User:AndersG

Anders Gidenstam

Location	Sweden
MP callsign(s)	SE-AG
Website	http://www.gidenstam.org

Spare-time FlightGear developer since early 2006. Currently inactive due to old computer (bought 2008) and, to some extent, children and brain cancer (the last one is bad for a long life but doesn't impact my current time for FlightGear).

Some what current projects:

• Adding support for airships and balloons to FlightGear and JSBSim. http://www.gidenstam.org/FlightGear/Airships/ Done and available in JSBSim/git and FlightGear 1.9.0 and later.

• Varios airships, balloons, aeroplanes and helicopters for FlightGear. Work in (various levels of) progress. See also http://www.gidenstam.org/FlightGear/Hangar
  • Colting SA-60 AeroSphere airship. (Not released)
  • German type UB I submarine.
  • MFI-9B light utility aircraft. (In FlightGear 2016.1.1 and later)
  • Piasecki (Y)H-21 series / Vertol model 42-44 tandem helicopter JSBSim FDM. (Not released)
  • RNAS North Sea class airship. (Not released)
  • RNAS Submarine Scout Zero class airship. (In FlightGear 1.9.0 and later)
  • SAAB 29 jet fighter. (Not released)
  • SCA N1 airship. (Not released)
  • Short S.23 Empire flying boat. (In FlightGear 2.4.0 and later)
  • Swedish Navy T21 class motor torpedo boat.
  • The Gokstad ship.
  • U.S.S. Monitor.
  • Zeppelin LZ 121 Nordstern airship. (In FlightGear 2.4.0 and later)
  • Zeppelin LZ 129 Hindenburg airship. (Not up to date)
  • Zeppelin NT airship. (In FlightGear 1.9.0 and later)
  • ZF U.S. Navy free gas balloon. (In FlightGear 1.9.0 and later)
  • ZNP-K U.S. Navy patrol airship.

• Dual control of aircraft over the multiplayer network. http://www.gidenstam.org/FlightGear/DualControl/ Available in FlightGear 1.9.0 and later.

• Multiplayer shared aircraft carrier. http://www.gidenstam.org/FlightGear/misc/Carrier_over_MP/ Available in FlightGear 2.0.0 and later.

• Multiplayer shared wild fire simulation. http://www.gidenstam.org/FlightGear/misc/WildFire/ Available in FlightGear 2.0.0 and later.

• Tools for multiplayer shared state for scenery objects. Available in FlightGear 2.6.0 and later. See Nasal/scenery.nas

• Experiments with tools for celestial navigation. http://www.gidenstam.org/FlightGear/Celestial_navigation_in_fgfs/ The RAF mk.9 bubble sextant is available in FlightGear 2.6.0 and later in the Aircraft/Instruments-3d/RAF_Mk9_bubble_sextant/ directory. (And for 2.4.0 in the Aircraft/Short_Empire/Instruments/BubbleSextant directory.)

• Experiments with dynamic random scenery objects. http://www.gidenstam.org/FlightGear/OceanImprovement (Currently inactive.)

• Improving the network bandwidth usage efficiency of the FlightGear multiplayer server. http://www.gidenstam.org/FlightGear/fgms/ (Stop-gap solution in current fgms. Further development inactive.)

• Experiments with head position tracking using a webcam. http://www.gidenstam.org/FlightGear/HeadTracking/ (Was inactive due to too weak hardware and now due to lack of time.)

Progress on these projects is currently slow but I am working on them.