User:Laserman

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Hi!

I'm Laserman. My callsign is d-laser.
My nick on the forum is pommesschranke.
sometimes you can find me on mumble.allfex.org

Screenshots

  • FlightGear, Multiplayer events, FGUK-Saturday, osgEarth:

https://plus.google.com/photos/109278059987600403431/albums

Videos(mostly RC Heli, electronics, ...)

http://www.youtube.com/user/pommesschranke2

Hardware

I did build a hardware cockpit panel with EFIS,MCP and radio for FlightGear:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_st-qdq4yco

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dWHcjeJKOoQ

http://www.23hq.com/9484739/14884128_d8fb309ef8cc3ef87f642779168ad178_large.jpg

http://www.23hq.com/laserman/photo/15011591?3hq.com/laserman/photo/15011591?

http://blog.cipworx.org/laserman/2013/12/11/home-cockpit-aka-simpit/

http://blog.cipworx.org/laserman/2013/12/12/home-cockpit-pt-2-many-ios/

http://blog.cipworx.org/laserman/2013/12/26/home-cockpit-baubericht-teil-3/

http://blog.cipworx.org/laserman/2013/12/29/home-cockpit-baubericht-teil-4/

(GPL) firmware for the atmega32 microcontroller: https://github.com/mherweg/hardware-panel-for-flightgear

(GPL) Software

  • gpx2stg.py converter script: converts from gpx files (from JOSM or other sources) into .stg lines
  • wed2stg.py: reads earth.wed.xml(created with WED) and writes .stg line to STDOUT
  • tools for reading & generating apt.dat (from/to ASCII, Postgres, sqlite)
  • gateway_pull.py: a tool to download airport layouts (ICAO.dat) from gateway.x-plane.com
  • a little python script that receives properties via USB-serial and forwards to FlightGear via UDP socket
  • the firmware for my Hardware Panel written in C (avr-gcc)
  • a multitouch, multiplatform python/kivy app http://wiki.flightgear.org/FlightGear_TQPanel


new germanwings livery for A320,A319...

(quick & dirty) http://www.23hq.com/9484741/13249751_b6a278a9ce5a1fbe6f9845186834cfa0_large.jpg

stuff that I did, am doing and plan to do

airport improvements

Belgium

  • EBAW Antwerpen-Deurne
  • EBBE Beauvechain Airport MIL
  • EBBR Brussels Airport
  • EBBY Baisy-Thy
  • EBBZ Buzet
  • EBCF Cerfontaine
  • EBCI Brussels South
  • EBFS Florennes MIL
  • EBGB Grimbergen
  • EBLG layout is incomplete, no buildings yet
  • EBOS Oostende-Brugge
  • EBSG Saint-Ghislain
  • EBSW Sint-Pieters-Leeuw heliport
  • EBTY Tournai

Croatia

  • LDZA Zagreb

Germany

  • EDDL Done Done
  • EDDG Done Done
  • EDLM 50}% completed
  • EDLB Done Done
  • EDLK 50}% completed
  • EDLN Done Done
  • EDLV Done Done
  • EDLW Done Done

Slovenia

  • LJLJ Done Done
  • LJAJ Done Done
  • LJSG 80}% completed
  • LJCE Done Done
  • LJPZ Done Done
  • LJMB 10}% completed

rest of the world

  • MDPC

static models

  • Halde Hoheward Done Done
  • Zénith de Strasbourg Done Done
  • Gasometer Oberhausen Done Done bug in ground elevation data :-(
  • Gasometer Herne
  • Hoesch Gasometer Dortmund Done Done ...from nothing to upload: only 4 hours!
  • Tetraeder Bottrop Done Done - lights are still missing
  • Colosseo Rome Done Done
  • BMW museum Munich Done Done
  • BMW tower Munich Done Done
  • Olympiaturm Munich Done Done
  • Ruhrtalbrücke Done Done
  • Flughafenbrücke Düsseldorf Done Done
  • Hohenzollernbrücke Cologne Done Done
  • Cologne Cathedral Done Done
  • Kölnarena Done Done
  • EDDF pier(Flugsteig) "A plus" Done Done
  • EDDL texturing the terminal Done Done
  • EDLW terminal & tower Done Done
  • EDDG buildings Done Done
  • EDLK hangars Done Done
  • animated Rheinturm Düssseldorf Done Done
  • Westfalenhallen Dortmund Done Done
  • Atomium - new version with smooth spheres, nicer chrome effect and windows. reduced file size from 863KB to 516KB Done Done
  • LJCE tower Done Done
  • LJAJ hangar Done Done
  • LJAJ: Pipistrel Factory Not done Not done
  • LJSG hangar Done Done
  • Florianturm Dortmund Done Done
  • Trabrennbahn Recklinghausen tower Not done Not done
  • EDLM buildings Not done Not done

shared models

  • a simple horse race track Done Done
  • tennis court Done Done
  • 36m church in red, green and blue Done Done
  • 60x60m castle Done Done
  • red brick chimney Done Done
  • improve the 50m power pylon - I don't like how the top looks, better use a texture than many vertices ? 70}% completed
  • improve generic skyscrapers Done Done
  • solar park Done Done
  • H-shaped barracks Done Done

airport layouts (WED)

http://gateway.x-plane.com/artist/page/252

Slovenia still to do:

  • LJBO Bovec
  • LJSO Sostanj/Velenje
  • LJSK Slov. Konjice
  • LJPT Ptuj
  • LJHJ ?
  • LJHL Heliport UKC
  • LJPO Postojna
  • LJCL Celje

terrain (TerraGear)

Bugfix release for some flooded airports. I did not make them, I just make them available

(based on new airport layouts from http://gateway.x-plane.com/)

NickR's terragear scripts: https://gitlab.com/fg-scenery-build-script/fg-scenery-build-script/tree/master

groundnets

Parking Positions for >7000 airports in ICAO.grondnet.xml format http://media.lug-marl.de/flightgear/Airports.tgz

the tools I used: https://github.com/mherweg/d-laser-fgtools

  • aptdat2sqlite.py (read apt.dat write to sqlite , 10 seconds)
  • sqlite2xml.py (read from sqlite and create folders and files in Airports folder, 2 minutes)

animated jetways

I do debugging and documentation of animated jetways (by skyop) I plan to use them at EDDF and enable more aircraft to use them.

other

  • 3300 object locations in Slovenia
  • OpenStreetMap.org: map more building heights / levels