David Megginson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > If you all noticed I wasn't posting yesterday afternoon and early > evening, it's because I was very busy.
Doesn't look like anyone has been posting :-) I for one have been right out straight the last couple days. > 2. On the actual approach, our LOC/GS and the real LOC/GS behaved > pretty-much the same -- again, FlightGear was excellent practice (I > didn't try an ILS approach with Elite). Off the approach path > while we were being vectored in, the CDI flew back and forth at > about the same rate as a child on a swing, rather than staying > glued to one side (it was almost hypnotic), and the GS was a little > funky as well. We should try to model that. Interesting. That's something I haven't noticed in a sim before (note that I haven't taken more than a passing glance at the last few MSFS releases). Is that normal behavior for all CDI? > 3. Most of the panel instruments had no lighting of their own, except > for the VOR 1 gauge, which was quite bright, and of course the LEDs > in the radios. Otherwise, there was just the one red light, which > barely (but adequately) illuminated the panel, much more dimly than > our current 2D panel. There wasn't enough light to read the labels > on the electronic switches, for example. It would be good to make that configurable per model or per instrument. Been thinking about how to do it with 3D instruments. Maybe selecting different objects depending on outside light. Self-lit instruments, where they do occur, could just have the proper material properties. There are many ways however that including material properties manipulation in the "animation" xml processing could be useful. > 6. While the runway edge lights are bright, the runway itself is very > dark. The yellow taxiway lines are almost invisible, even under > the taxi and landing lights, and turnoffs and intersections are > very hard to find (the double blue lights are the only clues). > Landing before or after a runway intersection was especially > tricky, because you cannot see the intersecting runway even from a > mile away. Taxiing around the airport was almost like driving on a > country road shining a flashlight through the windshield. Where is the taxi light mounted on the c172? Lots of very interesting info here. Thanks! Best, Jim _______________________________________________ Flightgear-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.flightgear.org/mailman/listinfo/flightgear-devel
