Jon S Berndt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:

> On Fri, 13 Feb 2004 20:30:35 -0000
>   "Jim Wilson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> 
> >Jon, I forget, what exactly is the reason for defining a VRP in the 
> >config file?  I thought that JSBSim already knew where the nose was.
> 
> We normally track:
> 
> - Initial empty weight CG
> - Dynamic CG (includes fuel burnoff)
> - landing gear ground contact points
> - scrape points
> - pilot eyepoint (for calculating pilot accels for motion base systems 
> and instruments)
> 
> and now,
> 
> - the Visual Reference Point (tm)
> 
> The VRP is what is returned to JSBSim.cxx (FGJSBsim == FGInterface)

So is the VRP what we see as lon/lat/alt?

If not, then what does it look like?  

If it is, then what do we need to change in the JSBSim config files?

Best,

Jim 


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