by CareyParks » Sun Feb 02, 2014 6:04 am
Thanks Gijs, sadly I can't get the RV-6A I downloaded the "normal way" to start. And the console is not positioned properly to even see the controls on it.I don't see a mag switch, or there is some other issue preventing starting. It will crank, but not start - like if the mags were off. I thought I would try moving the console back and labeling the switches and maybe after that I'd know enough to figure out what is needed to make it go. Of course I'll download the "source" for a working aircraft too, so I can see what might be missing.
So, I'd like to have the source or whatever is needed to make modifications to the aircraft, eventually turning it into an RV-7.
That said, I have not found anything very useful that explains how to do that. Other than in generalities that is. And someone coming from a Microsoft background doesn't even recognize all the Linix words. Which I'm sure will cause some to say/think "well, this isn't a Unix/Linix training project, it's a flight simulator development project."
Fair enough. But I operate quite well by following examples and learning by doing. Is there someplace that would lead one through the steps required to download an aircraft's source, add a placard on the panel and run it in FlightGear on one's own computer? The examples I've seen here and there look like command line instructions, but doing that is way down-stream from sitting at my Window's 8 notebook looking at a pile of XML files and obviously generated geometries. Typing that into a DOS prompt I suspect would be futile.
Thanks to anyone who can get me started. I could contribute a fair amount of stuff, and I've programmed lots of different things since my first program in 1969! Just never got into UNIX/LINIX (yet.)
Best,
Carey
Working on
Aircraft: RV-7
Airports: Page Field, Ft Myers, FL