[Flightgear-devel] Cessna 172p cockpit improvement

[Stephan B. <ste...@ho...>]

Hello everybody,
I have been looking at improving the Cessna 172p cockpit. I have been mostly focusing on the instruments. I am creating new 256px textures, and modifying the geometry and xml files when required. All the work is based on pictures of Cessna cockpits and pictures of instruments posted by avionics resellers. So far I have been working from the latest c172p model from the website, and running Flightgear 1.9.1-1 on Ubuntu.
You can see the work done so far on https://picasaweb.google.com/lh/photo/l-C4kL0msqOhfYg3pW78trtBKth8brfvXTX_6GVpOLg( The next picture shows a close-up. This album also contains older tests I made in 2010 )
Here are some questions:1. Should I work from a c172p model more recent than on the website? If so, where can I find the Aircrafts in gitorious?2. How do I contribute? Do I learn to use git and create a branch? Do I post the aircraft as a .zip file for someone to look at?3. Should I run a more recent flightgear version? (e.g. compile 2.4.0 from source)
Thank You. Please give feedback and comments on the changes.Yours,Stephan.