Re: [Flightgear-devel] pa24-250 update and some questions

2006-02-22 Thread David Megginson
On 22/02/06, Dave Perry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I took your advice this evening and tried the 55 knots with 14 degrees. > Yasim did not want to converge at first (insufficient elevator trim) but > after I increased the hstab effectiveness to 2 (was 1.5) it converged. > I also took the hstab i

Re: [Flightgear-devel] pa24-250 update and some questions

2006-02-21 Thread Dave Perry
David Megginson wrote: 2. At manifold pressures below 20 in hg, the AC has much too much power compared to the real AC. I normally use 16 in of manifold pressure in procedure turns and then with the gear down and 15 deg. of flaps, the descent and airspeed fall in place at the outer marker. I

Re: [Flightgear-devel] pa24-250 update and some questions

2006-02-21 Thread David Megginson
On 18/02/06, Dave Perry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 2. At manifold pressures below 20 in hg, the AC has much too much power > compared to the real AC. I normally use 16 in of manifold pressure in > procedure turns and then with the gear down and 15 deg. of flaps, the > descent and airspeed fall

Re: [Flightgear-devel] pa24-250 update and some questions

2006-02-18 Thread Ron Jensen
On Sat, 2006-02-18 at 12:03 -0700, Dave Perry wrote: > Some questions: > 1. There is a white sliver at the top of the right rear window that > does not show up in ac3d. Any help in removing this would be appreciated. The fuselage is set to 2-sided polygons. I set it to single sided in ac3d and

[Flightgear-devel] pa24-250 update and some questions

2006-02-18 Thread Dave Perry
Thanks to Erik Hofman and David Megginson for putting the original model and two sets of patches into cvs. This was my first attempt at adding a "model" to fgfs and I learned a lot by browsing other aircraft, especially the pa28-161 and the dh2. Some things that are done in this model that ma