Alan Teeder wrote: > I am (trying) to develop a model with JSBSim. > > At the moment the aircraft jumps violently into the air at startup and then > bounces around on the runway until it sorts itself out. > > Is there a way of setting the initial height so that it is more or less in > balance or is there something else that I need to look at?
This normally happens when the gear spring coefficients are not set properly. Try looking at a configuration for a similar aircraft that sits steady at the runway and adjust spring_coeff and damping_coeff accordingly to see if it solves the problem. Erik ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Download Intel® Parallel Studio Eval Try the new software tools for yourself. Speed compiling, find bugs proactively, and fine-tune applications for parallel performance. See why Intel Parallel Studio got high marks during beta. http://p.sf.net/sfu/intel-sw-dev _______________________________________________ Flightgear-devel mailing list Flightgear-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/flightgear-devel
