Re: [Flightgear-users] Airplanes
--- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Also, how do you close the cockpit canopy on the YF-22 simm - it stays open throughout flights. Ooh, ooh - I think I know the answer to this one! I believe that the cockpit canopy is linked to the parking brake - so if you release the brake the canopy should close, and applying the brake will cause the canopy to open again. Although, if this is right, I'm not sure how you're managing to get airborne with the parking brake applied! :-) Regards Andrew ___ ALL-NEW Yahoo! Messenger - all new features - even more fun! http://uk.messenger.yahoo.com ___ Flightgear-users mailing list Flightgear-users@flightgear.org http://mail.flightgear.org/mailman/listinfo/flightgear-users 2f585eeea02e2c79d7b1d8c4963bae2d
Re: [Flightgear-users] Re: fgfs 0.9.6 scenery instalation
--- Erik Hofman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Are you familliar with fgrun: http://sourceforge.net/projects/fgrun I wasn't - I am now. :-) I'm not sure whether to be pleased that someone has saved me the effort of building my own version, or upset that I spent valuable flying time on something I didn't need! Thanks for the pointer. Regards Andrew ___ Win a castle for NYE with your mates and Yahoo! Messenger http://uk.messenger.yahoo.com ___ Flightgear-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.flightgear.org/mailman/listinfo/flightgear-users 2f585eeea02e2c79d7b1d8c4963bae2d
Re: [Flightgear-users] Re: fgfs 0.9.6 scenery instalation
--- Charalampos Alexopoulos [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: fgrun is great utility but have binaries only for Windows, for me was really easier to build my own in Java than to mess around with compilation in C++.My level in C++ is less than elementary. The only real problem I had compiling it was that I didn't have the fltk libraries installed. A quick Google to find out what I needed to provide Fl.h and I was away. It's a shame that there is no real documentation for the project on SourceForge. In fact, if Erik hadn't mentioned it here I would never have realised it existed. It makes me wonder what other useful projects are out there. Regards Andrew ___ Win a castle for NYE with your mates and Yahoo! Messenger http://uk.messenger.yahoo.com ___ Flightgear-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.flightgear.org/mailman/listinfo/flightgear-users 2f585eeea02e2c79d7b1d8c4963bae2d
Re: [Flightgear-users] NASA Worldwind
--- Paul Surgeon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Just out of interest has anyone ever done a poll to find out who uses what OS for FG? It would be interesting and possibly useful info to see what OS's are the most popular for FG especially amongst the developer community. I'm not a developer (at least not for FlightGear), but for what it's worth - Suse Linux 9.1. Regards Andrew ___ ALL-NEW Yahoo! Messenger - all new features - even more fun! http://uk.messenger.yahoo.com ___ Flightgear-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.flightgear.org/mailman/listinfo/flightgear-users 2f585eeea02e2c79d7b1d8c4963bae2d
Re: [Flightgear-users] Re: fgfs 0.9.6 scenery instalation
--- David Luff [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 12/7/04 at 9:52 AM Melchior FRANZ wrote: * Ampere K. Hardraade -- Tuesday 07 December 2004 05:48: Perhaps it will be a good idea to think about having a config-file that is loaded everytime Flightgear starts? Good Idea. We could call it system.fgfsrc, or ~/.fgfsrc, or even ~/.fgfsrc.hostname! m. ;-) AFAICT, though, FG doesn't *write* to this config file when menu entries are changed. It would be a good idea IMHO to store settings changed in the menus in ~/.fgfsrc or similar, and have a read-only master copy in the base somewhere for the 'restore defaults' button that would be inevitably needed. I don't know if this will be of interest to anyone, but I have started working on a 'front-end' to FlightGear. It's written in Python using the wxPython GUI library, and at the moment just lets you select an aircraft, airport and runway, although I was planning on including as many of the command-line arguments as I can. I started it because I' too lazy to keep typing the arguments in, but I like to experiment. :-) I was thinking that it could be extended to read .fgfsrc, or a separate config file, to get a set of startup defaults. I'll look into getting it hosted somewhere, if anyone would like to take a look. Regards Andrew ___ Moving house? Beach bar in Thailand? New Wardrobe? Win £10k with Yahoo! Mail to make your dream a reality. Get Yahoo! Mail www.yahoo.co.uk/10k ___ Flightgear-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.flightgear.org/mailman/listinfo/flightgear-users 2f585eeea02e2c79d7b1d8c4963bae2d
Re: [Flightgear-users] Very slow FlightGear
--- Chris Metzler [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Do the command glxinfo and see if you see a line near the top (3 lines in or so) that says: } direct rendering: Yes If it says No, that's your problem, and it's time to play with your drivers and X configuration. Many thanks - that's it. I'm off to work now, so I'll look at it when I'm back. Regards Andrew ___ Win a castle for NYE with your mates and Yahoo! Messenger http://uk.messenger.yahoo.com ___ Flightgear-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.flightgear.org/mailman/listinfo/flightgear-users 2f585eeea02e2c79d7b1d8c4963bae2d
