Re: [Flightgear-devel] IRL Solo flight and Mainair Flash 2 Alpha microlight
--- Georg Vollnhals wrote: Hi Stuart, first congratulations for your first solo flight. This is a very interesting report, I liked to read it :-) Thank you. I was still grinning to myself days later. snip THe FDM still requires some work, but should give an idea of what flying a flexwing is like. I'll write some pilot notes for it in the future. This would be nice, I was just guessing how the landing speed could be and I think I was too fast. And to learn to handle it similar to the real world flying (as far as possible in a sim) is something many of us want to do. The approach speed for a glide approach is 55 - 60mph - really a dive. The current biggest inaccuracy in the flight model is that there isn't enough drag (particularly at high speed), so it floats down the runway far too much. The real aircraft bleeds off speed very fast. I've hacked the drag_due_to_mach, but I suspect that is the wrong answer. If anyone has JSBSim experience and can suggest improvements, I'd be very pleased to hear them. BTW: do you know that it is only usable with FG-OSG? With FG-PLIB (latest CVS) I get these errors: WARNING: ac_to_gl: Can't parse this MATERIAL: WARNING: ac_to_gl: MATERIAL Pink Fairing rgb 1 0.27451 0.65098 amb 0.5 0.5 0.5 emis 0 0 0 spec 0.601071 0.601071 0.601071 shi 32 trans 0 I will investigate. I wonder if the cause is the whitespace in the material name. -Stuart ___ New Yahoo! Mail is the ultimate force in competitive emailing. Find out more at the Yahoo! Mail Championships. Plus: play games and win prizes. http://uk.rd.yahoo.com/evt=44106/*http://mail.yahoo.net/uk - Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT business topics through brief surveys-and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.phpp=sourceforgeCID=DEVDEV ___ Flightgear-devel mailing list Flightgear-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/flightgear-devel
Re: [Flightgear-devel] IRL Solo flight and Mainair Flash 2 Alpha microlight
Hi Stuart, Congratulations! It is indeed the whitespace. I've been dealing with that too. Just change it to an underscore, and it will be fine. Stewart Stuart Buchanan wrote: BTW: do you know that it is only usable with FG-OSG? With FG-PLIB (latest CVS) I get these errors: WARNING: ac_to_gl: Can't parse this MATERIAL: WARNING: ac_to_gl: MATERIAL Pink Fairing rgb 1 0.27451 0.65098 amb 0.5 0.5 0.5 emis 0 0 0 spec 0.601071 0.601071 0.601071 shi 32 trans 0 I will investigate. I wonder if the cause is the whitespace in the material name. - Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT business topics through brief surveys-and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.phpp=sourceforgeCID=DEVDEV ___ Flightgear-devel mailing list Flightgear-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/flightgear-devel
Re: [Flightgear-devel] IRL Solo flight and Mainair Flash 2 Alpha microlight
Am Montag, den 12.03.2007, 11:48 + schrieb Stuart Buchanan: --- Georg Vollnhals wrote: Hi Stuart, first congratulations for your first solo flight. This is a very interesting report, I liked to read it :-) Thank you. I was still grinning to myself days later. ... and you will YEARS later. I do too and my solo (for aerodynamically controled microlight) is nearly ten years ago. snip THe FDM still requires some work, but should give an idea of what flying a flexwing is like. I'll write some pilot notes for it in the future. This would be nice, I was just guessing how the landing speed could be and I think I was too fast. And to learn to handle it similar to the real world flying (as far as possible in a sim) is something many of us want to do. The approach speed for a glide approach is 55 - 60mph - really a dive. The current biggest inaccuracy in the flight model is that there isn't enough drag (particularly at high speed), so it floats down the runway far too much. The real aircraft bleeds off speed very fast. I've hacked the drag_due_to_mach, but I suspect that is the wrong answer. If anyone has JSBSim experience and can suggest improvements, I'd be very pleased to hear them. I'd suggest that the control input should be reversed, because that is the biggest problem a fixed wing pilot encounters when transiting to this kind of flying. Pushing the stick to gain height is very unusual to us. A very pleasant aircraft! Greetings Detlef - Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT business topics through brief surveys-and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.phpp=sourceforgeCID=DEVDEV ___ Flightgear-devel mailing list Flightgear-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/flightgear-devel
Re: [Flightgear-devel] IRL Solo flight and Mainair Flash 2 Alpha microlight
Stuart Buchanan schrieb: Hi All, On Wednesday evening I flew solo in my microlight for the first time. In the tradition of FG RL flying posts, here's a quick description. Hi Stuart, first congratulations for your first solo flight. This is a very interesting report, I liked to read it :-) I've also been working on a FG model of my microlight, a Mainair Flash 2 Alpha flexwing. It's available for download from http://www.nanjika.co.uk/flightgear/flash2a.tar.gz Thank you very much for this nice model which closes the gap we have (had) for micro-/ultralight a/c in FlightGear. It is a joy for scenery exploration, slow and stable to fly. The model is fairly accurate - though missing an EGT gauge at the moment. THe FDM still requires some work, but should give an idea of what flying a flexwing is like. I'll write some pilot notes for it in the future. This would be nice, I was just guessing how the landing speed could be and I think I was too fast. And to learn to handle it similar to the real world flying (as far as possible in a sim) is something many of us want to do. Georg EDDW BTW: do you know that it is only usable with FG-OSG? With FG-PLIB (latest CVS) I get these errors: WARNING: ac_to_gl: Can't parse this MATERIAL: WARNING: ac_to_gl: MATERIAL Pink Fairing rgb 1 0.27451 0.65098 amb 0.5 0.5 0.5 emis 0 0 0 spec 0.601071 0.601071 0.601071 shi 32 trans 0 - Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT business topics through brief surveys-and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.phpp=sourceforgeCID=DEVDEV ___ Flightgear-devel mailing list Flightgear-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/flightgear-devel
