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Title: Net Lag and Percieved Aircraft Performance
Post by: funked on November 13, 2000, 07:27:00 PM

A lot of percieved "FM bugs" are entirely a result of net lag.  I've tried to explain this to people but the concepts are too complex to be dealt with over the AH chat buffer.

Hoof (of WB and WW2OL fame) wrote an essay a couple of years ago in which he explains the problem far better than I can.  I encourage everybody to read it.
 http://www.rdrop.com/users/hoofj/netlag.htm (http://www.rdrop.com/users/hoofj/netlag.htm)

I'm not saying all percieved FM problems are false.  But the netlag factors explained in Hoof's essay are still with us and any assessment of what the "other guy's" plane is doing MUST take these effects into consideration.

Title: Net Lag and Percieved Aircraft Performance
Post by: Andy Bush on November 13, 2000, 08:24:00 PM

funked

Thanks very much for that article. I'm pretty clueless about net lag and that essay was a very good discussion.

Andy

Title: Net Lag and Percieved Aircraft Performance
Post by: sling322 on November 14, 2000, 11:31:00 AM

I know exactly what you mean Funked.  I had a couple of guys last night doing some weird stuff in the gunsights of my B26 or Lancaster.  I mean there was some wierd "fish-flopping" going on....but it didnt matter because they werent flopping once they hit the silk.   (http://bbs.hitechcreations.com/smf/Smileys/default/smile.gif)