On Sat, 2003-03-01 at 18:02, David Megginson wrote: > I've done a little more work on YASim initial velocities, and the --vc > and --mach options should now work more-or-less correctly (except that > --vc doesn't take compressibility effects into consideration).
Hmm .. compressiblity becomes important at around Mach 0.3 or so and it looks like the YASim routines only leave out the supersonic stuff. > That > means that you can start YASim models in the air the same way as > you start JSBSim and UIUC models: > > fgfs --aircraft=747 --mach=0.7 --altitude=30000 > > fgfs --aircraft=dc3 --vc=130 --altitude=12000 > > fgfs --aircraft=j3cub --vc=60 --altitude=500 --offset-distance=1 > > The main difference is that YASim does not yet have a trimming > routine, so you need to get right on the controls (things are not too > bad if you choose a normal cruising speed and the controls start near > neutral). > > > All the best, > > > David -- Tony Peden <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> _______________________________________________ Flightgear-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.flightgear.org/mailman/listinfo/flightgear-devel
