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* FlightGear
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* Surveying
* Photography
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* [[Dassault Mirage F.1]]
* [[Dassault Mirage F.1]]
* [[Pilatus PC-9M]]
* [[Pilatus PC-9M]]
* [[Rallye-MS893E]]
* [[Rallye-MS893E]]
* [[De Havilland Canada DHC-6 Twin Otter]]
* [[De Havilland Canada DHC-6 Twin Otter]]
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I'm '''Johan G''' on the official forum and wiki, enjoys seeing how FlightGear and its users develop, have a keen interest in (slowly) learning new stuff, and tend to have a weakness for Petar Jedvajs's [[Pilatus PC-9M]].
I'm '''Johan G''' on the official forum and here on the wiki.  I enjoy seeing how FlightGear and its users develop, have a keen interest in (slowly) learning new stuff, and tend to have a weakness for Petar Jedvajs's [[Pilatus PC-9M]].


== About me ==
== About me ==
I have a long interest in aircraft and flight and for a few years in the 1990's I used Microsoft Flight Simulator 5.1 (the first MSFS on CD) together with a CH Products FlightStick Pro.
I have a long interest in aircraft and flight and for a few years in the 1990's I used Microsoft Flight Simulator 5.1 (the first MSFS on CD) together with a CH Products FlightStick Pro.


=== FlightGear, the simulator ===
=== What I do on this Wiki ===
As for FlightGear I have had a few looks on FlightGear through the years from as early as 1997 or 1998. Unfortunately, if I recall correctly, no computer I privately had access to could handle OpenGL, so I couldn't run it.
Originally I did not have that much plans, but I did a lot more than I anticipated, mostly categorization.  Also about half a year after my first edits on this wiki I wrote a [[User:Johan G/Essays/Essay:The FlightGear Wiki — Its structure, content and ease of use|user essay]] about some things on this wiki that I was frustrated with, mostly the lack of a starting point for new users, a lack of structure and coherence and a short-sightedness in not thinking a couple of years ahead.  In a way it has served as my strategic plan and thankfully some of these things have been improved without my help.


In april 2010 I had a look at it again and realised my latest laptop, and probably the one before that, could handle FlightGear. Wednesday Apr 21, 2010 I downloaded and installed FlightGear 2.0.0 and a few aircraft from the official download page. Only one of them was flyable with keyboard and mice, but at the other hand it flew really well.
Some of the things I have spent an extra 'umph' on is categorizing uncategorized images/files on the wiki, and I can honestly say that I have done most of that work so far. I have also begin improving the help for new users by extending the help pages and documenting a lot of templates, though some other users, mostly [[USer:Gijs|Gijs]] and [[User talk:Hooray|Hooray]], have done some work there as well.


I got really hooked really fast. As I had not touched a flight simulator for many years, the first thing on the agenda was repeatedly flying the good old traffic pattern, many times enough that my room mate thought I wasn't mentally well (at the other hand he spend a lot of his spare time to sleep, even in broad daylight...). Many things came back, like primary and secondary effects of throttle and rudder, to not hunt the altimeter and airspeed needles etc.
I become one of the administrators in November 2013. A nice surprice. :-)


=== FlightGear, the community ===
=== Me and FlightGear ===
The nice thing with open source is the "tinkerability" of everything. It's a really good route to learning new stuff, specially for someone with my curiosity. After just a short time I started to look at the forum and Friday Aug 06, 2010 I went on to join the official forum.
As for FlightGear I have had a few looks on FlightGear through the years from as early as 1997 or 1998. Unfortunately, if I recall correctly, no computer I privately had access to could handle OpenGL, so I couldn't run it.
 
Even though there can be some brawls, almost trolling, the forum is very rewarding to follow. There is ''a lot'' of progress, in ''so many'' different areas.
 
Interesting enough I often tend to spend twice the time on the Forum every day compared to the time I spend in FlightGear during the ''entire'' week.
 
=== Real flight experience, or rather lack of it ===
As for real life flying, actually being in an airborne aircraft, I have only five memories three during my teens and two remaining even from before that. In other words: '''''I'm no pilot'''''.
 
