Andy Ross said: > Jim Wilson wrote: > > One thing I noticed is the altitude-agl is reported at the gear > > level by YASim, where JSBSim reports the distance of the nose above > > the ground. I'm not sure one is better than the other, but perhaps > > this should be standardized. > > I interpreted the "agl" level as a cooked altitude, as reported by a > cockpit annunciator, for example. The absolute altitude of the > coordinate origin is (in principle, anyway, even if it's not available > in the property tree) easily computable from the origin coordinates > themselves. > > We should definitely standardize it; if the "gear altitude" needs to > move to a different property, that's fine. >
My understanding is the agl should simply be the "fdm's altitude-ft" less the "ground elevation-ft directly under the aircraft". I'm not sure by your response if you are aware that the "agl" in altitude-agl is "above ground level". Best, Jim _______________________________________________ Flightgear-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.flightgear.org/mailman/listinfo/flightgear-devel
