--- John Denker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 01/08/2007 10:06 AM, Stuart Buchanan wrote: > > > Are you particularly interested in using the c182? > > Well, yes I am. A lot of FBOs will let you rent a 182. If we make > an XY plot trading off availability versus a combination of speed > and roominess, the 182 has high availability for a given niceness, > and high niceness for a given availability.
I agree it is a very common aircraft, and I find it a good choice for doing instrument work. However, the reason I ask is that I don't know how many other people fly the FG c182. <snip> > If you enjoy working on models, there's lots of things that could > be done to kick the realism up a notch. I've been keeping a list > of nitpicks, creeping features, and other notes at > http://www.av8n.com/fly/fgfs/c182.notes Thanks. Having someone with RL experience of the aircraft is a big help. > > > > 1) Presumably the panel itself is lit from behind as it is implemented > > currently. Is that correct? > > It's more complicated than that. > -- There is "area lighting" including a white dome light and a red > dome light. This is useful for e.g. looking at the position of > the flap handle, landing gear handle, fuel selector, and other things > that are not well covered by the post lights. (Also in the real > world, > not in the model, this would be critical for map-reading.) OK - I'll probably leave this as a general emissive light. Where is the switch located? On the ceiling? > -- Radios are internally lighted. Either they have glowing LED > segments, > or LCDs with a backlight, or something similar. > -- There is a class of instruments unlovingly referred to as "steam > gauges" including the airspeed indicator, altimeter, VSI, et cetera. > These are lighted from the front by "post lights", i.e. little posts > that stick out from the front of the panel and shine light back onto > the front of the panel. (Modeling the post lights would require a > ton of detail work. It may be expedient to do a better-than-realistic > job of area lighting so as to make post lights unnecessary.) This is probably more hassle than it is worth right now. Currently the c182 guages are emissive, which I think is sufficient. Where would the switch for this be? > > 2) Do you have any reference for where the nav, panel, landling light > > switches are located in the c182? > > Here's a nice shot of the panel > http://www.linkscomputer.com/images/ebay/skydive/c182panel_06.jpg I can see the switches on the bottom right, and I think there are five, reading from L-R: NAV, BEACON, STROBE, TAXI, LANDING. The problem is where the other light switches are located. > A lot of the interesting switches are behind the horizontal part of > the pilot's yoke in that shot, i.e. in a row above the row of > circuit breakers. That's a problem, because if the model puts the > switches in the realistic place, they will be very hard to see. The easiest way to solve this is to provide an option to make the yokes invisible. As some people have their own CH Products Yokes, I think that should be fine. <snip> > > BTW, you should be aware that we currently don't have any landing > light > > implementation, so I guess landing at night will be quite unrealistic. > > Well, yes, I noticed ... but landing without a landing light is not the > least bit unrealistic. I put this near the bottom of the list at > http://www.av8n.com/fly/fgfs/c182.notes OK. I just thought I'd check that lack of landing lights would be a major issue. -Stuart Send instant messages to your online friends http://uk.messenger.yahoo.com Send instant messages to your online friends http://uk.messenger.yahoo.com ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys - and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV _______________________________________________ Flightgear-devel mailing list Flightgear-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/flightgear-devel
