> BTW, it's good to see that people have started experimenting with > various combinations of wind and FDM's. There are interesting > differences in ground handling between various models. > > Speaking of ground handling, all aircraft have the tendency to > slowly float sideways, even with zero wind, brakes applied and > engine(s) stopped. What's up with that?
Ground handling - and *very* especially handling in a *stopped* condition - is an acknowledged bitch to model by everyone who endeavors to model it. NASA, X- Plane author Austin **??** (can't recall his last noame at present), myself, etc. We have ground handling pretty much figured out, but the quirks of modeling a vehicle at rest are still being worked out. For us particularly (JSBSim developers) there have been other issues to tackle for this current FlightGear release - both technical and home life. This has given me, at least, some time to think about it and I am going to try something I've had on my mind for a few weeks as a potential solution. But it will still be a short while until I can try it out. We acknowledge, though, that it does not work perfectly now and that this is an important problem to solve. Jon _______________________________________________ Flightgear-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.flightgear.org/mailman/listinfo/flightgear-devel
