I can't comment on a rival company as it would be in bad taste, but I will say that Rob made the gauge for our V-22 specifically and we have his permission.

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Thrust vectoring is a joke to code as long as your physical engine in your game is made for using physical vectors. That's not the case of FS, unfortunately.

I tried some years ago to create my own flight sim (I had time, I was still looking for a job   ). This vectored thrust was so easy to implement that I did it in less than one day. Ok it was not complete yet (no moment of forces were computed yet, could not find back the formula in my school books ) but nevertheless I could make a Harrier takeoff and land almost like a real one.

This IRIS JSF is not hovering. It's nothing more than a slew that is done here. The same with the freeware gauge available for harrier and osprey. But that's cool to have them nevertheless

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I agree.  From a physical point of view, there is just no difference between a jet, a prop, a copter etc....
A car is just an aircraft with no wings. An helicopter is just a plane with only vertical thrust, etc... vectors are vectors and do not care who creates them.

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Keep that for the next versions

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That would cuase problems. But if there was a combat flight sim that had modern warefare with world wide coverage you would avoid idioits who try to shoot down civilian aircraft (But then again people can do this in fs9 with some of the effects that are out there) 

We have all seen thrust vectoring in FS9 (well, most of us have) and its safe to say that no-one (i think) have come up with a way to really make realistic thrust-vectoring.  Most people come up with gauges, or out-rageous .cfg files, but still no one can make true thrust vectoring.
I'm actually working on a separate program (like 3Wire) which can will calculate amounts of thrust, wind, bleeders (on harriers bleeders are small thrust outlets placed strategically on the aircraft to help control the aircraft during hover), and many other things to create a truely real thrust vectoring expierience...  I just have to work out how to access FS to change things (don't tell me to use FSUIPC, i don't like it much).

As for Fly-By-Wire, I think if you can make a some-what unstable aircraft, you could make a gauge for it to 'tweak' the players control surfaces.  But for now, I just want someone to make a Fly-By-Wire aircraft which simply turns a force-feedback joystick, into a auto-centering one.

I'm still learning alot about the C++ Programming language, but i know many other languages so it shouldn't be too hard...  There are afew compilers out there which can make dll files, so I'll try to make this VTOL thing a module.


Now, addressing the Fly-By-Wire thing.  When you watch an F-22 fly (or F-16, not as much tho), you can notice that during level flight, the elevator/elevons are constantly moving abit up, down, with the rudder also moving in tiny bits.

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Now, from what I understand about the modelling, why not make a self-animated 'dummy' object, named one of those turbine things at different speeds, then attach the elevons to them.  (This would not actually attach the elevons to them, but allow the elevons to move normally with tining changes when the dummy object moves.

That way, when the engine speed is really low, there are no movements.  But when you're at full throttle, the elevons allways slightly adjust!   This is only idea.  I don't understand the aircraft creation thing enough to be able to know for sure if this would work.