I seeing on TV recently that they have only recently added full computer stabilisation to the Harrier. They had the presenter of the program (a qualified military pilot, but not on the Harrier) flying a two-seater. There was a switch to choose hover or normal flight, in hover mode the throttle controlled elevation and the stick was slip/slide direction control (much like the cyclic in a helicopter), in "regular" mode, the throttle did speed, and the stick did pitch and roll as usual. The comment was that this would leave the pilot more time to see, and deal with, other things like finding targets and staying alive.
Richard > > It's really nice to play with it! I once watched a Harrier at > an airshow. > It didn't really look like it were difficult to fly. ;-) I > assume that > the real thing is stabilized by a computer, no? Otherwise we > would read > about crashed Harriers every day. Lifting off in fgfs is > already a hairy > operation. But turning (yawing) at the place seems impossible. Is this > modeled? How is it done in a real Harrier? With steering > jets, coupled to > the rudder? > ________________________________________________________________________ This e-mail has been scanned for all viruses by Star Internet. The service is powered by MessageLabs. For more information on a proactive anti-virus service working around the clock, around the globe, visit: http://www.star.net.uk ________________________________________________________________________ _______________________________________________ Flightgear-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.flightgear.org/mailman/listinfo/flightgear-devel
