Well, after upgrading to 0.9.6 I have found the following: when taking off in the 172, I still need to manipulate the stick too much to my appreciation, then I can engage the AP on HDG and VS or ALT. The same as in 0.9.5, but whilst doing a tour around Frisco (nice scenery in the default stuff, this is exactly why I appreciate FG so much) I also discovered lotsa turbulence in the mountains area. Went back to KSFO and did some new settings on the environment: turned wind to only 1 kt at ground level, no turbulence and took off once more. Same stuff, then to the AP for HDG and ALT and flew towards San Jose. Somewhere over the bay I turned the AP off and much to my amazement the plane flew straight and level without me touching any control. Operating the stick would do exactly what I'm experiencing with Fly or Propilat, i.e. an a/c which is easy to handle (this was in speed ranges between 85 and 120 kts). Appearently also the cursor arrow keys have some effect and joystick handling is dead easy. So I engaged the AP for APP to rwy28R which it did perfectly, only needed to flare manually before the final touchdown. What I also haven't seen sofar is the odd behaviour whilst flying on AP (HDG and ALT) at irregular times the Cessna would pull up steeply, go into a stall, dive out of it again and catching up again on AP (without any manual interruption). Flew from Amsterdam to Orly yesterday (still on 0.9.5 then) and that happened about 8 times... So is it the new version? At least now I'm starting to really enjoy FG, gotta check out the other birds too for their behaviour.
Louis (who is glad he upgraded first thing to 0.9.6) _______________________________________________ Flightgear-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.flightgear.org/mailman/listinfo/flightgear-users 2f585eeea02e2c79d7b1d8c4963bae2d
