Am Montag, den 05.06.2006, 14:56 +0100 schrieb AJ MacLeod: > On Monday 05 June 2006 13:43, Josh Babcock wrote: > > How many pilots still have their parking brakes set at the runway > > threshold? > > These same pilots will (hopefully :-) have been in control of the plane for a > good while leading up to this point. > > In FG, we're suddenly dumped there, with the plane running and, in many > cases, > simply out of control, veering off in some unpredictable direction. > ... just an idea, why not provide a starting point "general aviation parking" or "hangar"? There we can put the plane with engine off and parking brakes on. One can practice taxiing and choose a runway by wind direction.
Greetings Detlef http://www.sol2500.net/flightgear > I'm not claiming having the parking brake set at this point is the height of > realism, just that it's slightly less bad than the alternative. I've still > not heard a convincing reason why FG starting up with out of control runaway > aircraft is a good idea... > > AJ > > > _______________________________________________ > Flightgear-devel mailing list > Flightgear-devel@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/flightgear-devel _______________________________________________ Flightgear-devel mailing list Flightgear-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/flightgear-devel
