Yeah, even with just a blip of turbulence, the aircraft can become completely unflyable ... or long term cycles between flyable and unflyable (if you can manage to stay aloft during the unflyable periods.)
Curt. Melchior FRANZ writes: > * Richard A Downing FBCS -- Tuesday 01 July 2003 19:59: > > > > Something has changed for the worse in CVS today. Just flying the c172-ifr, I > > can't now get full throttle to give full power. After climbing slowly to maybe > > 500 ft there are massive and unpredictable changes in height and speed of the > > aircraft, the turn and bank shows the aircraft swinging badly out of trim. I > > tried a complete download, make clean etc of both SimGear and FlightGear - but > > same effect. Am I alone? > > Richard. > > This would be this patch then (sunday, 2117z): > > CVS: source/src/FDM/JSBSim FGAtmosphere.cpp,1.8,1.9 > FGAtmosphere.cpp > Log Message: > Avoid strong oscillations at turbulence extremes. > > - MagnitudedAccelDt = 1 - 2.0*(double(rand())/double(RAND_MAX)) - Magnitude; > + MagnitudedAccelDt = 1 - 2.0*(double(rand())/double(RAND_MAX)); > > > ... not that I could reproduce that behavior. But at 500 feet > stronger turbulence kicks in and the magnitude seems to be > increased rather than reduced now. > > m. > > _______________________________________________ > Flightgear-devel mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://mail.flightgear.org/mailman/listinfo/flightgear-devel -- Curtis Olson IVLab / HumanFIRST Program FlightGear Project Twin Cities curt 'at' me.umn.edu curt 'at' flightgear.org Minnesota http://www.menet.umn.edu/~curt http://www.flightgear.org _______________________________________________ Flightgear-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.flightgear.org/mailman/listinfo/flightgear-devel
