This could also be handled on the flightgear side ... it probably
wouldn't be too hard to make mixture a function of perceived gravity
... maybe with some delay to account for fuel propogation.

Curt.


David Luff writes:
> On 9/29/03 at 10:46 PM Jon Stockill wrote:
> 
> >I've just created myself a DeHavilland Chipmunk flight model using
> >Aeromatic, but was wondering if it was possible to model the fuel system
> >more accurately such that the fuel flow stops after a period of inverted
> >flight/-ve G.
> >
> >I'm guessing it'd need to be modelled by tweaking the mix, but I'm not
> >sure if it can be tied into the xml, or if it'll need implementing
> >somewhere else.
> 
> [cc'd to jsbsim-devel]
> 
> OTOH, at the moment the engine model is supplied a flag indicating either
> fuel available or not available.  This is tied to whether fuel is in the
> tanks.  However, you want to also tie it to gravity (lack-of) and length of
> time without the aformentioned.  Since the specific behaviour will be fuel
> system dependent that begs the question - who owns and manages the fuel
> delivery system characteristics - FGPiston or the JSBSim framework.  If
> FGPiston then mixture can be leaned out progressively though stutter and
> splutter to cut-off if required.  If JSBSim, then easy to use the
> fuel-starved flag to model cut-off, possibly not as easy to model
> progressive cutting off.  I guess the delivery system will be specified in
> xml - whether it's neg G tolerant and for how long etc.
> 
> This reminds me - I've still got a few TODO's knocking about wrt the engine
> code - turbocharging, some spluttery warning of mixture over-leaning and a
> decent starter motor torque curve spring to mind.
> 
> Cheers - Dave
> 
> 
> 
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