On Sat, 2002-02-16 at 12:39, Martin van Beilen wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > > Hello list, > > I have been playing around with the wind some more, and it seems > that JSBSim doesn't only have the up/down winds inverted, but the > north and east winds as well. > > I think I am beginning to understand what the source of the > confusion is. As most of you know, weather reports specify the > winds as a _from_ heading. However, in simulated space I tend to > think of wind as a vector, i.e. a _to_ heading. Apparently, two > out of three FDM's agree with my point of view. So what is the > consensus on this one? To or from?
>From is the accepted convention in aviation, hopefully that's what JSBSim treats as positive. I'll attempt to verify later. > > "Which way? Up or down?" -- Pit of Hands, Labyrinth > > I also found an interesting glitch with YASim: the airspeed > indicator displays the ground speed. I thought I was going to > stall, but didn't. :) > > > PS: I'll release the script when I have cleaned it up a bit. > > - -- > Regards, "I RADIS, do you?" > =Martin= http://www.iradis.org/ > > PGP: FE87448B DDF8 677C 9244 D119 4FE0 AE3A 37CF 3458 FE87 448B > > > From: Martin van Beilen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Wind confusion. > X-S-Issue: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 2002/02/16 21:35:45 >64d661e8ba318c82a1a7fabf7d622096 > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (GNU/Linux) > > iEYEARECAAYFAjxuwqsACgkQN880WP6HRIs+0gCfbjJCziEEflJAl0SZsBjJkyuB > plkAoKvEnFBeQRP3Y96qiaDmxOC2MNLz > =QfRt > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- > > _______________________________________________ > Flightgear-devel mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://mail.flightgear.org/mailman/listinfo/flightgear-devel > -- Tony Peden [EMAIL PROTECTED] We all know Linux is great ... it does infinite loops in 5 seconds. -- attributed to Linus Torvalds _______________________________________________ Flightgear-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.flightgear.org/mailman/listinfo/flightgear-devel
