> All this is absolutely false. I never requested a change in the FDM > Alouette 2 ! If I could not fly, and although it does not bother me. > JM-26 and many, many others were sad not to do so.
The point with the AlouetteII is that it is a helicopter with absolute no stabilisation or control compensation aids the same way as the R22 is- just with a higher mass, a turbine and more power. Thus if you apply control you will have to make sure that you apply compensation on each (!!!) axes simultaneously. That makes a helicopter beginner struggle with the controls and propably fail but does not make the FDM unrealistic. At least it is a (legacy) helicopter with all its challenges. If you have not seen an unstable AlouetteII upon takeoff (as you mentioned in the other post) this is simply the case because you are watching a trained pilot, not a simplistic FDM. Thereore before changing the FDM in FlightGear to please the not-so-trained pilots I would have appreciated to ask some of the more experienced pilots regarding their impressions. As to my experiences with the Alouette2 I can say that I can apply stable hovers with minimum locational deviations and that I once landed the thing stable in the bay of a FlightGear carrier. Things you can not accomplish with a broken FDM. Though I have not checked it for a while. However the floats version seems to have some issues with CoG and high speed flight. So I am somehow surprised regarding the latest happenings and do not appreciate the way the FDM was changed without a concensus to do so. Oliver ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ What Every C/C++ and Fortran developer Should Know! Read this article and learn how Intel has extended the reach of its next-generation tools to help Windows* and Linux* C/C++ and Fortran developers boost performance applications - including clusters. http://p.sf.net/sfu/intel-dev2devmay _______________________________________________ Flightgear-devel mailing list Flightgear-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/flightgear-devel
