On Saturday 08 December 2012 12:12:23 Ron Jensen wrote: > I took a quick look through the FGData Aircraft directory today and came up > with a list of some 27 JSBSim piston engines that still seem to be using > either the old aeromatic default values for idle manifold pressure (minmp) > or suspiciously low values. > > As time permits this week I intend to take a deeper look at this list and > adjust the minmp value as seems appropriate, if there are no objections. > I know a couple of engines have different versions in other repositories > (JSBSim or personal hangers) that are updated and just need to be copied > into FGData. > > Ron
Some of this work is done and was committed today, but there are still a dozen engines left to check, I will try to complete those as time permits. Thanks, Ron Done: -------------------- Dragonfly/Engines/Rotax582.xml: <minmp unit="INHG"> 2.1 </minmp> Raised to 7.5, Lowered map lag to 0.1, lowered static friction to 0.5. flight test good Aerocar/Engines/Lycoming_O-290.xml: <minmp unit="INHG"> 6.0 </minmp> Raised to 10.1, flight test OK, propeller loads too much to reach 2800 RPM Boeing314/Engines/WrightGR-2600.xml: <minmp unit="INHG"> 6.0 </minmp> Raised to 10.0, flight test OK, propeller configuration questionable c150/Engines/eng_O-200.xml: <minmp unit="INHG"> 6.0 </minmp> Copied my development engine over. Tweaked propeller and FDM for fair flight numbers. Needs more work. c172r/Engines/engIO360C.xml: <minmp unit="INHG"> 6.5 </minmp> Raised to 10.0, flight test SKIPPED c182/Engines/engIO540AB1A5.xml: <minmp unit="INHG"> 6.5 </minmp> Raised to 10.0, flight test not so great, FDM needs work. c310/Engines/engIO470D.xml: <minmp unit="INHG"> 6.5 </minmp> Raised to 9.3, flight test good c310u3a/Engines/engIO470D.xml: <minmp unit="INHG"> 6.5 </minmp> Raised to 9.3, flight test good dc2/Engines/R-1820-R52.xml: <minmp unit="INHG"> 6.0 </minmp> Raised to 9.8, flight test good flash2a/Engines/503.xml: <minmp unit="INHG"> 2.0 </minmp> Rewrote engine and propeller configurations. flight test good Won't fix: -------------------- an2/Engine/ASH-62IR.xml: <minmp unit="INHG"> 5.0 </minmp> Seems O.K., can't get it to start, too much non-standard stuff in the system configuration G-164/Engines/R-1340-AN1.xml: <minmp unit="INHG"> 7.0 </minmp> Dromader/Engine/engine_Asz-62IRM18.xml: <minmp unit="INHG"> 5.0 </minmp> This stalls out at min throttle, but it may be intended by the author. Skyranger/Engines/rotax.xml: <minmp unit="INHG"> 6.0 </minmp> Primarily a YASim model, jsbsim just an aeromatic shell, won't touch. c182rg/Engines/engIO540AB1A5.xml: <minmp unit="INHG"> 6.5 </minmp> Took my name off this, won't touch. Probably won't idle: -------------------- dc6/Engines/CB17.xml: <minmp unit="INHG"> 6.0 </minmp> dc6/Engines/eng_R-2800.xml: <minmp unit="INHG"> 6.5 </minmp> fkdr1/Engines/Oberursel-UrII.xml: <minmp unit="INHG"> 6.0 </minmp> Lockheed1049/Engines/WrightCyclone-975C18CB1.xml: <minmp unit="INHG"> 6.0 </minmp> Lockheed1049h/Engines/WrightCyclone-972TC18DA3.xml: <minmp unit="INHG"> 6.0 </minmp> Lockheed1049h/Engines/WrightCyclone-975C18CB1.xml: <minmp unit="INHG"> 6.0 </minmp> Noratlas/Engines/Bristol-739.xml: <minmp unit="INHG"> 6.0 </minmp> ogel/Engines/200hp-jsbsim-2.0.xml: <minmp unit="INHG"> 6.0 </minmp> P-38-Lightning/Engines/Allison.xml: <minmp unit="INHG"> 6.0 </minmp> p51d/Engines/Packard-V-1650-7.xml: <minmp unit="INHG"> 4.0 </minmp> PBY-Catalina/Engines/PBY-6_engine-new.xml: <minmp unit="INHG"> 6.0 </minmp> Storch/Engines/Argus_As_10.xml: <minmp unit="INHG"> 6.0 </minmp> Assumed Good: -------------------- A6M2/Engines/Sakae-Type12.xml: <minmp unit="INHG"> 10.5 </minmp> b29/Engines/eng_R3350.xml: <minmp unit="INHG"> 12.0 </minmp> c172p/Engines/eng_io320.xml: <minmp unit="INHG"> 8.3 </minmp> C684/Engines/6Pfi.xml: <!--<minmp unit="INHG"> 6.0 </minmp>--> Cap10B/Engine/LycomingIO360B2F.xml: <minmp unit="INHG"> 12.0 </minmp> Cessna337/Engines/engine_IO360C.xml: <minmp unit="INHG"> 15.0 </minmp> ercoupe/Engines/c-75-12.xml: <minmp unit="INHG"> 10.0 </minmp> Nordstern/Engines/eng_Maybach_Mb_IVa.xml:<minmp unit="INHG"> 9.0 </minmp> SenecaII/Engines/tsio360eb.xml: <minmp unit="INHG"> 10.0 </minmp> Short_Empire/Engines/eng_PegasusXc.xml: <minmp unit="INHG"> 10.0 </minmp> Submarine_Scout/Engines/eng_RRhawk.xml: <minmp unit="INHG"> 10.0 </minmp> ZivkoEdge/Engines/io540.xml: <minmp unit="INHG"> 10.0</minmp> ZLT-NT/Engines/engIO360C.xml: <minmp unit="INHG"> 10.0 </minmp> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Free Next-Gen Firewall Hardware Offer Buy your Sophos next-gen firewall before the end March 2013 and get the hardware for free! Learn more. http://p.sf.net/sfu/sophos-d2d-feb _______________________________________________ Flightgear-devel mailing list Flightgear-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/flightgear-devel
