Steve Hosgood wrote: > Some of the folk on this list are private pilots from what I see being > discussed. How well do those pilots reckon the simulated aircraft in > FlightGear mimic the real ones, given that the FDMs are (apparently) > empirically created from the aircraft's basic layout and physical > properties?
To my knowledge there _are_ aircraft in FlightGear that are build upon real data. Right ? To my experience what makes the most significant difference between FlightGear and a real aircraft is the limited view angle in FlightGear - as long as you don't have a a simulator with multiple screens. But for the price tag of a couple of large TFT displays you can afford your own PPL .... Compared to that the difference in the flight 'behaviour' of a real C172 (or PA-28) and the one in FlightGear is neglectible. At least these two get really close to reality - pretty much close enough to use FlightGear for trainig final approaches for example, Martin. -- Unix _IS_ user friendly - it's just selective about who its friends are ! -------------------------------------------------------------------------- _______________________________________________ Flightgear-devel mailing list [email protected] http://mail.flightgear.org/mailman/listinfo/flightgear-devel 2f585eeea02e2c79d7b1d8c4963bae2d
