On Thursday 14 February 2002 12:32 am, you wrote: > Jim Wilson writes: > > David Megginson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > > > Curtis L. Olson writes: > > > > I would think that if we are going to have the engine running at > > > > startup, we really should have either the parking brake set, or the > > > > sim come up paused/frozen. > > > > > > Perhaps, but if we get the idle speeds reasonable, it won't be too > > > bad. Having the brakes on by default would be a bad thing, since > > > first-time users might have trouble figuring out how to release them. > > > > True, but for that matter first time users might have trouble > > figuring out how to open the throttle :-) > > Sounds like we need to organize a focus group. :-) > > I'm worried though that if the new user goes scooting off down the > runway at 40 knots before they get a chance to focus in on what is > going on, that will leave a negative impression just as much as > starting with the engine off or anything else that diverges > significantly from the 'expected'. > > We always manage to save a few glaring wart suprises for the final > release so maybe we'll just have to live with whatever we end up with > here? > > Curt.
I could bind a toggle for the brakes to the indicator. I think it's fairly likely somebody might click on it _______________________________________________ Flightgear-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.flightgear.org/mailman/listinfo/flightgear-devel
