RE: [Flightgear-users] [OT] Aircraft Drawing Package
I thought of something like this for debugging Yasim models a couple of years back (http://mail.flightgear.org/pipermail/flightgear-users/2002-August/001511.html), but never got anything put together. If this works in 3D, it could be used to generate simple 3D models for external views in FG. So it is not offtopic at all! Richard -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Jon Berndt Sent: 17 August 2005 04:08 To: FlightGear user discussions Subject: RE: [Flightgear-users] [OT] Aircraft Drawing Package I've thought about this occasionally (how many of my posts start like that?). I wonder if there's anything that could do the reverse of that? Take an aircraft drawing (with labeled parts) and turn it into a DATCOM+ file? Jon -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Bill Galbraith Sent: Tuesday, August 16, 2005 7:39 PM To: 'FlightGear user discussions'; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [Flightgear-users] [OT] Aircraft Drawing Package Off Topic - Sorry if I am wasting your time I am looking for a graphics package to draw aircraft from my DATCOM+ configuration files. In that file, I have data available such as airfoil sections, wing span, fuselage cross-sections, horizontal and vertical tail locations, engine locations, etc. I'm not expecting highly detailed drawing, but merely rough pictures of what the aircraft looks like. I think it would help uncover problems in the configuration file. The input would be via a text file, which I can tailor to whatever is needed. I don't want to do any interaction with it (at least not yet). I fully expect to have to do something from scratch, but I thought I would ask first, to see if anyone has anything that they can suggest. Thanks, Bill This e-mail has been scanned for Bede Scientific Instruments for all viruses by Star Internet. The service is powered by MessageLabs. For more information on a proactive anti-virus service working around the clock, around the globe, visit: http://www.star.net.uk ___ Flightgear-users mailing list Flightgear-users@flightgear.org http://mail.flightgear.org/mailman/listinfo/flightgear-users 2f585eeea02e2c79d7b1d8c4963bae2d
Re: [Flightgear-users] setting GPS waypoints and flying with autopilot
On Tuesday 16 August 2005 15:21, Mike Rawlins wrote: Hi, In the past I've used the autopilot to fly between 5-letter GPS waypoints. IIRC, I would enter waypoints using menu or waypoint file and engage/disengage using ctrl-H. Lately when I enter a 5-letter GPS waypoint a message is issued in my shell window which reads: Failed to find STELR in basic.dat.gz Failed to find MAILS in basic.dat.gz Failed to find YARNN in basic.dat.gz IIRC basic.dat.gz used to hold the airport data. Now airport data is in apt.dat.gz. GPS fixes are (and AFAIK have always been) in fix.dat.gz. So those messages don't make much sense. as examples. However, a lat/lon pair do appear alongside waypoint name in the pop-down waypoint menu, so it could be that the right coordinates are being accessed. I guess that they are naturally not found in basic.dat.gz but found in fix.dat.gz. Maybe I just need to engage the waypoint tracker in the autopilot? I don't believe the KAP-140 is used to do this (?) The KAP140 in the C172 is connected to the navradio and the directional gyro. By altering the autopilot config file you should be able to connect it to the GPS instead, and input GPS fixes through the GPS GUI. -- Roy Vegard Ovesen ___ Flightgear-users mailing list Flightgear-users@flightgear.org http://mail.flightgear.org/mailman/listinfo/flightgear-users 2f585eeea02e2c79d7b1d8c4963bae2d
[Flightgear-users] Logging feature in FlightGear
Hello all, I am currently running FlightGear 0.9.2 and am trying to make sense of the "Logging" option in the File menu. It appears from the menu that you can log aircraft states (like attitude, rates, etc.) to a .csv file. I can't seem to find any .csv files and have not been able to find any documentation on this feature either. I would greatly appreciate any insight someone might have on this feature. Best regards, Daniel Zelazo ___ Flightgear-users mailing list Flightgear-users@flightgear.org http://mail.flightgear.org/mailman/listinfo/flightgear-users 2f585eeea02e2c79d7b1d8c4963bae2d
[Flightgear-users] adding new aircraft
but I am still trying to figure out where to enter the command. ___ Flightgear-users mailing list Flightgear-users@flightgear.org http://mail.flightgear.org/mailman/listinfo/flightgear-users 2f585eeea02e2c79d7b1d8c4963bae2d
