David Megginson writes: > > To the logical side: as long as the plane start *on* the runway it's IMO > > very unrealistical that the engine isn't running. > > I've thought about that as well (though FLY! does the same thing).
I am convinced that we're best off starting with the engines idling rather than off, since our default start is always on a runway (even if you specify a different airport). No C++ code changes are necessary, other than a small bug-fix to JSBSim.cxx; I've just changed some properties in the default settings for the c172, c182, and c310 so that they now all start at an idle (you'll note that the C-310's idle is too high, but we'll have to fix that after 0.7.9). If Curt and the rest of you hate this change, I'm happy to roll it back out, but I've been hearing some very strong arguments against putting 0.7.9 out with engines off by default and no arguments in favour. Since this is a config-file change rather than a change to the code base proper, I hope no one minds slipping it in. All the best, David -- David Megginson [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ Flightgear-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.flightgear.org/mailman/listinfo/flightgear-devel
