On 11 Apr 2013, at 10:35, syd adams <adams....@gmail.com> wrote: > Sounds like a definite improvement! I'll try it out when i get off work.oh > ,and im a mouse flyer,i dont find a joystick appropriate for the type of > aircraft i like to fly.one day i'll invest in a yoke,pedals and maybe even a > throttle setup.
Personally I would say (and have said before) that a yoke, pedals and throttle quadrant is by far the best use of money to improve the flying experience, for any aircraft type. (Much more so than spending on graphics, CPU, etc) But, being a non-mouse flyer, I am of course anxious for feedback. Gijs also pointed out some joystick users prefer to use mouse controls to fly helicopters, since the self-centering action on most joysticks is unrealistic there. Personally I think Tab is a better choice for driving the mode-cycle regardless, since it's not a key a novice user would hit by accident, unlike right-clicking, but it is easy to hit and eminently usable on laptops and Macs with no right button. (but biased towards right-handed mouse users). I'd be fine with a pref to keep the 'right click cycles modes' behaviour we have now, but I would ask mouse-flyers to evaluate using tab and see how they find it. The flip side is people such as Anders and mysef, who never use mouse-flight-controls, and indeed find it annoying to skip through; actually it can now be disabled from the GUI entirely (in view options), so tab simply cycles between normal and look modes; but at that point the 'right-drag-to-look' setting is hugely more usable IMO. Again, anyone with an opinion should probably take some 'normal flying time' to experiment with all the possibilities. Ideally leaving past use habits to one side, but that's tricky for humans with muscle memory :) James ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Precog is a next-generation analytics platform capable of advanced analytics on semi-structured data. The platform includes APIs for building apps and a phenomenal toolset for data science. Developers can use our toolset for easy data analysis & visualization. Get a free account! http://www2.precog.com/precogplatform/slashdotnewsletter _______________________________________________ Flightgear-devel mailing list Flightgear-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/flightgear-devel
