Aero-Club

 Some in-sim work-in-progress shots.

It's simple, really. When starting the program pass in the following command line parameters: --lat=38.976288 --lon=-76.481801 --heading=90 This starts you in the Annapolis, MD harbor. Map coordinates can be obtained from: https://itouchmap.com/?r=latlong And here's a wide angle view of the starting location above:

 Nothing to say about this... except that I feel inspired.

Flightgear's default settings for panning the view with the joystick hat was way, way too fast for my tastes. It was so fast I found it unsettling! So, I wanted to ease it back to a more leisurely pace and like many things in FG it took a bit of searching to find exactly how to do it. The first candidate I found was in file:///home/jeff/fgfs/fgdata/Input/Joysticks/Logitech/extreme-3d-pro.xml . According to the info included I wanted to reduce the 'step' values for axes 4 and 5. The default value was 5 so I reduced this to 2 and found that it had no effect whatsoever. So, I reasoned, there must be some other configuration file.  Next, I looked at file:///home/jeff/fgfs/fgdata/joysticks.xml with its helpful note: The second example shows how to load a driver directly to position 0. This will then be used for the first joystick on your system and FlightGear will not overwrite it. This is the example it referred to:   <js n="0" include="Input/Joysticks/Local/

Today's task was to extract the pilot model from the main aircraft model for re-usability's sake. It was actually quite simple. Since I use Wings3d for modelling I opened Wings, selected the pilot parts and saved them to its own model. Then I deleted the pilot from the aircraft model. I then exported both the pilot and modified aircraft models to *.obj format and used my own conversion script to convert the files to *.ac format. I think I'll call the pilot 'Calvin' for two reasons. One, the original pilot of the Vin Fiz was Calbreath 'Cal' Rodgers. Calvin's outfit is based on a photo of Cal dressed in a fisherman's sweater and striped dress pants. I believe that's what he was wearing when he started his cross country flight in 1911. Secondly, I'm a fan of the comic 'Calvin and Hobbes'.  World, meet Calvin! On to Flightgear! 1. Keep an organized directory structure The first step was to modify the aircraft directory structure to kee

My first attempts at creating multiple liveries has worked fairly well. First, the Default Wright EX: And then the most (ha, only!) famous Wight EX, the Vin Fiz: This aircraft still exists (well... sort of) and is preserved in the Smithsonian Air and Space Museum in Washington, DC.