=== What I intend to do on this Wiki ===
Well, sometimes it's just a good thing to be ''able'' to contribute.  I'll see if I can also get away from my ''Wikipedia is not a manual'' attitude when writing. ;-)
 
I did a lot more than I first expected or intended, see my [http://wiki.flightgear.org/index.php?title=Special:Contributions/Johan_G&dir=prev&target=Johan+G contribution history].  I unintentionally become an admin in November 2013. That is, I didn't intended to become one. :-)
 
== Essays ==
* [[User:Johan G/Essays/Essay:The FlightGear Wiki — Its structure, content and ease of use|Essay:The FlightGear Wiki — Its structure, content and ease of use]] (WIP)
 
== In the sandbox ==
Some things I feel I need to play with.
 
* [[User:Johan G/Messagebox style sandbox|Messagebox style sandbox]].  Trying to find reasonable styles for a messagebox meta template.
* [[User:Johan G/Table style sandbox|Table style sandbox]].  Trying to find reasonable styles for checklists, key combinations and OS prompt variations.


== In the pipeline ==
In April 2010 I had a look at it again and realized my latest laptop, and probably the one before that, could handle FlightGearWednesday 21 April 2010 I downloaded and installed FlightGear 2.0.0 and a few aircraft from the official download page. Only one of them was flyable with keyboard and mice, but at the other hand it flew really well.
Things I am working on, though most are currently stalledThese are subpages on to my user page.


=== Related to the wiki in general ===
I got really hooked really fast.  As I had not touched a flight simulator for many years, the first thing on the agenda was repeatedly flying the good old traffic pattern, many times enough that my then room mate thought I wasn't mentally well. Many things came back, like primary and secondary effects of throttle and rudder, not to hunt the altimeter and airspeed needles etc.
* [[User:Johan G/Wiki improvement|Wiki improvement]] (Subpage)
* [[User:Johan G/Unification and improvement of maintenance templates|Unification and improvement of maintenance templates]] (Subpage)


=== Individual pages ===
=== Me and the FlightGear community ===
* Adding page on how to have parallel versions installed on Windows. See this post by clrCoda on the forum [http://www.flightgear.org/forums/viewtopic.php?p=173877#p173877 Re: Installing more than one version of Flightgear] from Jan 2013.
The nice thing with open source is the 'tinkerability' of everything. It's a really good route to learning new stuff, specially for someone with my curiosityAfter just a short time I started to look at the forum and Friday 6 August 2010 I went on to join the official forum.
* Adding XML part of [[Howto: Edit a livery]]
* [[User:Johan G/Introduction to Low level VFR navigation|Introduction to Low level VFR navigation]] (Work in progress)
* [[User:Johan G/Flight computer|Flight computer]] (Work in progress) I just can not believe there wasn't an article on this yetWill restart this when I come across my E-6B again.
* [[User:Johan G/Spacecraft|Spacecraft]] (WIP)
* [[User:Johan G/ICAO flight plans and flight plan messages|ICAO flight plans and flight plan messages]] (WIP)
* [[User:Johan G/Hardware Review: CH Products controls (Combatstick, throttle and pedals)|Hardware Review: CH Products controls (Combatstick, throttle and pedals)]]
* [[User:Johan G/Adding information to the table of models|Adding information to the table of models]]
* [[User:Johan G/Flightplan.xml|Flightplan.xml]] About the various xml flight plan formats


== Done ==
I have noted that I often tend to spend twice the time on the Forum every day compared to the time I spend in FlightGear during the ''entire'' week.  Even though there can be some brawls, almost trolling, the forum is very rewarding to follow.  There is a ''lot'' of progress, in so ''many'' different areas.
''Some'' of the things I have done on this wiki.


=== Pages ===
=== My lack of real flight experience ===
* [[TerraMaster]]
I am no pilot, and as for real life flying, as in actually being in an airborne aircraft, I have only five memories, three during my teens and two remaining even from before that.
* [[Aircraft interception]]
* [[Pilotage and dead reckoning]]
* [[Help:Tables]]
 
=== Larger edits ===
* Replaced the text in [[Howto: Edit a livery]] ([http://wiki.flightgear.org/index.php?title=Howto:_Edit_a_livery&oldid=36141 original text]) with my own draft ([http://wiki.flightgear.org/index.php?title=User:Johan_G/Howto:_Edit_a_livery&oldid=39121 Final draft]).
* Rewritten [[Help:Templates]] more or less completely ([http://wiki.flightgear.org/index.php?title=Help%3ATemplates&diff=64365&oldid=44878 diff])
 
