[Flightgear-users] Re: So what do you fly?

2005-11-08 Thread Melchior FRANZ
* Gerard ROBIN -- Tuesday 08 November 2005 16:28: http://ghours.club.fr/Flanker.jpg Wow! I just saw my next favorite. :-) m. ___ Flightgear-users mailing list Flightgear-users@flightgear.org

Re: [Flightgear-users] Re: So what do you fly?

2005-11-08 Thread Gerard ROBIN
Le mardi 08 novembre 2005 à 16:52 +0100, Melchior FRANZ a écrit : * Gerard ROBIN -- Tuesday 08 November 2005 16:28: http://ghours.club.fr/Flanker.jpg Wow! I just saw my next favorite. :-) m. May be later on. It will need many time to do it. Beautiful and difficult. That one is not free

[Flightgear-users] Re: So what do you fly?

2005-11-08 Thread Melchior FRANZ
* Gerard ROBIN -- Tuesday 08 November 2005 17:28: * Gerard ROBIN -- Tuesday 08 November 2005 16:28: http://ghours.club.fr/Flanker.jpg That one is not free (built from several spare part model coming from mdl, three model + home detail and animation add on). Oh, what a pity. (The Nimitz

Re: [Flightgear-users] Re: So what do you fly?

2005-11-08 Thread Gerard ROBIN
Le mardi 08 novembre 2005 à 18:12 +0100, Melchior FRANZ a écrit : * Gerard ROBIN -- Tuesday 08 November 2005 17:28: * Gerard ROBIN -- Tuesday 08 November 2005 16:28: http://ghours.club.fr/Flanker.jpg That one is not free (built from several spare part model coming from mdl, three

Re: [Flightgear-users] Re: So what do you fly?

2005-11-06 Thread Paul Duncan
Hi Guys, Just a quick comment. There's been a few people chatting about how good/bad certain aircraft are with respect to FDM's near the edge of the normal flight envelope. I think its very difficult for a simulator to get everything right all of the time. I fly a number of different simulators

Re: [Flightgear-users] Re: So what do you fly?

2005-11-06 Thread Paul Surgeon
On Sunday 06 November 2005 20:18, Paul Duncan wrote: Even MSFS obviously gets it *very* wrong from time to time. Now, I have never taken the controls of a helicopter (although I have been a passenger in one), but I'm fairly sure that with the engine off it shouldn't cavort around in the air

RE: [Flightgear-users] Re: So what do you fly?

2005-11-06 Thread Jon Berndt
Hi Guys, Just a quick comment. There's been a few people chatting about how good/bad certain aircraft are with respect to FDM's near the edge of the normal flight envelope. I think its very difficult for a simulator to get everything right all of the time. I fly a number of different

Re: [Flightgear-users] Re: So what do you fly?

2005-11-06 Thread Gerard ROBIN
Le dimanche 06 novembre 2005 à 20:54 +0200, Paul Surgeon a écrit : MSFS is a simulator?!! I thought it was just a game and therefore excused all the funnies. Sort of like a hard core, no frills version of Crimson Skies. Regards Paul P.S. I own a copy of FS2004 ;-) you are right it is a

Re: [Flightgear-users] Re: So what do you fly?

2005-11-06 Thread Gerard ROBIN
Le dimanche 06 novembre 2005 à 22:49 +0200, Charalampos Alexopoulos a écrit : Hi I am very thanksfull to people who implement FGFS and the aircraft's. What , in my undrstanding, is the use of this topic is to have some info of wich aircraft did what in order to not confuse ourselfs trying

[Flightgear-users] Re: So what do you fly? (George Patterson)

2005-11-05 Thread RMcN
Hi All, I did not copy any part of a preceding email because there is so much under this subject. So here goes. I gladly donate my category system for aircraft. I peeked at the Wiki and it has a lot there already. I have two major questions. First, can we and do we need to define

Re: [Flightgear-users] Re: So what do you fly? (George Patterson)

2005-11-05 Thread Gerard ROBIN
Le samedi 05 novembre 2005 à 09:56 -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] a écrit : Snip I have two major questions. First, can we and do we need to define aircraft status? (See next long discussion Second shouldn't comments and status be subdivided based on what it effects within an aircraft

[Flightgear-users] Re: So what do you fly?

2005-11-04 Thread RMcN
After loading up everything available in CVS there are a lot of flyable things available to play with in many different states of completion. I would suggest rather than ditching any of the current models, regardless of state, that a better organization of the existing models would be more

[Flightgear-users] Re: So what do you fly?

2005-11-04 Thread Willie Fleming
I have started a page for each aircraft on the wiki http://www.seedwiki.com/wiki/flight_gear/aircraft_wishlist.cfm where folks can leave comments on their favourite aircraft-models. I've phrased it thusly, though, being a wiki, please change it if you have better ideas :-) Aircraft-model

Re: [Flightgear-users] Re: So what do you fly?

2005-11-04 Thread Shelton D'Cruz
Ok thats good to know - how about stalls - how does it react? Shelton D'Cruz wrote: hi Ray The Citation, although very nice, is not really flyable - I stalled her the other day and could not come out of the spin. The Citation is actually one of my favorite airplanes to fly. It hits

Re: [Flightgear-users] Re: So what do you fly?

2005-11-04 Thread Curtis L. Olson
Shelton D'Cruz wrote: Ok thats good to know - how about stalls - how does it react? YAsim models some simple stalls. You definitely know when you've stalled. True life stall behavior is very difficult to model because it can be so different from aircraft to aircraft. There seems to be

Re: [Flightgear-users] Re: So what do you fly?

2005-11-04 Thread Shelton D'Cruz
Hi Willie Your WiKi is excellent! - I will add some comments to it. Regards Shelton. I have started a page for each aircraft on the wiki http://www.seedwiki.com/wiki/flight_gear/aircraft_wishlist.cfm where folks can leave comments on their favourite aircraft-models. I've phrased it

Re: [Flightgear-users] Re: So what do you fly?

2005-11-04 Thread Shelton D'Cruz
Hi Curt Yep good points - so besides the AOA issue, I think this jet is pretty much done. BTW - checked out your nice pics with you in the simulator - must have been a ball. Regards Shelton. Shelton D'Cruz wrote: Ok thats good to know - how about stalls - how does it react? YAsim

Re: [Flightgear-users] Re: So what do you fly?

2005-11-04 Thread Curtis L. Olson
Shelton D'Cruz wrote: Hi Curt Yep good points - so besides the AOA issue, I think this jet is pretty much done. BTW - checked out your nice pics with you in the simulator - must have been a ball. Thanks, I was pretty lucky to get a chance to go in there. I was able to shoot two