Although FlightGear has a couple of R/C models (Rascal and Yardstick at least) and I hope to add more, none of the standard views is appropriate for learning to fly a R/C Plane. What do people think about adding an R/C Pilot View?
This is very similar to a "Tower View" but with a position which is a small offset from the aircraft's initial position and 1.5 to 2 meters agl. This can be achieved with a little nasal script triggered from "sim/signals/initialized". I borrowed the idea from the Sopwith Camel ground crew. An alternative would be to have "Airports" which are R/C Flying Fields with a "tower" in the right place, but this is significant effort plus it is not really accurate. People most often fly R/C planes from a handy open space. This can be implemented on a per model basis (my first approach) or on a per user basis (in $FG_HOME) but I think it would be better if it were a "core" view (implemented in $FG_ROOT/preferences.xml and $FG_ROOT/Nasal/view.nas) because it is not really specific to an individual aircraft (unlike say, a view of the cargo bay) and code duplication is bad. I have an implementation of this. I made the view "disabled" by default, and the enabled flag is user archiveable. Also, if it IS enabled, there is some nasal script to automatically select it (making it the in effect the default). The net effect is that no one sees the "R/C Pilot View" unless they have enabled it. If they have enabled it, it becomes the default instead of cockpit view. It would also be possible for individual aircraft to change the default from disabled to enabled. This seems to work pretty well in practice and the only real downside I can see, is that the approach wouldn't really scale to additional default views. Regards, Ian -- Ian Dall <[email protected]> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Virtualization & Cloud Management Using Capacity Planning Cloud computing makes use of virtualization - but cloud computing also focuses on allowing computing to be delivered as a service. http://www.accelacomm.com/jaw/sfnl/114/51521223/ _______________________________________________ Flightgear-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/flightgear-devel
