Hi All, Those of you with long memories may remember some random failure work that John Denker and I worked on a while ago. For various reasons, this never made it into CVS.
Recently, on the FG forum, "erobo" raised interest in this again, and came up with failure manager with some nice functions. I've spent some time reconciling the two approaches, using the MTBF and MCBF features of John's work, and erobo's idea of an overall "manager". The result is available here: http://www.nanjika.co.uk/flightgear/failures.tar.gz I've done a fair bit of testing on JSBSim aircraft, and a little testing on YASim. Obviously, the instrument failure modes depend on the appropriate instrument respecting the "serviceable" flag. Note also that "failing" the ailerons/elevators/rudder currently marks them as read-only, resulting in various warning messages to the console. I think that Melchior is still looking at an appropriate solution to this. I have identified the following further areas for development, if anyone is interested: 1) The engine failure model is very basic - effectively failing the engine off by switching off the magnetos and setting the cutoff. It might be interesting to model a stuck throttle/mixture/prop in the same way that the ailerons/elevators/rudder are currently modeled. 2) Additional, aircraft-specific failures can be added at runtime to failures.breakHash. However, I don't currently have a way that these can be automagically added to the dialogs. 3) Currently, the correct number of engines is determined in a somewhat haphazard manner. We should probably do the same for features such as landing gear and speedbrakes. I believe the current patch is ready for review and inclusion in CVS. Feedback is obviously very welcome :) My thanks to John and erobo for their work on this. -Stuart ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Create and Deploy Rich Internet Apps outside the browser with Adobe(R)AIR(TM) software. With Adobe AIR, Ajax developers can use existing skills and code to build responsive, highly engaging applications that combine the power of local resources and data with the reach of the web. Download the Adobe AIR SDK and Ajax docs to start building applications today-http://p.sf.net/sfu/adobe-com _______________________________________________ Flightgear-devel mailing list Flightgear-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/flightgear-devel
