Arnt Karlsen wrote: > > > > I'm sticking with sea-level-equivalent values for now, because I > > > know that the FDM people are pretty possessive of their atmosphere > > > models. Later I might add properties and methods for the values at > > > current altitude as well. > > > > Possesive? Heh, I hereby declare that I'd be extraordinarily happy to > > dump the YASim atmosphere model in favor of a standard one. The > > reason it's there at all is for the solver -- it's nice to be able to > > specify a cruise altitude instead of an air temperature and pressure, > > and there has to be some way to convert altitude to these values. > > ..for flight in other atmospheres (Mars, Venus, Jupiter, or in > fluids like water), which atmosphere model is easier to work from?
The air pressure model in WeatherCM (documentaion for it is in the same directory) should work easily with arbitrary atmospheres. The only limitation (but that'll be easy to fix) might be that I hardcoded an oxigen/nitrogen atmosphere. But the rest (i.e. the pressure curve) should be fairly right. CU, Christian -- The idea is to die young as late as possible. -- Ashley Montague Whoever that is/was; (c) by Douglas Adams would have been better... _______________________________________________ Flightgear-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.flightgear.org/mailman/listinfo/flightgear-devel
