RE: [Flightgear-users] Carrier Deck (v098a)

2005-11-28 Thread Vivian Meazza
dene maxwell Hi guys, I placed Nimitz (v098a) in my local harbour (Wellington, New Zealand) at -41.246433 LAT, 174.886783 LONG, heading 198. The took off from NZWN on runway 34. Very enjoyable flight except the deck of the Nimitz under FGv098a doesn't seem solid. Was only using the

Re: [Flightgear-users] recommendation for joystick/pedals for fgfs/Linux?

2005-11-28 Thread Arnt Karlsen
On Mon, 28 Nov 2005 00:31:07 +0200 (IST), Vassilii wrote in message [EMAIL PROTECTED]: The CH Products Yoke and Pedals (USB) has worked fine here for at least 2 years. Regards Sid. Thanks to Sid and all the other recommenders of the things to use with fgfs. I got a set of the above

Re: [Flightgear-users] Frames/Second and Hardware survey

2005-11-28 Thread Arnt Karlsen
On Sun, 27 Nov 2005 20:56:42 +, David wrote in message [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Paul Duncan writes: Yeah, I think you're right. So, suppose we say start off with Cessna 172 at KSFO *without* the Nimitz scenario loaded. You need a given time as well, to count the lighting

Re: [Flightgear-users] Frames/Second and Hardware survey

2005-11-28 Thread Innis Cunningham
dene maxwell writes How do i find what FPS i'm running under windows/FGv098a? Start the sim then from the FILE drop down menu choose Browse Internal Properties then choose SIM/ and then frame-rate[0] Cheers Innis ___ Flightgear-users mailing

[Flightgear-users] Re: Frames/Second and Hardware survey

2005-11-28 Thread Pigeon
Your idea is good, Unfortunately we have others parameters, which are difficult to measure, what are the consequences, from AI (AC tanker, Carrier Nimitz, and others) from Atlas (which geometry), which AC, and so on Does FG running standalone ( i do have others appli running they

RE: [Flightgear-users] Re: carriers

2005-11-28 Thread MPCEE French Bureau
Hello you two! Can you let me in on this? On Windows, can I add another carrier and set up the TACAN as you describe? Regards Martin -Original Message- From: Gerard ROBIN [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, November 28, 2005 12:40 AM To: FlightGear user discussions Subject: RE:

RE: [Flightgear-users] Carrier Deck (v098a)

2005-11-28 Thread dene maxwell
From: Vivian Meazza [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: FlightGear user discussions flightgear-users@flightgear.org To: 'FlightGear user discussions' flightgear-users@flightgear.org Subject: RE: [Flightgear-users] Carrier Deck (v098a) Date: Mon, 28 Nov 2005 08:09:24 - dene maxwell Hi guys,

RE: [Flightgear-users] Re: carriers

2005-11-28 Thread Vivian Meazza
Martin Hello you two! Can you let me in on this? On Windows, can I add another carrier and set up the TACAN as you describe? Regards Martin -Original Message- From: Gerard ROBIN [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, November 28, 2005 12:40 AM To: FlightGear user

[Flightgear-users] Re: carriers

2005-11-28 Thread Melchior FRANZ
* Jon Stockill -- Friday 25 November 2005 19:52: Melchior FRANZ wrote: * Jon Stockill -- Friday 25 November 2005 18:53: unfortunately the scenery code doesn't place models in tiles where there's no terrain - so they never show up. What about delivering those with a tiny *.btg.gz

Re: [Flightgear-users] Re: Frames/Second and Hardware survey

2005-11-28 Thread Vassilii Khachaturov
This is a great idea. Some wizard for new users that gives maximum eye candy on their while still maintaining non-jerky FPS would be very helpful, rather than having them manually twiddle the rendering options/resolutions/cache sizes. ___

Re: [Flightgear-users] recommendation for joystick/pedals for fgfs/Linux?

