Martin Spott wrote:
Yesterday evening I was confirmed that we _will_ get a free booth on
the LinuxTag show (3rd to 6th May). Now several things come into my
mind that would help us to make our presence on the show a success and
that we probably won't find the time to do everything ourselves. So
here's my "feature request" - others might follow :-)
The LinuxTag-show will take place at the Rhein-Main-Hallen in Wiesbaden
http://www.linuxtag.org/2006/en/home/aktuelles.html
http://www.rhein-main-hallen.de/
Martin,
I've added a very short entry in our events section on the FG web site.
Feel free to expand on that a little bit if you like and send me the
results. Or if you are happy with the current text we can just leave it
alone.
There's another request: Is anybody on this list who has experience in
createin live-CD's like Knoppix ? It would be nice to have a FlightGear
live-CD to give away - or at least to have a CD image on out FTP
mirrors that we can point at.
Next one: I know how it feels to fly a real aircraft but I've never
used a yoke or pedals with FlightGear. Sometimes I've use other
people's equipment with M$FS but I wasn't satisfied. The pedals I found
there had a spring that centers the pedal position much too hard - but
in a real aircraft (Cessna, Piper) you don't need strong initial forces
to move the pedals out of the center position. Now: Does anyone have a
recommendation for pedals and a yoke that he knows resemble the
controls of a real aircraft ?
I don't know of anything inexpensive except for the CH products yoke and
pedals. I can say that it's possible to get the correct feel of the
pedals and yoke (within FAA Level 3 FTD standards) using only springs.
It's just a matter of adjusting the spring tension until you get within
tolerence.
http://www.atcflightsim makes some hardware with a really nice feel
especially for light single engine planes, but I imagine the cost is a
little out of the range of an typical individual since they sell whole
simulator systems, not just pieces. PFC also makes more realistic
hardware, but as far as I know there is no FG interface. At one time
(several years ago) I offered to build one for them, but they didn't
care to talk to me and weren't interested in FG. Now I've lost personal
interest in supporting PFC hardware, but it's fine if someone else wants
to build the interface.
And the last one for today: Is anyobody on this list whom we didn't
already contact, who would like to support us in running the booth and
who at least is able to speak som German words ? The more people we
have at the booth the easier the 'job' will get.
Let me just say that hanging out in a booth is a *lot* of fun. You get
to spend the entire day talking about FlightGear and flight simulation
and aviation ... what could be better?
Regards,
Curt.
--
Curtis Olson http://www.flightgear.org/~curt
HumanFIRST Program http://www.humanfirst.umn.edu/
FlightGear Project http://www.flightgear.org
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