On Sat 23. February 2002 01:06, you wrote:
> The flightgear side really only knows the current ground elevation for
> a specific lon/lat. FlightGear has no way to know the dimensions of a
> specific aircraft or the relative placement of the gear. It would
> seem like the best thing FlightGear can do is provide the elevation of
> the ground for the starting lon/lat, and then it should be up to the
> FDM to do the rest.
BTW How you can get altitude of specific lat,lon position, please?
What about scheme, when FDM or other SubSystem store lat,lon position
structures on some heap and after frame render get it back with filled
altitude.
> The FDM passes back the location of the aircraft's CG, and this
> combined with knowledge of the aircraft orientation and pilot view
> offset relative to the CG allows FlightGear to properly render the
> scene.
>
> I don't know the details of how it works know, but it seems like the
> FDM would need to find a suitable starting point for the CG given the
> information FlightGear can provide (which is the ground elevation.)
>
> This is a tricky area though so if there's something I'm missing feel
> free to point it out. :-)
>
> Curt.
Madr
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