Heiko Schulz wrote: > It should be possible learning to fly a realistic flightmodel of a > helicopter with the mouse.
If that were true, wouldn't helicopters have, y'know, mice? Sorry, but there is a natural tension between "realism" and "ease of use". For the case of helicopters specifically, it is very tough: real helicopters are flown (well, hovered at least) with very small control motions keyed to the pilots sense of balance and acceleration. PC joysticks and throttles have at most 7-8 bits of accuracy, which isn't even close to what a real stick/collective will need. And needless to say, we have absolutely *no* way of approximating a pilot's inertial sense. Maybe the best that could be done would be for someone to write a FCS script that helped with the stabilization and altitude mainenance for novice pilots. But that's clearly tuning *down* the realism setting, not up. Andy ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Using Tomcat but need to do more? Need to support web services, security? Get stuff done quickly with pre-integrated technology to make your job easier Download IBM WebSphere Application Server v.1.0.1 based on Apache Geronimo http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid=120709&bid=263057&dat=121642 _______________________________________________ Flightgear-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/flightgear-devel
