On Tue, 2002-05-28 at 09:21, Jim Wilson wrote: > Alex Perry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > > > Andy: > > One thing to consider is whether the autopilot is optimizing for > > the correct solution to the equations. > > Basically the autopilot just targets the max climb/descent rate until desired > altitude is reached. It needs work. The current autopilot doesn't hold a > pitch or a throttle/power/speed setting...so you can see it is quite easy to > create a stall situation.
Just something to file away ... big jets should have a climb mode in which the power is regulated to max climb by the autothrottles and speed is held with the pitch control. > > The problem I'm seeing is actually observable without the autopilot. The > autopilot was just being used as a reference point to describe the bug so it > can be reproduced (as opposed to manual flight where I could have just had the > trim screwed up). > > Best, > > Jim > > _______________________________________________ > Flightgear-devel mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://mail.flightgear.org/mailman/listinfo/flightgear-devel -- Tony Peden [EMAIL PROTECTED] We all know Linux is great ... it does infinite loops in 5 seconds. -- attributed to Linus Torvalds _______________________________________________ Flightgear-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.flightgear.org/mailman/listinfo/flightgear-devel
