On Sunday 02 December 2001 3:00 pm, you wrote: > 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.
A lot of stuff needs that. Which reminds me.. does preferences.xml handle logic? I was thinking it might be nice to include a section of defaults that get set when --aircraft=$multi_engine. If not, will setting prefs (ie /controls/mixture[1]) mess up anything? > > > 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 _______________________________________________ Flightgear-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.flightgear.org/mailman/listinfo/flightgear-devel
