On Fri, 15 Mar 2002 13:55:10 -0600 (CST) "Curtis L. Olson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > ... the gear extension angle and extension amount will move the >lon/lat of the contact point. Perhaps the differences won't be >significant enough to significantly change the resulting ground > elevation?
Exactly. The gear will hit where we expect it to, but due to any non-level orientation, the compression and rate of compression will be different. We might be able to trigonometrically modify the forces applied at the contact point based on the orientation at touchdown, but the location that the force is applied won't really be affected much. And the landing gear max stroke is not terribly large in relative terms. There are probably other inaccuracies that are much more important to deal with. Jon _______________________________________________ Flightgear-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.flightgear.org/mailman/listinfo/flightgear-devel
