On 7 Apr 2010, at 00:27, David Megginson wrote: > OK, here's my suggestion: *all* aircraft start with the runway > threshold with the engine idling, unless the user has overridden that. > Engine on/off is a decision that it doesn't make sense leaving to > individual aircraft designers, since it's a cross-cutting user > experience question.
Agreed, but unfortunately not possible, I think - there are many aircraft with complex (realistic) startup procedures, and while *some* aircraft have an autostart function, there is no standardised property to control that function - though one could certainly be defined. Of course, that's classic standardisation chicken-and-egg. I'm all in favour of it, but it's not something that can be done in the short term. James ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Download Intel® Parallel Studio Eval Try the new software tools for yourself. Speed compiling, find bugs proactively, and fine-tune applications for parallel performance. See why Intel Parallel Studio got high marks during beta. http://p.sf.net/sfu/intel-sw-dev _______________________________________________ Flightgear-devel mailing list Flightgear-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/flightgear-devel
