Ya it was pretty interesting to say the least. I tried the b1900d and cessna. The cessna at hurricane peak just about all I could do was to turn into the wind and pretty much hover over the runways. But once I got a bit of altitude I turn away from direction of wind and fly at odd angle, (slip?). So the nose would be about 30 to 40 degrees off to left of forward travel maybe more. Shear and turbulence was very dangerous crashed many times not due to regular wind but turbulence, but I don't know if FlightGear models shear but they do model turbulence. Landing was at same off center odd angle as cruising and required firm rudder control to straighten plane at last moment. But reality probably dictate real cessna never get off ground or if it did probably crash right away so not to sure how accurate simulation. Learned to never want to fly in cessna in hurricane except hurricane hunter craft which to bad not available for FlightGear.
B1900D is same except can make fair headway into wind and cruising and landing require good rudder quickness. B52-F can't get off runway because wind push me off to left with rudder and nose wheel full on to right. In X-plane 8.40 I tried the 747 and the goodway 737-800 planes and cessna and others and they all slide to left if light craft and if heavy only slip 'n' slide when ramping up takeoff speed. Second lesson learned good they close air traffic in hurricane and bad weather in general. As for FlightGear simulation match pretty good with X-Plane as a control so both maybe pretty accurate hurricane wise? fubadubrub > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Robert Black" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: "FlightGear user discussions" <[email protected]> > Subject: Re: [Flightgear-users] Anybody getting ready to fly hurricane Flo > out of Bermuda (TXKF)? > Date: Mon, 11 Sep 2006 14:54:25 -0500 > > > Did you make the flight? > > I keep checking the weather conditions in Bermuda so that I may > > have some wild rides in FlightGear. Naturally I don't want to > > sound prurient about any damage or suffering that Flo may cause, > > seems unlikely at this moment. But can you believe that I have > > never flown in inclement weather in FlightGear. Some mild wind > > is all I have had to handle. Then again I have not been flying > > that long and yes .fgfsrc is set to --enable-real-weather-fetch. > > Hopefully Bermuda won't get too much of Flo but if they do I will > > be right there with them in FlightGear. > > > > I do have a question about the Metar. The Metar service is set > > to 240? minutes by default in preferences.xml. I have changed > > this value to 30 minutes, is this a good idea. I guess the > > parameters would involve server bandwidth and how often the Metar > > service itself updates. I assume weather stations would update > > about every 30 to 60 minutes but then if I'm wrong feel free to > > correct me. > > > > fubadubrub -- ___________________________________________________ Now you can search for products and services http://search.mail.com ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Using Tomcat but need to do more? Need to support web services, security? Get stuff done quickly with pre-integrated technology to make your job easier Download IBM WebSphere Application Server v.1.0.1 based on Apache Geronimo http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid=120709&bid=263057&dat=121642 _______________________________________________ Flightgear-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/flightgear-users
