I'm a bit confused how and why the auto pilot does certain things. I think for legacy reasons, its been hacked together and work fine.. almost.ish..
There are also duo versions of le interface as defined here.. for end users.. http://wiki.flightgear.org/index.php/Autopilot and interestingly, they appear on the Bravo and 787, my two aircraft of interest in creating a motion platform. However in trying to create simple switches/knobs with Arduino in my play cockpit. and motion sim, there are a few issues. I think that to solve the problem, we need to define the problem more.. and imho we are at its most basic looking at the the functionality of an aircraft, and the source the developers manual. At its most basic in what I'd call modern aircraft. the expected functionality of an AP would be a set of pots and switches such as 1) Altitude hold - ie maintain a height -> arudio_value = 120 > telnet->set('altitude', 0.120); 2) heading hold - ie go that way -> if arudnio_heading_button_on > telnet->set('heading', 0); 3) speed setting - ie go at this speed. ->if arduino_button is on then ?? Then we can go nuts with glideslope, climb rate, speed brakes. Some aircraft possible cant do this, however most modern aicraft, can and how the switches interpolate within the cockpit. At the most I would not expect the autopilot to do things generally within a second.. However we are looking at at least three sub systems.. How these are delivered from pressing a phycical little button with the "heading" end up in a screen automatically heading that way. This would be ok, however I cant make the "platform" jerk at he same rate, and knock off coffee cups etc. I'm obviously not close to the code and looking at /HEAD but thus require some direction. which leads to the following questions ? Should the autopilot be a seperate process that just basically inputs pilot commands ? ie turn at the same physical rate posibble ? At the moment I can damp down the movement easily with a couple of capacitors.? Also in the back of my mind is whether we need to create an virtual ARINC bus.. ie seperate sub systems ? Anyway some of my thoughts.. most can be ignored.. Pete ;-) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Come build with us! The BlackBerry(R) Developer Conference in SF, CA is the only developer event you need to attend this year. Jumpstart your developing skills, take BlackBerry mobile applications to market and stay ahead of the curve. Join us from November 9 - 12, 2009. Register now! http://p.sf.net/sfu/devconference _______________________________________________ Flightgear-devel mailing list Flightgear-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/flightgear-devel
