> Ok, and for those of you that worry about these sorts of things, it's
> a statically placed, non moving aircraft carrier a) so I can find it
> and b) so I don't have to worry about sticking one DCS object to
> another.

For certain objects (like a carrier for instance), would it be possible to
mark the "leaf" (or whatever you call the GL object that models the deck of
the carrier) as a *moving* object, and associate it with a translational and
rotational velocity vector? That way, it is possible for the FDMs to perhaps
sense a moving object when they are over one, and take this velocity into
account when doing the "ground reactions"?

Additionally, this means we (FDM authors) need to consider adding a catapult
device and an arresting cable as forces that can act on an aircraft.  I had
meant to add parachute decelerators to JSBSim anyhow ... it's probably not
that much more of a stretch to add the former two.

This could be cool.

Jon


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