Erik Hofman wrote: > Paul Surgeon wrote: > > Aha! > > So AC_AERORP = (0,0,0) in FlightGear's 3D aircraft model space? > > No, sorry. AC_EARORP is the published offset from CG to where the > forces act. For the F-16 that would be 35% chord (and CG is 25% > chord).
Surely that's an approximation, no? A rigid body's response to a (force + torque) moment has 7 degrees of freedom (one value for mass, and a 6DOF inertia tensor). A single offset doesn't have enough complexity to capture that behavior. Andy _______________________________________________ Flightgear-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.flightgear.org/mailman/listinfo/flightgear-devel
