On Friday 14 September 2007 00:41, leee wrote: > On Thursday 13 September 2007 15:27, Forums Virgin Net wrote: > > Hi, > > Just some Information about part 3 of the Movie, The new concorde > > Build still has some issues such as the Vertical Speed does not work it > > still latches to full + (Plus) pitch rate or full - (Minus) Pitch rate > > which cause's concorde to lose control, this is a big problem when > > activating Altitude Acquire because VS is activated automatically by this > > control. I do plan on including the new concorde in my Movie I have some > > idea's to include it on an oposite flight track to that of the Russian > > who has recieved orders from his C.O. and is in-bound into USA airspace, > > I plan a Near miss at some point but implementing this will be a bit of a > > challenge. > > > > I am about to begin shooting this shortly, if anyone wants to take part > > by flying the SU-37 to simulate a near miss at an Altitude around 51,200 > > Feet please let me know, it does seem theoretically possible due to the > > max cieling of the SU-37 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sukhoi_Su-37 > > > > Robin S. - I got your earlier email, but have not been able to reply due > > to email loops back on myself ? Please contact me via my Form as I think > > email address gets cropped in here? > > http://freespace.virgin.net/mike.perla/feedbackform.html > > Please be sure to leave your email address at the bottom of the form :o) > > Thanks for your offer to help! > > > > It seems the Infra Red device in the SU-37 does not function but some > > special FX here would not go amiss if at all possible? The SU-37 Pilot > > may mistake a reading here as an anomoly as the Concorde is a rare bird > > and has a low Radar Cross Section from the front view. The near miss is > > part of a comic sequence I have planned for events in the concorde > > cockpit. > > > > Anyway I plan to do some Video shoots in a day or so, perhaps the > > weekend. > > > > All the Best Aerotro > > > > > > > > > > Online FlightGear Simulator Tracker Page. > > http://mpserver04.flightgear.org > > http://www.flightgear.org > > Hi Aerotro, > > I can't guarantee that the SU-37 will get to 51k+ ft. > > Because YASim doesn't do super-sonic (not a critism) I had to guesstimate a > suitable sub-sonic datum i.e. less than max trust @ less than max alt, but > the sub-sonic characteristics seem to be in the right ball-park. > > I was more interested in 'playing' with YASim's out of the envelope > qualities (which I was very pleased with) rather than making an easily > flyable aircraft, so flying it on the stick could be tricky:) That's also > why there isn't much of a panel or authentic instruments - it's not what I > was interested in but it's there for anyone else to take further:) > > I can't remember if the thrust vectoring feature is on or off, by default, > but I found that it had negligible effect at low power settings (which was > interesting;) > > If you're planning to hand fly it, as opposed to scripting something, I'd > recommend using either the 'cubed' stick function (cubes the 0.0-1.0 input > before applying it to the control surfaces - sensitivity is very low at > small inputs but increases at a cube rate as the input increases - heh heh) > or using the stick roll-hold and either the stick pitch-hold or > climb-rate-hold functions to help make it a bit more controlable. Using > the roll&pitch/climb modes should level out the a/c if you let go of the > stick... > > ...unless you're out of control:) > > There is a primitive spin/ooe recovery function too, but it really needs > about 10k ft to be safe (may need a few attempts) > > When I last flew it I found that I needed to manually reset the autopilot, > via the menu, before all the various A/P controllers would work so you > should do this before you try to take off:) > > hth > > LeeE > Oh yeah - the A/P controllers were tuned to my system (Athlon XP 1900+ & Nvidia 6600) which worked out to between 8-25 fps and I'm afraid they are dependent on the frame-rate and they may not work well on higher performance systems. I've seen them go either way when I've checked out some of the different a/c A/Ps I've done on different systems:(
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