On Mon 4. March 2002 13:21, you wrote:
> Andy Ross writes:
> > > Another thing that might be helpful is if the FDM's would report the
> > > amount of each gear compression to FlightGear so that could be
> > > animated (and hopefully keep the tires above the ground.)
> >
> > No problems there. YASim now reports this number in
> > /gear/gears[n]/compression-norm (should be an OK choice, according to
> > our rapidly evolving property conventions). The remaining problems
> > are only bookkeeping. We need to make exactly certain that the FDM
> > and the model agree on the placement of the gear and their direction
> > of compression.
>
> Interesting -- I won't promise to integrate this into the 3D models
> this week, but it should show up eventually.
>
> How far should this go? For variable-pitch props, we could something
> like
>
> /engines/engine[n]/prop-pitch-norm
>
> and you could see where the governor is keeping the blades and whether
> they're feathered. That wouldn't be hard to do from JSBSim (which
> actually knows the pitch angle), but it might be trickier from YASim.
>
> I'm worried about how far this will all lead, though.
>
I hope you mean this as a joke.
Madr
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