Curtis L. Olson wrote: > Trying to make all our users puke, huh? :-) > > Our eyes / brain has a certian amount of image stabalization so we > can't just bounce the view around as much as if the pilot had a camera > bolted to his head.
No, probably not. But providing some visual cueing of acceleration would go a long way towards mitigating the fact that the simulator pilot isn't actually feeling accelerations. In fact, the image stabilization is part of the impetus here. If the pilot is looking out the window (although not at the panel -- context matters here, sadly), and the airplane yaws a little bit due to turbulence, his eyes and head will remain in their original orientation and he will perceive the aircraft as rotating around him. Ditto for having your eyes on the runway when the aircraft jerks at touchdown; the runway stays stationary in your view, while the panel moves up to accomodate your now-tilted-slightly-downward head. Or that's the idea, anyway. We won't know if it'll work unless we try it. :) Andy -- Andrew J. Ross NextBus Information Systems Senior Software Engineer Emeryville, CA [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.nextbus.com "Men go crazy in conflagrations. They only get better one by one." - Sting (misquoted) _______________________________________________ Flightgear-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.flightgear.org/mailman/listinfo/flightgear-devel
