Re: [Flightgear-devel] Formation Flying

[alexander b. <as...@ba...>]

Julien Pierru wrote:
> shavlir, Eow and I were all on my Teamspeak server while Dave was on 
> IRC, but I hope we can fix is voice issue so that all of us can be on 
> TS. The voice is really important since you can't really take your hands 
> off the stick and throttle to type...

There are few other tools that can be helpful for formation training: 
head tracking and formation bot.

There is Formation! plugin for X-Plane.  One can record his own fly and 
play back it to fly in formation with yourself.  It is very helpful for 
training.  It would be very nice if somebody will develop such tool for 
FlightGear.

Head tracking is very handy for formation flying too.  I'm using TrackIR 
device and I'm going to add TrackIR support to FlightGear.  I've got 
TrackIR SDK from NaturalPoint.  Unfortunately, it is impossible to use 
TrackIR SDK in open source project.  I've got permission to make small 
binary only wrapper for TrackIR and employ some sort of IPC to allow 
FlightGear communicate with TrackIR.

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