2005-11-28 Thread Vassilii Khachaturov
..tsk tsk, try 'aptitude dist-upgrade'. ;o) :-) what scared me is that I remembered seeing kernel-source-2.6.11 etc and suddenly they were gone! I have just upgraded one of the computers over to etch+2.6.14 this morning, noticing the linux-image-2.6.14 there myself... [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~ $

RE: [Flightgear-users] Re: carriers

2005-11-28 Thread Gerard ROBIN
Le lundi 28 novembre 2005 à 10:49 +0100, MPCEE French Bureau a écrit : Hello you two! Can you let me in on this? On Windows, can I add another carrier and set up the TACAN as you describe? Regards Martin Hello Martin, My personal configuration is not fair to be used in a generic

RE: [Flightgear-users] Carrier Deck (v098a)

2005-11-28 Thread Gerard ROBIN
Le lundi 28 novembre 2005 à 08:09 +, Vivian Meazza a écrit : dene maxwell Hi guys, I placed Nimitz (v098a) in my local harbour (Wellington, New Zealand) at -41.246433 LAT, 174.886783 LONG, heading 198. The took off from NZWN on runway 34. Very enjoyable flight except the

Re: [Flightgear-users] 0.9.9 FPS drop, just reporting

2005-11-28 Thread Eric Brasseur
dene maxwell wrote: When ever I run FG on ME I kill all processes except Explorer and Systray (Before starting FG obviously :-) Cheers Dene Superb! What happens is the FPS drops and hickups keep happening yet they are less severe, enough to keep the plane pilotable. In 1280x1024 mode

Re: [Flightgear-users] Frames/Second and Hardware survey

2005-11-28 Thread Eric Brasseur
dene maxwell wrote: How do i find what FPS i'm running under windows/FGv098a? Type h to get the HUD then I to get the other HUD, which displays the FPS down left. Cycle H and h to get optimal color and brightness. Eric ___ Flightgear-users

RE: [Flightgear-users] Re: carriers

2005-11-28 Thread Gerard ROBIN
Le lundi 28 novembre 2005 à 13:53 +0100, Gerard ROBIN a écrit : Le lundi 28 novembre 2005 à 10:49 +0100, MPCEE French Bureau a écrit : Hello you two! Can you let me in on this? On Windows, can I add another carrier and set up the TACAN as you describe? Regards Martin

Re: [Flightgear-users] Frames/Second and Hardware survey

2005-11-28 Thread Paul Duncan
Hi, just a real quick one. Definately not scared off - nobodies threatened to fire bomb my house yet ;-) But I'm just getting ready to leave the US and get back to the UK. I'll be back on the list later this week when I'm over the jet lag, and I'll catch up on everyone's ideas :-) TTFN! Paul

[Flightgear-users] Re: carriers

2005-11-28 Thread Melchior FRANZ
* Melchior FRANZ -- Monday 28 November 2005 11:55: * Jon Stockill -- Friday 25 November 2005 18:53: unfortunately the scenery code doesn't place models in tiles where there's no terrain - so they never show up. The problem is that the objects are placed relative to the tile center. And

Re: [Flightgear-users] 0.9.9 FPS drop, just reporting

2005-11-28 Thread dene maxwell
Hi Eric, What would be interesting is to kill each process in turn and find the one that has the greatest effect then compare notes with other ME users. A reboot in between each iteration may make it a more valid test to minimise the effect of memory leaks etc. Cheers Dene From: Eric

Re: [Flightgear-users] Re: carriers

2005-11-28 Thread Jon Stockill
Melchior FRANZ wrote: I've fixed that. The platforms show up in my copy of FlightGear now. :-) Have to clean up first, and then to persuade one of the overlords. I'd better work on a nicer looking platform model then (unless someone already has one?) The current one was just put in as a

Re: [Flightgear-users] Frames/Second and Hardware survey

2005-11-28 Thread dene maxwell
Thanks Eric, Excuse my ignorance, what's FOV? Dene From: Eric Brasseur [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: FlightGear user discussions flightgear-users@flightgear.org To: FlightGear user discussions flightgear-users@flightgear.org Subject: Re: [Flightgear-users] Frames/Second and Hardware survey

Re: [Flightgear-users] Frames/Second and Hardware survey

2005-11-28 Thread Ampere K. Hardraade
On November 28, 2005 12:45 pm, dene maxwell wrote: Thanks Eric, Excuse my ignorance, what's FOV? Dene Field of view. Try pressing x/X. Ampere ___ Flightgear-users mailing list Flightgear-users@flightgear.org

[Flightgear-users] RE:Segmentation fault, version 0.9.9

2005-11-28 Thread olaf
Hi again I used the version, which was released on 17. november. Is this the final version ? Thanks for helping bye olaf ___ Flightgear-users mailing list Flightgear-users@flightgear.org http://mail.flightgear.org/mailman/listinfo/flightgear-users

Re: [Flightgear-users] RE:Segmentation fault, version 0.9.9

2005-11-28 Thread Gerard ROBIN
Le lundi 28 novembre 2005 à 21:05 +0100, olaf a écrit : Hi again I used the version, which was released on 17. november. Is this the final version ? Thanks for helping bye olaf Mine is 2005-20-11 dated -- Gerard ___ Flightgear-users

