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Re: Space Shuttle - Development

Postby Thorsten » Mon Dec 17, 2018 2:46 pm

Halon - both installed and hand-held extinguishers.

And if unchecked, the fire will gradually fry everything inside the avionics bay (actually it took me quite a while to compile a list of what is in what bay, but I think it's mostly sorted out now).
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Re: Space Shuttle - Development

Postby GinGin » Mon Dec 17, 2018 10:01 pm

Awesome.
Always getting better is your leitmotiv :)

For sure, I will have a look to Fire checklist now ;)
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Re: Space Shuttle - Development

Postby bugman » Mon Dec 17, 2018 11:49 pm

I wouldn't be surprised if next you model smoke coming out of there :wink:

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Re: Space Shuttle - Development

Postby eatdirt » Tue Dec 18, 2018 10:13 pm

Got my first alarm today, main bus undervolts as a reminder for purging the fuel cells. Beautiful!!!! Well done guys!

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Re: Space Shuttle - Development

Postby eatdirt » Wed Dec 19, 2018 12:53 am

Hi guys,
I am seeing weird stuff from 4k of altitude in Earthview (outside the Shuttle this time). For instance, although these pictures look fine:

https://forum.flightgear.org/viewtopic.php?f=87&t=35078#p340073

in realtime, I am seeing very fast moving grey and noisy patches over Earth. They look like a succession of white and black triangular stripes confined within a small and transient patch, frequency of appearance and disappearance is fast, maybe it is at the same rate as the FPS.

I'll try to do a movie, but that is not easy!

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Re: Space Shuttle - Development

Postby Thorsten » Wed Dec 19, 2018 7:27 am

Save your video program the trouble - I know what it is - it's z-fighting between the cloud layer and the ground layer. The numerical accuracy of the renderer isn't good enough at this distance to see what is the uppermost layer.
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Re: Space Shuttle - Development

Postby Thorsten » Sat Dec 22, 2018 1:10 pm

LEO targeting is being equipped to handle rendezvous problems - here's a relative motion plot with chaser and target initialized in the same position but slightly different speed.

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Re: Space Shuttle - Development

Postby GinGin » Sat Dec 22, 2018 3:58 pm

Very nice :)
What are the Units used in the graphic?

I tested a lot of kind of failures, love the SM alert and all the sounds

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Re: Space Shuttle - Development

Postby Thorsten » Sat Dec 22, 2018 5:07 pm

What are the Units used in the graphic?


Meters I think.
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Re: Space Shuttle - Development

Postby Thorsten » Sun Dec 23, 2018 11:48 am

Ever wished for the ultimate HW to run the Shuttle sim?

Stafford Air and Space Museum got the NASA fixed base simulator

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- and I've just been contacted by the company preparing the exhibit about how the FG Shuttle can be rigged to drive the displays and external visuals.

I guess that'd be the ultimate way to enjoy the sim (I am so envious - I wanna fly this...)
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Re: Space Shuttle - Development

Postby D-ECHO » Sun Dec 23, 2018 12:12 pm

OMG, this is really cool. Thorsten, great work!
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Re: Space Shuttle - Development

Postby wlbragg » Sun Dec 23, 2018 5:56 pm

:mrgreen: :mrgreen: :mrgreen:
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Re: Space Shuttle - Development

Postby GinGin » Sun Dec 23, 2018 6:39 pm

Awesome :)
I don't know really who they can contact else.

If they need some testers, we are here xD
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Re: Space Shuttle - Development

Postby wlbragg » Sun Dec 23, 2018 7:33 pm

:idea: You know I am only 4 hours away if they should need anything, say a few switch requests :lol: or on-site testing. I'm definitely going to make a trip once it is up and running.
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Re: Space Shuttle - Development

Postby Thorsten » Sun Dec 23, 2018 7:46 pm

I was actually wondering whether you might be able to go see it (and take pictures and such...)
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