On 01/07/2007 01:25 PM, Martin Spott wrote: >>[...] For my purposes (and >>I suspect a lot of other purposes besides), is much more useful >>to be able to warp to some improvised place, without ever having >>been there before. > > > Without ever having been there before I'd say you'll never know in > which state the aircraft is supposed to be in,
Well, I'd say differently, based on a lot of recent experience doing it, using my new version of the locate-in-air popup. Physics says it ought to work: I start out (on the ground or in the air) with a reasonable power setting and reasonable trim settings, I can give myself a new altitude, a new XY position, a new heading, and/or a new airspeed ... and it just works. Try it sometime. The garbage-in-garbage-out principle applies: If you relocate yourself into the air before starting the engines, you'll have a few moments of excitement dealing with the consequences. Similarly, if you dictate a new airspeed that is inconsistent with your elevator trim setting, you'll get some additional excitement. It should be particularly obvious that air-to-air relocation should just work. Air "here" looks a lot like air "there". ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys - and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV _______________________________________________ Flightgear-devel mailing list Flightgear-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/flightgear-devel
