Re: [Flightgear-devel] native and native-ctrls slaving

[Curtis O. <cur...@gm...>]

On Jan 29, 2008 8:30 AM, Nagy Mate wrote:

> Greetings,
>  our quest with --native & -ctrls master/slaving continues. Having
> applied a patch from the mailing list, we got flight control
> transferring to work.
>  However, this doesn't make the engine of the slave work (propeller not
> turning, and all that) - presumably because the lack of an FDM. Is there
> an accepted solution for this, or should we just transfer the relevant
> data? (e.g. by hacking it into the native transfer code, or by using the
> generic i/o system, etc).


Most airplanes use rpm to animate the propellors ... that should be
communicated in the --native-fdm packet.   I don't know helicopters are
setup, but you may need to do some hacking or modifications to make it all
work.

Regards,

Curt.
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