Attached are patches for adding the command line options to set initial
glideslope and climb rate. This was really easy to do as all the pieces
were in place. It works well with JSBSim because the trimming routine
finds the right throttle and elevator settings. It should work with
LaRCsim as well, but it has no trimming routine so there will be some
dynamics at startup. I don't know what YASim will do.
the panel controls for the autopilot. The heading dialog would only show the
last setting you did through it, even if it was later tweaked with the bug on
the hsi. The altitude dialog did a similar thing. Now the values default to
the same that show on the panel displays.
via the command line (--enable-clock-freeze / --disable-clock-freeze)
and can be toggled during a run. However this property is not currently
bound to any menu or keystroke so you have to do it via the gui property
interface or externally via the web property browser or a script.
are being driven from an external data source.)
Akso found and fixed a bug in the simgear that caused the time to go goofy
temporarily while scenery was being loaded.
as well as visibility.
This means that if you are using this protocal to exchange data with a
visual channel, you should be able to change time and visibility on the master
and all the slaved visual channels will match it.
Attached is a fix to add a short period of cranking time required
before the engine fires. I've also added a little hack to limit the
torque applied by the starter motor when the rpm is less than 10 in
order to avoid the rpm overshooting idle in the first time step when
the prop is producing very little resistance due to the low rpm.
- remove buffer with class scope
- remove variable 'length' (isn't used anywhere)
- make process_command private (it isn't used anywhere outside, and it
shouldn't be)
- define buffers where they are needed (two places)
- comment out stale debug message (it doesn't buy anything, because the
contents are output two lines below, anyway)
- let every error message begin with "ERR ". This makes error messages
less beautiful, but easier to recognize for scripts. Every internet
protocol that outputs text, has such a tag for distinguishing regular
output from error messages. (pop3 uses "-ERR ", smtp uses error codes,
etc.)
