Re: Engines start at idle (was Re: [Flightgear-devel] for the upcomingrelease)

2002-02-13 Thread John Check
On Thursday 14 February 2002 12:32 am, you wrote: Jim Wilson writes: David Megginson [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: Curtis L. Olson writes: I would think that if we are going to have the engine running at startup, we really should have either the parking brake set, or the sim come

Re: Engines start at idle (was Re: [Flightgear-devel] for the upcomingrelease)

2002-02-13 Thread Alex Perry
Sounds like we need to organize a focus group. :-) Yeah, that's what the conferences are for ... to _prove_ to the doubting new users that the simulator does actually work ... I'm worried though that if the new user goes scooting off down the runway at 40 knots before they get a chance to

Re: Engines start at idle (was Re: [Flightgear-devel] for the upcomingrelease)

2002-02-13 Thread Alex Perry
I could bind a toggle for the brakes to the indicator. I think it's fairly likely somebody might click on it Good idea, in any case. However, instead of setting the brakes, how about configuring the weather to have non-zero wind directly down the runway, just enough to keep the aircraft from