David Megginson wrote:
 > In JSBSim, we're just summing up the trim and elevator and clamping to
 > the elevator range -- I don't know if that's right, but it doesn't
 > seem to bother most people.

That's exactly what YASim does, too.  In fact, this is provably OK.
The way pilots (real and auto-) use trim is to adjust it slowly until
they see the desired effect.  Given this, there's no need to
over-model; so long as the trim is monotonic in the effect, it doesn't
matter how it scales.

Andy

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Andrew J. Ross                NextBus Information Systems
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