I'll see if I can help a bit with the FG ridgelift implementation. Which glider has the best flight model and instruments? Ridgelift only really pays off when you have a decent glider.
I've expanded the wiki stub http://wiki.flightgear.org/index.php/Improving_Glider_Realism to at least create a section for each area that needs a decent solution to have a competitive soaring capability in FlightGear. The bits I worked on for FSX were ridgelift, the TE and netto variometers, the IGC logger, and the flight model to upgrade the stock glider (DG808S). The default capabilities of FSX for soaring were very poor (unrealistic glider flight model, no ridge lift, only an uncompensated rate-of-climb vario). Peter Luerkens programmed CumulusX! which provides the thermals. Cheers, B21 / Ian Forster-Lewis p.s. can you link directly to external images in the wiki, or do you have to upload all images to the actual wiki server? AJ MacLeod wrote: > On Sunday 19 April 2009 17:51:13 Patrice Poly wrote: >> I have just received a mail from Ian Forster-Lewis , the author of the >> original ridge lift ground sampling algorithm, in which he agrees for >> inclusion of his work into FG, provided that his name and link is included >> in the code. >> You can look at all this in: >> www.bentha.net/fgfs/ridge-lift/ridge-lift-in-environment.zip >> Hoping it finds some interest, > > This is great news, it's a feature that many people have been interested in > having in FG for quite a few years now. I don't have much time for messing > with FG at the moment, but I hope to give your changes a try sometime soon. > > In the meantime, thank you very much for your work on this (and the original > author for giving his permission for inclusion)! > > Cheers, > > AJ > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Stay on top of everything new and different, both inside and > around Java (TM) technology - register by April 22, and save > $200 on the JavaOne (SM) conference, June 2-5, 2009, San Francisco. > 300 plus technical and hands-on sessions. Register today. > Use priority code J9JMT32. http://p.sf.net/sfu/p > _______________________________________________ > Flightgear-devel mailing list > Flightgear-devel@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/flightgear-devel ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Stay on top of everything new and different, both inside and around Java (TM) technology - register by April 22, and save $200 on the JavaOne (SM) conference, June 2-5, 2009, San Francisco. 300 plus technical and hands-on sessions. Register today. Use priority code J9JMT32. http://p.sf.net/sfu/p _______________________________________________ Flightgear-devel mailing list Flightgear-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/flightgear-devel
