Andy Ross <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:

> Jim Wilson wrote:
> > What do the gear/compression-norm values in YASim represent?  Is it
> > a distance or travel range fraction or something else?
> 
> It's a "normalized" value -- a fraction.  A value of 0 represents full
> extension, 1 is full compression.  The actual length numbers can be
> gotten from the aircraft configuration.
> 
> If you like, exporting a "compression-m" wouldn't be hard at all.  The
> problem is that not all gear compress linearly; think of the spring
> steel gear on light planes, or the weird "bending" gear on the Hornet.
> The advantage of a normalized value is that you can interpolate any
> bizzare animations you want and know that it won't break when someone
> changes the gear compression in the YASim configuration (this just
> happened for the 747, for example).

Ah, very good.  The way you have it is the way I'd prefer for animations. 
Like you said if I need to look at measurements the info is there.

Thanks,

Jim

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