I haven't still synced everything so I haven't tested this new feature, but for the sake of realness, we can perform a flight around doing scales at airports, and then refill the tanks. If I remember correctly, some properties can be setted in the menu, so we can refuel the plane at any time.
On 2002.01.19 15:25 Norman Vine wrote: > David Megginson writes: > > > >If you grab the latest SimGear, FlightGear, and base package from CVS, > >you'll notice that fuel consumption is now working on JSBSim > >piston-engine aircraft (well, the Cessna 310 doesn't have the right > >number of tanks or the right fuel capacity, and the Cessna 182 has a > >172 gauge that goes only as high as 28 gal_us/tank, but I'm working on > >it). No more non-stop, transpacific flights on autopilot. > > COOL , Great :-) > > But we need an overide to ignore fuel consumption so we can > do non-stop around the world flights on autopilot. > > I keep thinking of an old post by Oliver where he couldn't get to > his machine because the neighborhood kids were using it to > fly FlightGear all the time. > > They loved it because it was a SIMPLE FlightSim. > ie the engines were already started > you didn't have to worry about running out of fuel > when you crashed you just used the reset menu > when a mountain got in the way you just added emergency altitude > when you wanted to go faster you hit the accelerator key > ect.. > > This was a while ago and the SIM is much more 'realistic' > now but I wonder if it would still have the same appeal as > it did to those kids a couple of years ago or if they would > consider it another of those 'adult sims' that was too complicated ? > > IMHO the realism is great but we should also keep the > KISS version around. > > BTW - Nice addition, we needed this :-) > > Cheers > > Norman > > > _______________________________________________ > Flightgear-devel mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://mail.flightgear.org/mailman/listinfo/flightgear-devel > _______________________________________________ Flightgear-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.flightgear.org/mailman/listinfo/flightgear-devel
