In real life, I've been having a hard time with my landings on the
circuit ('suck' might be the most appropriate term).Practicing with FlightGear has helped a bit, but it didn't really feel right. When I'm landing a real C172, there are almost always wind gusts, turbulence, and other nasty things to screw up my nicely-set-up approach -- the nose will suddenly shoot 5 degrees up or down, the plane will roll 10 degrees for no reason, and a sudden gust will push me far off the runway track at the worst times. The FDMs are going to be handling turbulence, but we need to deal with gusting in FlightGear itself. I've checked in a first attempt at gust support, using the following properties to set it up: /environment/params/base-wind-speed-kt /environment/params/gust-wind-speed-kt The gust function is simplistic, but at least it is unpredictable, and I find that it messes up my landings just like to real thing. To get winds from 270 @ 15kt gusting to 25kt, try fgfs --wind=270@15 --prop:/environment/params/gust-wind-speed-kt=25 To use this, you'll need to configure --with-new-environment. All the best, David -- David Megginson, [EMAIL PROTECTED], http://www.megginson.com/ _______________________________________________ Flightgear-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.flightgear.org/mailman/listinfo/flightgear-devel
