On Wednesday 21 December 2005 18:43, Torsten Dreyer wrote: > Long intro for my question: > What is the best FDM to use, when I have the airplane manual with its > dimensions, performance data, mass-and-balance section and with the ability > to actually fly the plane and get the real data like "what indicated speed > at what pitch with which power setting at altitude 8000ft with ISA?" > How do I convert these real-life data into a FDM config-file?
I would say YASim sounds ideal for this... you just want to choose two configurations with data like you mention above (target speed plus throttle, gear, flap settings etc). You also need some dimensions from the aircraft, but nothing you won't have already since you've made your model. Bear in mind the standalone "yasim" solver which comes with flightgear - it takes seconds to run and can output various useful figures like the CoG etc, which is useful when tweaking the locations of weights etc. Plus you don't have to wait two minutes for FG to start only to have it crash immediately because of a dodgy config :-) Cheers, AJ ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Splunk Inc. Do you grep through log files for problems? Stop! Download the new AJAX search engine that makes searching your log files as easy as surfing the web. DOWNLOAD SPLUNK! http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=7637&alloc_id=16865&op=click _______________________________________________ Flightgear-devel mailing list Flightgear-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/flightgear-devel
