Hullo All,
I am relatively new to FlightGear, so I am finding my way.
Firstly, what a wonderful open source program. Well done to all who have worked on it.
I have v1.0.0 installed on a Linux Fedora 9 x86_64 system, and am using a logitec Extreme 3D Pro Joystick. I should add that this is the latest version available for Fedora (9 or 10) as a package from the Fedora repositories.
I have been having some troubles with Helicopters, which is probably not unusual.
After much practice I have managed to get the bo105 flying, but it does seem to be quite a hit and miss business...more luck that good management.
After starting the engine the Torque settles to about 20%. I have my joystick 'throttle axis' (which I understand from wiki, docs etc to be the collective pitch) set at the most negative setting, and the 'copter sits OK awaiting input.
Adding collective pitch is severly non-linear. As I slowly add pitch nothing happens then at about 30% to 40% 'throttle axis' input the Torque immediately jumps to 110% to 120%. At this instant all hell breaks loose and the 'copter leaps into action, and if I'm lucky I can bring it under control. Mostly it is just 'crash and burn'!
This behaviour doesn't seem like real life, so is there something wrong with the physics model for this machine, something wrong with my joystick, or something else?
I should add that the joystick behaves quite nicely when flying fixed wing aircraft.
I have also attempted to fly the Alouette2, but that fails with the following message 'FATAL: ac_to_gl: Unrecognised token 'rep 1 1'. Does anyone else have the Alouette2 working OK on a Linux version of FG?
Cheers,