On Tuesday 23 March 2004 00:09, Jim Wilson wrote:
> David Culp said:
> > > > Would anyone be interested in an autoflight subsystem that acts as a
> > > > higher-level controller of the autopilot?  If been thinking of
> > > > making one to avoid lots of nasal code [...]
> >
> > Andy Ross said:
> > > Is this exactly the kind of high level glue task that a scripting
> > > language is good for?  Honestly, my thinking would be exactly the
> > > opposite: replace the C++ stuff with Nasal/properties where possible.
> >
> > Nothing personal -:)
> > One problem is I know C++, and I barely know nasal.  I don't even know if
> > what I want to do is possible with nasal.  I can only spend so many days
> > playing with it, so C++ would be most efficient for me.
>
> On the surface it sounds like Andy is right.  But maybe I don't understand
> the objective.
>
> Would this do things like implement auto land mode?  How would that work?
>
> Best,
>
> Jim

I've got a reasonable auto-land function for the YF-23 using Nasal, but it's 
very hacky.  The same approach isn't working well for the AN-225 though.

I'm not sure as to what extent this is highlighting deficiencies in the fdms.  

LeeE


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