--- "Curtis L. Olson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Jim Wilson writes: > > Hope they disconnected the usb Flamethrower first > :-) I'm getting the same > > thing with CL77. Some screwy looking airstrip. > There still seems to be some > > problems with altitude between fg and jsbsim. A > workaround is to add a > > --alititude=(runway elevation) to the command > line. > > > > This perhaps is a naive question, but why aren't > we kicking in the FDM after > > the plane is on the runway during initialization? > > We are actually doing this. We don't initialize the > FDM until the > scenery subsystem is reporting a valid ground > elevation. However, for > some starting locations it appears that the initial > reported elevation > is incorrect the first frame and then updated to the > correct elevation > the second frame.
Did my 'fix' to fgFDMForceAltitude() get in to the 0.7.9 release? > > > It seems like there's a > > lot of trouble trying to get an FDM synced up with > scenery/airport data during > > startup. Why is it that flightgear doesn't just > put the plane where it goes > > and dictate the coordinates at startup (or reset) > and let the flight model > > (re-)initialize with those values? It's pretty > obvious that when there's a > > gross discrepency in elevation data (as with CL77) > the FDM has kicked in and > > the plane is stalling and drifting down to the > ground...hence the > > "crash". > > Right, but we are already doing what you describe, > the problem is that > something isn't working quite right in all > situations. > > Regards, > > Curt. > -- > Curtis Olson IVLab / HumanFIRST Program > FlightGear Project > Twin Cities [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Minnesota http://www.menet.umn.edu/~curt > http://www.flightgear.org > > _______________________________________________ > Flightgear-devel mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://mail.flightgear.org/mailman/listinfo/flightgear-devel > > __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Sports - Coverage of the 2002 Olympic Games http://sports.yahoo.com _______________________________________________ Flightgear-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.flightgear.org/mailman/listinfo/flightgear-devel
