> Rest assured, the Concorde has its share of oddities :) > See the "known problems" part in the ReadmeConcorde-jbsim.txt.
Yes, it sure does. But I guess I mean something slightly different. I have tried to fly AP-controlled IFR approaches in a number of planes (since I can do really good-looking bad weather now) - the Concorde has been the only plane that has ever tracked the localizer correctly and then intercepted the glideslope for me under full AP control and brought me right down to the runway (I haven't ever tried to let the AP touch down, but apparently the Concorde does that as well if the NAV info is correct). In other planes (I tried various...), the reactions of the AP system to my request for an IFR approach have been mixed. At best, I have managed to get a shared-work approach where the AP tracks the localizer and I follow the glideslope. At worst, the AP has tried to kill me by making a sharp turn somewhere else (at low altitudes close to stall speed, that's not funny!). I keep asking in the forum if anyone knows a plane that reliably intercepts glideslope when under AP control - so far no one has been able to come up with one. If someone here knows a plane, please let me know and I give it a try. In many planes, IFR flight is not fun at all - several planes have the nasty habit to reset frequency or radial from the value I entered in the menu, so I now always triple-check if radial and beacon appear correctly on the instruments, in the menu and on the moving map. Some AP's have the habit of changing the set altitude or speed to some value I didn't set. Often the systems seem confused if no flightplan is entered into the route manager, or are in an undefined state between route manager control, GPS control and nav beacon control. I don't know how others deal with it - in most planes, I nowadays not even try to use NAV mode but just use the heading bug to track the radial myself and then fly my approaches manually. Which is fine except when the weather is really bad and you don't have a visual on the runway for a long time - then the workload for me is just a bit high and I tend to miss the approach (I'm a glider pilot - I know IFR in theory, but I'm not overly attached to it, so I don't practice excessively...). Compared with sharing the cockpit with a potentially homicidal psychopath who sometimes doesn't pay attention and sometimes changes your plans to suit his own agenda, the oddities in the Concorde AP are definitely minor issues. Cheers, * Thorsten ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ All of the data generated in your IT infrastructure is seriously valuable. Why? It contains a definitive record of application performance, security threats, fraudulent activity, and more. Splunk takes this data and makes sense of it. IT sense. And common sense. http://p.sf.net/sfu/splunk-d2d-c2 _______________________________________________ Flightgear-devel mailing list Flightgear-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/flightgear-devel
