If you don't like steering with your rudder pedals, there is a fix for that also, in the aircraft.cfg file, to switch to ailerons which means steering with the yoke.
Hello Jeff,
I installed the Sirocco with your files "Scirocco Autopilot From Jeff Greene (03/31/11)"
How to use my Yoke to steer the boat, I do not have rudder pedals?
Should we remove the line "aileron_to_rudder_scale // 0.4 = 100.0 (Links to fin rudders)" in the aircraft.cfg?
Moreover, in this aircraft.cfg, why are there 2 times more [fltsim.x] than in the original file? What do those who have "-1" in addition ?
Thank you
Hi Nadine,
You don't have rudder pedals?
How do you steer when taxiing? That is also how you steer a boat. I prefer to steer the boat with my flight yoke, rather than twisting my pedals. If you want to turn off "yoke steering", just put two of these ---> // marks before the "aileron_to_rudder_scale=" line. That will turn it off, making steering normal (default).
The only difference between the default boats and the extra ones is a line called "UI_type=" in which I added "airplane", where it was blank originally. I am checking on that now, with my sim. It has been a few years since this project was done.
Going boating, . . . back in a bit!
Ok, I am back. I tried both "versions" tracking the autopilot. The "-1" versions seem to track better, more tightly. I only added the characters "-1" to the boats' names to make them different than the originals names. You can delete the added entries if they bother you, or are unwanted. But they seem to work better. Try one, and see. The boats steering seems a little too radical, but I suppose I was trying to get it to turn better. Be gentle with the steering.
You could add to the UI_type= line the word "airplane" in the [flightsim.x] boats that don't have them, then delete the "-1" copies from the list. Numbers 3,4, and 5, I believe. Then you would only have the three boats. One blue, one red, and one white.
Ha ha ha ha ha . . .
That's funny. So very funny.