Jon Berndt writes:
> > > There might be a yaw rate effect too. When the aircraft is yawing,
> > > the wingtip going "back" also sees a higher AoA and will drop if it
> is
> > > past the stall. Same deal. The snap roll needs a stalled "down"
> > > wingtip to get the divergence, in any case.
> >
> > That makes sense -- thanks.
>
>
> There's also the shadowing of an inboard portion of one wing as beta gets
> larger. Don't know if that is part of the effect, tho'.
What about "virtual" yarn?
X-Plane does something like this and it look like it would be a pretty
cool effect.
http://x-plane.com/images/cola.jpg
This doesn't mean we'd need to do exactly the same thing, but the idea
of graphically representing what the internal flight dynamics is
calculating is kind of nifty ...
Curt.
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