--- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 29, 2005 at 07:09:06AM -0700, Mike
> Rawlins wrote:
> > I've found it easier to enter the waypoints in the
> > menu once airborne. And oddly, when I started the
> > simulation with the flightplan initialized a
> moment
> > ago, the rudder was in a position to command the
> > aircraft toward the first waypoint, making
> steering
> > down the runway impossible. Hitting <control>-c
> once
> > disengages autopilot from flightplan and to a
> heading
> > of 0 degrees, and hitting <control>-c again gets
> you
> > back to manual control.
>
> I think it is a point in most check lists of auto
> pilot equipped
> airplanes:-) "Before take off: ... Check autopilot -
> OFF ...". I
> think there were a few accidents due to failure to
> do so... So
> I think this is a very realistic feature of
> FlightGear!!
The question remains: How does one correctly use the
flightplan that is entered from a file (command line
option)? For my test I'm using the Fokker 100 jet.
>From what I can tell, the autopilot directs the plane
to the first waypoint at startup. The waypoints from
the flightplan file appear in the heads-up display. I
can disengage the flightplan on the runway by clicking
<control>-h twice. But then how does one engage it
after takeoff? I see that the waypoints are still in
the flightplan in pull-down menu after disengaging
with <control>-h.
Anyone else use the flightplan file for waypoints in
this manner?
Mike
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