Gauges for VTOL...and the wind ?
Posted: Wed Nov 30, 2005 7:30 amHi all,
Recently we've seen this new gauge for VTOL operations. I didn't tryed it yet, but from the video it seems that it uses some "slew" functions to get the aircraft hovering, right ? It's cool that it works, but it's not very good looking, at least on the videos.
So here is a question for all the gauge coders here.
Lots of us already tried setting the wind to 120 knots and making a vertical takeoff or landing
So I was wondering if it would be possible to make a gauge that would constantly modify the wind speed and direction according to the aircraft direction and throttle? So that the aircraft would always face the wind, and thus hover in every possible direction.
This would allow a pretty clean VTOL don't you think ? If the gauge would activate the "wind-control" only with full flaps, it would allow the aircraft to act much more like the real stuff. It would also allow side-steps, reverse, and all that kind of horizontal moves.
But I really don't know anything about gauges, and I'm not even sure that the wind could be handled by a gauge. This simple idea came to my mind some days ago and I just would like to know what do you guys think of that.
Recently we've seen this new gauge for VTOL operations. I didn't tryed it yet, but from the video it seems that it uses some "slew" functions to get the aircraft hovering, right ? It's cool that it works, but it's not very good looking, at least on the videos.
So here is a question for all the gauge coders here.
Lots of us already tried setting the wind to 120 knots and making a vertical takeoff or landing
So I was wondering if it would be possible to make a gauge that would constantly modify the wind speed and direction according to the aircraft direction and throttle? So that the aircraft would always face the wind, and thus hover in every possible direction.This would allow a pretty clean VTOL don't you think ? If the gauge would activate the "wind-control" only with full flaps, it would allow the aircraft to act much more like the real stuff. It would also allow side-steps, reverse, and all that kind of horizontal moves.
But I really don't know anything about gauges, and I'm not even sure that the wind could be handled by a gauge. This simple idea came to my mind some days ago and I just would like to know what do you guys think of that.
