Re: [Flightgear-devel] J3 Cub won't converge

2002-12-30 Thread David Megginson
Andy Ross writes: One exacerbating factor that I noticed is that the Cub we model has a *monster* elevator. Holding the aircraft at its stall AoA requires only 35% back stick. Is that really correct? I changed the lift parameter on the hstab from 1.7 to 1.3 and seemed to get better

[Flightgear-devel] J3 Cub won't converge

2002-12-11 Thread Curtis L. Olson
Andy, With the latest YASim changes, the J3 Cub won't converge for me (and others.) I get the following: Finally initializing fdm Start common FDM init ...initializing position... ...initializing ground elevation to -0.000431126ft... ...initializing sea-level radius... lat = 37.6117 alt =

Re: [Flightgear-devel] J3 Cub won't converge

2002-12-11 Thread Andy Ross
Curtis L. Olson wrote: With the latest YASim changes, the J3 Cub won't converge for me (and others.) Confirmed. Sorry, I didn't test this one. Any ideas? No, sadly. A quick spot check shows that it fails for pretty much all sane configuration changes. And the thing that *should* return it

Re: [Flightgear-devel] J3 Cub won't converge

2002-12-11 Thread Andy Ross
I wrote: Curtis L. Olson wrote: With the latest YASim changes, the J3 Cub won't converge for me (and others.) Confirmed. Sorry, I didn't test this one. OK, fixed. The model was almost converging, but wasn't getting close enough to the threshold. It was oscillating around the right