Roy wrote: > > > What's inside the black box? That's what I want to configure.
Innis replied: > Why???.Thats why they are called a black box. > And unless you work for Bendix/King or one of the other black box > manufactures you will never know.After all what is in the black box > is there bread and butter. First, For some aircraft the autopilot block diagrams can be found. For those it would be nice to be able to model the autopilot mechanization as closely as possible. Second, for some other aircraft the mechanization of the autopilot might be proprietary (or even classified), but the designers might want to use FlightGear to test the implementation (even though the general public would never see the result). Third - and this happens for JSBSim periodically - a student or researcher might want to use "building blocks" to design a special purpose autopilot or flight control system (or a portion of one) for a thesis or other paper in an academic setting. Most people probably won't care to what level of detail the autopilot functionality is mechanized in FlightGear. However, once a general purpose heading A/P is crafted, or a wing leveler, etc., then those items as specified in a configuration file could be reused. They could also be easily tweaked. Jon _______________________________________________ Flightgear-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.flightgear.org/mailman/listinfo/flightgear-devel