[Flightgear-users] Very slow FlightGear
Over the weekend I had to re-install the OS on my PC (Suse Linux 9.1), so I decided that I would build FlightGear from source (I have used the RPM's before). I downloaded the 0.9.6 source code, plus the latest versions of SimGear (0.3.7), OpenAL and PLib. Everything appears to build OK, but FlightGear is *very* slow. With all of the rendering options switched off, except display frame rate, I am getting a reported 1 frame per second (and it looks a lot slower to me). The PC ran FlightGear absolutely fine before, so I don't think this is a problem with the hardware spec (Athlon 2600 XP+, 512MB RAM, NVidia GeForce4 MX 440). Did I miss an option in the compile? Any light that anyone can throw on this would be much appreciated. Regards Andrew ___ Moving house? Beach bar in Thailand? New Wardrobe? Win £10k with Yahoo! Mail to make your dream a reality. Get Yahoo! Mail www.yahoo.co.uk/10k ___ Flightgear-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.flightgear.org/mailman/listinfo/flightgear-users 2f585eeea02e2c79d7b1d8c4963bae2d
Re: [Flightgear-users] Small Problems
--- Dave Perry [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: But you must fly coordinated with any joystick or real airplane. In the real ac, you get used to using the rudder to keep the force on you straight down into your seat, even in a bank. When the ball is not centered, the g-force vector is pointing perpendicular to the glass tube at the ball location. The ball is feeling the uncoordinated flight and so are your passengers. I think the p-factor on the fgfs c172p is very realistic. I last flew a real c172 on Tuesday this week. View of a former flight instructor with 1600 hours, Well I think I can accept that as correct then. :-) What this suggests to me is that adjusting the trim before take off is correct, but that if it is adjusted far enough that the aircraft holds the centre line on takeoff with no input from the pilot, then it has been adjusted too far. Of course, without my joystick problems maybe I wouldn't need to adjust the standard trim at all. I still don't understand why FlightGear is having a problem with this joystick when no other application seems to. I tried the Linux demo of X-Plane over the weekend, and the joystick worked fine then. This doesn't make sense to me as both applications should be receiving the same data from the stick. ___ Win a castle for NYE with your mates and Yahoo! Messenger http://uk.messenger.yahoo.com ___ Flightgear-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.flightgear.org/mailman/listinfo/flightgear-users 2f585eeea02e2c79d7b1d8c4963bae2d
[Flightgear-users] Small problems
I have been playing with FlightGear recently, having not looked at it for a while, and have a couple of questions. The first is - should the Cessna constantly turn to the left? I know that planes don't fly straight and level without input from the pilot, but this seems extreme. With my hands off the controls it will roll almost to 90 degrees within a few seconds. I have to keep the joystick permanently over to the right to try to keep it on course. This wouldn't be so bad if FlighGear would let me trim the craft to counteract the roll, but I can't see anything in the documentation about this. It seems that you can trim the pitch of the plane, but that's it. The second question is - does the autopilot work? I have tried entering course and altitude settings and enabling the Heading and Pitch/Altitude controls, but this doesn't seem to have any effect. This could well be my operator error, but I really can't find a way to get the thing to work. Sorry for the length of this post, but if I could just get these things sorted out it would make FlightGear a much more enjoyable experience. TIA Andrew ___ Win a castle for NYE with your mates and Yahoo! Messenger http://uk.messenger.yahoo.com ___ Flightgear-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.flightgear.org/mailman/listinfo/flightgear-users 2f585eeea02e2c79d7b1d8c4963bae2d
Re: [Flightgear-users] Small problems
--- Craig Goodyear [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I was having the same problem. I corrected it by adjusting the aileron trim. Go to Browse Internal Properties and select controls/flight/aileron-trim to enter the required value. That was it! Thanks to everyone that offered advice. It's nice to know that there are people prepared to help. In case it helps anyone else the original value for aileron-trim was 0.027000, and changing it to 0.075000 seems to have solved the problem.I shall also follow Paul's advice to add keyboard mappings for the aileron trim, which should help as well. Thanks also Paul for the help with the autopilot. I think the problem was that I hadn't realised what that box at the bottom of the stack was, so I was trying to set it in the dialog you get from the menu. I can see I have a lot to learn here! But at least it should be fun learning. Thanks again for all the help. Andrew ___ Moving house? Beach bar in Thailand? New Wardrobe? Win £10k with Yahoo! Mail to make your dream a reality. Get Yahoo! Mail www.yahoo.co.uk/10k ___ Flightgear-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.flightgear.org/mailman/listinfo/flightgear-users 2f585eeea02e2c79d7b1d8c4963bae2d
