2007/6/28, Roy Vegard Ovesen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > On Wednesday 27 June 2007 23:05, woodyst wrote: > > > >> The diffs are at > > > >> http://www.eurogaran.com/fgfs/fgfs_ap_joy_locking.diff and > > > >> http://www.eurogaran.com/fgfs/kap140_locking_controls_capable.diff > > AFAIK real life autopilots can be overpowered by the pilot. Wheter this is > done by brute force or if the servos can sense that they are being > overpowered and then let go, I don't know. Since we don't have any force > feedback support in Flightgear, we'll have to make the autopilot sense that > it is being overpowered.
I agree. But for a realistic simulation I have to be able to keep my yoke untouched with autopilot enabled and then virtual yoke has to be fully controlled by autopilot. I thank that a good solution would be making a new intermediate property, a virtual axis that would be the result of ap_selection + yoke_axis_position but the changes in the code are more complex. And for emulating force I thank that it would be interesting that the factor of the yoke had to be decremented when autopilot is enabled so you have to make more force for moving it. But it would break force feedback devices and wouldn't be realistic at all, because you would have to move yoke more distance for a less movement of the virtual yoke. The key binding for disabling or enabling yoke is another solution, but I prefer the auto-deactivation because, as we discussed earlier, in real life it is not a common situation that a pilot overpowers an autopilot (IMHO). If you think there is a better solution I will agree. But IMHO I think the worst mode is the actual, with an autopilot that makes virtual yoke move very quickly and it is this way if you keep joystick stoped too. > The hard part will be how to decide that the pilot is trying to overpower the > autopilot. One possibility is to press a button to tell that you are > overpowering. > > > -- > Roy Vegard Ovesen > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- > This SF.net email is sponsored by DB2 Express > Download DB2 Express C - the FREE version of DB2 express and take > control of your XML. No limits. Just data. Click to get it now. > http://sourceforge.net/powerbar/db2/ > _______________________________________________ > Flightgear-devel mailing list > Flightgear-devel@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/flightgear-devel > -- Woodyst. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by DB2 Express Download DB2 Express C - the FREE version of DB2 express and take control of your XML. No limits. Just data. Click to get it now. http://sourceforge.net/powerbar/db2/ _______________________________________________ Flightgear-devel mailing list Flightgear-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/flightgear-devel
