I was testing some aero changes by flying in mouse mode (which is easier than pulling out the yoke and clamping it onto my desk) when something went wrong -- suddenly, the mouse would no longer control the ailerons, though it still controlled the elevators. I was off from the runway and heading for some forest, so I added power slowly (to avoid yaw), overflew a small river, then did a soft-field landing in some grass on the far side.
This was a program bug (which I'll try to hunt down later), but it is also a strong encouragement for us to start adding proper failure modes to FlightGear. Instruments and radios do stop working, control surfaces do jam, and engines do fail, though thankfully such events (except for the first set) are extremely rare in real life. 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
