How about ctrl-U generates a sudden updraft that increases by 900fpm/sec for eight seconds, then decreases over the next eight seconds to zero. All the FDMs are supposed to be able to accept that kind of environment.
> At 2/13/02, you wrote: > >BERNDT, JON S. (JON) (JSC-EX) (LM) writes: > > > OK. What does Ctrl-U do?? > > > >This was a *hack* that incremented altitude by 1000'. It was easy to > >do in LaRCsim. However, it's ugly, not realistic, and I'd rather have > >a more sensible and complete set of repositioning options instead. > >I'd be happy to see us jettison ^U ... > > > >Curt. > >-- > >Curtis Olson IVLab / HumanFIRST Program FlightGear Project > >Twin Cities [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >Minnesota http://www.menet.umn.edu/~curt http://www.flightgear.org > > I have found the Ctrl-U very useful to jumping up in altitude. Beginners > like this feature too. The current deal where the aircraft freezes on > crashes is not so handy to me. Why not have some sort of realism feature > that at one extreme does not freeze on crashes and allows for some sort of > slew to altitude feature and then on the other extreme you've got to claw > your way up and when you crash your done. > > > >_______________________________________________ > >Flightgear-devel mailing list > >[EMAIL PROTECTED] > >http://mail.flightgear.org/mailman/listinfo/flightgear-devel > > > > ************************************************** > Prof. Michael S. Selig > Dept. of Aero/Astro Engineering > University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign > 306 Talbot Laboratory > 104 South Wright Street > Urbana, IL 61801-2935 > (217) 244-5757 (o), (509) 691-1373 (fax) > mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://www.uiuc.edu/ph/www/m-selig > http://www.uiuc.edu/ph/www/m-selig/faq.html (FAQ) > ************************************************** > > > _______________________________________________ > Flightgear-devel mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://mail.flightgear.org/mailman/listinfo/flightgear-devel > > _______________________________________________ Flightgear-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.flightgear.org/mailman/listinfo/flightgear-devel
