On jeudi 12 février 2009, Dan Lyke wrote: > On Thu, 12 Feb 2009 17:54:47 +0100 > > "Bo Berglund" <bo.bergl...@telia.com> wrote: > > I might still do it since FS-X Deluxe is on sale for the equivalent > > of 38 USD. Not a lot of money to bother with... > > I'm not an expert. I haven't been in a seat with a stick or a yoke for > nigh on to three and a half decades, when I was a young teenager in the > right seat of my uncle's airplane. > > I also recently bought a tricked out computer for work. I prefer the > Linux environment, but I needed a Windows box and this one came with > Vista installed, and I promised myself I wasn't going to muck with the > install. However, I had an old copy of FS-X in a box, that I hadn't > done anything with because it was on the high end of the resource > needs of my previous Windows machine and said "I wonder...". > > So I installed it. I flew a bunch of the sample missions. I popped in > my town's airport and flew to the other one I drive by all the time. > Then I said "this is crap", and installed FlightGear, and then I had > joystick issues and now I'm thinking I'll just repartition and put > Linux on the machine, mostly so that I can run FlightGear. > > As I said, any current feel for flight I have is two decades out of date > or gleaned from sitting back in the passenger section, but there are so > many places where FS-X feels *wrong* that it didn't work out for me > (especially in its helicopter sim, but that's a different rant). And I'm > saying this having complained on this very mailing list that you can > land the FlightGear P-51, an airplane that I've read has some > particularly heinous stall characteristics, by lowering the gear, > pulling all the way back on the stick, and waiting.
FlighGear can be realistic. Some Aircraft modelers prefer to define the Aircraft FDM customized more easy to fly, which can explain that P-51 behaviour. I remember having tried to fly it with an other (more realistic) FDM , i could never take-off :) If we want, it could be defined more difficult to fly. It is a choice. > > All this is the long way of saying that if you're looking for something > more realistic and less game-like you might spend your money on > X-Plane, or you could spend some time improving FlightGear, but I'm > pretty sure you'll find FS-X is going the wrong direction. > > Dan > -- Gérard http://pagesperso-orange.fr/GRTux/ J'ai décidé d'être heureux parce que c'est bon pour la santé. Voltaire ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Open Source Business Conference (OSBC), March 24-25, 2009, San Francisco, CA -OSBC tackles the biggest issue in open source: Open Sourcing the Enterprise -Strategies to boost innovation and cut costs with open source participation -Receive a $600 discount off the registration fee with the source code: SFAD http://p.sf.net/sfu/XcvMzF8H _______________________________________________ Flightgear-users mailing list Flightgear-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/flightgear-users
