Re: [Flightgear-devel] Calculating free stick position and forces

2011-04-03 Thread Leonardo Fabian Grodek
On Fri, Apr 1, 2011 at 12:38 AM, Jon S. Berndt jonsber...@comcast.netwrote:

 Actually, Alan is correct, as Ron also mentioned in the JSBSim-devel list,
 where this topic is cross-posted. I think it is quite possible that we can
 already do this using function definitions in the aerodynamics section
 of an aircraft spec. file. There is no perceptible performance hit to using
 function definitions. The functions are implemented in C++, are fairly
 efficient, and calculations are cached per-frame. I'd prefer not to see
 possibly type-specific hard-coded calculations going into the codebase - I
 think we can implement this in the current codebase using existing
 capabilities.

 Jon


I agree, there are already enough tools in the config file for defining the
stick force. But how can we trim the stick force? Would it be possible to
use the autopilot functions? or a new trim mode is needed in the code?

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Re: [Flightgear-devel] Improving the elevator modeling

2011-03-30 Thread Leonardo Fabian Grodek
On Wed, Mar 30, 2011 at 11:05 AM, cas...@mminternet.com wrote:

  Hi,
 
 ...
 
  The only parts lacking in the JSBSim as best as I can determine are some
  numbers to define the elevator aero coefficents, hinge moments as a
  function of tail alpha and deflection, and changes in the aspect ratio
  of the wing as a function of flap deflections that will be used to
  calculate the downwash for a specific wing configuration and flight
  condition
 
  Any comments??
 
  John
 
  John,
 
  You might try posting this on the JSBSim developer list. I know that
  Agostino De Marco has done some modeling of hinge moments using JSBSim. I
  seem to recall that he wrote an AIAA paper that included hinge moment
  modeling, etc.
 
  Downwash can probably be calculated as a function (perhaps as a function
  of
  lift force generated), and a local alpha for the elevator can be
  calculated that accounts for the downwash angle.
 
  Jon
 
 I can do that ;-)  Does Agostino follow/post to the JSBSim list?  Would
 like to exchange ideas with him.  Any particular reason why his work has
 not migrated into the JSBSim code?

 John



The elevator hinge moment (say, elev_hinge) can be modeled with the JSBSim
functions in the config file (or better in a separate system file. Then a
new trim mode should be coded, which would trim not only the aircraft but
also the elevator hinge moment (using the defined elev_hinge parameter). I
don't see right now any other way to do this, but I hope there is an easier
one. Agostino's work could bring some light.

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Re: [Flightgear-devel] NASA 3D Models

2010-09-12 Thread Leonardo Fabian Grodek
What a coincidence! I discovered those models just yesterday!

I managed to open the Shuttle model in Blender, so I guess it would be
possible to have them exported to Flightgear.

BTW, here's the link to the site:
http://www.nasa.gov/multimedia/3d_resources/models.html

Regards,
Fabián

On Sun, Sep 12, 2010 at 9:34 AM, Jon S. Berndt jonsber...@comcast.netwrote:

 Can these be converted to the format that FlightGear uses - particularly
 the
 crawler, the VAB, and the launch complex - as well as the launch vehicle
 models?

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[Flightgear-devel] Optimal desktop processor/graphic card

2010-09-11 Thread Leonardo Fabian Grodek
Hi,
I'm planning to buy a new desktop PC and I want to be sure I will be able to
run FG smoothly (I may also be doing some video editing, but that's for
another forum).
Which processor/graphic card will be the optimal combination, without
braking my bank account? I was thinking on an Intel i5 (dual core or quad
core?) Do I need the i7 series? For the graphics I'm thinking about the ATI
Radeon HD 5670 or 5770; the 5770 is $100 more expensive, do I really need
it? Are cheaper cards enough?

Thank you.

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[Flightgear-devel] Operating System

2010-03-20 Thread Leonardo Fabian Grodek
Hi,
I'm planning to buy a new PC with operating system.
Is there any OS that is not supported by FlightGear? I want to be sure I'll
be able to compile and run FlightGear. Is Windows 7 64-bit supported? Or
should I better stay with Windows 7 32-bit.

Please Linux people don't laugh at me :(

Thank you!

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Re: [Flightgear-devel] Airliners and Auto Pitch-Trim

2010-03-07 Thread Leonardo Fabian Grodek
Hi,

I have no experience in FGFS capabilities in terms of autopilot and
trimming, but I do have some in JSBSim, so I will refer only to that FDM,
and I hope this will be relevant to this discussion.

First, I think it would be good to have this in mind: there are two types of
trim: 1. Aircraft pitching moment trim, which refers to making the aircraft
pitching moment zero, and 2. stick force trim, which, obviously, refers to
zeroing the pilot stick forces.

As Heiko has already pointed, airliners and most business jets use the
stabilizer for pitching moment trim. In JSBSim this CAN be modeled as
follows:

channel name=Pitch
:
:
summer name=Stabilizer Trim Sum
inputfcs/pitch-trim-cmd-norm/input   !-- Note that here is the
trim variable that comes from the trimming algorithm --
clipto
min-1/min
max 1/max
/clipto
/summer
:
:

This will yield a fcs/stabilizer-trim-sum that can be mapped into a
fcs/stabilizer-pos-deg (using an aerosurface_scale) which can be then used
to calculate the tail angle of attack (alpha+stab-downwash) and from there
the tail lift and/or pitching moment (of course this aerodynamic data is not
always easy to achieve).

Regarding the second type of trim (stick force), as far as I know JSBSim
does not have the capability for this yet, although it may be possible to
build that on the base of existing trimming options). For manually operated
elevators, the elevator angle for zero force will depend on hinge moments
(affected by alpha_tail, dynamic pressure, etc.), and will normally will be
different from 0 degrees. For powered elevators (as in modern or high
performance aircraft) zero elevator deflection will give zero stick force
(by means of an artificial feeling system).

For how all said above can be applied in FGFS...well, somebody familiar with
that part would need to jump in.

I hope this was not more confusing than helpful...

Fabian


On Sun, Mar 7, 2010 at 7:29 AM, Innis Cunningham inn...@hotmail.com wrote:

  Hi Guys
 I think you will find on all Boeing aircraft if the elevator is out of
 neutral
 for a set amount of time the horizontal stabilizer runs to return the
 elevator to
 the null position.Hence retriming the aircraft.Hence the name stabilizer
 trim
 I think also you will find that the tab on the elevator is not
 a trim tab but moves in the opposite direction to the elevator movement.
 So until we get a working FDM for the horizontal stabilizer in FG anything
 else will be a hack.

 Cheers
 Innis


 
  Hi,
 
  I just tried with the SenceaII and both Ti and elevator filter influence
 this.
 
  Great, thanks to all for the help!
 
