Re: [Flightgear-devel] managed view feedback

[Melchior F. <mf...@ao...>]

* alexis bory -- Saturday 19 August 2006 14:32:
> - take-off: with 23 Knts cross wind, while the aircraft nose turns in 
> the wind you have to give max rudder input before having an enough 
> forward acceleration, the sight of view moves way to much at this time, 
> it add also a great dificulty  to appreciate the rudder effects.
> - landing: in the same conditions, hudge move of the sight of view when 
> the wheels touch the runway.

Yes, that's a pain. I'm currently reworking that part. This was quite
hackish. I had used the same value for on-ground an in-air, only with
sign reversed (and a smooth transition). Now I do them separately.
In-air I'll just use a fraction of the negated side-slip angle, and on
ground I want to use something based on acceleration direction, multiplied
with a function that is 0 at standstill, raises to a couple of knots
and then converges against 0 again with speed. So at takeoff speed
there should be hardly any heading change left. Doesn't work yet. :-/



> - full throttle at 200 AGL in a realy curvy valley: wonderful ! very 
> pleasant :)

Yeah, that's nice. Although, after your report I flew a narrow/curvy valley
with the A-10 and found that the heading change due to roll is too much.
I'll reduce that a bit. (And in the end it should be configurable
anyway. Still searching for the most generic settings.)


 
> Overall feeling: it gives something new wich approach a bit what you 
> feel on your seat. Great!

:-)   Thanks for the report!

m.