Lee Elliott <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > > The tip of the nose is fine with me but we need to clarify whether the tip > includes any nose-mounted pitots or probes. > > I'm specifically thinking about the TSR2 here, which has a nose mounted probe > but there will probably be others, if there aren't already. > > This is probably more of an issue for experimental a/c as most production a/c > seem to have them elsewhere, which makes sense to me as it'll cut down the > ground-space requirements. > > I'd be inclined to ignore any probes and specify the tip of the nose 'cone', > or fuselage. I'm not sure that nose mounted probes are always drawn to the > correct size in the drawings we use for modelling, so it's probably not a > good idea to use them as reference points.
We could specify probes and tubes narrower than 3" over its length to be excluded. But prop cones would be considered. I don't know...good point. Maybe a description of the nose location should be a standard comment at the top of the FDM config files? Best, Jim _______________________________________________ Flightgear-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.flightgear.org/mailman/listinfo/flightgear-devel
