Re: [Flightgear-users] Instrument Panel development tools?
Hi Bill Take a look at the 737 panel and the 747 panel. The 737 panel is 2D which is a texture only panel. This panel is a complete pilots panel with both pilots and copilots instruments.To see the whole panel use ctrl-f5 f6 to move up and down and ctrl f7 f8 to move side to side.You can try clicking on the auto pilot panel to see hot spots working although a lot of them no longer work due to changes to FG code since the panel was built. The 747 panel is a 3D panel in this case the instruments are 3D objects with textures applied.The 747 as far as I know has no hotspots but that is because they have not been done not because they can't be done. If you want to check for hotspots on a panel in an aircraft press ctrl-C(I think it is) and yellow squares will appear on the panel were the hotspots are. Both types of panel have there pro's con's but most people here favour 3D so I will just go along with the crowd. Once you have had a look at the panels you can check out there XML files to see how each type is constructed. HTH Cheers Innis ___ Flightgear-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.flightgear.org/mailman/listinfo/flightgear-users 2f585eeea02e2c79d7b1d8c4963bae2d
RE: [Flightgear-users] Radios and other stuff.
[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, where can I learn how to use them, (the ones in flightgear). I think there is a learn to fly somewere in the documentation. 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 runway? Probably takes about two years of flying to get a basic knowledge. But if you Google agound for things like ADF,VOR ILS you may be able to understand how the systems work. 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. HTH Cheers Innis ___ Flightgear-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.flightgear.org/mailman/listinfo/flightgear-users 2f585eeea02e2c79d7b1d8c4963bae2d
[Flightgear-users] Re: Radios and other stuff.
* [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Tuesday 21 December 2004 07:26: 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 [...] http://www.navfltsm.addr.com/ m. ___ Flightgear-users mailing list Flightgear-users@flightgear.org http://mail.flightgear.org/mailman/listinfo/flightgear-users 2f585eeea02e2c79d7b1d8c4963bae2d
Re: [Flightgear-users] Instrument Panel development tools?
Am Dienstag 21 Dezember 2004 01:47 schrieb Curtis L. Olson: ... For visualization while you work try hitting F3 (or is it shift-F3?) One of those reloads the panel, and the other takes a screen shot, I always forget which is which. But that let's you work on your panel and see the results immediately in a live running copy of FG. Aahhh. Now the 'Debug' menu makes sense to me :-) Thanks. Thomas ___ Flightgear-users mailing list Flightgear-users@flightgear.org http://mail.flightgear.org/mailman/listinfo/flightgear-users 2f585eeea02e2c79d7b1d8c4963bae2d
Re: [Flightgear-users] Instrument Panel development tools?
On Tuesday 21 December 2004 01:47, Curtis L. Olson wrote: For visualization while you work try hitting F3 (or is it shift-F3?) One of those reloads the panel, and the other takes a screen shot, I always forget which is which. But that let's you work on your panel and see the results immediately in a live running copy of FG. This only works for 2d panels. And it does not work for a 2d panel included in the 3d model, like the default C172. -- Roy Vegard Ovesen ___ Flightgear-users mailing list Flightgear-users@flightgear.org http://mail.flightgear.org/mailman/listinfo/flightgear-users 2f585eeea02e2c79d7b1d8c4963bae2d
Re: [Flightgear-users] Radios and other stuff.
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 normally needs about 40 hours training to be able to fly holds and approaches within tolerance for the instrument rating, but most pilots have the basics of VOR/DME/ADF/ILS down after about 5 hours practice, even if they're pretty sloppy at that point. A lot of the 40 hours are spent learning to fly on the gyros when you cannot see out the windows, not learning how to use the nav instruments. Most of IFR ground school, in Canada at least, is spent on weather and regulations, not navigation radios. Before the original poster tries that, though, it would be a good idea to get the basic airmanship down -- learn to use the central six instruments, and learn to maintain heading, airspeed, and altitude. Once that's all down, it's good to practice again in IMC, where the instruments are your only reference. 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 instruments, rather than just use them? All the best, David -- http://www.megginson.com/ ___ Flightgear-users mailing list Flightgear-users@flightgear.org http://mail.flightgear.org/mailman/listinfo/flightgear-users 2f585eeea02e2c79d7b1d8c4963bae2d
Re: [Flightgear-users] Radios and other stuff.
