[Flightgear-devel] Bank angle problem?

2006-11-13 Thread R. van Steenbergen
Hi guys, I'm running the stable plib build of FlightGear 0.9.10 on Win32 and I've got trouble with my flight controls. On normal hands-off flight, my aircraft seems to consequently bank to the left. I've already double-checked my control calibrations and these are all dead center, the flight

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Bank angle problem?

2006-11-13 Thread Curtis Olson
Have you checked if your props are spinning? They can generate some significant asymmetric effects when they are moving (both in terms of torque and in terms of a spiralling prop wash.)Also, our c172 is trimmed to fly pretty straight in level cruise, but that means it won't fly exactly straight in

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Bank angle problem?

2006-11-13 Thread R. van Steenbergen
Curtis Olson schreef: Have you checked if your props are spinning? They can generate some significant asymmetric effects when they are moving (both in terms of torque and in terms of a spiralling prop wash.) Also, our c172 is trimmed to fly pretty straight in level cruise, but that means

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Bank angle problem?

2006-11-13 Thread R. van Steenbergen
Berndt, Jon S schreef: See the bottom question, here: http://jsbsim.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/FAQ Jon It was the prop torque issue after all. Pretty weird it also occurs on the 1900D, since those two props are supposed to cancel each other out. Since I currently don't have the

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Bank angle problem?

2006-11-13 Thread Jon S. Berndt
It was the prop torque issue after all. Pretty weird it also occurs on the 1900D, since those two props are supposed to cancel each other out. Are you absolutely sure that those props are not rotating in the same sense? *Absolutely* sure? Jon