On Sunday 08 February 2009 10:39:17 pm Bo Berglund wrote: > I have to get this simulation stuff working for myself first before > exposing me to the mock and ridicule of the Internet. > See above what can happen... ;-) > > BosseB
You shouldn't worry about this. Many of the FG pilots who are on-line are fairly skilled and some are highly skilled. But there are also a significant number of novices and it is not at all uncommon to see one of these novices damage their bird or have what would be a fatal crash if this happened in the real world. It even happens to me on occasion. As long as you are not being obnoxious (IE. deliberately disrupting others) no one will mock or ridicule you. In fact if anything others will try to help if you ask. I once saw a novice FG cub pilot do a classic stall/spin into the ground as I was taxing to take off position. He/she must have done 7 or 8 rotations before hitting the ground and I remember thinking "just let go of the controls and the plane will start flying again" as I watched it happening. I have no idea who that was and it really does not matter. He/she was a new pilot and learned a valuable lesson that that day but at no point did anyone make fun of this pilot. Sort of related to this I have seen posts here and on the on-line forum where FG pilots have said that they wouldn't use voice communications even if it were available (IE. like FGCOM or Teamspeak or Mumble) because they would feel too self conscious. In the real world pilots use radios all the time for voice communications and doing this in FG would add significantly to it's realism. But I can understand where these individuals are coming from since when you first start using two way radios there is always some fear of screwing up since what you are doing is so public. New HAM radio operators feel the same way. But it only takes a short time to realize that 1) no one will ridicule you unless you persist in making big mistakes and 2) doing this is necessary to the activity you involved in. Hal ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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 Flightgear-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/flightgear-users
