Is it safe to summarize the responses as follows?  The reason that the 
MagicCarpet FDM does not properly position the aircraft on the runway is 
because it has no concept of "airframe."  This means that it does not take 
into account the relative position of the pilot's view with respect to the 
landing gear.


Jonathan Polley

p.s.  I am ignoring CG here because, to me, it is only one of the 
components of understanding the airframe.  To me, airframe means body size 
and shape.

p.p.s.  Is there some generic abstraction of airframe in FlightGear so 
that any FDM can properly compute the view offset?


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