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 . . .

-c

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