Am Montag, den 12.03.2007, 11:48 +0000 schrieb Stuart Buchanan: > --- Georg Vollnhals wrote: > > Hi Stuart, > > first congratulations for your first solo flight. This is a very > > interesting report, I liked to read it :-) > > Thank you. I was still grinning to myself days later. > ... and you will YEARS later. I do too and my solo (for aerodynamically controled microlight) is nearly ten years ago.
> <snip> > > > > THe FDM still requires some work, but should give an idea of what > > flying a > > > flexwing is like. I'll write some pilot notes for it in the future. > > > > > > > > This would be nice, I was just guessing how the landing speed could be > > and I think I was too fast. > > And to learn to handle it similar to the "real world" flying (as far as > > possible in a sim) is something many of us want to do. > > The approach speed for a glide approach is 55 - 60mph - really a dive. The > current biggest inaccuracy in the flight model is that there isn't enough > drag (particularly at high speed), so it floats down the runway far too > much. The real aircraft bleeds off speed very fast. I've hacked the > drag_due_to_mach, but I suspect that is the wrong answer. > > If anyone has JSBSim experience and can suggest improvements, I'd be very > pleased to hear them. > I'd suggest that the control input should be reversed, because that is the biggest problem a fixed wing pilot encounters when transiting to this kind of flying. Pushing the "stick" to gain height is very unusual to us. A very pleasant aircraft! Greetings Detlef ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys-and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV _______________________________________________ Flightgear-devel mailing list Flightgear-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/flightgear-devel
