At 4/3/02, you wrote: >Andy Ross writes: > > freezing on crashses isn't so handy. What *is* a handy thing to do in > > a crash? I mean, I can't make the plane *not* crash; it already did! :) > > > > There's really nothing "realistic" that can be done in this situation. > > I suppose I could just invert the vertical component of velocity -- > > that would be a nice bounce. In all seriousness, though, what would > > you like? All the consumer simulators I'm aware of do something > > equivalent to freezing on crashes. Some of them play nice animations > > of the airplane disintigrating, which is basically the same thing as > > far as the FDM is concerned. > >Perhaps Michael likes the ability to 'continue on' after a crash >without having to start over? Would reseting and ground trimming at >the crash site be enough? Air start at XXX' AGL @ YYY kts at the >last good heading at the time of the crash?
Curt hits the nail on the head --- I'd just like to continue on, and I think a lot of users would like to do the same. One of my motives: In my "workshop" right now I am building models for a range of aircraft: RC models --- hang gliders --- sailplanes --- vintage aircraft --- and others. I try to get all the aero right from the start (before I start the sim), but invariably I need to tweak and along the way there are a lot of crashes. Yes, I could restart, but it would be easier to plow along with all that nice airspeed and get back up quick rather than take off from scratch again. Maybe the current freeze on crash logic in the gear code could be set true/false in an xml file? What Curt mentions above, could also work. That's my two cents. >Curt. >-- >Curtis Olson IVLab / HumanFIRST Program FlightGear Project >Twin Cities [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Minnesota http://www.menet.umn.edu/~curt http://www.flightgear.org > > > >_______________________________________________ >Flightgear-devel mailing list >[EMAIL PROTECTED] >http://mail.flightgear.org/mailman/listinfo/flightgear-devel ************************************************** Prof. Michael S. Selig Dept. of Aero/Astro Engineering University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign 306 Talbot Laboratory 104 South Wright Street Urbana, IL 61801-2935 (217) 244-5757 (o), (509) 691-1373 (fax) mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.uiuc.edu/ph/www/m-selig http://www.uiuc.edu/ph/www/m-selig/faq.html (FAQ) ************************************************** _______________________________________________ Flightgear-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.flightgear.org/mailman/listinfo/flightgear-devel
