On 1/10/07, Martin Spott <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Yup, this is not really new to me as I've been already trying different
yokes and rudder pedals with different simulated C172's. This is why I
was asking for the type of the pedals, because according to my
experience the pedals that people tend to have are the most
'disgusting' piece in the so called modern PC-based flight simulation.
Yes, you are probably going to need to spend several thousand $$$ to get a
really nice set of pedals ... and that is without any active control loading
which doesn't help you on engine out situations in a multiengine plane.
There is a company called Real Simulation (in Spain I believe) that makes a
lot of really nice jet fighter style controls and enclosures.
http://www.realsimulator.com/
Was looking into active control loading ... there is a company called
Wittenstein (sp?) that quoted us $100,000 for a 3 axis system ... ouch! I
know a guy here where I work who has done a lot of force feedback control in
the context of land based vehicles which is pretty analogous, so I think we
might try to build something ourselves and see how far that gets us. I know
another guy (Hi Jack) :-) who might be able to do it all with R/C servos
powered from a USB port, but the resulting forces might be on the light side
of the spectrum. :-)
Curt.
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Curtis Olson - University of Minnesota - FlightGear Project
http://baron.flightgear.org/~curt/ http://www.humanfirst.umn.edu/
http://www.flightgear.org
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