Jim Wilson wrote:
 > Also noticed the rudder control seems to be broken on the dc3 at the
 > moment.

Blame David. :)

The DC-3 is a taildragger, and therefore doesn't have a steerable
wheel to turn with.  Instead, real aircraft use differential braking
to do this.

The problem is, typical control setups don't have toe brakes on the
rudder pedals.  So I cheated in the initial configuration and mapped
the outer (+/- 0.5-1.0) range of the rudder pedals to the brakes.  I
thought this was nifty and clever, but David (who spends a lot more
time flying it and cares more about the model behavior) didn't like
it.  The DC-3 is his baby, after all.

The lines are still in there, but commented out.  Look in your dc3.xml
file for the control mapping in the <gear> tags, and take out the
comments.

It's not really an issue with the rudder.  You'll notice that the
rudder works fine, once you get moving fast enough.

Andy

-- 
Andrew J. Ross                NextBus Information Systems
Senior Software Engineer      Emeryville, CA
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"Men go crazy in conflagrations.  They only get better one by one."
  - Sting (misquoted)


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