hi there,
following this bug report:
http://code.google.com/p/flightgear-bugs/issues/detail?id=901
it appears that orientation/side-slip-deg and side-slip-rad don't have
the same sign, depending if it's a yasim or a jsbsim plane.
is there a commonly adopted convention for this property?
if
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. This is
the only standard convention I have ever seen. I would recommend strongly
against artificially changing the sign of this parameter as
On 29 Jul 2013, at 13:54, Jon S. Berndt jonsber...@comcast.net wrote:
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
This confusion is common.
It arises when people try to visualise the angle beta by simply yawing the
aircraft, which they at the same time visualise as flying straight in the
original direction. (you get the same condition if you yaw the aircraft in a
wind tunnel)
In this special case beta
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