[Flightgear-users] Scenery 0.9.9 Airport LFPO (Paris Orly) is wrong

2005-11-28 Thread Gerard ROBIN
Hello to French people and others. Scenery 0.9.9 Airport LFPO is wrong: The runway axis is beside the Aircraft axis. And the AC Standby on the grass (not very good for B747) Some time ago i did say that error with 0.9.8. Nobody seems to be interested. I did rebuild that scenery and everything is

[Flightgear-users] error in airport data

2005-11-28 Thread Carsten Hoefer
Hi, when I start Flightgear at EDDF my plane is allways positioned at the end of runway 36. Unfortunately there is no runway 36. There is a runway 18, but it is only used in one direction (18). I allready checked apt.dat, but it lists only one line per runway. Is there any way to correct

Re: [Flightgear-users] error in airport data

2005-11-28 Thread Curtis L. Olson
Carsten Hoefer wrote: when I start Flightgear at EDDF my plane is allways positioned at the end of runway 36. Unfortunately there is no runway 36. There is a runway 18, but it is only used in one direction (18). I allready checked apt.dat, but it lists only one line per runway. Is there any

Re: [Flightgear-users] Frames/Second and Hardware survey

2005-11-28 Thread dene maxwell
Hi Eric Further to FPS, I'm running FGv098a on ME. 1.8Ghz P4, 256M RAM, GF2 MX 32Mbyte. Killing all processes (Virus Protection, Firewall, CD writer wizard, Printer Toolbox, enhanced keyboard) except Systray, Explorer, wkcalrem,devldr16, loadqm. Running Fairchild A10 @ 300kts, I get 60fps

Re: [Flightgear-users] error in airport data

2005-11-28 Thread Carsten Hoefer
Curtis L. Olson schrieb: Carsten Hoefer wrote: when I start Flightgear at EDDF my plane is allways positioned at the end of runway 36. Unfortunately there is no runway 36. There is a runway 18, but it is only used in one direction (18). I allready checked apt.dat, but it lists only one line

Re: [Flightgear-users] error in airport data

2005-11-28 Thread Andy Ross
Carsten Hoefer wrote: when I start Flightgear at EDDF my plane is allways positioned at the end of runway 36. Unfortunately there is no runway 36. There is a runway 18, but it is only used in one direction (18). Is this the airport? :

Re: [Flightgear-users] error in airport data

2005-11-28 Thread David Luff
Andy Ross writes: Carsten Hoefer wrote: when I start Flightgear at EDDF my plane is allways positioned at the end of runway 36. Unfortunately there is no runway 36. There is a runway 18, but it is only used in one direction (18). Is this the airport? :

Re: [Flightgear-users] error in airport data

2005-11-28 Thread Carsten Hoefer
Andy Ross schrieb: Carsten Hoefer wrote: when I start Flightgear at EDDF my plane is allways positioned at the end of runway 36. Unfortunately there is no runway 36. There is a runway 18, but it is only used in one direction (18). Is this the airport? :

Re: [Flightgear-users] Scenery 0.9.9 Airport LFPO (Paris Orly) is wrong

2005-11-28 Thread Valérie et Vincent
Bravo ;-)) It seems that europe is not very well represented. I did never flew above our capital, but I can tell that not (so) far away from my home, in Pisa neither la torre pendente nor Piazza dei Miracoli and not even the superb duomo, or at least the batistero are present. I do

Re: [Flightgear-users] Carrier Deck (v098a)

2005-11-28 Thread Georg Vollnhals
dene maxwell schrieb: Hi guys, I placed Nimitz (v098a) in my local harbour (Wellington, New Zealand) at -41.246433 LAT, 174.886783 LONG, heading 198. The took off from NZWN on runway 34. Very enjoyable flight except the deck of the Nimitz under FGv098a doesn't seem solid. Was only using

Re: [Flightgear-users] error in airport data

2005-11-28 Thread Andy Ross
Carsten Hoefer wrote: Yes it's this airport. I do live next to it and any plane starting on 36 would fly directly over my flat. The official airport site states, that runway 18 is only allowed in this direction. The key words being in this direction. Runway 36 is still presumably allowed

Re: [Flightgear-users] Scenery 0.9.9 Airport LFPO (Paris Orly) is wrong

2005-11-28 Thread Gerard ROBIN
Le lundi 28 novembre 2005 à 22:45 +0100, Valérie et Vincent a écrit : Bravo ;-)) It seems that europe is not very well represented. I did never flew above our capital, but I can tell that not (so) far away from my home, in Pisa neither la torre pendente nor Piazza dei Miracoli and

