Tony Peden writes:
> On Wed, 2003-01-08 at 03:44, David Megginson wrote:
> > Tony Peden writes:
> > 
> >  > Aside from restoring from a saved state, when do you need the trimming
> >  > routine to step aside?  It seems to me you'd want it the rest of the
> >  > time.
> > 
> > Probably, but it's easy to make sure it's called from FlightGear,
> > then.  It's just a matter of where we locate the logic -- if
> > FlightGear explicitly requests trimming, then we can be consistent
> > across FDMs and make the code more obvious.
> 
> Wait a minute, though.  FG already has the ability to turn trimming
> on and off: the boolean /sim/presets/trim

Yup, and it can specify ground vs. in-air trimming ... although it's
up to the FDM to honor this flag when it initializes itself.

Curt.
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