paul mccann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > Jim looks great, just like the real thing.
Coming from someone who would know, that's good to hear...thanks! > 1. they are ptich limit bars or symbol, you will get to stick shaker or > stall if you pitch up to them. Ah ok. We might have to hold off on animating those. I take it the FMC calculates their position. Is that true? > 2. On the 737 the dg or compass has 7 modes > 1. nav (full)/ looks like hsi but really showing track not heading > and relation to stored route not vor or ils info > 2. vor ils (full)/ looks like regular hsi and acts like one, plus > shows magnetic heading > 3. nav (expanded)/ same as above but you only see half the compass > 4. vor ils (expanded) " " > 5. map /this mode shows cours line and little triagle which is the > aircraft, also shows track not magnetic heading. > 6. center map same as above but full compass rose. > 7. plan /static map Initially I'll probably just do the vor ils. The rest will depend on an FMC subsystem being coded. > 3. Compass does not behave like wiskey compass. Its getting signals > from ring laser gyro and irs. So it does not drift turn wrong way or > display any of those things. That's easy to model! It's the errors that are the most challenging. Best, Jim _______________________________________________ Flightgear-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.flightgear.org/mailman/listinfo/flightgear-devel
