Anders: Thanks for looking into this. I've got this email marked and hope to take a look at this soon. This weekend being what it is, I may not get to it before Wednesday. I also have to report for jury duty on Monday.
Feel free to keep investigating it. :-) Jon > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of > Anders Gidenstam > Sent: Saturday, April 07, 2007 7:44 AM > To: FlightGear developers discussions > Subject: Re: [Flightgear-devel] "Wild accelerations at low speeds" > > > On Sat, 7 Apr 2007, Anders Gidenstam wrote: > > > On Fri, 6 Apr 2007, Jon S. Berndt wrote: > > > > It turns out that the slip-skid ball is driven by the properties > > /accelerations/pilot/y-accel-fps_sec and > > /accelerations/pilot/z-accel-fps_sec > > > > which seem to be copied from the JSBSim properties > > .../jsbsim/accelerations/a-pilot-y-ft_sec2 and > > .../jsbsim/accelerations/a-pilot-z-ft_sec2 . > > > > What is remarkable about the a-pilot-*-ft_sec2 properties is that they > > are nonzero even when the aircraft and pilot is at rest on the ground. > > E.g. a-pilot-z-ft_sec2 is 32.1 ft/sec^2 (= g I presume - I'm a > SI person;) > > > > I don't know if that behaviour in JSBSim is intended or not - but the > > SlipSkidBall.cxx clearly does assume such behaviour. > > Typo: SlipSkidBall.cxx clearly does /NOT/ assume such behaviour. > > Sorry! > > /Anders > -- > ------------------------------------------------------------------ > --------- > Anders Gidenstam > mail: anders(at)gidenstam.org > WWW: http://www.gidenstam.org/FlightGear/JSBSim-LTA/ > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- > Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT > Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to > share your > opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys-and earn cash > http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV > _______________________________________________ > Flightgear-devel mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/flightgear-devel ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys-and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV _______________________________________________ Flightgear-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/flightgear-devel

