I forgot to add details ..... Martin Spott <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> [...] When you're modelling an aircraft, nothing it that much > likely to vary than the nose and the tail because the manufacturer probably > has modified the plane and there exist different versions with different > noses (this is quite likely to occur), How do you sugest to deal with aircraft noses that sort of 'fade out', that have a noticeable pitot tube on their nose ? I think the YF-23 and TSR.2 are affected by this, just to name two aircrafts currently available in FlighGear. A Concorde might be affected, too. Do you add the pitot to the overall lenght when modelling the plane for FlightGear ? How do you deal with aircraft that carry some large tube on their nose during experimental status that never made it into production (TSR.2). How do you deal with aircraft that occur in different versions with different noses (SR-71, YF-12, probably our C310 is affected). How do you deal with aircrafts that are available with different engines of different lenght (Diamond DA-40 comes in my mind on this early morning, I'm shure there is a whole bunch of these). I'd say when you take these arguments into account the nose is far from being easily understandable as you pointed out :-) Hey, Jim, I don't want to attack you personally. I'd just want to weigh in _against_ the aircraft nose as a reference point, because I'm convinced that it is not suited for the purpose, Martin. -- Unix _IS_ user friendly - it's just selective about who its friends are ! -------------------------------------------------------------------------- _______________________________________________ Flightgear-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.flightgear.org/mailman/listinfo/flightgear-devel
