Hi Ron, As usual, a little knowledge is DANGEROUS ;=))
I do not think I want to change anything to do with the elevator at all, but thanks for the information of where to look if I did. All I was pointing out is that before the <sin> change, just sitting on a runway with a tail wind component, would usually cause the tilt up as indicated. But even if it didn't happen immediately, I could usually induce the 'tilting' by waggling the elevator up and down a few times. And, in some circumstance, I got much more than the simple tilt back effect - the aircraft tumbled tail over head - and crashed ;=(( And all this could happen with the engine off... So maybe just misplaced cause and effect on my part ;=)) Maybe it would have 'tumbled' even if I had not played with the elevator, or ailerons, or anything - I just had to wait more time... And as John pointed out, sometimes just trying to taxi downwind would cause the plane to sort of spin around, wildly, violently, change direction... extreme motions... Anyway, adding the <sin> seems to have removed all this _VERY_ unrealistic tailwind behavior... And a takeoff downwind causes mild, but controllable 'slewing' - horizontal right or left movements - as to be expected perhaps, as an off-centered tail wind effected one wing more than the other... but can now be 'corrected' for, and fly on... So I am now quite 'happy' ;=)) And there is no noted problem concerning the elevator deflection. Sorry to have dragged in that red herring... Regards, Geoff. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Free Software Download: Index, Search & Analyze Logs and other IT data in Real-Time with Splunk. Collect, index and harness all the fast moving IT data generated by your applications, servers and devices whether physical, virtual or in the cloud. Deliver compliance at lower cost and gain new business insights. http://p.sf.net/sfu/splunk-dev2dev _______________________________________________ Flightgear-devel mailing list Flightgear-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/flightgear-devel
