On Wed, 04 Feb 2004 20:18:15 -0500, David Megginson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

Roy Vegard Ovesen wrote:

So I shouldn't touch the responsiveness then?!. But rather add a new property with better responsiveness.

Out of curiosity, why do you think that the responsiveness should be better?

It improves controller performance. But I still don't want to go beyond what is possible in the real world.


I've flown briefly behind two small-plane autopilots (one newer, one older) and they were both extremely jerky things. Do you have any reason to believe that the AP you're modelling gets more responsive input than a real TC can give?

No, not more respinsive than possible, but I thought that the damping in FlightGear _and_ in real world was only for display purposes. So maybe there would be a possiblility to get the signal before it was damped. After reading the article on the AVWeb site and noting this:


The instrument also contains a dashpot in order to slow down the movement of the gimbal ...

and

The dashpot is replaced by a viscous dampener ...

It seems that since the gimbal is dampened it can not output a more responsive signal.


-- Roy Vegard Ovesen

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