Re: [Flightgear-devel] making sign of side-slip consistent between fdm (bug 901)

2013-07-29 Thread James Turner
On 29 Jul 2013, at 13:54, Jon S. Berndt wrote: > Beta is positive when the wind hits the right side of the vehicle. This is > the only standard convention I have ever seen. I would recommend strongly > against artificially changing the sign of this parameter as output from > JSBSim. Which raise

Re: [Flightgear-devel] making sign of side-slip consistent between fdm (bug 901)

2013-07-29 Thread Jon S. Berndt
output from JSBSim. Jon > -Original Message- > From: jean pellotier [mailto:jean.pellot...@wanadoo.fr] > Sent: Monday, July 29, 2013 6:27 AM > To: FlightGear developers discussions > Subject: [Flightgear-devel] making sign of side-slip consistent between > fdm (bug

[Flightgear-devel] making sign of side-slip consistent between fdm (bug 901)

2013-07-29 Thread jean pellotier
hi there, following this bug report: http://code.google.com/p/flightgear-bugs/issues/detail?id=901 it appears that orientation/side-slip-deg and side-slip-rad don't have the same sign, depending if it's a yasim or a jsbsim plane. is there a commonly adopted convention for this property? if no