I have to draw your attention to the General Discussions/Compared to G3 subject.
If it is true that FMS is good for beginners but later the professional simsulators are better, and the development of FMS is frozen something has to be done, (for instance the efforts of Perry are such).
Especially because someone stated somewhere at this Forum that the professional simulator providers are waiting for the death of FMS, this would be their interest.
I am in correspondence with some Hungarian modelers, one of those is a professional who live on this business says:
(I guess ddwaner would say this as well.)
â€I would be happy if there will be no need to use expensive simulators, and I would be able to give to the hands of my clients free of charge products. If there were such product I would be happy to produce the exact copy of the real models to practice with those.
Although a lot of people are using FMS before their first take offs later only few of them continue practicing (clearly the advanced needs are not met by FMS).
This is the reason, that not mentioning some simple (for beginners) models there are hardly no phisycally and grafically precize models.â€
This is the reason why I am now dealing with panorama landscapes, on one hand, and although I have never seen Reflex or Real Flight models flying I guess that there are nicely flying FMS models as well not to mention my “Mefisto†and ggunners R4. I am playing with those a lot.
The memo:
I might be very naive but would like to propose or to suggest something:
1. There are weird things about FMS said TreeHugger,
2. It seems to me that the development of FMS is freeze or stopped.
3. There are FMS fans and there are software people among those, (I am not)
4. Some of my fellow modelers are saying; forget FMS, the professional products are better.
5. That costs a lot of money.
6. I like very much some functions of FMS and I have enough flying practice using FMS that now I am flying reasonably well my real RC sailplanes (see
http://www.sztaki.hu/~csaba.laszlo)
7. Just as an example I mention that among the FMS functions is the “chaseâ€. The Reflex XTR has got a same function.
I like it because it reminds me to my feelings when I followed a sailplane on a slope or in a thermal.
I would like to have a new FMS function, a camera attached to the helmet of the flying pilot.
8. RealFlight 3.5 has got this function.
9. It is possible that only the distance parameter of FMS chase function should be decreased to: “0†to achieve this new function.
10. The OpenSource software’s are spreading, my colleagues are using a lot of them, not only Linux, but other Internet related product, even SW vendors like SUN has got the Open Source Access manager, the federated identity SW.
11. The proposal: somebody who knows them has to ask Möllers to open the source of FMS.