Re: [Flightgear-users] adding new aircraft
On Wednesday 17 August 2005 20:12, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: but I am still trying to figure out where to enter the command. I suspect you'd be best forgetting about trying to start FG from the command line for the moment... If you are using the Windows FlightGear launcher and the added aircraft are not appearing in the selection panel, your most likely problem is that you've 1) Not uncompressed the downloaded tgz files or possibly most likely 2) Uncompressed them in the wrong place. You need to find your flightgear directory (as I don't use Windows, I can't remember where the default location is). In your FlightGear directory you should have a directory called Aircraft. This directory should contain a subdirectory for each aircraft installed, and nothing else (no files at all). This is where you should extract your downloaded aircraft to. Had you downloaded the Spitfire for example, you should have, within the Aircraft folder a directory named Spitfire which in turn contains subdirectories and several files including the aircraft-set.xml files. If all these things are correct, I would be amazed if the downloaded aircraft don't appear in the flightgear launcher selection window; I dare say some of the Windows users here can correct me if I'm talking nonsense. HTH, AJ ___ Flightgear-users mailing list Flightgear-users@flightgear.org http://mail.flightgear.org/mailman/listinfo/flightgear-users 2f585eeea02e2c79d7b1d8c4963bae2d
Re: [Flightgear-users] adding new aircraft
thanks for the reply I am checking it now ___ Flightgear-users mailing list Flightgear-users@flightgear.org http://mail.flightgear.org/mailman/listinfo/flightgear-users 2f585eeea02e2c79d7b1d8c4963bae2d
Re: [Flightgear-users] adding new aircraft
I unblocked the aircraft, they are uncompressed and in my aircraft folder, and still no aircraft? guess it wasn't meant to be lol ___ Flightgear-users mailing list Flightgear-users@flightgear.org http://mail.flightgear.org/mailman/listinfo/flightgear-users 2f585eeea02e2c79d7b1d8c4963bae2d
RE: [Flightgear-users] Logging feature in FlightGear
IIRC, FlightGear has it's own mechanism for logging data. I can't remember the way they go about it, however, you can set that up for JSBSim aircraft independent of FlightGear. See the OUTPUT section of some JSBSim aircraft (c172x, for one, maybe X-15 ...) Jon -Original Message-From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]On Behalf Of Dan ZelazoSent: Wednesday, August 17, 2005 3:04 PMTo: flightgear-users@flightgear.orgSubject: [Flightgear-users] Logging feature in FlightGear Hello all, I am currently running FlightGear 0.9.2 and am trying to make sense of the "Logging" option in the File menu. It appears from the menu that you can log aircraft states (like attitude, rates, etc.) to a .csv file. I can't seem to find any .csv files and have not been able to find any documentation on this feature either. I would greatly appreciate any insight someone might have on this feature. Best regards, Daniel Zelazo ___ Flightgear-users mailing list Flightgear-users@flightgear.org http://mail.flightgear.org/mailman/listinfo/flightgear-users 2f585eeea02e2c79d7b1d8c4963bae2d
Re: [Flightgear-users] adding new aircraft
On Wednesday 17 August 2005 23:13, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I unblocked the aircraft, they are uncompressed and in my aircraft folder, and still no aircraft? guess it wasn't meant to be lol Hmm.. This is the most recent version of FlightGear (0.9.8)? AJ ___ Flightgear-users mailing list Flightgear-users@flightgear.org http://mail.flightgear.org/mailman/listinfo/flightgear-users 2f585eeea02e2c79d7b1d8c4963bae2d
Re: [Flightgear-users] adding new aircraft
Selon [EMAIL PROTECTED]: I unblocked the aircraft, they are uncompressed and in my aircraft folder, and still no aircraft? guess it wasn't meant to be lol You should stop and restart the launcher now. -Fred ___ Flightgear-users mailing list Flightgear-users@flightgear.org http://mail.flightgear.org/mailman/listinfo/flightgear-users 2f585eeea02e2c79d7b1d8c4963bae2d
Re: [Flightgear-users] adding new aircraft
yes it is the most recent version. I downloaded it 3 days ago or redownloaded ___ Flightgear-users mailing list Flightgear-users@flightgear.org http://mail.flightgear.org/mailman/listinfo/flightgear-users 2f585eeea02e2c79d7b1d8c4963bae2d
