[Flightgear-devel] Starting engine using FGNetCtrls

2012-05-31 Thread Viktor Radnai
Hi all, I'm going to use Flightgear for developing/testing UAV code (yep, another one of those :) ). I'm currently putting together an SDL app that communicates with FG. I'm using the FGNetCtrls structure from net_ctrls.hxx. I'm trying to start the C172's engine but when I set startup_power =

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Starting engine using FGNetCtrls

2012-05-31 Thread Ron Jensen
From eng_io320.xml: idlerpm 550.0 /idlerpm The engine needs to reach 440 RPM to start (80% of 550, the coded idle RPM) if you're reaching above 440 RPM make sure you've engaged fuel and magneto controls. If you're not reaching that perhaps you need to look into the