On Mon, 3 Dec 2001 11:04, you wrote: > On Sunday 02 December 2001 02:07 pm, you wrote: > > On Mon, 3 Dec 2001 03:22, you wrote: > > > OK, > > > JSBSim now supports retractable gear. I have built flightgear with it > > > and it works. Note that if the gear are not fully down, they > > > essentially don't exist as far as JSBSim is concerned. > > > > This could be a problem. IIRC aircraft like the DC-3 never fully retract > > their gear. The gear in the DC3 only goes half way into the engine. Can > > JSBSim handle this? > > Well sort of, you could define two contact points for each gear one up, and > one down and that would cover the fully retracted case.
Yeah but I'm talking about the drag situation. The wheels create drag even when retracted in this aircraft. Can you have some drag that gets created even when retracted? David _______________________________________________ Flightgear-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.flightgear.org/mailman/listinfo/flightgear-devel
