On Thursday 16 December 2004 04:06, Jon Berndt wrote: > True, I've seen both. JSBSim has used both, and we accept both, but > "normalized" units are anything but normal - you have to provide a range > for it to mean anything, and as far as I can tell, there is no standard > here. It's defined on a per-aircraft basis. And, as I have pointed out > above, for aerosurfaces it requires an intermediate conversion twice. A rotation whether in degrees or radians only makes sense if the axis of rotation is specified. This would have to be on a per aircraft basis. Also I'm sure that many if not most control surfaces do not simply rotate about a single axis but involve sliding motion and rotation of multiple parts and often, rotation while sliding. I think a normalized value makes good sense. For complicated cases, on the FDM side, it can be converted into an index into a table of effective force while on the GUI side, it could index into a table of drawing routines.
Just my 2 cents. Richard Harke _______________________________________________ Flightgear-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.flightgear.org/mailman/listinfo/flightgear-devel 2f585eeea02e2c79d7b1d8c4963bae2d
