David Megginson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > Andy Ross wrote: > > > Out of curiosity, how do pilots do this in real helicopters? I > > wouldn't think a traditional ASI would work very well at 10 kts... > > You could probably build one that did -- after all, the aenemometers that > weather stations use can register down to less than 5 kt. Still, I'm > guessing that a real helicopter pilot just watches the ground, since that's > what matters in the slow-speed regime. > > > Really, what's needed here is a "shell" configuration, where several > > point masses are placed on the edge of the fuselage where the weight > > is concentrated. YASim's built-in fuselage and wing declarations > > models the airframe as strings of point masses. This works OK for > > long-aspect things like (heh) wings and fuselages. It's not going to > > produce good results for a spheroidal helicopter fuselage. > > It looks like the YASim helicopter is pretty popular, so any work you could > contribute would be much appreciated. One big gap right now is the lack of > autorotation.
The ground effect needs to be modeled to do that correctly, doesn't it? Also the rolling tendency in translational lift is missing. Best, Jim _______________________________________________ Flightgear-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.flightgear.org/mailman/listinfo/flightgear-devel
