On Sat, 2009-05-30 at 10:24 -0500, Curtis Olson wrote: > I know we have a few aircraft that can drop sky divers. The Noratlas > was the first one I recall. However, these sky divers immediately > pull their chutes and drift down ... and the skydiver/chute model is > very simplistic ... optimized to be viewed from the drop plane and > optimized to have bunches of these in the sky at one time. > > Has anyone developed a more detailed model of a sky diver? I'm > especially interested in the free fall phase. (My brother is up to > his 38th jump now I think.)
Many moons ago I played with the paraglider model and added a bit more control. No free-fall, though. http://www.jentronics.com/fgfs/paraglider.tgz Might be a better jumping off point than the current CVS for someone else :) > A detailed jumper with articulated arms and legs (even with just a > cannon ball FDM to start out with) could be the start of an > interesting training tool. > My brother speaks of some of the training classes he has gone to where > different failure scenarios are presented, but you are sitting (or > perhaps lying) on the ground with no real urgency (except some false > urgency of the instructor yelling at you.) > If some of these failure cases could be cooked into a FlightGear > scenario with a free fall sky diver, there could be some good virtual > urgency and good training value so students can instinctively learn > the right things to do in various scenarios without forgetting key > steps or key aspects of the situation. > > I know we have some nice pilot figures that people include in some of > our aircraft. How hard would it be to develop a nicely detailed sky > diver model that can be posed in typical free fall positions? > > Thanks, > > Curt. > -- > Curtis Olson: http://baron.flightgear.org/~curt/ > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Register Now for Creativity and Technology (CaT), June 3rd, NYC. CaT > is a gathering of tech-side developers & brand creativity professionals. Meet > the minds behind Google Creative Lab, Visual Complexity, Processing, & > iPhoneDevCamp as they present alongside digital heavyweights like Barbarian > Group, R/GA, & Big Spaceship. http://p.sf.net/sfu/creativitycat-com > _______________________________________________ Flightgear-devel mailing list > Flightgear-devel@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/flightgear-devel ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Register Now for Creativity and Technology (CaT), June 3rd, NYC. CaT is a gathering of tech-side developers & brand creativity professionals. Meet the minds behind Google Creative Lab, Visual Complexity, Processing, & iPhoneDevCamp as they present alongside digital heavyweights like Barbarian Group, R/GA, & Big Spaceship. http://p.sf.net/sfu/creativitycat-com _______________________________________________ Flightgear-devel mailing list Flightgear-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/flightgear-devel
