Burrito Jack wrote: > Is fuel consumption modeled in yasim, or will it ever be?
Someday. :) Right now, you can use --prop:/sim/fuel-fraction=0.2 to get an appropriate landing weight. Really, this would be very simple. Like I've said, I'm lazy. To be honest, I don't usually fly cross country in FlightGear. I'll set up the aircraft for whatever I want to practice (vertical landings in the Harrier are my most recent addiction) and just do the interesting parts. Fuel consumption ends up being superfluous under those circumstances. > Lots of fuel in the tanks could also cause problems with landing > right? I have tried landing several times but always bounce off the > runway. Lots of fuel will cause fast approach speeds, which are more difficult and could result in bounced landings. But there's an honest bug with ground effect that is probably causing your real problem. I (literally) just checked a fix for this into CVS. Can you try that and see if it fixes things for you? > Also, sometimes setting the flaps around 20-30 degs can cause the > plane to shoot thousands of feet into the air. Has anyone else noticed > this? Which version are you using? There were sporadic reports of this sort of behavior about six months ago, and I thought it was due to a flap drag bug that has since been fixed (maybe in 0.7.8 or 0.7.9). The way to exercise it was to (1) be going very fast (300+ kts); (2) be at a significant negative AoA; and (3) pop the flaps. The flap drag could end up pointing in the wrong direction and producing "thrust" proportional to speed; the aircraft would then speed up and produce more "thrust", and the airspeed would diverge. Like I said, I think this has been fixed. Andy -- Andrew J. Ross NextBus Information Systems Senior Software Engineer Emeryville, CA [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.nextbus.com "Men go crazy in conflagrations. They only get better one by one." - Sting (misquoted) _______________________________________________ Flightgear-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.flightgear.org/mailman/listinfo/flightgear-devel
