Thursday, 5 May 2011

Welon's thoughts on Air Flight Simulation

Yes, I think it relatively easy to control a plane. In a way it is rather similar to driving a car (at least to me). The way the steering wheel turns is similar to that of a car's, with an additional pull and push portion to tilt the plane's nose up and down. At the same time, however, it is different as the pedal actually turns the plane left and right while the steering wheel rolls the plane.

It was kind of interesting. Initially I got stuck at stage 2 because I didnt know how it works, I guess the fact that the map is 2D and the camera view is so small doesnt really work well. I dislike the fact that there aren't any instructions on how to read the map, which kind of made me fail.

However, the simulation does help us to get used to the basic controls. The simulation prevents the plane from tilting too much (working as a limiter) but I think the simulation actually seems quite different from the actual driving of a plane. But I guess I shouldn't ask too much of a simple simulation; at least it did show us how to pilot a plane just a little.

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