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 instruments, rather than just use them? All the best, David Depends how long ago he trained, I once saw an ancient ADF, the size of a dinner-plate. You probably had to know how to stoke the boiler on that one ;-) ___ Flightgear-users mailing list Flightgear-users@flightgear.org http://mail.flightgear.org/mailman/listinfo/flightgear-users 2f585eeea02e2c79d7b1d8c4963bae2d
[Flightgear-users] [from Avsim] fgjs hangs when configuring Logitech Freedom 2.4
http://forums.avsim.net/dcboard.php?az=show_topicforum=198topic_id=496mode=full Ampere ___ Flightgear-users mailing list Flightgear-users@flightgear.org http://mail.flightgear.org/mailman/listinfo/flightgear-users 2f585eeea02e2c79d7b1d8c4963bae2d
Re: [Flightgear-users] Instrument Panel development tools?
Does anybody know what happened to this project: http://www.chez.com/tipunch/fgpanel/ Erik ___ Flightgear-users mailing list Flightgear-users@flightgear.org http://mail.flightgear.org/mailman/listinfo/flightgear-users 2f585eeea02e2c79d7b1d8c4963bae2d
[Flightgear-users] Can't Configure Joystick
I'm trying to get a Logitech Attack 3 to work with FlightGear, but things aren't going as FlightGear.org's documentation suggests. Whenever I run js_demo and jstest, the joystick is recognized, so at least that works correctly. I'm running this on my dad's SuSE 9.1 Linux box, and SuSE seems to treat FlightGear differently than other distros, as it has a custom-made SuSE package for FlightGear (not the standard-issue rpm or compiled-from-source), and many paths are different. For example, the instructions say to run cd /usr/local/FlightGear/Input/Joysticks, but in SuSE, one must run cd /usr/lib/FlightGear/data/Input/Joysticks. This may have some effect on why things aren't acting correctly: Whenever I run fgjs, everything works fine to configure the joystick to work. However, it's supposed to create the file fgfsrc.js, which cannot be located anywhere on the hard drive. Has anyone else had a problem with it not producing a configuration file? And could somebody please assist me? Thank you. ___ Flightgear-users mailing list Flightgear-users@flightgear.org http://mail.flightgear.org/mailman/listinfo/flightgear-users 2f585eeea02e2c79d7b1d8c4963bae2d
Re: [Flightgear-users] Can't Configure Joystick
On Tuesday 21 December 2004 10:31 pm, Mr. Nigel Chuckletrousers wrote: I'm trying to get a Logitech Attack 3 to work with FlightGear, but things aren't going as FlightGear.org's documentation suggests. Whenever I run js_demo and jstest, the joystick is recognized, so at least that works correctly. I'm running this on my dad's SuSE 9.1 Linux box, and SuSE seems to treat FlightGear differently than other distros, as it has a custom-made SuSE package for FlightGear (not the standard-issue rpm or compiled-from-source), and many paths are different. For example, the instructions say to run cd /usr/local/FlightGear/Input/Joysticks, but in SuSE, one must run cd /usr/lib/FlightGear/data/Input/Joysticks. This may have some effect on why things aren't acting correctly: Whenever I run fgjs, everything works fine to configure the joystick to work. However, it's supposed to create the file fgfsrc.js, which cannot be located anywhere on the hard drive. Has anyone else had a problem with it not producing a configuration file? And could somebody please assist me? Thank you. I have no knowledge of SuSE. I installed from source. For me fgjs creates fgfsrc.js in the current directory. Since I ran it from my home directory that's where my file was created. If I tried to run it from a directory for which I didn't have write permissions -- who knows? I ended up manually creating an xml file for my joystick: I added an entry for my_joystick.xml to /usr/share/FlightGear/joysticks.xml and then created my_joystick.xml and added it to /usr/share/FlightGear/Input/Joysticks/my_joystick's_manufacturer/ I based my_joystick.xml on that for a simple CH-compatable stick with 4 axis and 4 buttons in /usr/share/FlightGear/Input/Joysticks/ which had a similar number of buttons, sliders, axis, triggers, etc. ___ Flightgear-users mailing list Flightgear-users@flightgear.org http://mail.flightgear.org/mailman/listinfo/flightgear-users 2f585eeea02e2c79d7b1d8c4963bae2d
