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Sorry for all the crossing messages--weekends means dealing with deferred personal todo list as well as business.
I am reasonably certain this is a dot net 2.0 issue, and that the '0907 dotNet' installer on box.net will make the issue go away.
Paul
Vista or XP?
If Vista try right click on iMyPlaces and run as administrator.
If XP: I just took a new plain jane xp eee pc out of the box and ran 0907 and, of course, it wanted .NET 2.0 or better.
In SFlightBag 0907 box.net online there is a new…
Hmmm...Vista or XP?
Do you already have the trial edition of Symbolic Flight installed? If so, you already had the 0907 data.
I see you did download the 0907 data. Same problem? Or OK?
If not OK: The installer attempts to do two major things: pla…
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Sunshine on Symbolic Flight with 14,000 foot Mt Shasta ahead and Samsung Q1U mounted in center of glareshield. Mid-day in July. We're at 8500 ft. over 7000 ft. mountains heading North.
Donald,
Tours are generated from the flight plan grid data, with tour altitude controlled by crossing altitude. In the current version the origin and destination altitudes are set to field elevation. [Earlier versions set origin and destination to…
Comment Wall (10 comments)
- At 4:27am on June 29, 2009,
Paul Mace said…
- So, here I am in Boston with Nat and there you are out west, a reversal of geographic fortune I'll be correcting in a couple of days. In Oregon a hill must be taller than a building to be considered remarkable. The problem with trial and error design is that hinges on the belief you can overcome any obstacle as knowledge unfolds. Like flying up a narrowing canyon under low clouds. Not that I've ever done either.
- At 10:06pm on June 28, 2009,
Dennis Schneider said…
- I suspect Nat's off by now - I just arrived in Denver. The 'real' comment was "Debugging a design into existence" - and it's not mine. A very smart senior engineering manager at Digital Equipment named Jesse Lipcon produced that comment when assessing the very first attempt at a 150Mhz clock speed desktop computer. That attempt had to be trashed
- At 1:09pm on June 4, 2009,
Paul Mace said…
- You're the second person today. I suspect you have your desktop set to 120dpi instead of the std 96 dpi. That makes everything 25% bigger--and the application is designed for 1024 width at 96 dpi. I'm working on a redesign to cure this at the moment. Expect I'll have something that helps today.
- At 12:54pm on June 4, 2009,
William Drummond said…
- Paul,
I'm making progress, slowly. Here's my new problem. Inside the Symbolic Flight window, I'm unable to see a "regions" button. I get prompted to "select region." Am I missing something?
- At 4:06pm on May 2, 2009,
jeff harris said…
- think I got it thanks again - jeff
- At 5:17pm on May 1, 2009,
jeff harris said…
- now i cant unzip the file unless I change the permissions for the folders in vista do you know how to do that?
- At 4:27pm on May 1, 2009,
jeff harris said…
- tried again and the download took think I'm ok, thank you
- At 4:21pm on May 1, 2009,
jeff harris said…
- thx I got the files and it said it downloaded but did not ask where I wanted to save the files? Turned on GE and it was not there, I'm pretty computer savy but need some guidance please
- At 10:18pm on March 30, 2009,
Kevin R. Walsh said…
- Mac is possible. OS X is basically unix, and offer much more stability than Windows (we won't even talk about Vista). I would have to investigate the possibility of putting OS X on an intel chip on a small form factor (Mini-itx, possibly). It is really important to be able to have a small machine, and run it entirely from flash memory. Hard disks and altitude are not long term compatible.
- At 4:22pm on March 30, 2009,
Kevin R. Walsh said…
- Putting an accessible RS232 for the GTX330 is easy enough when we install the GTX330. ARINC seems to be how Brand G wants everything to talk to each other.
"The issue with Linux [and the Mac] isn't me, it's the current Google Earth web application interface." Good to know, I thought perhaps it was an issue with porting your interface, but sounds like that is the easier part.
