After an email to the flightgear-users list saying that a link to the
Mac OS X binaries was broken, I went through the FlightGear Installation
and Getting started guide. The following are the obvious errors due to
changes in servers and feature crep of FligthGear.
If need be, I'm happy to take on the maintenance of this document. I
will need to learn latex first though.
George Patterson
Getting Started Guide
Chapter 2 should probably be move to the appendix as it is not
absolutely required. Binary downloads are an easier way to the computer
novice to get started. They can always compile and install flightgear
from source later.
Section 3.1 Installing the binary distribution on a Macintosh system
Contains the link ftp://www.flightgear.org/pub/flightgear/Win32/
This should be changed to
http://www.flightgear.org/Downloads/binary.shtml#windows and choose one
of the mirrors.
A sentence should be added advising the user to upgrade to the latest
version of their driver.
Similar for Section 3.2 Installing the binary distribution on a
Macintosh system
Section 3.3 Installing the binary distribution on a Debian based Linux
system
Debian and other .deb (such as Ubuntu) package based distributions come
with Flightgear in their respective repositories, hence install is as
simple as apt-get install Flightgear. But the manual method of first
downloading the binary, then installing it is a good idea also. The
links need fixing.
4.1 Launching the simulator under Unix/Linux
The command show to start flightgear is runfgfs ... when it should be
fgfs.
Question: Does the shell script runfgfs exist under any distro packages
any longer? (I don't recall it and I have been using flightgear since
0.9.5.)
Figure 3 need updating. It shows KSFO but without any airport terminal,
tower or lights.
Section 4.4.3 Aircraft
The guide suggests that for possible aircraft see /Flightgear/Aircraft,
when it's easier generaly to type fgfs --show-aircraft.
4.4.4 Flight Model
Second Paragraph mentions --aero=abcd when it should probably be
--aircraft=
4.4.5 Initial Position and Orientation
The parameter --airport-id= should be --airport=
4.4.9 Network Options
The two parameters, --enable-network-olk and --disable-network-olk can
probably be removed and instrucion on using the new MP server code
structure. It's easy enough to compile the server and run it locally for
large number of machines with no network connection to the outside
world.
4.5 Joystick support
This section could do with being reworked as it is probably the case
that your joystick will work out of the box :-)
4.6 A glance over our hangar
Table 1 need altering as the aircraft has changed considerably.
5.1 Starting the engine
The last paragraph says In addition, have a look if the parking brakes
are on (red field lit). If so, press the B button to release them.
That keystroke could be a little ambiguous. Perhaps shift-B would be
clearer.
5.2 Keyboard Control
In table 8, the keystroke ? should be added for displaying aircraft
specific keystorckes eg (m/shift-M for mixture in the b1900d)
5.3 Menu Entries
Menu Structure has changed substantially since the getting started
document was written.
Theses were the glaring bugs and annoyances that I spotted.
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