On mar 26 août 2008, Melchior FRANZ wrote: > I intend to merge Generic/aar.nas with Nasal/fuel.nas (which are almost > the same already), and to offer a simple interface for special needs. > The detection of a tanker (not necessarily a flying one) is a generic > job, and so is refueling. The part that may differ is what happens with > fuel that entered the aircraft. And for that we could just write the > fuel amount to a property. An aircraft could then attach a listener to > that which takes the fuel and does whatever it likes, and finally resets > the property to zero. > > m.
Hello Melchior, The specific air refueling and or fuel.nas makes problems if the Aircraft has some specific tank management, for instance Crusader has a specific "transfer tank" which feed the others, Blackbird has an other process.... in order to manage the balance and so on. In addition to it, we may want to start or not the refuel according to some specific animation , or electrical conditions or ........etc As, i told before, depending on the FDM we can, more or less, include part of these specific features into the FDM itself, JSBSim is able to take it. It is able to work from the <property>/systems/refuel/contact</property>. Unfortunately since FG (some time ago 1 year may be 2 ) has got some modifications regarding the original aar. we need to activate that <property>/systems/refuel/contact</property>. from a Nasal script. If we don't mind about these customized process, the aar.nas is a very good tool which makes the life, to models developers, very nice, having "farniente" :) Cheers NB: Regarding the new "type" probe/boom which is defined into into the model.xml with nasal, won't it be possible to define it, into the demo.xml file instead of it ? I know that the shape of the probe versus boom are not the same , however it will be easier to define a tanker KC135 with boom or probe according to the needs, An other refueling_demo.xml file with KC135 with probe -- Gérard http://pagesperso-orange.fr/GRTux/ "J'ai décidé d'être heureux parce que c'est bon pour la santé. Voltaire " ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Moblin Your Move Developer's challenge Build the coolest Linux based applications with Moblin SDK & win great prizes Grand prize is a trip for two to an Open Source event anywhere in the world http://moblin-contest.org/redirect.php?banner_id=100&url=/ _______________________________________________ Flightgear-devel mailing list Flightgear-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/flightgear-devel
