Maik Justus <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > Hello Jim > > Jim Wilson wrote: > > > One big gap right now is the lack of > > > autorotation. > > > > The ground effect needs to be modeled to do that correctly, doesn't it? > It's not only the ground effect. The main thing is the power consumption of > the rotor, which is up to now very simplified. > > By the way: I had some time the last days to work on the model. I have > changed the calculation of the translational lift and added the ground > effect. I have to check this some time and will mail the changes soon.
Cool! Let us know when you have patch for that....please :-) > > Also > > the rolling tendency in translational lift is missing. > That is a very complicate thing. Allways if I think about I run into > confusion. > What are the complications? I'm wondering if a simplistic estimation could be found since it'd only really apply to a fast moving helo which would be going forward (not sideways or backwards). Is there a "translational wing" you could split left and right (asi-rotor/asi+rotor) and apply as a weighted value to the body? Don't know.... Best, Jim _______________________________________________ Flightgear-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.flightgear.org/mailman/listinfo/flightgear-devel
