> David Megginson writes: > > To simulate windshear properly (i.e. in the right place at the right > > time and magnitude), we would need to do a lot of meteorological work > > that we're not doing right now. However, you can get the effect of > > windshear by specifying a large gust factor > > > > fgfs --wind=180@10:40 > > > > or by giving a JSBSim-based flight model a large turbulence value > > > > fgfs --prop:/environment/turbulence-norm=0.5 > > I guess I don't really know now that I think about it, but I always > thought of windshear more as a singular event as you pass from one > layer of wind to another rather than continuous high turbulence. If > I'm wrong just ignore the rest of this.
You are right. There should probably be a function that calculates weather "features". You'd have regular wind PLUS special features wind and the FDM would handle turbulence. Jon
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