Lee Elliott said: > On Wednesday 24 March 2004 06:07, Jim Wilson wrote: > > It is far too late for this release, but I promised Michael some > > instruments for the Ornithopter a while back so I've committed what amounts > > a "rough start". It just affects the ornithopter directory and that seems > > to work so (hopefully) there will be no breakage. > > > > This is what it looks like: > > http://www.spiderbark.com/fgfs/ornithoptervc.png > > > > This is what it should look like: > > http://www.spiderbark.com/fgfs/ornithopterreal.png > > > > I've got a much higher res of these and other views. As you can see > > there's a lot that's not there, but three significant ones are. I'm going > > to have to figure out what that green thing on the right does before going > > much further. And that led display in the center looks important as well > > (must be the mach indicator? :-)). > > > > Best, > > > > Jim > > Hello Jim, > > Michael gave me some info about some of the Orni instruments - I'll check > through the e-mails I've got to see if I can confirm what they do. From > memory, I think the central LED display was for the flap-rate. I think may > have something about the side box with the LED cross too - at least I seem to > recall asking about it. > > LeeE >
Hi Lee, Thanks for digging this up. I'll need to get even more on this. A readme file to describe how to fly it and use these indicators is going to be essential I think. Not much help on the ornithopter site. It is very strange flying this thing. I have yet to figure out how to recover from a stall...always goes down to the ground, even from a fairly high altitude. My guess is that green box is critical, as well as the flap rate indicator, in flying this properly. Note the LED numeric display is dead center on the panel. Thanks, Jim _______________________________________________ Flightgear-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.flightgear.org/mailman/listinfo/flightgear-devel
