gerard robin wrote: > With the most realistic quality a model is never easy to fly, even the most > simple aircraft, (if the FDM and cockpit are realistic). > > The best models which have the higher quality must be presented first ( and > they won't never be "easy to fly"). Can I chime in and say I have to disagree there Gerard.
Many aircraft would be (are) "easy to fly" in-real-life --- especially if you don't care about how you treat the aircraft, or if you survive, as you don't in a sim (not like you do in real life at least!). I firmly believe under those conditions in real life (which is obviously fantastical, but none the less possible) anybody who has a rudimentary knowledge of "how a plane works" could make a passable attempt at starting, taxiing, getting off the ground and something roughly approximating "control" with just a few tries in a simple single engine tricycle aircraft. Both in sim, and real life. In sim you see this sometimes on the MP server, new people come along (or even regulars [like me] in new aircraft), they make a couple of botched attempts, run off the runway, turn it over, etc, but within just a couple tries they get in the air, wobbly but doing it. Is this because the aircraft is "unrealistically easy to fly", no I don't think so, it's just that it IS easy to fly, when you disregard realities of damage, injury, death and the inability to hit "restart" and try again. Note well however that "fly" and "fly well" are two different things. Is it easy to fly some aircraft, yes, is it easy to fly well in those aircraft, no. Some aircraft on the other hand it is not easy to "fly" or "fly well", they are just "hard" all over (see: helicopter) and a large investment of time is required, both in real life and in sim, to be able to just fly the aircraft with even a fleeting glimpse of control, let alone fly it well. I have only very small experience and ability in real life flying (money, time, etc etc etc), but even me with my exceptional clumsiness managed to fly my first solo in real life, without damaging the aircraft, with about 5 hours dual training. If I hadn't cared about living or damaging the plane, or knowing what to do if the fan stopped, or... I could have done it I'm sure in much much less. In short, there are plenty of aircraft out there I believe that ARE easy to fly in real life, and just saying that the "best models" with "higher quality" can never be "easy to fly" is a wholly incorrect statement. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ SF.Net email is Sponsored by MIX09, March 18-20, 2009 in Las Vegas, Nevada. The future of the web can't happen without you. Join us at MIX09 to help pave the way to the Next Web now. Learn more and register at http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;208669438;13503038;i?http://2009.visitmix.com/ _______________________________________________ Flightgear-devel mailing list Flightgear-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/flightgear-devel
