I just commited a turbulence model that I wrote over the vacation. It seems to work pretty well, but I'd be curious to see what other people think. Tuning it is more subjective than I had expected.
Thank you for doing this. I gave the turbulence a test drive with these command lines:
fgfs --aircraft=j3cub --altitude=1000 --turbulence=0.5
fgfs --aircraft=j3cub --altitude=1000 --turbulence=1.0
It's very nicely done, but I have some suggestions for tuning.
First, the intensity is far too low. At 0.5, I wasn't sure if turbulence was working, and at 1.0 (maximum), I was still able to control the aircraft easily. Here are the Canadian criteria for reporting turbulence, which should match pretty closely with those of other ICAO countries:
http://www.megginson.com/Aviation/turbulence.html
At 1.0, the turbulence is still only moderate right now -- at 1.0 we should be inducing extreme (beyond severe) turbulence, throwing the plane completely out of control, as might happen inside a cumulo-nimbus cloud.
My other suggestion is to fade out turbulence a bit near the ground, say, in the last 50 feet or so (at the point, the main problem is wind gusts).
All the best,
David
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