Jim Wilson wrote: > The origin location on the 747 and a4 were fixed (Andy?) as of > yesterday.
Yeah, that was me. I still say that the origin should be on the airframe instead of inside the plane, but a promise is a promise. :) Random note: how hard would it be to get the checkin account added to the base package CVS emails, like is done for FlightGear and SimGear? Sometimes you can tell who made the modifications by context, but often it's no so clear. Other good stuff, for people who haven't flown the 747 recently, is that the recent ground effect fix makes landing behavior much nicer. When flown in on a 3° glideslope*, the aircraft just barely levels out in ground effect. You have to decrease power (or push the nose down) very gently to get it on the ground; it's very easy to miss the touchdown point and land long. This sorta feels right to me, based solely on passenger seat observations. * I find that about 8° of AoA for approach is about right. At the default weight, this results in about a 150 knot approach; dunno if that's right or not. I haven't been able to find a good reference for approach numbers for the 747. I'd be happy to tune it for different numbers if someone has them. > Now you will note that the B747-400 on take off, rather than yanking > back on the stick you need to just bring the nose up a bit and let > it lift off, lest the aft section of the fuselage scrapes on the > pavement...just like the real thing. Hmmm...anyone have a sound > effect for that? :-) To be fair, the tail has always been scraping inside the FDM. It's just obvious now that's what is happening. Before, it looked like you were running out of elevator authority. And I agree, a "scraping" sound would be really nice ear candy, and very easy to implement. I can just set a "/sim/fuselage-contact" boolean whenever one of the non-gear contact points is touching the ground. Andy -- Andrew J. Ross NextBus Information Systems Senior Software Engineer Emeryville, CA [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.nextbus.com "Men go crazy in conflagrations. They only get better one by one." - Sting (misquoted) _______________________________________________ Flightgear-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.flightgear.org/mailman/listinfo/flightgear-devel
