Dual control: Difference between revisions

Currently there are two aircraft with dual control support:

* c172p Skyhawk with dual control (c172p-pilot and c172p-copilot), which is based on David Megginson's [[Cessna C172|c172p]] single control aircraft. Available from [http://www.gidenstam.org/FlightGear/DualControl/Aircraft the dual-control aircraft hangar]. The tar.gz archive for the aircraft should be extracted in $FG_ROOT/Aircraft/.

 

The aircraft enables a pilot and copilot to jointly fly the aircraft over the FlightGear multiplayer network. Pilot and copilot currently have shared control over primary flight controls, throttle, mixture and so on. Exactly which controls are shared varies between the aircraft but usually include elevator trim, flaps, brakes, cockpit switches, the radio stack and some  instrument settings. The copilot has a subset of the full instrumentation, including airspeed, altimeter, VSI, HSI, turn coordinator, engine RPM and the radio stack. Nav/Comm 1 and the first VOR indicator is best controlled by the pilot, while Nav/Comm 2 and the corresponding VOR indicator is faster for the copilot.