David Luff write: > There should be a better handling of the manifold pressure at > different rpms (pressure drop across the throttle is mostly a function > of throttle position, but partly a function of the flow rate past the > throttle) - this is on my todo list.
I'd skip this feature. The only effect it will have is changing the linearity of the throttle lever. The throttle will still scale between minimum and maximum available power in either case, and PC joysticks simply don't have the fidelity to make any non-linearity noticeable to the user. Features are good only if users can use them. :) And common pilot practice would make this invisible too. Pilots aren't taught to use exact positions on the throttle, they just push it until they get the result (MP, RPM, whatever) they want. Used like this, no one is going to notice that cruise RPM is acheived at 62.5% throttle instead of 64.7%. The more interesting thing to get right would be the value of "minimum" MP for a given RPM and ambient air state. That gets hard. YASim doesn't even try on this one -- it reports zero MP at zero throttle. Andy -- Andrew J. Ross NextBus Information Systems Senior Software Engineer Emeryville, CA [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.nextbus.com "Men go crazy in conflagrations. They only get better one by one." - Sting (misquoted) _______________________________________________ Flightgear-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.flightgear.org/mailman/listinfo/flightgear-devel
