On Saturday 15 November 2003 08:50, Erik Hofman wrote: > Lee Elliott wrote: > > > I think the others have said that there's no immediate need for it but I > > can't see how it could be a bad thing. While it may not be needed now, > > it offers more options and possibilities and should be possible with a > > low overhead. As long as any scheme could be easily integrated, without > > any maintenance overhead, it sounds like a good idea, to me - if someone > > wants to do it:) > > One of the biggest problems is that the moments of inertia usually are > given for the whole airplane. Modelling every single instrument would > require to recalculate the moments of inertia beforehand, and > recalculate them later on. > > I'm not looking forward to recalculate the moments of inertia because of > some instruments that won't change the moments too much after all. > > Erik
I was thinking that as the mass of an instrument doesn't change over time, it could be done once at start-up and then effectively forgotton about. I won't be doing it though:) ...so I'm happy to leave the decision to others. LeeE _______________________________________________ Flightgear-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.flightgear.org/mailman/listinfo/flightgear-devel
