On Wednesday 13 February 2002 01:24 pm, you wrote: > Christian Mayer wrote: > > To the logical side: as long as the plane start *on* the runway it's > > IMO very unrealistical that the engine isn't running. > > Y'know, folks, this is actually a really (really) good point. :) > > There's nothing wrong with realism, but since we're cheating in the > direction of expediency in so many places already, maybe it makes > sense to make the expedient mode the default one. Maybe add a > "--pedantic" switch, perhaps, to control the engnie start code for > those who really want to do the engine start, and taxi, and runup, > etc... >
--props:/sim/pedantic=true and have a conditional in the set file (do conditionals work outside the panel code?) to load a scenario where the plane is parked > Or maybe have a "startup environment" file along the same lines as the > -set.xml aircraft files? The default one would put you on the runway > with the engine going, ready for takeoff, but fancy ones would start > you on the ramp with everything off. > > Andy The only thing I see thats a problem (barring conditionals not working outside panel code), is that we'd need a scenario for every airport, unless we can pull an appropriate point on the taxiway automatically. TTYL J _______________________________________________ Flightgear-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.flightgear.org/mailman/listinfo/flightgear-devel
