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Added dual control information and some other good to know things.
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* Q/q - Inflate/deflate fore ballonet. | * Q/q - Inflate/deflate fore ballonet. | ||
* A/a - Inflate/deflate aft ballonet. | * A/a - Inflate/deflate aft ballonet. | ||
<b>Note:</b> On FlightGear startup the envelope unfortunately usually isn't pressurized so the pressure alarm will sound. The ballonet levers are set to maximum inflation so the operating pressure is usually reached within 60 seconds. | |||
====Ballast==== | ====Ballast==== | ||
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Use the rear thruster to keep the tail wheel in the air while taxing. | Use the rear thruster to keep the tail wheel in the air while taxing. | ||
<b>Note:</b> The mooring force calculations are sensitive to long frame times (i.e. very low fps). In particular this can cause instability during FlightGear startup. One workaround is to pause the simulation immediately on startup and continue when scenery objects and multiplayers have been loaded. A better option is to reduce /sim/max-simtime-per-frame to a sane number, e.g. 0.1 meaning that each frame is at most 0.1 simulated seconds (so if your fps drops below 10 the simulation will run slower than real-time). | |||
This can be done in preferences.xml by modifying the line | |||
<max-simtime-per-frame>1.0</max-simtime-per-frame> | |||
to | |||
<max-simtime-per-frame>0.1</max-simtime-per-frame> | |||
===Cockpit and instruments=== | |||
==Multiplayer dual control== | |||
This aircraft equipped for dual control over the FLightGear multiplayer network. | |||
To use this feature the pilot sets the property /sim/remote/pilot-callsign to the callsign of the prospective copilot. This property can be set in the property browser, on the command line or in fgrun. Command line example: | |||
fgfs --aircraft=ZLT-NT --prop:/sim/remote/pilot-callsign="someone" | |||
The copilot uses the copilot "aircraft" ZLT-NT-copilot and sets the property /sim/remote/pilot-callsign to the callsign of the pilot. Command line example: | |||
fgfs --aircraft=ZLT-NT-copilot --prop:/sim/remote/pilot-callsign="anybody" | |||
<b>Note:</b> | |||
1. If the pilot sets /sim/remote/pilot-callsign at runtime the copilot needs to join MP <i>after</i> the pilot set /sim/remote/pilot-callsign or things won't work. This will be improved in a future version. | |||
2. Using the ZLT-NT-copilot it is possible to hitch a ride with any ZLT-NT on MP. However, unless you are the pilot "approved" copilot you will only be an observer. | |||
3. The radio displays are broken for the copilot, although the frequency settings are shared correctly. | |||
==External links== | ==External links== | ||
* [http://www.gidenstam.org/FlightGear/JSBSim-LTA/ Download page with other lighter-than-air aircraft for FlightGear.] Requires the LTA support available in FlightGear/CVS since 2008-07-10. | * [http://www.gidenstam.org/FlightGear/JSBSim-LTA/ Download page with other lighter-than-air aircraft for FlightGear.] Requires the LTA support available in FlightGear/CVS since 2008-07-10. | ||
* [http://www.gidenstam.org/FlightGear/DualControl/ More on multiplayer dual control]. | |||
[[Category:Aircraft]] | [[Category:Aircraft]] | ||
[[Category:Airships]] | [[Category:Airships]] | ||