=== Templates ===
* {{tl|key press}} to illustrate key presses and combinations
* {{tl|alds}} for use on the [[Airliner Development Status]] page
* {{tl|issue}} for referencing bug tracker issues (be that bugs or feature requests).
* {{tl|rule of thumb}} for rules of thumb, like 2 kt is about 1 m/s.
* {{tl|yes}}, {{tl|no}} and {{tl|n/a}} for use in various tables.
* {{tl|LangSwitch}}


== Fun things to do in FlightGear ==
== Fun things to do in FlightGear ==
* "Canyoning" in multiplayer.
* "Canyoning" in multiplayer.
* Loose formation in multiplayer.
* Loose formation in multiplayer.
* Closed circuits, flown as planned, to the second (or at least almost).
* Closed circuits, [[Pilotage and dead reckoning|flown as planned]], to the second (or as close as possible).
* [[Aircraft interception]].  Though coming announced (when I remember to ask).
 
== Wiki related subpages ==
* [[User:Johan G/Essays/Essay:The FlightGear Wiki — Its structure, content and ease of use|Essay:The FlightGear Wiki — Its structure, content and ease of use]]
* [[User:Johan G/My plans and things to do|My plans and things to do]]
* [[User:Johan G/In my sandbox|In my sandbox]]
* [[User:Johan G/Things I am working on|Things I am working on]]
* [[User:Johan G/Things I kept for history|Things I kept for history]]
* [[User:Johan G/Things I have done|Things I have done]]
 
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Latest revision as of 06:46, 26 October 2015

Johan G
Location Sweden
Interest(s)
  • FlightGear
  • Aircraft
  • Surveying
  • Photography
MP callsign(s) SE-JG
Favourite aircraft

I'm Johan G on the official forum and here on the wiki. I enjoy seeing how FlightGear and its users develop, have a keen interest in (slowly) learning new stuff, and tend to have a weakness for Petar Jedvajs's Pilatus PC-9M.

About me

I have a long interest in aircraft and flight and for a few years in the 1990's I used Microsoft Flight Simulator 5.1 (the first MSFS on CD) together with a CH Products FlightStick Pro.

What I do on this Wiki

Originally I did not have that much plans, but I did a lot more than I anticipated, mostly categorization. Also about half a year after my first edits on this wiki I wrote a user essay about some things on this wiki that I was frustrated with, mostly the lack of a starting point for new users, a lack of structure and coherence and a short-sightedness in not thinking a couple of years ahead. In a way it has served as my strategic plan and thankfully some of these things have been improved without my help.

Some of the things I have spent an extra 'umph' on is categorizing uncategorized images/files on the wiki, and I can honestly say that I have done most of that work so far. I have also begin improving the help for new users by extending the help pages and documenting a lot of templates, though some other users, mostly Gijs and Hooray, have done some work there as well.

I become one of the administrators in November 2013. A nice surprice. :-)

Me and FlightGear

As for FlightGear I have had a few looks on FlightGear through the years from as early as 1997 or 1998. Unfortunately, if I recall correctly, no computer I privately had access to could handle OpenGL, so I couldn't run it.

In April 2010 I had a look at it again and realized my latest laptop, and probably the one before that, could handle FlightGear. Wednesday 21 April 2010 I downloaded and installed FlightGear 2.0.0 and a few aircraft from the official download page. Only one of them was flyable with keyboard and mice, but at the other hand it flew really well.

I got really hooked really fast. As I had not touched a flight simulator for many years, the first thing on the agenda was repeatedly flying the good old traffic pattern, many times enough that my then room mate thought I wasn't mentally well. Many things came back, like primary and secondary effects of throttle and rudder, not to hunt the altimeter and airspeed needles etc.

Me and the FlightGear community

The nice thing with open source is the 'tinkerability' of everything. It's a really good route to learning new stuff, specially for someone with my curiosity. After just a short time I started to look at the forum and Friday 6 August 2010 I went on to join the official forum.

I have noted that I often tend to spend twice the time on the Forum every day compared to the time I spend in FlightGear during the entire week. Even though there can be some brawls, almost trolling, the forum is very rewarding to follow. There is a lot of progress, in so many different areas.

My lack of real flight experience

I am no pilot, and as for real life flying, as in actually being in an airborne aircraft, I have only five memories, three during my teens and two remaining even from before that.

Fun things to do in FlightGear

  • "Canyoning" in multiplayer.
  • Loose formation in multiplayer.
  • Closed circuits, flown as planned, to the second (or as close as possible).
  • Aircraft interception. Though coming announced (when I remember to ask).

Wiki related subpages