On Fri, 4 Aug 2006, Curtis L. Olson wrote:
> Based on my understanding of YASim, this has to be some sort of bug in
> the core yasim code since it's getting energy from nowhere.  Might be
> some sort of numerical/roundoff issue, perhaps some of the code in YAsim
> makes assumptions/simplifications that start to break down at extremely
> high alpha angles?

I've seen the fuel flow meter (2D panel on) go *negative* at supersonic
speed and extremely high G turns (like 50G and beyond) at low altitude.  It
actually fills up the tank. ;) So it do seem to be some sort of
type/typecast mixup.  (Magically add mass at speed and you increase kinetic
energy.)

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