Saturday 15 Oct 2005 10:37, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sat, 15 Oct 2005 10:49:52 +0200, Erik Hofman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Would it be possible to combine these documents somehow to get to one comprehensive manual, preferably in PDF format? NOOO! not more pdf! pdf is good for

Re: [Flightgear-users] Tutorial - Flight between 2 airports

2005-10-15 Thread Georg Vollnhals
Christian Mayer schrieb: ... Generally bad is totally wrong. It is generally good... ;) In AcrobatReader it displays for me (under Windows) much nicer than e.g. GhostView. And it definitely has search ability and hyperlinking. m2c, please check your sources before you make such strong

Re: [Flightgear-users] Tutorial - Flight between 2 airports

2005-10-15 Thread Gerard ROBIN
Le samedi 15 octobre 2005 à 11:37 +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] a écrit : On Sat, 15 Oct 2005 10:49:52 +0200, Erik Hofman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Would it be possible to combine these documents somehow to get to one comprehensive manual, preferably in PDF format? NOOO! not more pdf!

[Flightgear-users] air refueling / air-air radar

2005-10-15 Thread Dave Culp
For a while now the T-38 has been set up as an air refueling, AI tanker, air-air radar demonstrator, even though the real T-38 doesn't have radar or air refueling capability. I'd like to return the T-38 to stock condition and let some other aircraft take over as radar and air refueling

Re: [Flightgear-users] air refueling / air-air radar

2005-10-15 Thread Gerard ROBIN
Le samedi 15 octobre 2005 à 07:59 -0500, Dave Culp a écrit : For a while now the T-38 has been set up as an air refueling, AI tanker, air-air radar demonstrator, even though the real T-38 doesn't have radar or air refueling capability. I'd like to return the T-38 to stock condition and let

Re: [Flightgear-users] air refueling / air-air radar

2005-10-15 Thread Dave Culp
1) Is any other aircraft in FlightGear's hangar using any of these capabilities right now? Air refueling Yes. Crusader (not yet in the hangar) ask for it. Would it be a good idea to add a tanker, say an A-6 Intruder to the aircraft carrier scenario? We could set it up in an orbit over

Re: [Flightgear-users] air refueling / air-air radar

2005-10-15 Thread Gerard ROBIN
Le samedi 15 octobre 2005 à 08:12 -0500, Dave Culp a écrit : 1) Is any other aircraft in FlightGear's hangar using any of these capabilities right now? Air refueling Yes. Crusader (not yet in the hangar) ask for it. Would it be a good idea to add a tanker, say an A-6 Intruder to the

[Flightgear-users] Scenarios (Was: air refueling / air-air radar)

2005-10-15 Thread Erik Hofman
Dave Culp wrote: Would it be a good idea to add a tanker, say an A-6 Intruder to the aircraft carrier scenario? We could set it up in an orbit over the carrier at 5000 feet. Actually, this triggers something else I've been thinking of. Right now all scenario's take place at KSFO. If we

[Flightgear-users] Re: Tutorial - Flight between 2 airports

2005-10-15 Thread RMcN
Tutorial appears to be great, just starting to read it. Now a question on radio's which I have ignored to this point. How do you tune them with a two button mouse and/or a laptop touch pad? Ray McNeice ___ Flightgear-users mailing list

Re: [Flightgear-users] Scenarios (Was: air refueling / air-air radar)

2005-10-15 Thread Erik Hofman
Gerard ROBIN wrote: Right, we cannot get the good scenario according to the place we are. I don't use AI surrounding KSFO, instead of it i did create some AI: Helicopter (bo105 hello Melchior) flying over mont Ventoux and Nimitz Cruising in mediterranean Sea not far from Nice (from Nice we

Re: [Flightgear-users] Scenarios (Was: air refueling / air-air radar)

2005-10-15 Thread Gerard ROBIN
Le samedi 15 octobre 2005 à 16:08 +0200, Erik Hofman a écrit : Gerard ROBIN wrote: Right, we cannot get the good scenario according to the place we are. I don't use AI surrounding KSFO, instead of it i did create some AI: Helicopter (bo105 hello Melchior) flying over mont Ventoux and

Re: [Flightgear-users] Tutorial - Flight between 2 airports

2005-10-15 Thread Christian Mayer
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Georg Vollnhals schrieb: Christian Mayer schrieb: ... Generally bad is totally wrong. It is generally good... ;) But what Christian tells in a very absolute way does *not* match my experiences. I hope you noticed my ;) there... :) 1.

