Andy Ross writes: > > It's worth pointing out that a DG will work fine in the polar regions. > Other than precession (which has a 24 hour period -- hardly a huge > source of error), there's no way for it to "know" that it's over the > pole. It will even work fine on the pole itself, in the sense that it > will always point toward the same meridian. > > It won't tumble or do anything silly. Only floating point euler angle > computations have trouble at the poles; real hardware is a little more > robust. :)
FWIW I would be interested in test cases where FGFS has a 'pole' problem Best Norman _______________________________________________ Flightgear-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.flightgear.org/mailman/listinfo/flightgear-devel
