Square the normalized direction acceleration for the y and z axes, so
that turbulence predominantly affects pitch.
Bind to the /environment/turbulence/magnitude-norm and
/environment/turbulence/rate-hz properties in FlightGear.
This is my local keyboard.xml file.
There are some definitions in there that I would like to see
in the official keyboard.xml file. I suggested some of them
already almost exactly one year ago, but the suggestion was
dismissed with the argument, that the keyboard settings
should/would be redone very soon, anyway ... :->
* shift escape ... reset FDM
(Note: this doesn't work on IRIX)
* ctrl w ... turn on wing leveler
* g ... gear up
* shift g ... gear down
* control b ... toggle speedbrake (emh)
1. The p51d cries for a "Reset" key. Yeah, I admit that I've
crashed some dozens of these beauties already, and yes, I
am ashamed. Having to turn the menu on every time was too
bothersome. Shift-ESC is still free and resetting is closely
related to quitting. So this seems natural. (And don't ask
why the command is called "old-reinit-dialog".)
2. Finally add a shortcut for the wing-leveler. Natural
choice: Ctrl-W, which is still free and fits well with the
other autopilot shortcuts Ctrl-[ANH].
3. Separate gear up and down into two different shortcuts.
It really doesn't make sense as a toggle property. I'd
even say, that this is the most important prerequisite
for becoming a serious flight simulator. ... Never
land on your belly again, because you were actually
retracting the landing gear on approach, having forgotten
to retract it on lift-off.
Erik Hofman:
I've added Ctrl+B as the default binding for speedbrake support but this binding is overrruled by the p51d model to switch engine boost level.
here's the promised patch:
- make throttle work for 8 engines (b52)
- resolve multiple property bindings (simply stating
more than one property per binding doesn't do anything;
this has to be written as two bindings; didn't touch
"Reset View" button in X45, though)
- add $Id$ lines
- adjust step size in "my" joystick file (X8-30) to
work best on a 2.4GHz computer :->
I didn't add entries for propeller related properties, such as mixture, prop-pitch, and I didn't change the boost property. These are still for at most two engines.
These patches add a clock instrument, which allows to model failure ("serviceable") and to adjust the time independently of the system time (defaults to GMT). The main incentive is to make the p51d clock work and adjustable via the knob.
o Offers a time string ("12:03:15") for the LCD or for LED
clocks, or an empty string in case of failure/power off. The
instrument assumes that digital clocks are battery buffered,
so they will be updated even if there's nothing on the display.
o Offers the number of seconds since midnight for analog
clocks, like in the p51d. This number is not increased
if !serviceable. So the clock will stand still and continue
where it stopped when it's serviceable again.
I did not consider voltage yet, because the Mustang's clock will need a lot more current than the LCD clock. The instrument is updated 4 times per second but returns immediately if neither time nor offset changed. The function getGMTString() in fg_props.cxx could be removed after applying these patches.
I have updated the entries based on the FAA data. Many GS transmitters have
no elevation in the FAA data either. For these, I have set the GS elevation
to be the field elevation.
