Tony Peden writes:

 > I put some kludge code in to JSBSim.cxx to force the gear down
 > before doing a ground trim.

Wow!  I'm going to grab the latest JSBSim CVS and try this out.  Looks
like we'll need to add gear indicators to the panel sooner rather than
later.

 > It looks like what ever controls the default value of
 > FGControls::get_gear_down() (which may well be FGControls itself)
 > defaults it to gear up which is a problem for the c310.

The default value needs to be set in preferences.xml.

 > Also, for any model which uses retractable gear, some thought needs
 > to be given to fuselage/wing/nacelle/prop etc. contact points if
 > the gear are up.  (They need to be added to the config file)

I will add those to the C310 from the 3-view.

 > It was necessary to change the config files again, so make sure you
 > update *all* the config files in your base tree, not just the c310.

There are ways to design config files so that they are both
forwards-and-backwards compatible (with quality degrading gracefully
both ways).  When we're through this round of technical changes, let's
see if we can make the JSBSim formats a little less brittle.


All the best,


David

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David Megginson
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