> ..cool, then we don't need my F-16 drag shute housing pics. ;-) > Do we have drag shutes modelled?
Yes. There exists a property called /controls/flight/drag-chute which takes a boolean value. In JSBSim you could add a Kinemat component to the FCS, just like speedbrake, gear or flaps. This would give you an fcs/drag-chute-norm value that you can use by also adding a "Drag-due-to-drag-chute" coefficient to the drag axis. An interesting part is that the chute's effect is exponential with respect to time. It takes a while for the chute to unfurl, and suddenly it opens. I believe you could model this in either the FCS (?) or the drag coefficient (by including fcs/drag-chute-norm two or more times in the multiplier list) Dave -- **************************** David Culp [EMAIL PROTECTED] **************************** _______________________________________________ Flightgear-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.flightgear.org/mailman/listinfo/flightgear-devel
