"Vivian Meazza" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in part; >> ... (not that I use it very often) ...
On 12/05/2007 02:59 PM, Syd&Sandy wrote: > ok that answers my question .... I thought it was more a user option to > center joystick , etc... Maybe I'm missing something, but I thought "5" was a mouse-only solution to a mouse-only problem. I wouldn't expect anybody with a hardware joystick to have any use for "5". A HW joystick has springs that return it to zero force and zero deflection. Real aircraft have a readily perceptible zero-force point as well as a zero-deflection point (not the same). The joyless mouse lacks all of the above, so having a key that warps the controls to zero has merit. It does not correspond to anything in the real airplane, but that doesn't bother me, since I consider it an appropriate solution to an unrealistic problem. I think everybody agrees that a) joysticks are better than mice, but b) we need to support mice. > But now I'm really curious how a real autopilot system handles this .... Handles what, exactly? There's no support for anything like "5" that I've ever heard of in real aircraft. I'm having a little trouble imagining why anybody would want such a thing. There are certification regs concerning stick force, so that any certified aircraft is going to do something reasonable if you just let go of the stick. Again it seems the "5" is a non-real-world solution to a non-real-world problem. The closest thing I can think of is an AP with the follow-the-stick feature: That is, you can establish a rate of climb and/or a rate of turn with the stick, and then tell the AP to maintain what you've got. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- SF.Net email is sponsored by: The Future of Linux Business White Paper from Novell. From the desktop to the data center, Linux is going mainstream. Let it simplify your IT future. http://altfarm.mediaplex.com/ad/ck/8857-50307-18918-4 _______________________________________________ Flightgear-devel mailing list Flightgear-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/flightgear-devel
