On Sat, 13 Nov 2004 20:25:54 +0100 "louis holleman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On 13 Nov 2004 at 18:48, Andrew Midosn wrote: > > > I have been playing with FlightGear recently, having > > not looked at it for a while, and have a couple of > > questions. > > > > The first is - should the Cessna constantly turn to > > the left? I know that planes don't fly straight and > > level without input from the pilot, but this seems > > extreme. With my hands off the controls it will roll > > almost to 90 degrees within a few seconds. I have to > > keep the joystick permanently over to the right to try > > to keep it on course. This wouldn't be so bad if > > FlighGear would let me trim the craft to counteract > > the roll, but I can't see anything in the > > documentation about this. It seems that you can trim > > the pitch of the plane, but that's it. > > Andrew, look for the settings file for the airplane, something like > c172p.xml, load it into a decent text editor and find the p_factor > setting, which probably is set to 10.0 then change that to 5.0 or even > 1.0 and save the file again. This will reduce the effect a lot.
I would think this is only a good solution if the p_factor is set
incorrectly, in which case it'd be set incorrectly for everybody. The
Cessna doesn't roll over like this for me. Like Melchior, I suspect
misconfigured joystick . . .
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