On Sunday 30 November 2003 20:50, Jim Wilson wrote: > "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > > On Sunday 30 November 2003 19:45, Jim Wilson wrote: > > > http://www.spiderbark.com/fgfs/penthouseview.png > > > > Very nice landing. ;) > > Thanks. It was a crash the first try. First I got into a lot of circling > around trying to figure where to land and how to approach it. This > resulted in quite a few near misses with the buildings. Then once I > decided the approach, I came down too fast and went around to the east (big > mistake) where there were a bunch of buildings and flew right in to one. > I'm almost there as far as getting it...hovering in slowly is a lot like > balancing a pole or stick vertically in the palm of your hand (or maybe > even more like spinning a plate on a stick which I've never tried). It > involves a constant flow of miniscule adjustments... probably hundreds per > minute. > I agree, i just tried two minutes ago to land with the helicopter between the two pillars of this skyscraper you can see on this screenshot:
http://www.8ung.at/mars/images/pillars.jpg But i allways crashed. :( The helicopter gets quite unstable when trying to fly with less than 20 mph. Best Regards, Oliver C. _______________________________________________ Flightgear-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.flightgear.org/mailman/listinfo/flightgear-devel
