* MPCEE French Bureau -- Saturday 17 December 2005 18:22: > My wife has decided that she has had enough of my using partially arthritic > fingers, along with the noise of the crash when the helicopter goes down!
Sorry about that. :-) I can tell you how to avoid the crash sound. But better would be to not crash the bo105 in the first place. It *is* difficult with a keyboard. But it isn't that hard with a joystick. Any joysticks with a rudder (twist) axis should be good enough. I'm using the Saitek-Cyborg-Gold-3D, which is relatively cheap, yet good enough for reasonable helicopter controlling. Of course, nothing can beat pedals, but good ones aren't exactly or free. The main problem seems to be that on a helicopter rising/sinking is controlled via collective lever. And a collective lever is pulled up to rise, and pushed down to sink. That's quite natural for a joystick throttle lever, but less so for the keyboard. (Avoid Microsoft joysticks with horizontally mounted throttle wheels!) m. _______________________________________________ Flightgear-users mailing list [email protected] http://mail.flightgear.org/mailman/listinfo/flightgear-users 2f585eeea02e2c79d7b1d8c4963bae2d
