David Luff writes: > On 11/25/02 at 9:06 AM Curtis L. Olson wrote: > >ADV: don't bother spending days or weeks downloading all the scenery > >for the world before you fly. Just install the base program and > >supporting files. Turn on terrasync and it will fetch just the tiles > >you need as you fly. > > > >Have you just spent hours/days/weeks downloading all the world scenery > >only to have the evil project regenerate it with updated data or to > >fix some problem? No problem, just enable terrasync and it will > >upgrade your local scenery as you fly. > > > >Terrasync saves the data to your HD so next time you fly a route, you > >already have the data and you don't need to download it again. > > > >Terrasync makes you look and feel like you have it all, even though > >you don't. :-) > > Is it likely to work over a 56K modem?
David, First of all I will say that that I haven't tried it. But, I encourage you to try it yourself since I want to know the answer too. :-) I suggest that you start out in the C172 and fly with that. If you have good luck there, then you can try faster planes. I'm fortunate enough to have a DSL connection at home (they finally got service to my area) and with the latest tweaks to terrasync I've been able to sustain upwares of 2000 kts. with 32km visibility. (That's in the a4, time accelerated either 2x or 3x ...) So, if you are flying at 1/10 the speed, you might do just fine with 1/10 the bandwidth. Let us know ... :-) Regards, -- Curtis Olson IVLab / HumanFIRST Program FlightGear Project Twin Cities [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Minnesota http://www.menet.umn.edu/~curt http://www.flightgear.org _______________________________________________ Flightgear-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.flightgear.org/mailman/listinfo/flightgear-devel