Re: [Flightgear-users] error in airport data

2005-11-28 Thread Gerard ROBIN
Le lundi 28 novembre 2005 à 14:00 -0800, Andy Ross a écrit : Carsten Hoefer wrote: Yes it's this airport. I do live next to it and any plane starting on 36 would fly directly over my flat. The official airport site states, that runway 18 is only allowed in this direction. The key words

[Flightgear-users] Aerol Info. Pub. ..(was error in airport data)

2005-11-28 Thread dene maxwell
Hi, This raises an interesting question, here in New Zealand and Australia we have public sites that Aeronautical Information Publications can be downloaded from. These consist of approach templates, Operation Data etc. Do other countries have similar sites? I feel this might be a handy

Re: [Flightgear-users] error in airport data

2005-11-28 Thread Carsten Hoefer
Andy Ross schrieb: Carsten Hoefer wrote: Yes it's this airport. I do live next to it and any plane starting on 36 would fly directly over my flat. The official airport site states, that runway 18 is only allowed in this direction. The key words being in this direction. Runway 36 is

Re: [Flightgear-users] Frames/Second and Hardware survey

2005-11-28 Thread dene maxwell
No wonder it stays at 55 the entire flight..:- thanks Dene From: Gerard ROBIN [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: FlightGear user discussions flightgear-users@flightgear.org To: FlightGear user discussions flightgear-users@flightgear.org Subject: Re: [Flightgear-users] Frames/Second and Hardware

Re: [Flightgear-users] error in airport data

2005-11-28 Thread Durk Talsma
On Monday 28 November 2005 23:00, Andy Ross wrote: Basically, it sounds like you are asking the FlightGear/X-Plane airport database to understand that takeoffs are not allowed on runway 36 and therefore place the aircraft on some other runway at startup, which is something is just isn't

Re: [Flightgear-users] Scenery 0.9.9 Airport LFPO (Paris Orly) is wrong

2005-11-28 Thread Jon Stockill
Gerard ROBIN wrote: I do not understand why that error continue to be there, i gave the information in June, i rebuilt that scenery, i offered it. Nothing is done with the 0.9.9 Scenery. Airport updates need to be sent to Robin Peel. That way they are fixed at source, and everyone benefits

Re: [Flightgear-users] Scenery 0.9.9 Airport LFPO (Paris Orly) is wrong

2005-11-28 Thread Gerard ROBIN
Le lundi 28 novembre 2005 à 22:57 +, Jon Stockill a écrit : Gerard ROBIN wrote: I do not understand why that error continue to be there, i gave the information in June, i rebuilt that scenery, i offered it. Nothing is done with the 0.9.9 Scenery. Airport updates need to be sent

Re: [Flightgear-users] error in airport data

2005-11-28 Thread David Luff
Josh Babcock writes: David Luff wrote: Isn't one of the Nepalese ones with a big mountain at one end (Lukla?) effectively unidirectional due to the obstacle? It can't be, since you have to take off in the opposite direction that you land. A one direction runway would have you

Re: [Flightgear-users] error in airport data

2005-11-28 Thread Gerard ROBIN
Le mardi 29 novembre 2005 à 00:32 +, David Luff a écrit : Gerard ROBIN writes: What can be said when the AC is out of the Runway ? See the other thread : Scenery 0.9.9 Airport LFPO (Paris Orly) is wrong This looks at first glance like a mismatch between the generated

[Flightgear-users] Re: Frames/Second and Hardware survey

2005-11-28 Thread Chris Wilkinson
Hi there Paul Duncan [EMAIL PROTECTED] was reputed to have said: It seems we could do with a little spreadsheet like we used to have which gives frames/second for a given hardware/OS combination. If you guys on the list could E-mail me the following info, I'll make a nice little

[Flightgear-users] 3D panel's not working?

2005-11-28 Thread Rick Hayter
Just found this program yesterday... LOVE IT! Everything works well (even got my old CH flightstick to work!), but whenever I choose an aircraft with a 3d panel, I get a BLANK panel. I've read some of the docs, and looked at some of the xml files, but could sure use some pointers. Anybody know

[Flightgear-users] Panoramic Display and cockpit controls help

2005-11-28 Thread Ryan Kellar
Hi, I am new to using FlightGear and am currently working on a project that involves a flight simulator with a Cessna cockpit and a screen that is divided into 3 sections in sort of a wrap around(not fully, but tilted to give a more panoramic view. Each board is displayed using a