Re: [Flightgear-users] Tutorial - Flight between 2 airports

2005-10-15 Thread Buchanan, Stuart
On the missed approach - apply full power and when you have a positive rate of climb (to avoid loss of height), retract flaps. Climb out should also be on the dead side, climb to circuit height and turn to rejoin the circuit pattern. Regards Sid. Thanks for the information Sid. I've

Re: [Flightgear-users] mem leaks ?

2005-10-15 Thread Mathias Fröhlich
On Freitag 14 Oktober 2005 10:40, Erik Hofman wrote: Just as a heads up, Mathias has sent me a patch containing a number of memory leak fixes that where tracked down by valgrind. I hope I can commit it later today. Hmm, there were additional ones which are now plugged in todays cvs. I believe

Re: [Flightgear-users] Tutorial - Flight between 2 airports

2005-10-15 Thread Vassilii Khachaturov
On the missed approach - apply full power and when you have a positive rate of climb (to avoid loss of height), retract flaps. Also, please rename it from the missed approach to go-around --- missed approach is an IFR term. BTW, go-around is what you'll get on the ' menu as well. V.

[Flightgear-users] flightgear 0.9.8 segmentation fault

2005-10-15 Thread Kitts
It used to be working... i don't know what happenned in between but now i get a segmentation fault as i run fgfs. I do not understand the meaning of the error. Can some one help? To trace, i ran fgfs through gdb and here is the output.

Re: [Flightgear-users] air refueling / air-air radar

2005-10-15 Thread AJ MacLeod
On Saturday 15 October 2005 13:59, Dave Culp wrote: For a while now the T-38 has been set up as an air refueling, AI tanker, air-air radar demonstrator, even though the real T-38 doesn't have radar or air refueling capability. 2) Is anyone interested in this sort of thing? Very much so on

[Flightgear-users] autopilot trouble

2005-10-15 Thread Frank Olaf
Hi all, I'm having trouble with the autopilot using a couple of days old CVS version on Windows XP . I am attempting to follow the recently posted tutorial for VFR flight, but I am unable to operate the autopilot correctly. enabling the autopilot with ctrl+h does not work, and when clicking

[Flightgear-users] flight contols

2005-10-15 Thread Roos, D.A.
Hi, after take-off any aircraft I use banks to the left (except the Beech1900.) Adjusting my .fgfsrc does not change this. Anyone who knows how to correct this? This is not like the normal behaviour (right rudder when applying power). When using the rudder the AC just start to 'slip' (nose

Re: [Flightgear-users] Tutorial - Flight between 2 airports

2005-10-15 Thread Buchanan, Stuart
The reason to push on with using pdf as one of the preferred formats is that generating a table of contents/index is doable. I have seen web pages cut in half by browsers and you can't guarantee the position of an image when printed. PDFs rock for printing, HTML for reading off

Re: [Flightgear-users] flightgear 0.9.8 segmentation fault

2005-10-15 Thread AJ MacLeod
On Saturday 15 October 2005 20:09, Kitts wrote: I do not understand the meaning of the error. Can some one help? freeglut (/home/Kishore/KDevelop/FlightGear/source/src/Main/fgfs): Failed to create cursor You're not using freeglut 2.4 by any chance? AJ

Re: [Flightgear-users] Tutorial - Flight between 2 airports

2005-10-15 Thread Buchanan, Stuart
That looks really excellent! Finally we have two cohesive tutorials to point complete flying newbies to that are written with FG in mind (there are a reasonable number of these folk turn up on the IRC channel now and again) Thanks. Hope it will be of use. It's difficult to decide who

Re: [Flightgear-users] flightgear 0.9.8 segmentation fault

2005-10-15 Thread AJ MacLeod
On Saturday 15 October 2005 21:59, Kitts wrote: Yes! I am using freeglut3 version 2.4. It appears there is a bug in freeglut 2.4 which as far as I can see has been fixed in freeglut CVS. I've not tried 2.4 myself, 2.2 is what I use and it works. I just ended up looking into that problem when

Re: [Flightgear-users] air refueling / air-air radar

2005-10-15 Thread Dave Culp
Would it be a good idea to add a tanker, say an A-6 Intruder to the aircraft carrier scenario? We could set it up in an orbit over the carrier at 5000 feet. Yes that idea is great, who has time to do it ? Intruder is a a very interesting aircraft. I'm only interested in a low-poly

Re: [Flightgear-users] mem leaks ?

