Curtis L. Olson wrote:
Ralf Gerlich wrote:
Heh, I'd like to see you looking at the Autopilot _and_ out of the
window in a real plane. ;-)
As was mentioned, the nearest you could come to the "flow" in the
cockpit IRL - not looking at the instrument and still changing its
setting - is probably using the keyboard...at least as far as I see
that as a pure simulation pilot ;-)
You could have *perfect* flight dynamics that nailed all the numbers
and all the nuances of the model exactly right, but if you are sitting
at your desk, holding a $20 joystick in one hand and typing on your
keyboard with another, while peering at a 17" monitor ... it's just
not going to ever be all that realistic of an 'experience.'
One of the knocks from the May show ( which is totally my fault) was the
cheezy joystick. So here we were with a full scale 747 glass cockpit
with a large screen plasma OTW display running top of the line flight
dynamics (JSBSim), world class scenery (FlightGear), high fidelity
subsystem models (Mathworks), and a "noodle" for control.
If we had had a decent control system, we could have faked the rest ;-)
JW
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