On Sun, 8 Feb 2009, Bo Berglund wrote: > Well, I selected the Cessna 172 and since there were three lines > I chose the top one.
Ah, sorry. I don't use the launcher (fgrun) to start FlightGear. If you start from the command line you get the default aircraft, called 'c172p' unless you supply the command line argument --aircraft=<name of aircraft>. You'd want to avoid aircraft with "2d panel" in the description (unless you like 2d panels :). > When I click the mouse in the screen then it all goes haywire! > The screen and/or controls all start moving (fast) with any mouse move > I make! Real scary!!! Yes, the are three mouse modes, which you cycle through with the right mouse button: 1. point and click, 2. Yoke mode, 3. view mode. The shape of the pointer tells you which mode you are in. Surely this must be in the manual, Docs/getstart.pdf? Maybe that file should have a more obvious name than "getstart", though? IMHO it is not obvious what it is from the filename. > If I select this then the hat switch panning actually includes the > instrument panel in the move, so it is not lost. A more realistic > panning actually! :-) > > However, my earlier remark about the size of the panel still remains. > How can I make it reduce in height so that it is possible to look out > the window and see the ground without getting into a steep descent? Well, in a 3d cockpit the panel is fixed to the aircraft - you have to move your head to see around it (and have about the same limited visibility as in the real aircraft :) To do move your viewpoint, go to mouse view mode, hold the middle mouse button(/scrollwheel) and drag. Up/down moves your viewpoint up/down, left/right moves your viewpoint left/right. Ctrl+up/down moves it forwards/backwards. > With the 2D panel the keyboard Shift-P toggled the panel on/off at least > so that one could see the ground in level flight. > How can this be accomplished with the non-2D panel??? No, but most aircraft will have the nose below the horizon in the level cruise attitude. The manual contains some flight tutorials that explains how to fly an aircraft. Cheers, Anders -- --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Anders Gidenstam WWW: http://www.gidenstam.org/FlightGear/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Create and Deploy Rich Internet Apps outside the browser with Adobe(R)AIR(TM) software. With Adobe AIR, Ajax developers can use existing skills and code to build responsive, highly engaging applications that combine the power of local resources and data with the reach of the web. Download the Adobe AIR SDK and Ajax docs to start building applications today-http://p.sf.net/sfu/adobe-com _______________________________________________ Flightgear-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/flightgear-users
