Re: [Flightgear-devel] A-4 manual
Andy Ross [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: I've been doing really well recently with my A-4 landings, so I wrote up a putative Flight Operations Manual to record the stuff I've learned: http://www.plausible.org/a4-ops/ Andy, This is a great tutorial. I've been working on the landings, and have put 5 aircraft in the shop, but no fatals. It took me a few trys to figure out the aircraft trim for the correct approach AoA. And apparently the indicator is way out there when in a climb. From what I remember reading about it's operation it should work for climbing too. But when I try to trim at climb speed it's putting me at far too high an AoA. Right now my biggest problem is getting the throttle right on approach (too heavy handed/reactive I suspect). Maybe someday I'll get this figured out :-) Fun aircraft! Thanks, Jim ___ Flightgear-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.flightgear.org/mailman/listinfo/flightgear-devel
Re: [Flightgear-devel] A-4 manual
Andy Ross writes: I've been doing really well recently with my A-4 landings, so I wrote up a putative Flight Operations Manual to record the stuff I've learned: http://www.plausible.org/a4-ops/ Obviously, I've never actually trained with the Navy, so lots of this is guesswork based on data points I've picked up from research and/or experience with the flight model. So it's not necessarily something you'd want to hand to a real pilot, but it should help to get FlightGear geeks up to speed on this stuff. If folks like it, it would be nice to put it up on the flightgear.org site. A set of operational manuals for all of our core models would be a really good thing to have. I need to write up something similar for the Harrier, which is even harder to land. :) As a side project, I'm working on integrating flightgear with some prototype cockpit hardware. Last night it occured to try this out with the A4. That turned out to be pretty sweet, being able to fly with a yoke, throttle, tune the radios, operate the flaps, all with hardware. Of course the hardware is designed to be a C172 so that's where it is optimal, but still very nice with the A4 ... Curt. -- Curtis Olson IVLab / HumanFIRST Program FlightGear Project Twin Cities[EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Minnesota http://www.menet.umn.edu/~curt http://www.flightgear.org ___ Flightgear-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.flightgear.org/mailman/listinfo/flightgear-devel
Re: [Flightgear-devel] A-4 manual
Andy Ross [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: If folks like it, it would be nice to put it up on the flightgear.org site. A set of operational manuals for all of our core models would be a really good thing to have. I need to write up something similar for the Harrier, which is even harder to land. :) Reading this through, it looks really good. Thanks. I'd be glad to add to the library, but I'll have to learn to fly first :-) This will help. Best, Jim ___ Flightgear-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.flightgear.org/mailman/listinfo/flightgear-devel
[Flightgear-devel] A-4 manual
I've been doing really well recently with my A-4 landings, so I wrote up a putative Flight Operations Manual to record the stuff I've learned: http://www.plausible.org/a4-ops/ Obviously, I've never actually trained with the Navy, so lots of this is guesswork based on data points I've picked up from research and/or experience with the flight model. So it's not necessarily something you'd want to hand to a real pilot, but it should help to get FlightGear geeks up to speed on this stuff. If folks like it, it would be nice to put it up on the flightgear.org site. A set of operational manuals for all of our core models would be a really good thing to have. I need to write up something similar for the Harrier, which is even harder to land. :) Andy -- Andrew J. RossNextBus Information Systems Senior Software Engineer Emeryville, CA [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.nextbus.com Men go crazy in conflagrations. They only get better one by one. - Sting (misquoted) ___ Flightgear-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.flightgear.org/mailman/listinfo/flightgear-devel
