At 4/11/02, you wrote: >>>Jon wrote: >>>The data is all there. In fact, the model files the UIUC guys use >>>present pretty much the same information that JSBSim does. Perhaps >>>someone could write a translator? > >On Thu, 11 Apr 2002 13:33:30 -0500 > Michael Selig wrote: > >>Some thoughts - I think it would be *mostly* pretty easy to convert the >>UIUC models to JSBSim models. What stops me is that there are A LOT of >>parameters in JSBSim, and I don't think they're all documented nor needed >>for flight. I am not sure of this, but I have followed some threads >>related to created JSBSim models from scratch. > >Granted, we need to write up a solid document describing >the meaning and layout of our config file. > >>Right now I think folks might want to seriously consider using the UIUC >>models as a precursor to developing a JSBSim model. Most of the UIUC >>model info is related to aerodynamics and flying, and not so much related >>to the realism of sitting in the cockpit scanning instruments and >>listening to the sounds and seeing all the sights. > >Just to clear things up, the ONLY thing in the JSBSim >aircraft config files that is unrelated to flight modeling >is the pilot eyepoint, and even this has some utility. The >rest is all flight-related. We do not include any visual/ >sensory parameters in our config files.
OK, I think I am just getting confused trying to decipher *all* parts of what you are doing in those files. It's like a puzzle to me. >>Lately, I've been more interested in modeling nonlinear aerodynamics and >>aircraft that are interesting aerodynamically and visually like: >> >>- Wright Flyer, which I've been talking about >> - What was it really like to control this airplane aerodynamically? > >Is there or will there be a set of aero coefficients from >the UIUC guys? Here's the link: http://amber.aae.uiuc.edu/~m-selig/apasim/Aircraft-uiuc.html >> So I've got models of these. >>-Ornithopter >> - A crazy as it may sound, Prof DeLaurier at the > >Will you be doing ice testing on this one? ;-) It will not be necessary. Like a bird, the wing does twist and this helps shed ice, like a rubber boot. ;) >>Those inclined could then convert them to JSBSim format for more realism >>where needed. > >I'm holding my breath :-) > >Jon > >_______________________________________________ >Flightgear-devel mailing list >[EMAIL PROTECTED] >http://mail.flightgear.org/mailman/listinfo/flightgear-devel ************************************************** Prof. Michael S. Selig Dept. of Aero/Astro Engineering University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign 306 Talbot Laboratory 104 South Wright Street Urbana, IL 61801-2935 (217) 244-5757 (o), (509) 691-1373 (fax) mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.uiuc.edu/ph/www/m-selig http://www.uiuc.edu/ph/www/m-selig/faq.html (FAQ) ************************************************** _______________________________________________ Flightgear-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.flightgear.org/mailman/listinfo/flightgear-devel