  Cheers
  Heiko
 
   If you have a pid-simple-controller,
   try increasing Ti, it slows down
   the action.
Hi Torsten,
   
That sounds like it could be done without nasal just
   in the autopilot file. I guess the speed of the
   trim-pitch-channel can be changed with the filter? (The
   737-300 has a speed-trim at certain situations)
   
Kind regards
Heiko
   
 Hi Heiko,

 the auto-pitch-trim channel moves the elevator
   trim to
 return the
 elevator into the neutral position while the
   pitch-channel
 moves the
 elevator to change attitude.
 Or a bit more technical:
 The auto-pitch-trim-channel compares the
   elevator-pos-norm
 to a
 reference of zero and adjusts elevator-trim
 The pitch-channel compares e.g. current pitch
   with a
 reference of some
 calculated target pitch and adjusts elevator-pos
 Usually the pitch-trim channel is much slower
   than the
 elevator channel.
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Re: [Flightgear-devel] Flightgear in industry use

2009-10-28 Thread Leonardo Fabian Grodek
On Wed, Oct 28, 2009 at 6:26 PM, Arnt Karlsen a...@c2i.net wrote:

 On Tue, 27 Oct 2009 08:50:14 -0500, Curtis wrote in message
 ef5fc9920910270650p21349d36x27b990b1a8ea3...@mail.gmail.com:

  On Tue, Oct 27, 2009 at 5:46 AM, Leonardo Fabian Grodek wrote:
 
   Hi,
   Looking for information on autopilots I've found this:
  
   http://www.cloudcaptech.com/piccolo_II.shtm#software
   In the list of downloadable software you can see Flightgear listed,
   with credits.
   I've also found this:
  
  
  
 http://www.cloudcaptech.com/download/Piccolo/Piccolo%20Documentation/Version%202.1.1%20Docs/Software/Piccolo%20Simulator.pdf
  
   Those more active than me in FG development (almost everybody but me
   indeed...) could feel proud of their work by seeing FG recommended
   by industry leaders.
  
  
  I got to see a Cloudcap Piccolo flying on big UAV earlier this fall
  (16' wing span, 150 lbs beast of an airplane).  This was an older
  piccolo.  I hear v2 is even better.  Good stuff!  (of course the uav
  stuff I'm working will be much better once it is finished.) :-)
 
  Curt.

 ..aye.  One problem, they provide FG binaries, but no source???
 http://www.cloudcaptech.com/download/Piccolo/FlightGear/

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Well, under Piccolo Systems -- Downloads -- Piccolo Setup and User Guides,
there's a link to this Piccolo Simulator document:
http://www.cloudcaptech.com/download/Piccolo/Piccolo%20Documentation/Version%202.1.1%20Docs/Software/Piccolo%20Simulator.pdf

In the Introduction of this document they mention the open source
Flightgear simulator. Then, on page 40 they explain how to install
Flightgear, and on page 42 they finally discover one of Flightgear's
how-to pages. From here the user could get to all Flightgear information and
sources.

I agree they could have mentioned Flightgear's link for the sources in a
more otstanding way; nevertheless, it seems they are not trying to hide the
openeness of the simulator; they may have overseen something in the GPL
rules, and by presenting to them this issue they would include a link to the
Download Source Code page.

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[Flightgear-devel] Flightgear in industry use

2009-10-27 Thread Leonardo Fabian Grodek
Hi,
Looking for information on autopilots I've found this:

http://www.cloudcaptech.com/piccolo_II.shtm#software
In the list of downloadable software you can see Flightgear listed, with
credits.
I've also found this:

http://www.cloudcaptech.com/download/Piccolo/Piccolo%20Documentation/Version%202.1.1%20Docs/Software/Piccolo%20Simulator.pdf

Those more active than me in FG development (almost everybody but me
indeed...) could feel proud of their work by seeing FG recommended by
industry leaders.

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Re: [Flightgear-devel] Another person selling FlightGear on ebay

2009-10-21 Thread Leonardo Fabian Grodek
On 10/21/09, Jon S. Berndt jonsber...@comcast.net wrote:

 Maybe there ought to be a continuous listing on eBay for FlightGear that we
 put there, that mentions all the other rebrands, and prominently displays
 the web site, that it can be downloaded freely. The idea behind the listing
 wouldn't be to make money, just to set the facts straight.

 Or something like that ...

 Jon



Excellent idea.

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Re: [Flightgear-devel] Another FlightGear Package for Sale: Illegal?

2009-09-25 Thread Fabian Grodek
Interesting, if you look at the very bottom of their home page (
www.flightprosim.com) you can click on Developers; this brings you to a page
where you can join the Flight Pro Sim developers !!
I did not try to join yet, but would be interesting to see WHO are those
developers...

Fabian



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 Alan Teeder wrote:

  How about naming and shaming all of these profiteers on the main website,
  warning newcomers that they can get an up to date version for free (and
  contribute should they wish).

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Re: [Flightgear-devel] Single engine takeoff simulation

2009-06-07 Thread Fabian Grodek
Well, that seems to be the point: I'm using the released version of FG
(1.9.0) since I had trouble in compiling from [CVS] source. I may need to
make a new effort to be able to compile CVS versions indeed.
Thank you.

Fabian

On 6/7/09, Victhor victhor.fos...@gmail.com wrote:

 It is avaliable in all aircraft. Maybe you don't use CVS version?
  That's very interesting to know John.Coping with the windmilling drag
  would be the next step. But first I want to be able to cut the engine.
 
  Thanks Victhor and Ron.
 
  Victhor, I've tried Method 3 but I cannot find any MTBF for the
  engines; maybe this is only available for a specific aircraft model?
  which one? In methods 1 or 2, do you refer to cockpit toggles?
 
  Ron, do you mean setting /engines/engine[*]/running to 0 in the
  jsbsim-set file?
 
  Fabian
 
 
 
  On Sat, Jun 6, 2009 at 11:22 PM, John Wojnaroski
  cas...@mminternet.com wrote:
 
 
  
 
  We've implemented that capability in our version of FG
  supplied to
  NASA/Ames as part of the 737NG project; however that requires
  a totally
  different approach to modeling the engine, fuel tanks, and
  engine feed
  systems.  The code is licensed under the GPL and there is a
  1.9.1 version.
 
  Plus a lot depends on the type or mode of engine failure you
  wish to
  simlate and, of course, a BIG difference between losing a
  piston engine
  with a windmilling prop versus a turbine engine.
 
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Re: [Flightgear-devel] Single engine takeoff simulation

2009-06-07 Thread Fabian Grodek
I use Windows XP to (try to) compile FlightGear. Sorry, but no Linux at the
moment on my PC ...
Now I can imagine most of you nodding ... :)

Fabian
On Sun, Jun 7, 2009 at 2:44 PM, francesco france...@brisa.homelinux.netwrote:

 Fabian Grodek ha scritto:
  Well, that seems to be the point: I'm using the released version of FG
  (1.9.0) since I had trouble in compiling from [CVS] source. I may need
  to make a new effort to be able to compile CVS versions indeed.
  Thank you.
 What O.S. do you use to compile FlightGear ?
 