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S03 to KRHV with Symbolic Flight
We decided Wednesday night to skip the drive and fly to the Bay Area instead. Kathleen was so unhappy with the backache she got in her post-car-crash rental car that she embraced a 2 hour flight as alternative to 6 hour drive on the I-5. WooHoo!
I've been having power cord problems with the Xenarc [have had two 'cord' probles thus far]..and predictably they were not fixed when I put it back in the plane.
BUT...I had brought the Q1U as a backup. A little hsdpa modem update work later and off we… Continue
I've been having power cord problems with the Xenarc [have had two 'cord' probles thus far]..and predictably they were not fixed when I put it back in the plane.
BUT...I had brought the Q1U as a backup. A little hsdpa modem update work later and off we… Continue
Posted on July 17, 2009 at 9:28am —
Algiz8 a major disappointment.
The closest thing to an all in one system, the Algiz 8. won't work. :(:(:(
Yes: 1100 nits, built-in gps, long battery life, ram mount. We got an eval unit and it is a big disappointment. It is very bright, but at the price of extremely narrow viewing angle, which makes it hard to position in the cockpit.
Also, they did not do a great job with reflectivity. so the 'white shirt' phenomena is pronounced. Even if we could live with all that, it has serious system integration problems with GPS and… Continue
Yes: 1100 nits, built-in gps, long battery life, ram mount. We got an eval unit and it is a big disappointment. It is very bright, but at the price of extremely narrow viewing angle, which makes it hard to position in the cockpit.
Also, they did not do a great job with reflectivity. so the 'white shirt' phenomena is pronounced. Even if we could live with all that, it has serious system integration problems with GPS and… Continue
Posted on July 4, 2009 at 1:00pm —
Putting together a portable system with Symbolic Flight
Test Results in daytime flight [mounted on the left, even with the glareshield, at approx. eye-level] the following (use a finger not a stylus) touchscreen devices:
Fujitsu 810 + Ram mount. 200 nits. 5.25 inch touchscreen. 1024x600 touchscreen Windows Vista. SF works well. Device nice size for cockpit. Screen too small for tired eyes. Not bright enough even under normal daylight. Std. Battery life about 3.5-4 hours. No SSD. Car charger available. ~$1100
Samsung Q1U + Ram m… Continue
Fujitsu 810 + Ram mount. 200 nits. 5.25 inch touchscreen. 1024x600 touchscreen Windows Vista. SF works well. Device nice size for cockpit. Screen too small for tired eyes. Not bright enough even under normal daylight. Std. Battery life about 3.5-4 hours. No SSD. Car charger available. ~$1100
Samsung Q1U + Ram m… Continue
Posted on June 24, 2009 at 9:00am —
The hits keep coming--2.75i posted.
I woke up and saw a simple way way to make Flight Plan really fast.
Okay, I woke up. And I did see a way to give Mike and Nat what they've been leaning on me to do...make creating a series of waypoints fast and simple.
The New Flight Plan button now pops up a text box with the following instructions:
Type in WayPoints, one to a line.
Use an Airport Identifier such as S03 or KSQL, or Navaid Identifier such as RBL, or waypoint name such as VPWAM, or all (or part) of the Common Name such as Pil… Continue
Okay, I woke up. And I did see a way to give Mike and Nat what they've been leaning on me to do...make creating a series of waypoints fast and simple.
The New Flight Plan button now pops up a text box with the following instructions:
Type in WayPoints, one to a line.
Use an Airport Identifier such as S03 or KSQL, or Navaid Identifier such as RBL, or waypoint name such as VPWAM, or all (or part) of the Common Name such as Pil… Continue
Posted on June 23, 2009 at 6:30pm —
"Another picture-perfect flight - IMC outside - VFR inside :)"
Nat went flying IFR with SymbolicFlight on a Motion Computing LS800 with Windows XP, driven by our Globalsat bluetooth GPS.
Makes all the work worthwhile. And makes me deeply appreciative of my customer/collaborators.
Paul
Makes all the work worthwhile. And makes me deeply appreciative of my customer/collaborators.
Paul
Posted on June 22, 2009 at 9:28am —
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