Re: [Flightgear-devel] making sign of side-slip consistent betweenfdm (bug 901)

Beta is positive when the wind hits the right side of the vehicle. This is the only standard convention I have ever seen. I would recommend strongly against artificially changing the sign of this parameter as output from JSBSim. Jon I did a merge request considering jsbsim got right here,

Re: [Flightgear-devel] making sign of side-slip consistent betweenfdm (bug 901)

, 2013 1:54 PM To: 'FlightGear developers discussions' Subject: Re: [Flightgear-devel] making sign of side-slip consistent betweenfdm (bug 901) As in this image: http://dodlithr.blogspot.com/2011/09/airplanes-stability-axis.html Beta is positive when the wind hits the right side of the vehicle