On 6 Nov 2012, at 21:16, Durk Talsma wrote:
>
> Yes, I also talked to Martin Crompton. James told me later on that you had
> been in touch with him. My action was rather spontaneous, so I asked him
> whether we could try to support Saitek products, without me knowing that you
> were also working on it. I hope we can join forces. I got their radiostack to
> try, and this looks like it's going to be a little more involved, since it
> may need its own USB driver. I'll try to send Martin just a quick note later
> tonight.
I had a quick look, and it's going to be tricky to support the part without
some docs, since on Windows everything happens through a custom driver. On the
other hand, if they support X-plane (they don't mention if they do) they will
need something else - their current driver is really an MSFS plug-in I think.
>
> This is always a tricky one. At FSWeekend I found our visitor's reception of
> the project really quite different, ranging from "Increadibly cool that you
> do all of this by yourself" to "Give me one good reason why I should change
> from FSX". The former is always a nice way of starting a conversation (and
> usually runs into a situation where our visitors hang around our booth for an
> hour or so), while the latter feels oftentimes like a waste of effort. This
> is probably also because the people asking the latter type of question don't
> strike me as the persons who really have a fine-tuned for the subtleties of
> aviation that makes FlightGear such a cool program. So, the bottom-line is
> that I would also be very interested in a short concise list of features that
> we do better than FSX.
Amongst the many small tweaks I want for next year, is some nicely printed
materials (in Dutch! and English) with some FAQs:
is this MSFS? No, it's flightgear, it runs on Linux and Mac too..
How much does it cost? Nothing, you can download it from ....
Are you using a Matrox TripleHead2Go? No, we support multiple views,
video-cards and cameras....
Can I use aircraft or scenery from MSFS? No, but you can maybe convert
them....
Can it talk to my joystick / some other thing? ....
You get the idea :)
Regards,
James
------------------------------------------------------------------------------
LogMeIn Central: Instant, anywhere, Remote PC access and management.
Stay in control, update software, and manage PCs from one command center
Diagnose problems and improve visibility into emerging IT issues
Automate, monitor and manage. Do more in less time with Central
http://p.sf.net/sfu/logmein12331_d2d
_______________________________________________
Flightgear-devel mailing list
Flightgear-devel@lists.sourceforge.net
https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/flightgear-devel
