On 13 Nov 2004 at 18:48, Andrew Midosn wrote: > I have been playing with FlightGear recently, having > not looked at it for a while, and have a couple of > questions. > > The first is - should the Cessna constantly turn to > the left? I know that planes don't fly straight and > level without input from the pilot, but this seems > extreme. With my hands off the controls it will roll > almost to 90 degrees within a few seconds. I have to > keep the joystick permanently over to the right to try > to keep it on course. This wouldn't be so bad if > FlighGear would let me trim the craft to counteract > the roll, but I can't see anything in the > documentation about this. It seems that you can trim > the pitch of the plane, but that's it.
Andrew, look for the settings file for the airplane, something like c172p.xml, load it into a decent text editor and find the p_factor setting, which probably is set to 10.0 then change that to 5.0 or even 1.0 and save the file again. This will reduce the effect a lot. > > The second question is - does the autopilot work? I > have tried entering course and altitude settings and > enabling the Heading and Pitch/Altitude controls, but > this doesn't seem to have any effect. This could well > be my operator error, but I really can't find a way to > get the thing to work. Not all the planes work decently with regards to the AP. Some work thru' the menu setting, some don't and with some only part of it works. I found the Cessna 1981 models do a pretty good job from the AP panel on your 2- or 3-d panel. HTH, Louis _______________________________________________ Flightgear-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.flightgear.org/mailman/listinfo/flightgear-users 2f585eeea02e2c79d7b1d8c4963bae2d
