On Fri, 01 May 2009 15:48:35 -0300, Victhor wrote in message <1241203715.4253.6.ca...@victhor-laptop>:
> > On Fri, 01 May 2009 13:42:34 -0300, Victhor wrote in message > > <1241196154.4253.3.ca...@victhor-laptop>: > > > > > Hi. > > > I'm trying to use the A/P in the Twin Otter. There's no autopilot > > > instrument in the panel, but there's reference to one in the > > > configuration files. There's a GPS as well, but no instrument to > > > change its settings, but it can be used normally using the GPS > > > dialog. However, the autopilot settings dialog is the standard > > > one, not like the one in the Citations and the B1900D. Should the > > > autopilot dialog in this aircraft be like the one in those a/c? > > > According to the XMLs, it seems so. > > > > ..AFAIK, no RL DHC6 has AP, and they were popular with pilots here > > in Norway precisely for that reason. Are you trying to develop an > > AP for the RL DHC6 Twin Otter, or just for FG ones? > > So, why does the model contains XML for a Collins AFDS? ..pass, a WAG could have had the author use a file from another plane as a template. > I just wanted to make the AP in the model operative, so I could use > it for an MP event tomorrow. I like this plane btw :D ..aye, to grease it onto the runway, it needs about 50mx50mx50m of air from the downwind leg. ..I found that out after I, the cocky big mouth modeller and target drone pilot in seat 1B, had my ears confined to a coupla headset bells, and shot back with "flabby ass full-scaler waste of airspace" and "real flying", on why I wasn't learning to fly full-scalers. ;o) ..and while I was wondering on whether I just maybe had gone a wee bit to far, I saw these 2 guys just nod their agreement "Uhuh, That Brat Needs A Lesson.", while we were climbing out past Saura from ENAN for ENSK. ..all the way, we were trading stories on military life and family and aviation and everything, all this to keep me on the hook and from apologising or from wondering on whether I had gone that wee bit to far. ;o) ..arriving at Skagen with a wee tailwind, we flew in between the road and the runway, then past the 09 #'s, I watched them in a slicky smooth manner, haul back the prop levers into full reverse, drop the nose and then the left wing to turn around, all this while full flaps was being augered out. ..as the view got chock full of rotating potato field, they hauled back their yokes and shoved the prop levers full forward to "roll down" the runway edge past both the top and bottom edge of the view hole forward, then eased back power and stick for the slicky, smooth moist ice kinda greaser, I could feel each mains tire grab the dry asphalt to start rolling, but not their touchdowns, nor the nose wheel at all, then while we were rolling off the runway towards the terminal, the left engine was shut down and feathered, all this in one single silky smooth flowing movement. ..then, as we turn back to pop open the door to let people board, we "Oops!!!" discovered to our horror, we _had_ 2 people onboard, way back in the tail, and judging by their Scary Icy Glares, they were _Not_ amused, as they disembarked. ..I never heard anything about fines or chew-outs, so I _guess_ these 2 realised the aircrew was trying to teach me, and not them, that pranky "Brat Lesson." ;o) -- ..med vennlig hilsen = with Kind Regards from Arnt... ;o) ...with a number of polar bear hunters in his ancestry... Scenarios always come in sets of three: best case, worst case, and just in case. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Register Now & Save for Velocity, the Web Performance & Operations Conference from O'Reilly Media. Velocity features a full day of expert-led, hands-on workshops and two days of sessions from industry leaders in dedicated Performance & Operations tracks. Use code vel09scf and Save an extra 15% before 5/3. http://p.sf.net/sfu/velocityconf _______________________________________________ Flightgear-devel mailing list Flightgear-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/flightgear-devel