2005-10-15 Thread wino
On Sat, 15 Oct 2005 18:25:32 +0200, Mathias Fröhlich [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Freitag 14 Oktober 2005 10:40, Erik Hofman wrote: Just as a heads up, Mathias has sent me a patch containing a number of memory leak fixes that where tracked down by valgrind. I hope I can commit it later today.

RE: [Flightgear-users] flight contols

2005-10-15 Thread Jon Berndt
Hi, after take-off any aircraft I use banks to the left (except the Beech1900.) Adjusting my .fgfsrc does not change this. Anyone who knows how to correct this? This is not like the normal behaviour (right rudder when applying power). When using the rudder the AC just start to 'slip' (nose

Re: [Flightgear-users] flightgear 0.9.8 segmentation fault

2005-10-15 Thread Kitts
On Sunday 16 Oct 2005 2:45 am IST, AJ MacLeod wrote: AM It appears there is a bug in freeglut 2.4 which as far as I can see has been AM fixed in freeglut CVS.  I've not tried 2.4 myself, 2.2 is what I use and it AM works.  I just ended up looking into that problem when several people in AM

Re: [Flightgear-users] air refueling / air-air radar

2005-10-15 Thread Gerard ROBIN
Le samedi 15 octobre 2005 à 16:19 -0500, Dave Culp a écrit : Would it be a good idea to add a tanker, say an A-6 Intruder to the aircraft carrier scenario? We could set it up in an orbit over the carrier at 5000 feet. Yes that idea is great, who has time to do it ? Intruder is a a

Re: [Flightgear-users] flight contols

2005-10-15 Thread Arnt Karlsen
On Sat, 15 Oct 2005 21:43:18 +0200, Roos, wrote in message [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Hi, after take-off any aircraft I use banks to the left (except the Beech1900.) ..weird. It too should bank left, (or does it play the P-38 kinda games turning its 2 props both ways to cancel the torque?)

Re: [Flightgear-users] Tutorial - Flight between 2 airports

2005-10-15 Thread Arnt Karlsen
On Sat, 15 Oct 2005 22:03:05 +0100 (BST), Buchanan, wrote in message [EMAIL PROTECTED]: That looks really excellent! Finally we have two cohesive tutorials to point complete flying newbies to that are written with FG in mind (there are a reasonable number of these folk turn up on

Re: [Flightgear-users] air refueling / air-air radar

2005-10-15 Thread George Patterson
On Sat, 2005-10-15 at 16:19 -0500, Dave Culp wrote: I'm only interested in a low-poly model to use as an AI tanker. Here's an FS98 model I picked up from simviation. It's too coarse to be interesting as a user model, but it's fine for AI:

Re: [Flightgear-users] Tutorial - Flight between 2 airports

2005-10-15 Thread Arnt Karlsen
On Sun, 16 Oct 2005 00:11:45 +0100, David wrote in message [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Buchanan, Stuart writes: Would it be worth adding it to the CVS? I'm quite happy to GFDL it, but one of the images includes a grab from a sectional. ..precisely how does it include a grab from a sectional?

Re: [Flightgear-users] air refueling / air-air radar

2005-10-15 Thread Dave Culp
I'll add a drogue and hose, paint it gray, then try to get permission from the author so we can GPL it. I might be better to get permission first so you are not spending large amounts of time for little gain. Too late :) http://home.comcast.net/~davidculp2/F8_KA6.jpg I'll use it for

Re: [Flightgear-users] Tutorial - Flight between 2 airports

2005-10-15 Thread Sid Boyce
Buchanan, Stuart wrote: On the missed approach - apply full power and when you have a positive rate of climb (to avoid loss of height), retract flaps. Climb out should also be on the dead side, climb to circuit height and turn to rejoin the circuit pattern. Regards Sid. Thanks for the

[Flightgear-users] Re: air refueling / air-air radar

2005-10-15 Thread Alex Romosan
George Patterson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Whats the airport just forward of the F8's right wing tip? (Assuming it is an airport :-/) i think that's half moon bay airport (KHAF). --alex-- -- | I believe the moment is at hand when, by a paranoiac and active | | advance of the mind, it will