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[Flightgear-devel] Single engine takeoff simulation

2009-06-06 Thread Fabian Grodek
Hello,

Is it possible to simulate an engine failure during takeoff (or at any
flight stage) in Flightgear? If the answer is positive, is there an aircraft
model (with two or more engines, of course) ready to do that?

I've tried to set set-running property to false or 0 in the property
browser while in flight, but this is ignored, the property retaining its
true value.

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Re: [Flightgear-devel] Single engine takeoff simulation

2009-06-06 Thread Fabian Grodek
That's very interesting to know John.Coping with the windmilling drag would
be the next step. But first I want to be able to cut the engine.

Thanks Victhor and Ron.

Victhor, I've tried Method 3 but I cannot find any MTBF for the engines;
maybe this is only available for a specific aircraft model? which one? In
methods 1 or 2, do you refer to cockpit toggles?

Ron, do you mean setting /engines/engine[*]/running to 0 in the jsbsim-set
file?

Fabian



On Sat, Jun 6, 2009 at 11:22 PM, John Wojnaroski cas...@mminternet.comwrote:


 
 We've implemented that capability in our version of FG supplied to
 NASA/Ames as part of the 737NG project; however that requires a totally
 different approach to modeling the engine, fuel tanks, and engine feed
 systems.  The code is licensed under the GPL and there is a 1.9.1 version.

 Plus a lot depends on the type or mode of engine failure you wish to
 simlate and, of course, a BIG difference between losing a piston engine
 with a windmilling prop versus a turbine engine.

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[Flightgear-devel] Atlas download

2008-12-27 Thread Fabian Grodek
Hello,
Does anybody know what happened to the Atlas website (atlas.sourceforge.net)?
All links (including the downloads) one have been inactive for a few days.

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Re: [Flightgear-devel] screenshots for v1.9

2008-12-23 Thread Fabian Grodek
On 12/23/08, Heiko Schulz aeitsch...@yahoo.de wrote:

 Hi,

 Here are some of my screenies for the gallery! Feel free to take one or
 more of them.

 http://www.hoerbird.net/galerie/FGFS1.9.0/index.htm


 Merry Christmas and a happy new year to all!
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Really stunning pics!
I think the pic of the 777 over the airport must be in the screenshots list.
Beautifull airplane in excellent lighting.
Merry Cristmas and happy new year to you all !

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[Flightgear-devel] Simgear Build - pthread.h, and alut.h

2008-12-09 Thread Fabian Grodek
Hello,
Here's a noobie question about Simgear build (in VC++ 2005 Express Edition)
I get messages that the files pthread.h and alut.h cannot be found.
These files are called by #include statements in sgthread.hxx (v1.9) and
sample_openal.cxx (v1.32) and .hxx (v1.23).
Where could I find these files (pthread.h and alut.h)? A search in my whole
system found nothing.

Thank you.
Fabian
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Re: [Flightgear-devel] Simgear Build - pthread.h, and alut.h

2008-12-09 Thread Fabian Grodek
Never mind, your tip to google for the libraries helped me a lot, and should
help me in the future for almost anything I'll need  :) I should have
thought about it before.
I'll change the path for the alut fil, which I already have in the OpenAl
package.
Thank you very much.
Fabian

On Tue, Dec 9, 2008 at 8:32 PM, Yon Uriarte [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

 Hi,
  omg, im getting senile, my apologies. Alut is from the OpenAL package. I
 compile it from the OpenAL SVN repos and have
 yet to hear a single sound from fg. But it compiles and runs. I use
 pthreads-2-8-0, precompiled.

 hth,
  yon


 On Tue, Dec 9, 2008 at 2:48 PM, Yon Uriarte [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

 Hi,
  google for pthreads-win32 and freealut (iirc).

 HTH, regards,
  yon



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[Flightgear-devel] OpenSceneGraph

2008-12-08 Thread Fabian Grodek
Hello,
Is there any location other than
http://www.openscenegraph.org/projects/osg/wiki/Downloads

to get the OpenSceneGraph libraries? The link above is not working.
Thank you.
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Re: [Flightgear-devel] OpenSceneGraph

2008-12-08 Thread Fabian Grodek
On 12/8/08, Martin Spott [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

 Fabian Grodek wrote:

  Is there any location other than
  http://www.openscenegraph.org/projects/osg/wiki/Downloads
 
  to get the OpenSceneGraph libraries? The link above is not working.

 As a last resort you might try:

 ftp://ftp.ihg.uni-duisburg.de/FlightGear/OSG/

   to get a source tree that works with FlightGear - even though it
 doesn't carry the entire development history (2.7.3 works fine),

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Thank you. The ftp worked.
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Re: [Flightgear-devel] Tarball of bleeding edge CVS snapshot

2008-12-06 Thread Fabian Grodek
On Fri, Dec 5, 2008 at 8:28 PM, Alex Buzin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

  Fabian Grodek wrote:
  I'm using Tortoise.
  Can somebody tell me what should be the command line? Something like:
  :pserver:[EMAIL PROTECTED]:/var/cvs/FlightGear..
  Thank you.
  Fabian

 Look at the http://www.flightgear.org/cvs/anoncvs.html

 Thank you Alex. I was confused by the directory name as appears on those
instructions. I thought it was the previous 0-9 version; now I know I was
wrong.
Ah, and I finally succeeded in checking out !
Thank you again.
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Re: [Flightgear-devel] Scenery download

2008-12-05 Thread Fabian Grodek
Hello,
I've been trying to checkout FlightGear source code from the CVS Repository
but I always get the message:

Logging in to :pserver:[EMAIL PROTECTED]:2401:/var/cvs/FlightGear

cvs [login aborted]: /var/cvs/FlightGear: no such repository

A similar message I get also with Tortise client.

Can anybody be so kind as to tell me what am I doing wrong?

Thank you very much.

Fabian




On Fri, Nov 28, 2008 at 8:50 PM, Fabian Grodek [EMAIL PROTECTED]wrote:



  On Fri, Nov 28, 2008 at 6:52 PM, Martin Spott [EMAIL PROTECTED]wrote:

 Fabian Grodek wrote:

  I've been trying to download scenery from flightgear.org since
 yesterday
  without success. Is there any problem with the server?

 If you're familiar with FlightGear CVS, then you might want to build
 the new 'terrasync' tool and download your Scenery from the pre-defined
 SVN service.

 Cheers,
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 Well, I'm not really familiar with FlighGear CVS, but I think I'll get into
 that soon. I see it's well worth.
 Thank you.
 Fabian

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Re: [Flightgear-devel] Scenery download

2008-12-05 Thread Fabian Grodek
On Fri, Dec 5, 2008 at 3:11 PM, gerard robin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

  On vendredi 05 décembre 2008, you wrote:
  the usual process is
  cvs -d :pserver:[EMAIL PROTECTED]:/var/cvs/FlightGear-0.9
 login
  answering guest  to pasword request
  and
  cvs -d :pserver:[EMAIL PROTECTED]:/var/cvs/FlightGear-0.9 co
  source to get source
 
  Did you do  something  else ?

