Curtis L. Olson writes: >> >This is true in extreme cases, but even at angles where the gear would >hit first (maybe more so for certain aircraft configurations), the >gear extension angle and extension amount will move the lon/lat of the >contact point. Perhaps the differences won't be significant enough to >significnatly change the resulting ground elevation?
Unless runways aren't anywhere near as flat in reality as I was trained to build them when I was in the Corp of Engineers I wouldn't expect a difference of 1-2 meters in a horizontal direction to be more then a couple of centimeters in the vertical. < ie dy/dx usually < 1/100 > and yes I do know about Catalina and .... I guess we could try to model running over 'curbs and 'potholes' ' but .... FWIW the hitlist maintains a pointer to the triangle that is hit for those who really want to get into micro modelling this kind of thing Cheers Norman _______________________________________________ Flightgear-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.flightgear.org/mailman/listinfo/flightgear-devel
