On Friday 06 August 2010 09:29:33 pm Ron Jensen wrote: > > Also, the airbrakes seem to do absolutely nothing on the Bocian, which > > makes landing very complicated. Is there someone willing to repair > > these little flaws as for the rest the Bocian is a fine glider ! > > The bocian is built on the YASim flight model which I am not very familiar > with... But I think if you edit the file called > Aircraft/bocian/bocian-yasim.xml and find the line that says > <spoiler start="0.24" end="0.38" lift="0" drag="5.5"/> > I think the start and stop are the location on the wing where the spoilers > are (0.0 is the wing root and 1.0 is the tip). Lift and drag are > multipliers for the change in lift and drag. You could try increasing the > "5.5" value. "11" might be a good first choice (in honor of Spinal Tap > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UeOXsA8sp_E) >
In addition to increasing the drag of the air brakes these probably also reduce the lift produced by the wing since this type of device typically brakes up the airflow over part of the wing. So you should consider changing lift="0" to something like: lift="-<some number other than 0>" Where <some number other than 0> is determined by trying different values. Hal ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ This SF.net email is sponsored by Make an app they can't live without Enter the BlackBerry Developer Challenge http://p.sf.net/sfu/RIM-dev2dev _______________________________________________ Flightgear-users mailing list Flightgear-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/flightgear-users
