Willie Fleming wrote: > Josh wrote > >>Perhaps we should track each aircraft's maintainer and more >>importantly, whether they are active or planning to be active with that >>AC soon. I think if we did that it would encourage people to step in and >>adopt planes. Even if a maintainer doesn't have a huge amount of extra >>time, they could still be an advocate and coordinate the work of other >>people on that AC. >> >>As it is now, I think there may be a reluctance to step on people's >>toes, so instead of finishing off an existing plane, people go out and >>start a new one which may or may not get completed. Meanwhile, planes >>that are in need of completion or updating to take advantage of new >>features become hangar queens. >> >>Additionally, this will also highlight planes that no one really cares >>about. That way instead of ditching the incomplete planes, we can >>instead ditch the ones that are incomplete and unwanted, then help bring >>along the ones that people do want to fly. >> >>Josh >> >>PS, I'm still working on the B29 and Canberra, but having trouble >>getting FG to compile and run right. As soon as that happens I can make >>the final sprint to a v1.0 B29. > > Thanks for your efforts on these planes. I enjoyed having a circuit or two in > the B-29 last night. Not the easiest beast to handle but I think it will be > fun when complete. > Problems I noticed included: > the nose wheel retracts but the main gear stays down > > ground handling was unpredictable - sometimes no matter what I tried it would > just go round clockwise like only the port engines were running - other times > it was fine - diff braking helped but only slightly > > props don't turn - so I couldn't visually check which engines were running - > all gauges and throttle positions seemed to suggest I had all 4 OK though. > > I havent much experience at this but if there is any help I can offer, please > say. > > Regards > Willie Fleming > > > _______________________________________________ > Flightgear-users mailing list > Flightgear-users@flightgear.org > http://mail.flightgear.org/mailman/listinfo/flightgear-users > 2f585eeea02e2c79d7b1d8c4963bae2d >
Thanks for the input. Those are actually all known problems. The version you are flying is really an alpha plane. Vivian has a new flight model that should be much easier to fly, but I haven't been able to get it in because I haven't been able to get any recent versions of FG to work with my radeon drivers. Still working on that. Anyway, there should be a big update soon. Oh, and the difficulty steering won't go away. The B29 has a castering nosewheel, so it will always be hard to steer :( In the real plane you are supposed to use both braking and differential thrust. Josh _______________________________________________ Flightgear-users mailing list Flightgear-users@flightgear.org http://mail.flightgear.org/mailman/listinfo/flightgear-users 2f585eeea02e2c79d7b1d8c4963bae2d