 Though.. now it would be more modern  to have an other Folder id
 ===FlightGear-1.9=

 :)

 --
 Gérard

That was going to be exactly my next question ! I was wondering why the path
is to version 0.9.
I understand now that it brings me to the most up-to-date source, despite
the folder name. Right?

BTW, your help was great. For the first time after a few weeks trying I
succeeded in checking out the code !!
Fabian
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[Flightgear-devel] Tarball of bleeding edge CVS snapshot

2008-12-02 Thread Fabian Grodek
Hello,
I've been unable to open the link to the tarball of the bleeding edge CVS
snapshot found in the Download Souce page:
http://cvs.flightgear.org/cgi-bin/viewvc/viewvc.cgi/source.tar.gz?view=tar

Is something wrong with that page?

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Re: [Flightgear-devel] Tarball of bleeding edge CVS snapshot

2008-12-02 Thread Fabian Grodek
On Tue, Dec 2, 2008 at 5:43 PM, Frederic Bouvier [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

 - Csaba Halász a écrit :
  On Tue, Dec 2, 2008 at 3:48 PM, Fabian Grodek
  [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
   Hello,
   I've been unable to open the link to the tarball of the bleeding
  edge CVS
   snapshot found in the Download Souce page:
  
 
 http://cvs.flightgear.org/cgi-bin/viewvc/viewvc.cgi/source.tar.gz?view=tar
  
   Is something wrong with that page?
 
  Tarball has been disabled for some time, maybe just an omission and
  not intentional. Would be nice to have it back. Curt?

 Anyway, the link is wrong. Now cvs is at
 http://cvs.flightgear.org/viewvc/

 -Fred



Thanks for all the answers. Unfortunatelly I still cannot download
Flightgear current source from the repository.
I'm using Tortoise.
Can somebody tell me what should be the command line? Something like:
:pserver:[EMAIL PROTECTED]:/var/cvs/FlightGear..

Thank you.

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Re: [Flightgear-devel] Constant property in a JSBSim model

2008-11-30 Thread Fabian Grodek
On 11/29/08, gerard robin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

 BTW: If you don't want FG with OSG (and Boost) you could try with the cvs
 preosg which had been kindly updated by Eric with the JSBSim last version.

 cvs -d :pserver:[EMAIL PROTECTED]:/var/cvs/FlightGear-0.9 co -r
 PRE_OSG_PLIB_20061029 source


Thank you very much Gerard. That will help a lot.

Nevertheless, I'd like to be able to get the most up-to-date source code,
but I'm having trouble connecting to the CVS repository (I use Tortoise, as
I do with JSBSim without problems). And if I try through FG web page by
clicking:
Developers -- Source code -- Download a tarball of the latest Bleeding
Edge CVS snapshot (
http://cvs.flightgear.org/cgi-bin/viewvc/viewvc.cgi/source.tar.gz?view=tar)
I get that the page cannot be found.

What's wrong?

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Re: [Flightgear-devel] Constant property in a JSBSim model

2008-11-29 Thread Fabian Grodek
Jon, you're right, again.The FG version I'm running does not support initial
values in properties. Indeed, I do not get the console messages as Gérard
points, and a look at the codes reveals the reason.
Now I see there are more than one good motivation for me to start building
my own FG binaries out of the most up-to-date FG source code.

Fabian.

On Sat, Nov 29, 2008 at 1:28 AM, gerard robin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

  On vendredi 28 novembre 2008, Jon S. Berndt wrote:
  Is this again a factor of using an older version of JSBSim? Check the
 file,
  FGFCS.cpp, compared between the latest JSBSim release and the code you
 are
  using in FlightGear.
 
 
 
  If you are using the same code, this should work.
 
 
 
  Jon
 





 And, you should get with FG cvs on your console, during the moading of
 JSBSim,
 for instance the following messages


Declared properties

  systems/hook/tailhook-cmd-norm (initial value: 0)
  systems/hook/tailhook-length-ft (initial value: 4)
  systems/hook/tailhook-pos-min-deg (initial value: -5)
  systems/hook/tailhook-pos-max-deg (initial value: 50)
  systems/hook/tailhook-offset-x-in (initial value: 210.17)
  systems/hook/tailhook-offset-y-in (initial value: 0)
  systems/hook/tailhook-offset-z-in (initial value: -31.57)

Channel Hook



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[Flightgear-devel] Scenery download

2008-11-28 Thread Fabian Grodek
I've been trying to download scenery from flightgear.org since yesterday
without success. Is there any problem with the server?
With the aircraft there is no problem.
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Re: [Flightgear-devel] Scenery download

2008-11-28 Thread Fabian Grodek
On Fri, Nov 28, 2008 at 6:23 PM, Ron Jensen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:


 The main scenery server is often too busy and won't talk to anyone else.
 Try a mirror, like this one:
 http://mirrors.ibiblio.org/pub/mirrors/flightgear/ftp/Scenery-1.0.1/


 Ron

Thank you Ron, the link is talking to me !
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Re: [Flightgear-devel] Scenery download

2008-11-28 Thread Fabian Grodek
On Fri, Nov 28, 2008 at 6:52 PM, Martin Spott [EMAIL PROTECTED]wrote:

 Fabian Grodek wrote:

  I've been trying to download scenery from flightgear.org since yesterday
  without success. Is there any problem with the server?

 If you're familiar with FlightGear CVS, then you might want to build
 the new 'terrasync' tool and download your Scenery from the pre-defined
 SVN service.

 Cheers,
Martin.
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Well, I'm not really familiar with FlighGear CVS, but I think I'll get into
that soon. I see it's well worth.
Thank you.
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[Flightgear-devel] Constant property in a JSBSim model

2008-11-28 Thread Fabian Grodek
Hello,
I have a JSBSim aircraft model in which, at the beginning of the
flight_control block, I defined a constant property as follows:

property value=0.80fcs/KSelev/property

I need this constant to factor a number of coefficients in the aerodynamics
section.

Although this seems to work in standalone JSBSim simulations, in FlightGear
this property gets the value of 0.0.

What is the correct way of defining a constant? (seems a very stupid
question, so I accept similar kind of answers :)   )

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Re: [Flightgear-devel] f16 speedbrakes

2008-09-06 Thread Fabian Grodek
On Fri, Sep 5, 2008 at 11:54 PM, Erik Hofman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

 
  I also see that (I'm only looking at the speedbrakes effects).
  Two things are unclear for me:
  1. The values of alpha in f16.xml are exactly half those in NASA's
  TP1538 report.
  2. The values of the coefficients are close to each other, but not
  exactly the same.
 
  For CmDsb I'm looking on TP1538 page 58 (PDF page 64)
  For CLDsb I'm looking on TP1538 page 65 (PDF page 71)

 Off course you need to transform the data from body axes to wind axes
 first..

