Re: [Flightgear-devel] variant FDM

2010-02-22 Thread Martin Spott
Stuart Buchanan wrote: > Users who want to use the --fdm option are not the target audience > for the manual at present. and actually they're not even the _planned_ target audience. As written in the Preface: "The FlightGear Manual" is meant to give beginners a guide in getting FlightGear

Re: [Flightgear-devel] variant FDM

2010-02-22 Thread Stuart Buchanan
John Denker wrote: > On 02/21/2010 01:25 PM, Stuart Buchanan wrote: > > I think you may be looking at an out-of-date version of > > the getstart manual. > > I don't think so. "cvs up" says my copy is already up to > date. The log includes updates through 28 Jan 2010. The > passages I quoted e

Re: [Flightgear-devel] variant FDM

2010-02-22 Thread John Denker
On 02/21/2010 01:25 PM, Stuart Buchanan wrote: > I think you may be looking at an out-of-date version of > the getstart manual. I don't think so. "cvs up" says my copy is already up to date. The log includes updates through 28 Jan 2010. The passages I quoted earlier were quoted from this vers

Re: [Flightgear-devel] variant FDM

2010-02-21 Thread Stuart Buchanan
Stuart Buchanan wrote: > John Denker wrote: > > I recently discovered that it is possible to fly the C172p > > (and presumably lots of other aircraft) using --fdm=ufo. > > > > This has the potential to be very useful, for instance if > > you want to pose the aircraft for pictures, and for navaid

Re: [Flightgear-devel] variant FDM

2010-02-21 Thread Stuart Buchanan
John Denker wrote: > I recently discovered that it is possible to fly the C172p > (and presumably lots of other aircraft) using --fdm=ufo. > > This has the potential to be very useful, for instance if > you want to pose the aircraft for pictures, and for navaid > "flight check" missions. > > Thi

[Flightgear-devel] variant FDM

2010-02-19 Thread John Denker
I recently discovered that it is possible to fly the C172p (and presumably lots of other aircraft) using --fdm=ufo. This has the potential to be very useful, for instance if you want to pose the aircraft for pictures, and for navaid "flight check" missions. This really ought to be documented. Co