On Thursday 25 March 2004 01:04, Jim Wilson wrote: > 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
Hope you got the e-mail extracts ok. The orni is quite nice to fly, in a slow sort of way - wide, slow turns:) Just a guess - perhaps slowing, or even stopping the flapping, if possible (I can't remember off hand), might help in a stall. LeeE _______________________________________________ Flightgear-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.flightgear.org/mailman/listinfo/flightgear-devel