 Erik


Sorry I've mixed the page numbers on TP1538 paper in my former message.
Erik,
1. Transformation from body to wind axes would modify the coefficient values
much more than the differences I see; moreover, I see difefrences even at
alpha=0 (for CmDsb, -0.0036 in f16.xml instead of -0.0038 in TP1538).
2. The alpha values are still HALF those on TP1538.

No matters what our conclusion will be on these issues, I really value the
great job you've done in this model, making it a great source for learning
JSBSim. Thanks.

Fabian
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Re: [Flightgear-devel] f16 speedbrakes

2008-09-05 Thread Fabian Grodek
On 9/4/08, Alex Romosan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

 Erik Hofman writes:

  Alex Romosan wrote:
  can you give me a pointer as to where i could get this data? thanks.
 
  Search for NASA Technical Paper 1538

 i've been looking at it but i can't figure out the relationship
 between the number in the report and the numbers in the flightgear
 model. if somebody could explain the magic involved i would really
 appreciate it. thanks.

 --alex--


I also see that (I'm only looking at the speedbrakes effects).
Two things are unclear for me:
1. The values of alpha in f16.xml are exactly half those in NASA's TP1538
report.
2. The values of the coefficients are close to each other, but not exactly
the same.

For CmDsb I'm looking on TP1538 page 58 (PDF page 64)
For CLDsb I'm looking on TP1538 page 65 (PDF page 71)

Ron?

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Re: [Flightgear-devel] f16 speedbrakes

2008-08-31 Thread Fabian Grodek
On 8/30/08, Erik Hofman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

  ... But I don't see any pitching moment effect; from
  what I see in NASA TP 1538 http://hdl.handle.net/2002/11034 I
  understand there is a pitch-down effect from the speedbrakes.
 
 It looks like you don't have the latest version of the configuration
 file, it's defined under CmDsb


I see. The current f16.xml version in JSBSim repository is 1.82, which
indeed has the CmDsb effect.
Nevertheless, the current f16.xml version in FlighGear is 1.44, which does
not contain the CmDsb component. Since this is a FlightGear mailing list, I
was looking only at the file on FG repository.
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Re: [Flightgear-devel] Tutorial: adding Ambient Occlusion layer to aircraft textures

2008-08-12 Thread Fabian Grodek
On 8/11/08, Melchior FRANZ [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

 I just wrote this tutorial. Maybe some modelers have use for it:


 http://wiki.flightgear.org/index.php/Howto:_Add_smooth_(%22Ambient_Occlusion%22)_shadows_in_Blender

 Note that it's not linked to from the Developer Portal ... for the
 simple reason that I couldn't manage to do it. Would be nice if a
 wiki expert can link it in.  :-)

 m.


Very interesting and instructive. Thank you for that, really.
But now that I know how to make that nice effect, I'd like to be able to
create the aircraft model first! I'm still quite far from that stage of
aircraft modelling. Is there any newbies tutorial on how to build a simple
aircraft from scratch in Blender?
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Re: [Flightgear-devel] Tutorial: adding Ambient Occlusion layer to aircraft textures

2008-08-12 Thread Fabian Grodek
On 8/12/08, Anders Gidenstam [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

 On Tue, 12 Aug 2008, Fabian Grodek wrote:

  Very interesting and instructive. Thank you for that, really.
  But now that I know how to make that nice effect, I'd like to be able to
  create the aircraft model first! I'm still quite far from that stage of
  aircraft modelling. Is there any newbies tutorial on how to build a
 simple
  aircraft from scratch in Blender?
  Fabian

 There is a very good one in French by Emmanuel Baranger:

 http://helijah.free.fr/flightgear/Creation/Creation-fr.htm

 An (auto? :) translation to English:
 http://helijah.free.fr/flightgear/Creation/Creation-en.htm

 Cheers,

 Anders


Thank you! It looks very instructive too. I'll try that.
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Re: [Flightgear-devel] OT: AN2 in real life at Klaipeda/Lithuania

2008-07-25 Thread Fabian Grodek
Unusual sight! Very nice. Thanks for sharing!
Fabian


On 7/25/08, Torsten Dreyer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

 Hi
 Here comes one more summer goodie for pleasure.

 I just flew into Klaipeda airfield (EYKL) where I found a precious line up
 of
 Antonov 2 aircraft. Once again, I only had my mobile phone with me to take
 some pictures but I think they are worth sharing with you.
 http://www.t3r.de/flightpics/klaipeda/

 See the airport on Google Maps here:
 http://maps.google.com/maps?ll=55.71,21.242778spn=0.02,0.02

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Re: [Flightgear-devel] [OT] How can I start up in air?

2008-06-13 Thread Fabian Grodek
On 6/13/08, Holger Wirtz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

 Hi,

 sorry, this is perhaps a little bit off topic but I haven't found any
 answers the last days:

 How can I start up at a specific position in air?
 I found some hints at
 http://wiki.flightgear.org/index.php/Starting_in_the_Air but if I use
 the SenecaII I have the problem that the magnetos are off, the nose of
 the plane is turned down to earth and the simulation is in running
 state. I tried the following:

 fgfs \
--altitude=5000 \
--heading=270 \
--vc=110 \
--vor=OAK \
--offset-distance=5 \
--offset-azimuth=270 \
--aircraft=SenecaII-jsbsim \
--prop:/controls/engines/engine/throttle=0.8 \
--prop:/controls/engines/engine/magneto=true \
--prop:/controls/engines/engine/magneto[0]=true \
--prop:/controls/engines/engine[0]/magneto=true \
--prop:/controls/engines/engine[1]/magneto=true \
--prop:/controls/engines/engine[0]/magneto[0]=true \
--prop:/controls/engines/engine[1]/magneto[0]=true \
--prop:/controls/engines/engine[0]/starter=true \
--prop:/controls/engines/engine[1]/starter=true \
--enable-freeze \
--geometry=170x100

 I need this for learning landings and ILS approaches towards an airport.
 For this it would be nice when the simulations starts at a well trimmed
 point...

 Has anyone an idea how to get this running?

 Thanks, Holger



Holger,
There have been some problems with the mailing list during the last days, so
I guess that's why you had no answers.
You should also add:
--in-air
so as the simulation starts with the aircraft trimmed in the air at the
conditions you defined.
I hope this helps.
Fabian
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[Flightgear-devel] Nasal and FGMultiplayMgr errors

2008-04-26 Thread Fabian Grodek
Hello,
I've built an aerodynamic model (JSBSim) of an aircraft and in order to test
it I took the Honda Jet and changed its native FDM with my model.
When I select my aircraft and try to run it in Flightgear v1.0.0, I get the
following errors:

1) Nasal runtime error: No such member: runways
at glide_slope_tunnel.nas line 96,
called from glide_slope_tunnel.nas line 123,
called from globals.nas, line 79

and then:
2) FGMultiplayMgr::MP_ProcessData: Domain error

and FG halts in a loop.

