On Thursday 10 February 2005 18:19, Martin Spott wrote: > "Vivian Meazza" wrote: > > James Turner wrote > > > >> > While we are are it, do we already have consensus on > >> > which keys to use for these functions - are the keys > >> > consistent across different aircraft and FDM's ? > >> > >> The keys do seem to be standard, j/k for spoilers and > >> Ctrl-B for speedbrake, the issue of course is guessing for > >> a given model which surfaces are assigned to which name. I > >> guess 'things on the wings' are spoilers, and 'things not > >> on the wings' are speed-brakes? > > > > Not necessarily. The Seahawk's speedbrakes (aka airbrakes in > > UK) are in the upper wing, and work in conjunction with the > > flaps - and yes they are both animated and functional. The > > Hunter's (under the rear fuselage) is interlocked with the > > gear. > > > > Just to clarify things. Spoilers dump lift, and may provide > > a bit of braking. Speedbrakes dump speed, and may provide a > > bit of lift positive or negative (although designers try to > > avoid this). > > Great, now we have an accurate definition, we should fix the > key bindings :-) > Does everyone agree on having j/k for the spoilers ? Now, what > are we going to take for the speed brakes ? Simply using > Ctrl-B is not sufficient, because speed brakes are supposed to > offer multiple settings - do we already use i/o for anything ? > If not, then we could take these keys for the speed brakes. > > Comments, please, > Martin.
Something to note is that while YASim includes spoilers it doesn't cater for speed brakes, so the speed brakes on the TSR-2 are therefore a bit of a hack. Interestingly, the speed brakes on the YF-23 could be done in YASim because speed braking is achieved by deflecting the flaps and ailerons in opposition. However, because there's no speed-brake control axis in YASim I've had to control them using the spoiler control axis. Confused... :) LeeE _______________________________________________ Flightgear-devel mailing list Flightgear-devel@flightgear.org http://mail.flightgear.org/mailman/listinfo/flightgear-devel 2f585eeea02e2c79d7b1d8c4963bae2d
