Just to head off any bug reports, THERE IS NOT A BUG IN THE ATTITUDE INDICATOR FOR THE 172. The Cessna 172 is not an aerobatic plane and (except possibly for the very newest models) does not have an attitude indicator that's tolerant of extreme attitudes. If you start doing >60 degree banks, loops, etc. the C172 attitude indicator *will* tumble severly, and can take up to 5 minutes to re-erect itself; even a 45-degree bank might cause a slight tumble. I'll add properties to do the same for other non-aerobatic and non-combat planes later.
This is especially nasty when you end up in an unusual attitude in IMC (say, using the Position/Random Attitude) menu entry. Just at the moment you need the AI most, it tumbles and is no longer reliable -- you have to recover using the turn coordinator and the airspeed indicator (good luck). This, I think, is part of what kills so many pilots in VFR-into-IMC accidents -- they get into a spiral or spin before they realize the plane's out of control, the AI tumbles, and the rest is an NTSB report. Our tumble isn't all that realistic, but it should still be useful for training. If you really, really don't want this behaviour, you can disable it by setting the /instrumentation/attitude-indicator/config/tumble-flag property to false in your $HOME/.fgfsrc. All the best, David -- David Megginson, [EMAIL PROTECTED], http://www.megginson.com/ _______________________________________________ Flightgear-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.flightgear.org/mailman/listinfo/flightgear-devel