The first error can be worked around by flying first the original HondaJet
and turning glide slope off, but I would like to understand why is this
happening.

The main difference between both aero models is that in my model the PITCH
axis consist of a wing-body-vertical-tail + isolated horizontal tail
contributions, while the native HondaJet model has a
wing-body-vertical-horizontal block. In my FCS I put the
fcs/pitch-trim-cmd-norm input in the stabilizer aerosurface (which I defined
at the beginning of the FCS block).

The original HondaJet run and flies nicelly from the same airport.
Any hint on what could be wrong?

Thank you.
Fabian

PS: The HondaJet model is a really good work of Tatsuhiro Nishioka (FDM) and
Emmanuel BARANGER. I recommend flying it!
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Re: [Flightgear-devel] Aircraft downloads page update

2007-12-18 Thread Fabian Grodek
The download page contains other aircrafts with no 3D models:
1. F-15 (NOT F-15C)
2. Marchetti
3. X-24B
4. Shuttle
Their FDM are present.
I particularly like to have the FDM of these aircraft available, but, at
least for the JSBSim models (X24B and Shuttle), they can be (and indeed
are) are available from JSBSim CVS, which is a natural place to look for
them.
This would probably be a new discussion: whether to include or not aircraft
without 3D models in the aircraft download page. I vote for NO.

Fabian

On 12/17/07, Maik Justus [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

 Hi Curt,

 could you please delete the as350 and the bell206 from the download
 page? Both have no 3D-model and a very poor FDM.

 The hornet and the fk9mk2 are done by Emmanuel Baranger (3D) and me (FDM).

 Melchior: Whats about changing the bo105 status from beta to production?

 Best regards,
 Maik

 Curtis Olson schrieb am 17.12.2007 21:25:
  Hi,
 
  I have updated the aircraft downloads page with all the lastest
  versions of the available (CVS) aircraft.  Many of the new ones do not
  have a thumbnail image for the web page, and a few of them have been
  copied from other aircraft and are incorrect.  It would be great if
  people could grab a quick preview image and submit/commit it for the
  aircraft that don't yet have one.
 
  http://www.flightgear.org/Downloads/aircraft/
 
  Thanks,
 
  Curt.
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Re: [Flightgear-devel] Aircraft selection summary

2007-12-06 Thread Fabian Grodek
In general I agree with Durk.
The only issue is that if we drop the Citation we would end-up with no
bussiness jet class aircraft, which are high performance machines (compared
to props), easier to fly than an airliner (787), and with its
own limitations (as compared to fighters - F16). Also a Very Light Jet would
be popular nowadays, but I guess there is still no simulation model
available yet.
Fabian

On 12/6/07, Durk Talsma [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

 I wasn't able to jump in yesterday, but I've been following the aircraft
 selection disscussion closely. Below is a first attempt at compiling a new
 list based on the various suggestion made by everybody, and weighted by me
 based on my general impression of consensus.

 737-300 - 787

 I think Jon Berndt suggested keeping the 737, but a few people suggested
 replacing it by the 787, which seems to be our most complete jetliner. I
 like
 to follow that suggestion.

 A-10

 As far as I can see, nobody suggested replacing this aircraft. So I guess
 we
 keep it.

 bf109 - A6M2 (Zero)
 Suggested by Melchior, for ease of operations use. I think this is a good
 point. The release will be the first FlightGear hands-on experience for
 many
 people and we want to make sure that that first experience is as positive
 as
 possible by providing aircraft that have reasonably easy handling
 characteristics. Not including the bf109 for that reason is by no means a
 quality judgment of the aircraft itself.

 bo105
 c172
 c172p

 Everybody seems to agree we keep these ones.

 c310 - SenecaII
 c310u3a - Beaver

 I haven't been able to check whether the c310 and c310u3a are really two
 separate aircraft, or just two different directories with shared
 components.
 Anyhow, we unanimously agree that the c310 should be replaced by the
 Seneca.
 The suggested replacement above seems to satisfy a few additional requests
 to
 have the Beaver included as well.

 Citation-Bravo - B1900D

 This seems a reasonable replacement, in particular since the author of the
 Citation has indicated preferring that is is not part of the base aircraft
 selection. One minor concern is the ease-of-use issue. IIRC, the B1900D is
 fired up in cold configuration, and has quite a complicated start-up
 procedure (things may have changed since I last checked). Complex
 procedures
 like these may intimidate first time users.

 f16 - Lightning

 Melchior reported that the f16 is broken. I haven't been able to test
 recently, but seem to recall similar problems about a year ago. Jon Berndt
 reported finding a possible cause, so chances are the reported problems
 might
 get fixed in time. Still, I would like to replace the F16 for other
 reasons:
 We need at least an AAR ready aircraft in the base package, and a carrier
 ready aircraft (these are two very prominent new AI features in this
 release
 that we want to showcase). So, how about replacing the f16 with the
 Ligntning
 (for AAR scenarios)?

 j3cub

 A few people have a suggested dropping the cub, but given its various
 qualities, I'd like to keep it.

 Hunter - SeaHawk

 As a few people suggested, we probably need a carrier ready aircraft, and
 the
 seahawk is advertised by the wiki carrier HOWTO as the easiest to master
 (and
 I can confirm that its doable. :-) ).

 p51d - ()

 We already have one other WWII fighter. Do we really want to have two, or
 do
 we want to have some other category of aircraft represented?

 pa28-161 - pa24-250

 A few people have suggested replacing the pa28-161 with the pa24-250. I
 haven't tried any of those recently, but would be open to the suggestion.

 Rascal - Bochian (or another glider)

 Many people have suggested dropping the Rascal, for being too specific,
 and
 suggested we add a glider.

 T38 - Concorde ()

 Even though the T38 is probably a category of its own, my general
 impression
 is that the broader class this aircraft belongs to (let's say: small
 high-powered jet powered and highy manouvreable) is a bit overrepresented
 (with the A10, [f16/lightning], and [Hunter/SeaHawk] being present.

 Gerard Robin suggested adding the concorde, and there are some aspects of
 this
 proposal I like, asit is an altogether different category. However, when
 trying the condorde yesterday, I saw some performance issues (need to
 check
 again), and also found the 3D cockpit instruments to be a bit
 cartoonesque.
 This is probably a good candidate for future inclusion, but not quite
 there
 yet.

 ufo

 Keep as a general exploration tool. Its fun as such. I think everybody
 agrees. :-)

 wrightFlyer1903 - Osprey/ DragonFly/maybe another historic aircraft.

 Most people suggested dropping the wright flyer. A few people suggested
 adding
 an ultralight. it would be nice to have a historic aircraft (as in a
 really
 old one). During the version number discussion, somebody suggested
 doing named releases. We could do this implicitly, by changing our
 choice
 of historic aircraft from release to release. So 0.9.10 would 

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Seneca II tutorials - Torsten

2007-12-01 Thread Fabian Grodek
Where can I find the tutorial?
Fabian


On 12/1/07, Georg Vollnhals [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

 Hi Torsten,

 very nice you created a lot of tutorials which really increases the
 value of your Seneca II as more and more interested people can learn
 how to do it right.

