Josh Babcock schrieb: > dene maxwell wrote: >> My penny's worth...I agree... no experience IRL ...it's one of the first >> things I do in FG is engage the P-brake while I set up the radio/AP ...I'm >> working through my hanger to set this as default for all AC. >> :-D ene >> > > My point though, is that you only have to change one file - > preferences.xml. If this is such a big deal for everyone, then it should > be changed in CVS as well. Having planes override people's personal > preferences is *not* the answer. > > Brake settings in a flight *simulator* are a personal preference, not > part of an aircraft. They belong in the preferences file, not the > aircraft file. > > Not everyone is going to agree on whether brakes should be applied at > startup. If you put this in the AC file then you are guaranteed to annoy > someone no matter what setting you choose. If you leave it for > preferences.xml and educate people how to use their preferences file > (which is really not that hard) then everyone can be satisfied. > > Josh
Hi Josh, although I can't understand why someone would like to start a flightsim session with programmed trouble (=aircraft not in a stable position) I accept the argument that the status of the aircraft should be set up separately, ie in the preferences file. But then, please for the sake of all new FlightGear users, let us set it as "parking brake ON". I assume that the majority of users would prefer this default set-up. Regards Georg EDDW _______________________________________________ Flightgear-devel mailing list Flightgear-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/flightgear-devel
