RE: [Flightgear-users] FG 0.9.9 Bug in Raining norm

2005-11-12 Thread Gerard ROBIN
Le samedi 12 novembre 2005 à 16:29 +0200, Vassilii Khachaturov a écrit : snip I'm not sure that the sky must not be blue when it is raining just because it is raining. I have flown under rain in VFR conditions with scattered/broken clouds and over 6 miles of visibility. The sky (aside of

Re: [Flightgear-users] FG 0.9.9 Bug in Raining norm

2005-11-12 Thread Ampere K. Hardraade
On November 12, 2005 01:46 pm, Ampere K. Hardraade wrote: I took couple of pictures during a rainstorm (the storm in which the Air France A340 crashed).  May be they would help. http://www.students.yorku.ca/home/perweb/41/ampere/DSC00047.JPG

Re: [Flightgear-users] FG 0.9.9 Bug in Raining norm

2005-11-12 Thread Ampere K. Hardraade
On November 12, 2005 01:05 pm, Vassilii Khachaturov wrote: Perhaps there should be code to reduce visibility based on the amount of rain, but still only provide whatever cloud cover that METAR calls for. On the other hand, in a perfect world METAR would already be reporting the reduction

[Flightgear-users] How honest are you today?

2005-11-12 Thread Josh Babcock
At the risk of promoting copyright violations, I think you all should check this out: http://avaxhome.ru/ebooks/2005/11/10/detail/ Free Detail and Scale book in a pdf file. Hmm. Josh ___ Flightgear-users mailing list Flightgear-users@flightgear.org

Re: [Flightgear-users] How honest are you today?

2005-11-12 Thread Ampere K. Hardraade
On November 12, 2005 04:22 pm, Josh Babcock wrote: At the risk of promoting copyright violations, I think you all should check this out: http://avaxhome.ru/ebooks/2005/11/10/detail/ Free Detail and Scale book in a pdf file. Hmm. Josh Woo... ahh... Too bad I have no need for it. I too

Re: [Flightgear-users] How honest are you today?

2005-11-12 Thread Ampere K. Hardraade
On November 12, 2005 06:54 pm, Josh Babcock wrote: And? And now I have enough data to build the models for a whole family of aircrafts, which I intend to. Ampere ___ Flightgear-users mailing list Flightgear-users@flightgear.org

Re: [Flightgear-users] ..help 64bit K8 hardware diagnosis for FG, was: OpenGL/Windows Knoppix

2005-11-12 Thread Arnt Karlsen
On Wed, 09 Nov 2005 00:53:40 +, Sid wrote in message [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Arnt Karlsen wrote: On Mon, 07 Nov 2005 23:45:44 -0600, Curtis wrote in message [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Hey guys, Some of this started out interesting, but at some point you might consider taking this

[Flightgear-users] Aircraft crashes unexpectedly...too hard or not interested

2005-11-12 Thread Dene Maxwell
Haven't received a response. too hard or not interested? Dene Last month I posted this and got alot of comments back. I've experimented and have some extra information which may shed some light on the problem; I undertook this trip in the 172P Skyhawk (1981 model), 2D panel, a mammoth

RE: [Flightgear-users] Aircraft crashes unexpectedly...too hard or notinterested

2005-11-12 Thread Jon Berndt
This is an interesting problem. I've noted it. I may file a bug report at the JSBSim using the Bug tracker there. It seems like a possible JSBSim bug, no? Jon -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Dene Maxwell Sent: Saturday, November 12,

[Flightgear-users] Aircraft crashes unexpectedly...too hard or notinterested

2005-11-12 Thread Dene Maxwell
Thank you for responding thought I was being ignored this is really beyond me being mostly a user. I would like to contribute in adding scenery and landmarks (airports and Navaids) but coding in this environment is beyond me at the mo...would like to hear of progress on this prob though...

[Flightgear-users] More than one waypoint of the same name

2005-11-12 Thread Innis Cunningham
Hi All While using 9.8 today to fly using waypoints I came across a problem where the aircraft did not fly to the waypont I had selected but headed off in the opposite direction(North). On investigation it turned out that there is two fixes(waypoints) of the same name in the data base and FG

[Flightgear-users] Contrails

2005-11-12 Thread Innis Cunningham
Hi All While using the 737 I noticed that I have what I assume are supposed to be contrails eminating from the engines.Is there a way to turn this feature off as it looks rather rediculous on the 737. Cheers Innis ___ Flightgear-users mailing list

Re: [Flightgear-users] More than one waypoint of the same name

2005-11-12 Thread Paul Surgeon
On Sunday 13 November 2005 06:20, Josh Babcock wrote: With 26^5 (11881376) possible identifiers You'd think there wouldn't be any duplicates. Actually, I just checked fix.dat.gz, and it came up with 70011 entries whether I did a sort -u on it or just counted the entries. This should mean that