 I just want to inform you that I recognized a technical problem with
 your engine-start(???) tutorial. It is asked to put the mixture and
 propeller levers at max. position (and I think the throttle, too). I use
 two knobs (axis) on my Saitek X45 joystick for propeller rpm and mixture
 and although the stick is calibrated the tutorial does not recognize
 these MAX positions. If I use the assigned keyboard-keys to assist to
 get the wished value all is ok and the tutorial proceeds.
 Visually the levers are at their maximal position (upwards)after using
 the joystick knobs and do not move further when I press the keys but
 somehow it seems that the used joystick axis (knobs at the joystick) do
 not indicate the asked maximal value to the tutorial.
 As I think that this might not only be a local problem here I would
 suggest that the tutorial should be a little more tolerant and uses a
 little reduced maximal value to fit the variations of different
 controller systems.

 Just an idea to think about.
 Regards
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[Flightgear-devel] FG-to-Matlab/Simulink transmission

2007-08-16 Thread Fabian Grodek
I've read some correspondence about this in FlightGear forums but I
have not found any clear answer:
What's the best way to send data (velocities, aero parameters, forces,
moments, aircraft position) to Matlab/Simulink in realtime?

My idea is to define an aircraft using JSBSim FDM and fly it in
FlightGear, while having the output data plotted (realtime) in Matlab.
Asking too much?

I know Simulink's Aerospace Blokset has only a ...unidirectional
transmission link from Simulink to FlightGear using FlightGear's
published net_fdm binary data exchange protocol. (from Simulink help
files), but I want transmission in the oposite direction (FG to
Matlab).

Fabian

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Re: [Flightgear-devel] FG-to-Matlab/Simulink transmission

2007-08-16 Thread Fabian Grodek
Jon,
Yes, I am running on Windows, so I would appreciate it very much if
you can send to me that stripchart application. I would like to try
that.

Anyway, I am willing to try the Windows app you mentioned also, so I
would have the chance to choose the most suitable option. (indeed, I
am not too much familiar with Simulink).



On 8/16/07, Jon S. Berndt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
  My idea is to define an aircraft using JSBSim FDM and fly it in
  FlightGear, while having the output data plotted (realtime) in Matlab.
  Asking too much?

 Fabian:

 If you are running on Windows, I could possibly send you a stripchart
 application that I wrote, which accepts data from JSBSim over a socket.
 Matlab/Simulink is a good approach, but if you can't get any satisfaction
 from that route, and want to try a Windows app, let me know and I'll see
 what I can do about getting that to you. It's not open source, but I can
 make it available.

 Jon



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Re: [Flightgear-devel] Epsilon, alpha_tail and independent tail contributions

2007-07-23 Thread Fabian Grodek

  I would need:
  CLtail = f(alpha_tail, delta_elevator)
 
  where alpha_tail = alpha_aircraft + horizontal_stab_angle - Epsilon


 src/jsbsim --aircraft=c172x --catalog

 The --catalog option will give you a list of all the properties that JSBSim
 defines and knows about. That is separate from FlightGear-specific
 properties that are part of the *interface* between FlightGear and JSBSim.
 JSBSim does have its own elevator deflection property. I don't understand
 the issue with the 747 model, and (unfortunately) I don't have time to look
 into it at the moment.

 Jon


I am not talking about the elevator property, but about the horizontal
stabilizer (HS)property, which seems to be missing in JSBSim. In most
airliners and bussiness jets there is an all-moving HS, together with
the elevator (and maybe also a trim-tab). Then I would need to refer
to the HS current deflection (which the pilot changes in order to trim
the aircraft pitching moment) in order to calculate the tail angle of
attack : alpha_ac + HS - Epsilon.

Here is the relevant part of the 747.xml as defined in the aircraft
subdirectory that ships with JSBSim package.
1. Note that:  descriptionLift_due_to_stabilizer_deflection/description
2. But: propertyfcs/speedbrake-pos-rad/property
3. My question is: why it uses speedbrake?

function name=aero/coefficient/CLs
1. See here ---  descriptionLift_due_to_stabilizer_deflection/description
product
propertyaero/qbar-psf/property
propertymetrics/Sw-sqft/property
2. and here --- propertyfcs/speedbrake-pos-rad/property
  table
  independentVarvelocities/mach/independentVar
  tableData
  0.0.8190
  0.20000.7850
  0.65000.7390
  0.90000.8590
  /tableData
  /table
/product
/function


Fabian

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Re: [Flightgear-devel] Epsilon, alpha_tail and independent tail contributions

2007-07-22 Thread Fabian Grodek
First, thank you all for the direct answers to my question.

Now, regarding the 737 sample case, it should be checked which
flaps-slats combinations are normally possible; it may be the case
where let's say flaps 20 cannot come with retracted slats (if there is
a problem with the slats deployment you are allowed to use only flaps
0).

Regarding the tables with infinite numbers of dimensions; I do not
understand why this should be needed. The buildup concept used in
JSBSim lets you specify delta of each coefficient for every
aerodynamic surface (flaps, elevator, stabilizer, etc.) independently;
JSBSim adds all that together. For the downwash, DATCOM could be
executed first for the clean configuration, obtain Epsilon vs. alpha,
then for certain airfoil representing one slat-flap combination,
obtain the new Epsilon vs. alpha, and finally we can build a 2D table
for deltaEpsilon vs. alpha vs. flaps. If the slat is another input,
then 3D tables (with tableData breakpoints) are already applicable in
JSBSim. We can then have one 2D table for slats 0, then another for
slats 20, etc. The elevator sweeps could be done with flaps up, and
then, this elevator effects included as another contribution in the
aero buildup.
One important issue in generating the independent contribution of each
aero surface is that sometimes there are interferences between them;
this can be significant for example between flaps and airbrakes.

Finally, one short question: why there is no dedicated horizontal
stabilizer property available in JSBSim, and we need to use for this
the speedbrake property? Just curious...

Fabian

 A couple problems that I've been addressing lately is that Datcom doesn't
 produce downwash angles when you drop flaps. Also, the elevator sweeps are a
 function of free-stream angle of attack (i.e., AOA at the wing, not the
 elevator). Another important omission from Datcom is that you can't drop
 flaps then do elevator sweeps.

 To me, these are important factors, since most of the crashes happen near
 the ground, when you have flaps and gear down. The FAA testing is heavy on
 near-ground performance, because that is where you get into the most
 trouble, such as losing an engine during take-off or landing.

