On Sunday 12 September 2004 13:50, louis holleman wrote: > 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)
While sorting out an update for the ComperSwift I realised that the AP menu and keyboard assignations don't match. E.g. hitting Ctrl-s to engage auto throttle sets /autopilot/locks/speed = 'speed-with-throttle' whereas selecting the Autothrottle option from the Auto Pilot Settings Dialogue creates an /autopilot/locks/auto-throttle = '1' entry. The gui & keyboard mappings really need to be reconciled, even though it brings us back to the thorny issue of k/b mappings... LeeE _______________________________________________ Flightgear-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.flightgear.org/mailman/listinfo/flightgear-users 2f585eeea02e2c79d7b1d8c4963bae2d
