[Flightgear-devel] Re: [Flightgear-cvslogs] CVS: source/src/FDM/YASim Propeller.cpp, 1.3, 1.4

2004-05-01 Thread Jim Wilson
Maybe I'm misunderstanding why you are doing this. Lower pitch angle, fast spinning prop. That doesn't makes sense? Best, Jim Andy Ross said: Update of /var/cvs/FlightGear-0.9/source/src/FDM/YASim In directory baron:/tmp/cvs-serv7517 Modified Files: Propeller.cpp Log Message:

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Re: [Flightgear-cvslogs] CVS: source/src/FDM/YASim Propeller.cpp, 1.3, 1.4

2004-05-01 Thread Andy Ross
Jim Wilson wrote: Maybe I'm misunderstanding why you are doing this. Lower pitch angle, fast spinning prop. That doesn't makes sense? Not pitch angle: A lower value of _j0 indicates a low advance ratio, which increases windmilling speed. This was just a sign bug to the previous checkin,

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Re: [Flightgear-cvslogs] CVS: source/src/FDM/YASim Propeller.cpp, 1.3, 1.4

2004-05-01 Thread Jim Wilson
Andy Ross said: Jim Wilson wrote: Maybe I'm misunderstanding why you are doing this. Lower pitch angle, fast spinning prop. That doesn't makes sense? Not pitch angle: A lower value of _j0 indicates a low advance ratio, which increases windmilling speed. This was just a sign bug to the

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Re: [Flightgear-cvslogs] CVS: source/src/FDM/YASim Propeller.cpp, 1.3, 1.4

2004-05-01 Thread Andy Ross
Jim Wilson wrote: Is any of this addressing the low rpm propeller issue discussed last week? (In other words, should I bother trying to correctly adjust the p51d prop config yet?) In theory, yes. I haven't had a whole lot of time to test it yet, but the slow/windmilling propeller regime