Please excuse my ignorance here, I actually know very little about aircraft, other than they are quite expensive, both to buy and to learn to fly, but what entails "re-trimming the aircraft to the new position"?
John Pitz On Fri, 2003-08-29 at 05:28, Erik Hofman wrote: > John Pitz wrote: > > Hello, > > > > I have decided to try something simpler than attacking the problem of > > the plane flipping over, so I thaught I would try adding functionality > > to quickly change the latitude/longitude and optionally altitude. I > > realize all of these things are simple to change through the property > > browser, but it may be a bit more user friendly to change them from a > > menue. I have that basic functionality working but I would like to send > > the contents of the altitude box to a function that would determine > > whether the box is empty or not. If the box is blank, then the intent > > is that the plane would be "warped" to that lat/lon at ground level for > > that lat/lon. > > I'm not sure this is a trivial task because after positioning you need > to retrim the aircraft to the new position ... > > > > It appears that if the above were possable, then I would have to > > write a command and put it in fg_commands in the Main source dir, is > > this correct? > > Or you could add a command later int the code, but for this I would have > chosen to add it there indeed. > > > > By the way, thank you Jim for answering my previous posting. > > > > The next feature that I think would be nice is the ability to change > > aircraft while the program is running, if that is possable. Would > > either of these simple features warrent including in the Flightgear > > distro? > > This is definitely not a trivial task. I've started working on it some > time ago but let it rest (for now) because of the difficulties (again) > with resetting the various subsystems. > > The other day I was thinking of something that could be nice for > starters but I don't seem to remember it anymore :-( > > Erik > > > _______________________________________________ > 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
