Wednesday, April 20, 2011

AH-1 and newest FG snapshot

Does anyone know if the AH-1 Cobra model from the hangar works with the latest snapshot release of FlightGear?
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5 comments:

  1. AnonymousApril 21, 2011 at 12:00 AM

    I built the git version this morning for (Fedora 14) and tried the AH-1S. For me it starts in a pre-crashed position, the screen is black but the external view shows the nose is in the ground.

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  2. Dave CulpApril 21, 2011 at 4:00 PM

    Thanks for the test. Looks like it's not ground trimming correctly in the latest FG. Maybe not all the new JSBSim files have been sent over yet.

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  3. Dave CulpApril 21, 2011 at 9:23 PM

    I just built today's FG code, and the AH-1S is crashed on start-up, just as you found with your build. I'll copy over the JSBSim code and rebuild. I'm hoping that fixes it.

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  4. Dave CulpApril 22, 2011 at 11:13 AM

    Building JSBSim code into FG solves the problem, so we'll have to wait a bit longer before the FG snapshot will support the newer rotor code.

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  5. Dave CulpApril 23, 2011 at 3:53 PM

    OK, just got word from Erik Hofman that there was a bug in the transfer script from JSBSim to FG, which is now fixed, and that FG bleeding edge code is now up-to-date with JSBSim.

    What this means is that you should be able to fly the AH-1S, JSBSim demo chopper, in FG. Let me know what you think.

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