 One approach that I've been considering is to calculate what the airfoil
 looks like when you lower the flaps, and input THAT as the airfoil, then do
 all of the normal calculations. For something like a 737 where you have
 leading and trailing edge flaps, you could easily get into 20 cases, with
 each case generating all of the coefficient tables (Cd, CL, CM, etc.). For a
 twin-prop aircraft, you just have trailing edge flaps, but you really need
 to run power effects at each flap setting, and you really should split the
 aircraft in half, since you could be flying on one engine. Engine thrust
 should be run at several settings, such as off, idle, cruise, and max, as a
 minimum. Interpolation between those power settings should be fairly
 accurate.

 Let me give you a good example. Twin engine prop aircraft, drop the flaps
 fully, you lose the right  engine, and push the left one to max in order to
 climb. On the right side, you just have freestream airflow over the right
 wing, flap, rudder and elevator. On the left side, you have a prop blast
 hitting the wing, part of the flap, left side of the rudder, and most of the
 elevator. Ignoring the engine torque issue, you are going to experience
 different lift (higher on the left side) which creates a rolling moment. You
 will also experience different elevator control effectiveness right versus
 left. Rudder dynamic pressure might actually be different left versus right,
 creating a yawing moment, which is in addition to the thrust different left
 versus right.

 Now, is this a little overkill? Maybe, since most trainers that I've seen
 don't go into such details. It is possible to generate data for these cases,
 and I think it would yield higher fidelity trainers than anything seen
 before, simply because that kind of data hasn't been available before. The
 question I'm wrestling with is whether it is worth all the headaches. After
 all, we could end up with 60-80 times more data than what we currently deal
 with now.

 Any thoughts?

 Bill




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Re: [Flightgear-devel] Epsilon, alpha_tail and independent tail contributions

2007-07-22 Thread Fabian Grodek
See my comment after quotation...

 2. I think what you are saying is:

epsilon = f( alpha, flap, slat )

 I don't think that you were advocating using two 2-D table

epsilon(slat=0)  = f ( alpha, flap )
epsilon(slat=20) = f ( alpha, flap )

 If you were, there would have to be an interpolation done between these two
 tables in order to get the effects during transitions. Yes, that is
 important, because the dynamics of the aircraft during a surface change like
 that is examined by the FAA during qualification. I'm just guessing that we
 could cobble something together in the existing JSBSim structure to do an
 interpolation between these two tables.


Indeed, I was talking about two  2-D tables, wrongly guessing that
JSBSim would interpolate the data in case, let's say, the current slat
position is not any of the specific slat for which the tables are
defined. Such an interpolation would be quite accurate, being better
the more 2-D tables we define. This would be a very useful feature,
and although I am not a programmer, I guess (hopefully right this
time...) that it wouldn't be hard to implement (Jon?).
You are right with the failure cases of the flaps/slats logics; that
complicate things, but maybe interpolations could still help.

 Now, if you add in thrust effects, you end up with:

epsilon = f( alpha, flap, slat, thrust )

 We are now at a 4-D table.

In this example, the thrust effects on downwash could be evaluated in
DATCOM+ for a clean configuration, once with zero thrust, then with an
array of thrust coefficients, and finally calculating the difference
relative to the zero thrust downwash. A table of delta_epsilon vs.
Thrust_coeff could then be built. What is needed is just the thrust
effect, without having to worry about flaps or slats. This difference
in Epsilon should be added to the overall epsilon. I understand this
can be done in JSBSim by using Functions (although I am still not
sure I already know how to do it); is that right?

Jon, if you are still here...regarding the horizontal
stabilizer property I was indeed talking about JSBSim. I know there is
a property for elevator deflection, but in many cases also the
stabilizer moves to different angles for trimming the aircraft.

Well, meanwhile I see there are two new replies in this thread, I hope
my long story is still relevant... :)

Fabian





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Re: [Flightgear-devel] Epsilon, alpha_tail and independent tail contributions

2007-07-22 Thread Fabian Grodek

 We could probably use the existing code to do that interpolation between two
 or more tables. It would just be really ugly. In the case of DATOM+ output,
 I'd have to generate that ugly code automatically.

Well, it may be ugly and inaccurate, but for some cases the phisics
could probably be quite close to a linear interpolation. Other than
this, if we are not concerned with the transition between flaps,there
is no problem with having many 2-D tables.



  What is needed is just the
  thrust effect, without having to worry about flaps or slats.

 I don't think that we can do that. Think about the twin-prop aircraft, flaps
 down versus flaps up, idle power versus full power. Prop blast (and epsilon)
 on the tail is going to be different for those case.

Well, I was thinking of a citation type aircraft, where the airflow
arriving at the tail may have been affected by the flaps, slats, etc.,
but how much it is deflected now
by the jet at the tail can be taken independently. But even for a
twin prop, it may be possible to take a similar approach: to evaluate
how much the prop blast deflects the downwash, relative to the
no-thrust case. The only issue may be that with full flaps down, the
prop blast may be different than with flaps up (due to the flaps
obstruction), and then, the thrust effect delta would be a number of
2-D tables:
dEps_Thrust (flaps 0) = f (alpha, thrust coeff)
dEps_Thrust (flaps 20) = f (alpha, thrust coeff)

Fabian

p.s.: where do they pay by the word? :)

 Bill


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Re: [Flightgear-devel] Epsilon, alpha_tail and independent tail contributions

2007-07-22 Thread Fabian Grodek

 No assumptions are made for the horizontal stabilizer, whether it is
 all-moving, or is fixed with a movable surface. There is only a deflection
 associated with the surface, and that is used to index into an aero table. I
 am not quite sure what you need, or what you are referring to here. Using
 properties, one could define just about anything they want to. Can you be
 more descriptive about exactly what you want?

I would need:
CLtail = f(alpha_tail, delta_elevator)

where alpha_tail = alpha_aircraft + horizontal_stab_angle - Epsilon

Some time ago I've been told that this can be done using the
speedbrake property (indeed this is the way it is done in the 747
example) as if it were the stabilizer (only a matter of names); that's
OK, but I only wonder whay there is no stabilizer property, or is it?
I hope this time I was more descriptive.
Thanks.

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[Flightgear-devel] Epsilon, alpha_tail and independent tail contributions

2007-07-21 Thread Fabian Grodek

Curerntly, as far as I understand, JSBSim does not support the buildup of
the aerodynamic characteristics by taking the wing-body alone and adding the
tail contribution. This is essential for example in investigating an
aircraft behaviour during ice contaminated tailplane stall, a hot subject
nowadays.

For example, the total pitching moment would be: CM_wing-body + CLtail *
tail_volume.

Of course, the aero model should then need to include the downwash (Epsilon)
at the tail (as a function of alpha, flaps, etc.) and CLtail vs. alpha_tail.



My questions therefore are:

1. Is it possible to introduce Epsilon tables in the aircraft properties
file?

2. Is it possible to have an option to evaluate alpha_tail (alpha_aircraft +
horizontal_stab – Epsilon + dynamic components) whenever an Epsilon table is
present in the properties file? This would be essential to calculate the
tail lift and its contribution to the overall pitching moment.



Regards,

Fabián
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