Re: [Flightgear-devel] Catalina- Water and Solid ground.

[gh.robin <gh....@la...>]

On dim 9 septembre 2007, Georg Vollnhals wrote:

>
> I don't know whether you can see the screenshots in my German FG Forum
> post (as you are only a guest, not logged in),
> but here is the link *just* for info as you cannot understand German
>
> http://www.flight-gear.de/smf/index.php?topic=3D415.msg2445#new
>

Oh nice, i could read the German ( i don't write it )
 and thanks for that free advertising :)  the French "FireFighter Pelican=20
Jaune" will become popular in Germany. May be some German people who had=20
holidays in the south of France from 1964 to 1970  could remember it.

> What I could not manage until now is to see the water falling after
> filling the a/c on sea as you described (used "L", enough speed and time).
> When I press "l" there is a little stutter (which might be caused by the
> falling-water-sim) but I cannot see anything.
> I tried it with both versions of the Catalina.
> It might be related to my FG version - it is OSG but not osgviewer (I
> tried to compile it with --enable-osgviewer but got an error at last,
> have to try it within the next days again). The "water-spray" effect is
> visible but not the "falling water".

That is a pity,=20
The bombing effect is only done with our standard submodels, which works wi=
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=46G osg and FG plib.
So, i don't explain that you don't see it.

When the water tank (/consumables/fuel/tank[3] is fully loaded (1083 gal_us=
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the Aircraft has some difficulties  to get altitude,=20
To  load ,=20
usually i start to get in touch, gliding on the water, at 100 kts with half=
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throttle and the elevator  pushed to keep the nose on the water
i need, during loading, to increase to full throttle and, to release the=20
elevator, in order, to raise the nose, and to reduce the drag, the aircraft=
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is getting more and more weight and the speed decrease to 70 kts. (during t=
he=20
loading period you must see the wakes, which is significant that you are in=
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touch).
Anyhow, in order to give that feature easier , i have included a switch whi=
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accept to bomb with at least 500 gal_us of water (you have it).

I know, i must implement an outside and inside indicator  which says , "ok =
you=20
have enough", :)

To check the loading you may from the menu use the property browser
with /consumables/fuel/tank[3].
>
> Regards
> Georg
>


Thanks
Cheers


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G=E9rard