On Sat, 7 Apr 2007, Anders Gidenstam wrote:

> On Fri, 6 Apr 2007, Jon S. Berndt wrote:
>
> It turns out that the slip-skid ball is driven by the properties
> /accelerations/pilot/y-accel-fps_sec and
> /accelerations/pilot/z-accel-fps_sec
>
> which seem to be copied from the JSBSim properties
> .../jsbsim/accelerations/a-pilot-y-ft_sec2 and
> .../jsbsim/accelerations/a-pilot-z-ft_sec2 .
>
> What is remarkable about the a-pilot-*-ft_sec2 properties is that they
> are nonzero even when the aircraft and pilot is at rest on the ground.
> E.g. a-pilot-z-ft_sec2 is 32.1 ft/sec^2 (= g I presume - I'm a SI person;)
>
> I don't know if that behaviour in JSBSim is intended or not - but the
> SlipSkidBall.cxx clearly does assume such behaviour.

Typo: SlipSkidBall.cxx clearly does /NOT/ assume such behaviour.

Sorry!

/Anders
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