On Feb 9, 2009, at 10:57 AM, Hal V. Engel wrote: > On Sunday 08 February 2009 10:39:17 pm Bo Berglund wrote: >> I have to get this simulation stuff working for myself first before >> exposing me to the mock and ridicule of the Internet. >> See above what can happen... ;-) >> >> BosseB > > You shouldn't worry about this. Many of the FG pilots who are on- > line are > fairly skilled and some are highly skilled. But there are also a > significant > number of novices and it is not at all uncommon to see one of these > novices > damage their bird or have what would be a fatal crash if this > happened in the > real world. It even happens to me on occasion. As long as you are > not being > obnoxious (IE. deliberately disrupting others) no one will mock or > ridicule > you. In fact if anything others will try to help if you ask. > > I once saw a novice FG cub pilot do a classic stall/spin into the > ground as I > was taxing to take off position. He/she must have done 7 or 8 > rotations > before hitting the ground and I remember thinking "just let go of > the controls > and the plane will start flying again" as I watched it happening. > I have no > idea who that was and it really does not matter. He/she was a new > pilot and > learned a valuable lesson that that day but at no point did anyone > make fun of > this pilot. >
agree, i have never seen anyone being laughed af cause of a crash. I know i would react quite strong if i saw it or in my case heard it cause i use speach for nearly anything i do in respect to flightgear. One day i am about too land at ksfo in my storch my older sister comes in... sees me and say softly" hey sandi you know you look totally scared right ?" i apply" yeah i am landing ! and hate stalling!" Point being skilled or not skilled maybe it is your voice or something else you are conscious about that is how it is:) if you smile too the world around you usually it will smile back. > Sort of related to this I have seen posts here and on the on-line > forum where > FG pilots have said that they wouldn't use voice communications even > if it > were available (IE. like FGCOM or Teamspeak or Mumble) because they > would feel > too self conscious. In the real world pilots use radios all the > time for > voice communications and doing this in FG would add significantly to > it's > realism. But I can understand where these individuals are coming > from since > when you first start using two way radios there is always some fear of > screwing up since what you are doing is so public. New HAM radio > operators > feel the same way. But it only takes a short time to realize that > 1) no one > will ridicule you unless you persist in making big mistakes and 2) > doing this > is necessary to the activity you involved in. > > Hal > again agree. But i think that will come. But yes many might be very anxious about using their voices. For one reason or another. alittle sitejump. alot of people ask how i use flightgear when im blind the podcast can be found at http://filebin.ca/vafhod/R09_0001.MP3 speaking of bad things .. have just had my worse landing ever,,, and that really says something .see what happens when you are used to dme ;) /sandi > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Create and Deploy Rich Internet Apps outside the browser with > Adobe(R)AIR(TM) > software. With Adobe AIR, Ajax developers can use existing skills > and code to > build responsive, highly engaging applications that combine the > power of local > resources and data with the reach of the web. Download the Adobe AIR > SDK and > Ajax docs to start building applications today-http://p.sf.net/sfu/adobe-com > _______________________________________________ > Flightgear-users mailing list > Flightgear-users@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/flightgear-users ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Create and Deploy Rich Internet Apps outside the browser with Adobe(R)AIR(TM) software. With Adobe AIR, Ajax developers can use existing skills and code to build responsive, highly engaging applications that combine the power of local resources and data with the reach of the web. Download the Adobe AIR SDK and Ajax docs to start building applications today-http://p.sf.net/sfu/adobe-com _______________________________________________ Flightgear-users mailing list Flightgear-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/flightgear-users
