On Wed, 3 Apr 2002 18:44:23 -0500 "Norman Vine" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>My take on this is that all we need is a 'fixed' position ie 'Center of >Geometry' returned by the FDM. This fixed position can be anywhere >on the AirFrame and it needs to be described more exactly in the >individual model's configuration >file so as the Viewer part of the program can do it's thing Yeah, I think that's where we're headed. It might work that we could keep doing things as we (JSBSim) are doing, with an added step. The initial CG of the aircraft could be defined to be the refernce point that we both understand. We would continue to "burn fuel" and drop stores and launch carried vehicles, etc. and change the CG. However, when reporting location (lat/lon/alt) we'd need to report NOT merely the location of the current aircraft CG, but the location of the current aircraft CG minus the delta from the original - i.e. the location of the original CG. (?) Is that right? Jon _______________________________________________ Flightgear-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.flightgear.org/mailman/listinfo/flightgear-devel
