For what it's worth, I think it's great to have a choice, at start-up, between a cold and hot start (as with the c150). More than half the fun of a "sim", as opposed to a "game", is the realism of exploring the cockpit for the necessary switches and knobs to get the bloody thing going and airborne. The an2 is one of my favourites - for this very reason. I have my .fgfsrc file set up so I start on the run-up area just off the main runway at KSFO:
--lat=37.612451 --lon=-122.357858 --heading=026 so I have the time to do pre-flight checks (and explore the cockpit and README's of new and unfamiliar a/c) without clogging up the threshold. Blue skies, Drew On Saturday 13 October 2007 00:58:09 David Megginson wrote: > On 12/10/2007, Vivian Meazza <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > You can have your aircraft any way you want, but don't force it on other > > designers without some real thought. Start the Spitfire and forget to > > zero the throttle, you will start on your nose. That doesn't give a good > > impression to newcomers. > > I'm actually suggesting the opposite -- instead of having each > designer decide, let the users start the aircraft any way *they* want. > I think the default should be with the engine on and idling, but > that's a separate discussion. The first step is to agree on a global > property and start modifying aircraft configs to honour it; then we > can debate what the default value of that property should be. > > > All the best, > > > David > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- > This SF.net email is sponsored by: Splunk Inc. > Still grepping through log files to find problems? Stop. > Now Search log events and configuration files using AJAX and a browser. > Download your FREE copy of Splunk now >> http://get.splunk.com/ > _______________________________________________ > Flightgear-devel mailing list > Flightgear-devel@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/flightgear-devel ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Splunk Inc. Still grepping through log files to find problems? Stop. Now Search log events and configuration files using AJAX and a browser. Download your FREE copy of Splunk now >> http://get.splunk.com/ _______________________________________________ Flightgear-devel mailing list Flightgear-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/flightgear-devel
