Planes that wiggles their fannies

As I watch the AI planes taxi in FS, I notice they wiggle as they turn
corners. I've never seen (or felt) a real plane wiggle like that. Does
anyone have any idea why MS animates their planes that way? My non-AI
plane certainly doesn't do it.




John

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Le Fri, 05 Mar 2004 01:03:57 GMT, The Lindbergh Baby
<johngrabowski1@die.spammersearthlink.net> a écrit :


Yes, some do it exactly like that !

Try to taxi a Cessna Amphibian on water, and turn with water rudder
engaged. The plane wiggles like the AI planes. It's certainly not a
real attitude for a decent plane :-))

Happy Flyings

Pierre Neel

The Lindbergh Baby wrote:


This has to do with the way in which the AI aircraft taxi. The AI
aircraft do not taxi of their own free will. Instead, they actually
follow invisible "scent" lines from taxiway to taxiway to runway/gates.

When an AI aircraft leaves one scent line to join another, the AI
aircraft spends a second or two trying to find the line, overshooting
the scent line to one side, only to attempt to come back to it, which
then results in an overshoot to the other side. Each time it overshoots
by a little less, until it finally is on top of the line and able to
track it completely. This looks like a "wiggle" from behind.

The faster the AI taxi speed, the more noticeable this wiggle is. If
you recall, MS increased the default taxi speed in FS2004, which is why
this is more obvious with this version than FS2002.

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The Lindbergh Baby wrote:


It's not done deliberately. That will happen when the "track" they are
following makes a turn...

Bill
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Please remember that this is an international group. 'Fannies' is not a word
used in polite society in the UK. It refers to a completely different part
of the human anatomy :-)

"Quilljar" <stay@home.today> wrote:



Ahem. Yes, this did occur to me, too. I was a tad mystified there for a
second before I remembered what it means in America...

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Quilljar (stay@home.today) wrote:


So, I take it that fannies does not refer to the rear of a person in the
UK? In polite terms, what does it mean?

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On Fri, 5 Mar 2004 09:13:37 -0500, pr <nope@nospam.com> wrote:


http://english2american.com/dictionary/cat_thebody.html

ahem......
Damian

Damian (Damian.Gallagher.spambeenzspam@tinyworld.co.uk) wrote:


Enjoyed the link. Thanks.

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Quilljar wrote:


Um yes, I do recall that oddity! We call 'em "Beavers" here in the Good Ole US
of A... Well, at least the truckers do... (ref. C.W. McCall)

Bill
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