David Megginson wrote: > Jon Berndt wrote: > > If neither of the two (YASim and JSBSim) are appropriate for your > > expectations, you can code a special flight model in C within LaRCSim or > > perhaps set up a special model in UIUC-LaRCSim, although I am not very > > familiar with that. > > Right, but that's roughly equivalent to writing your own operating > system to support your spreadsheet. If there's something that you > cannot get from YASim or JSBSim, we'd prefer to improve them if we > can, since other people might need the same functionality in the > future.
There shouldn't be anything really weird about a paraglider. The big differences from airplane behavior are due to funny mass distribution: the engine acts near the c.g., but the lift and drag are rather high above it. My guess this is the source of the original complaint. In a YASim model, you could try playing with ballast tags to move the default weight distribution around. This holds so long as the parachute stays inflated. Handling the non-rigid behavior of a flopping chute is going to be hard, but that's more of a failure mode than a flight simulation issue. :) Andy _______________________________________________ Flightgear-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.flightgear.org/mailman/listinfo/flightgear-devel
