Andy Ross writes: > Christopher Langone wrote: > > We are using flight gear to drive a 747 flight management system for > > lab testing. We are having problems with [long list of problems] > > The YASim 747-400 is deep in "bleeding edge" mode right now. I'd > avoid depending on it for any serious work. Recent versions in CVS > are doing much better, but there are still bugs and gotchas in the > flight model at altitude. > > (Actually, they're generic to YASim as a whole, the 747 just gets > bitten harder. The propeller planes don't fly across as broad a > flight regime, and the military jets don't have hard numbers to prove > them wrong.) > > The lack of a panel is a real deficiency. If you don't want to write > one for us (heh), you could use the HUD as John Check suggests. > Another option is to run a glass cockpit display (www.opengc.org) on a > second machine. If you're doing your own FMS, however, you may not > want to deal with another.
I tried the 747 today and was really impressed with how far along it has developed. Reasonable jet engine sound, "interesting" hud, a good start at an external 3d model, etc. and excepting the known issues in the flight modeling which are being actively worked on, it seemed to fly like just like a big beast. It would be cool if someone would build an analog panel for it so we could monitor and individually control the engines and have access to the nav radios and other standard instruments. Regards, Curt. -- Curtis Olson IVLab / HumanFIRST Program FlightGear Project Twin Cities [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Minnesota http://www.menet.umn.edu/~curt http://www.flightgear.org _______________________________________________ Flightgear-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.flightgear.org/mailman/listinfo/flightgear-users
