Melchior FRANZ <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > * Alex Romosan -- Saturday 07 August 2004 01:19: >> as a matter of fact it does seem that european helicopters behave >> differently from american ones. > > Yes, you are right, sorry. I was slightly pissed, because if felt as > if you needlessly dragged my country into the matter, only because > we didn't agree on technical ground, as if you wanted to say that > Austrians (unlike US citizens) do probably not understand much of > helicopters. :-)
i am not a us citizen and never will (even though i live in the us now) :-) >> i thought the same might apply to the collective. > > OK. It doesn't, as others have meanwhile explained. > > Anyway: I wasn't aware how difficult the bo is actually to fly with > just the keyboard. Accidently, I installed fgfs today on a computer > at a Red Cross office (for the people on duty to make time pass > faster), and it took me *quite* a while to even lift of. (We don't > have a js there ... yet.) > > I'll try to submit a fix tomorrow. I insist on the throttle being > inverted on the js, but the keyboard is a different matter. There'll > certainly be a viable solution. how about we just reverse the PageUp and PageDown keys (and also add the 1 and 2 key bindings) and get the helicopter to start with the throttle at 100% so it doesn't just take off on you when you start the rotor. this way nothing will change for the joystick users, and for those of us who use the keyboard the bindings will make more sense (up will make the helicopter go up and down will make it go down). what do you say? > Sorry again :-] don't worry, it happens. --alex-- -- | I believe the moment is at hand when, by a paranoiac and active | | advance of the mind, it will be possible (simultaneously with | | automatism and other passive states) to systematize confusion | | and thus to help to discredit completely the world of reality. | _______________________________________________ Flightgear-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.flightgear.org/mailman/listinfo/flightgear-devel 2f585eeea02e2c79d7b1d8c4963bae2d
