On 12/7/06, Donn L Washburn wrote:
The last line of my previous email was basically a joke. It is true
though. With the limited perriffial
Hi Don,
If you can afford to cobble together 2 additional machines, the support is
there in the code to slave additional visual channels off a master copy of
FlightGear. This adds a *lot* of context and makes a huge difference. Also
consider atlas or the multiplayer map for tracking your self, or do it the
good old fashioned way with paper aviation charts, or you can output nmea
strings over the serial port and track yourself with an external moving map
application or even certain real gps's or a palm pilot, etc. And you
probably are aware that you can right click the mouse to get in a view pan
mode and can pan around with the keyboard as well. There's lots of tools,
but it's still pretty easy to get lost up there. The one time I did a real
life take off and climb out as PIC, I was totally lost 30 seconds into the
flight. Combine the disorienting effects of the noise and vibration of the
engine with very limited visibility in a nose high attitude and not being
used to looking at the real world from that perspective and I quickly and
completely lost track of where I was.
Curt.
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Curtis Olson - University of Minnesota - FlightGear Project
http://baron.flightgear.org/~curt/ http://www.humanfirst.umn.edu/
http://www.flightgear.org
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