I'd tend to pay some attention to McFarland's document, but haven't had a
chance to review it with this in mind. Might get to that today.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Tony Peden
> Sent: Wednesday, October 16, 2002 8:28 AM
> To: FGFS Devel
> Subject: Re: [Flightgear-devel] TC ball
>
>
> On Tue, 2002-10-15 at 20:12, Curtis L. Olson wrote:
> > FWIW, the turn coordinator ball behaves *very* differently between
> > JSBSim and YASim and another FDM I am playing with.  All supposedly
> > return accelerations in body axis in ft/sec squared.
>
> IMO, what we should all be aiming at providing are accels very similar
> to what three body-axis aligned acclerometers mounted at the pilot
> eyepoint would give.  The FDMs should provide to the TC only that which
> an airplane would provide, the raw forces or accels.
>
>
>
>
>   This means we
> > can't create a single turn coordinator instrument who's ball behaves
> > reasonably well for every FDM.
>
> Well, I tried to compare the two, but got this for the yasim c172:
>
> > YASim solution results:
>        Iterations: 404
>  Drag Coefficient: 18.9992
>        Lift Ratio: 87.1639
>        Cruise AoA: -0.124142
>    Tail Incidence: 0.440443
> Approach Elevator: -1.00013
>             CG: -2.3, -0.0, 0.2
> YASim SOLUTION FAILURE:
> Insufficient elevator to trim for approach
> [exit]
>
> I just used fgfs --aircraft=c172-yasim, is anything else needed?
>
> > Would it be better to force the FDM's to calculate a ball deflection
> > in degrees/radians, or do we need to investigate why the body axis
> > accelerations are so radically different for 3 different FDM's (who
> > all are trying to model a C172.)
>
> No and yes.
>
>  If the FDM's do the work, then they
> > all have to do the failure modeling too.  It would be nicer to figure
> > out what's going on ... it seems to be more than a simple coordinate
> > system difference, unless JSBSim/YASim swap X/Y axes or something
> > strange like that.
>
>
> >
> > Regards,
> >
> > Curt.
> > --
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