Hi everybody, Still working on the flight dynamics of the tomcat and it is coming along nicely.
I have ran into a few limitations lately and I would like to know if people have been working on fixes for those limitations or if other people than me feel frustrated about those limitations and I should try to start changing the source code for addition into the CVS (rather than hacking around in Nasal). Here are the few limitations I have ran into (not that bad, I am definitely NOT in a FG bashing spirit :) ) : * The HUD tapes have the option to provide moving pointer display. This is a nice feature since it was implemented this way on the F-14A/B tomcats (rather than moving scale on modern aircrafts)... The thing is, it does not work on FG 1.0 : the pointer is replaced by a single line all the way to the top of the screen. I have looked in the source code and found no visible error. Beats me. If somebody else is stuck with this problem and it has not been fixed I can give it a closer look. * It seems that pitch rates and yaw rate properties are given in an earth trihedral rather than a airframe trihedral. While this is very nice for instruments, it is hardly usable for, say, the implementation of a Stability Augmentation System which relies on aircraft trihedral angular rates for stabilization. Can (are ?) those values be exposed in the property tree and if so, why are they not exposed ? The F-14 is much more flyable now than it used to be. Some textures are still incomplete, the 2D cockpit is still to be made, and there is no documentation at all, but I think it may be worth uploading to CVS as an alpha version for people to start providing inputs on how it flies on different versions of flightgear and different hardware setups (I am afraid it is a little bit of a bloatware :( ). If CVS maintainers think it is worthy, I will provide a link to a compressed TAR file Regards Enrique ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft Defy all challenges. Microsoft(R) Visual Studio 2008. http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/vse0120000070mrt/direct/01/ _______________________________________________ Flightgear-devel mailing list Flightgear-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/flightgear-devel
