Jim Wilson writes: > Andy Ross <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > > > [bouncing to flightgear-devel, for obvious reasons] > > > > Norman Vine wrote: > > > Lee Elliott writes: > > > > I've had some problems using the Auto-pilot in 0.9.1. > > > > The first problem is when setting an Auto-pilot heading: > > > > > > I haven't seem either of these with my WIN32 executables > > > Did you update the base package ? > > > What system are you seeing this on ? > > > Did you compile FGFS yourself ? > > > > I can confirm that this happens with current code. It looks like the > > autopilot setting is being updated along with the current heading, so > > the seek never finishes and the aircraft flies in circles forever. > > > > Andy > > It depends on which aircraft you are using it with. My guess without checking > is it seems to be working on aircraft with the heading bug instrument...but > that is just a guess. This has been this way for at least a month or two, > but with being busy at work I haven't flown or looked into it enough to even > report. The autopilot code is in bad need of an overhaul, which I started > last summer, but decided to put off until the winter when work is slow.
Heading hold seems to fail on YASim planes ... something seems to be missing, or not quite happening right. I thing this was introduced about the same time David implimented the vacuum driven AI and DG ... Curt. -- Curtis Olson IVLab / HumanFIRST Program FlightGear Project Twin Cities [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Minnesota http://www.menet.umn.edu/~curt http://www.flightgear.org _______________________________________________ Flightgear-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.flightgear.org/mailman/listinfo/flightgear-devel
