Re: [Flightgear-devel] Nasal function and keyboard shortcut for autobrake functionality

[James Turner]

On 28 Apr 2006, at 14:13, Savaş Yatmaz wrote: I saw and tested the autobrake functionality on 737-300,and it works well.I  can set it with http server or internal property editor.Is there a plan to  assign a keyboard shortcut to it? Nasal func : ---------------------------------------------------------------------- autobrakeArmedToggle = func { if  (getprop("/controls/flight/autospeedbrakes-armed") == "true") { setprop("/controls/flight/autospeedbrakes-armed" , "false");} else { setprop("/controls/flight/autospeedbrakes-armed" , "true");}     } Just to be clear, this looks like an 'auto-spoiler' function, not an autobrake function (which applies the wheel brakes in response to the weight-on-wheels flag, in a 'clever' fashion, I think it waits for the nose gear to touch before it applies the brakes, whereas some auto-spoilers deploy when the main gear touches) Assuming this is an auto-spoiler function, it hardly needs a keyboard shortcut; moving the spoiler lever on the throttle quadrant to the relevant 'armed' position should do it. The autobrakes on the boeings I'm aware of are activated by a rotary switching on the middle of the panel (near the main gear lever), which has settings 1-3? and 'Max', which presumably does something .... aggressive ... with the brake application. H&H James