A couple more six-legged crawly things: 41:: c172p: As of rc2, if the pilot is tall or if the pilot's seat is cranked up high, a weird artifact appears in the field of view. To demonstrate this, use the property viewer to set /sim/current-view/y-offset-m to 0.4 (instead of the default value of 0.3). I don't know what this artifact is or where it came from. Perhaps it is a misplaced scrap of upholstery. I'm pretty sure it can be deleted with no regrets.
42:: Instrument: KAP-140: As of rc2, as installed in the c172p and presumably others, on initial startup the display of the Sim World KAP-140 is blank. This is already a bug, because the display of the Real World KAP-140 is never blank (unless you pull the circuit breaker, which is not relevant to the present discussion). In particular, the altitude alerter function is always active and cannot be turned off, even in the rather common case where the auto-bank and auto-pitch functions are on standby. In this case, the RW KAP-140 displays the target altitude. It would be nice if the SW KAP-140 did the same. The nightmare scenario for the noobie pilot is taking off from an airport situated above 1000 MSL and flying to an airport at 950 MSL. Since the "default" target altitude is zero, there will be an alert on short final at 1000 MSL == 50 feet AGL. Unexpected beeping warnings at 50 feet AGL are not a good thing. We note in passing that the instructions at http://wiki.flightgear.org/index.php?title=Bendix/King_KAP140_Autopilot do not even mention the alerter. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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
