On Tuesday 14 October 2003 22:59, Jon S Berndt wrote: > On Tue, 14 Oct 2003 22:11:55 +0100 > Lee Elliott <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >Are you sure the differential tail deflections can't be done in JSBSim? > > Well, it's not so much that it can't be done. However, there are some > factors to consider. Depending on the flight conditions and modes, the > flight control system will control the ailerons and elevator > differently. The control surface mixer may command the aerosurfaces > differently depending on conditions and loading, and the flow over the > various surfaces is complex and the flow over the tail is especially > complex and partially affected by the setting of the aileron > (flaperons?). These conditions don't lend themselves well to modeling > aerodynamic forces and moments via coefficients in lookup tables. The > solution is to model the aerosurfaces by parts, for which JSBSim is > not **currently** set up to do. > > Jon
Ta for the info, I had no idea if it was possible or not but as that's what I initially thought about YASim I thought it might be worth mentioning. LeeE _______________________________________________ Flightgear-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.flightgear.org/mailman/listinfo/flightgear-devel
