Hi Jim Jim Wilson said: > > The term "crab" as defined in the webster dictionary is: > > "the angular difference between an aircraft's course and the heading necessary > to make that course in the presence of a crosswind". > > The way I used it refers to the action "crab" which is flying on that angle > (with the nose pointing in a slightly different direction than the one you are > traveling). In the case of helicopters it is not only the crosswind effect, > but also the anti-torque thrust, correct?
I think you are correct. > > > And the vertical stab is not of the original size and the horizontal > > stab is missing as well as the fuselage. > > Oh... I hadn't thought about that. How are you maintaining stability on that > axis? Very simply: ther is nothing which gives instability on that axis. > > You mentioned last week that you had ground effect done. Is it worth > submitting a patch for that? I am interested to see how it affects take off > and landing. Currently it takes almost full collective to break the skids off > the ground for take off, and it is almost impossible to get a gentle landing. > Of course the landing is probably just my lack of skill, but I suspect the > ground effect would do something to assist. I am sorry, but up to now I didn't find the time to test this. I wrote this on my portable in a train, where I had no joystick to test it. > > Thanks, > > Jim > Maik _______________________________________________ Flightgear-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.flightgear.org/mailman/listinfo/flightgear-devel
