On Sun 15 July 2007 17:20, Hans Ulrich Niedermann wrote: > AnMaster wrote: > > Mike Schuh wrote: > >> How are FG aircraft "connected" to an aircraft carrier? Could the same > >> technique be used for "airborne carriers"? > > > > Well for AI carriers that would work, note that there are no MP carriers. > > There lag would be an issue (as far as I understand it). > > Lag should not be much of a problem for MP aircraft carriers. > > I imagine the mass of an AC carrier is so much larger than the mass of > carrier AC that one can probably neglect the forces the aircraft exerts > on the carrier. So you only need to handle the forces the carrier exerts > on the aircraft. That gets rid of the feedback loop which leads to those > nasty oscillation problem. > > As to the problem of the aircraft becoming aware of changed forces from > the carrier only with a certain lag, i guess the mass of the carrier is > so large that it cannot change its state of movement fast enough for a > few hundred milliseconds to be of much consequence. > > All in all, seaborne aircraft carriers should be feasible for FG. > > For airborne carriers, the mass ratios are probably more critical, and > thus will need more thorough consideration with respect to above arguments. >
Yes and Lag is not a problem at all, because the problem is very simple. B52/X15 are first linked together , and only one pilot the B52 pilot is " driving" the other pilot (X15 pilot) is only an observer, in a passive mode. There is not any problem with synchronization or anything else. Only on decision, let's say the B52 pilot decision, the X15 is freed, so, the X15 pilot can fly freely, if it is lag, it does not matter. Remember it was not said the X15 should have to link again to the B52. We are not talking about space sci-fi star ship mothership and shuttle (startrek) To conclude, it is not the carrier processing and it is not the Aerotow processing. Cheers -- Gérard ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by DB2 Express Download DB2 Express C - the FREE version of DB2 express and take control of your XML. No limits. Just data. Click to get it now. http://sourceforge.net/powerbar/db2/ _______________________________________________ Flightgear-devel mailing list Flightgear-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/flightgear-devel
