Curtis L. Olson writes: > David Megginson writes: > > 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. > > I'm not entirely sure I like it, but I acknowledge that starting on > the runway with engines off is not very realistic. >
I think its probably for the best, certainly for 0.7.9, if only because the obvious way to work the magnetos - left mouse clicking round and then holding down for the starter - doesn't work yet, and the full set of items to check isn't done yet anyway, such as master power and fuel selector switches. We will undoubtably get a lot of how? posts from users if we leave the engines unstarted, especially as we don't currently have a checklist that can be brought up from the menu. Of purely historical interest, ProPilot99 started on the runway with engines off. I hated it at first, since I was used to MSFS and had to actually read something to get in the air! However, once I got used to the sequence and managed to remember it I liked the fact that it had forced me to learn it. > We do need to make sure that proper engine start modeling doesn't get > lost because no one is testing it anymore ... I'll still be testing it :-) Cheers - Dave -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ Flightgear-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.flightgear.org/mailman/listinfo/flightgear-devel
