--- Ron Jensen wrote:
> On Thu, 2007-01-11 at 13:52 -0500, John Denker wrote:
> > On 01/11/2007 10:58 AM, Stuart Buchanan wrote:
> >
> > > John Denker has suggested that a C-182 RG would be a good addition.
> >
> > I'm still interested in that. It would be tremendously useful as a
> > procedures trainer.
> >
> > > However, this is very much on the drawing-board and would require
> > > significant effort - we currently don't have an FDM
> >
> > I want this enough that I would be happy if the gear had *no* effect
> > on the flight dynamics. The minimum would be to make something
> > appropriately bad happen on a gear-up landing.
>
> This should be fairly easy (famous last words)...
Possibly I am being overly negative. I suppose one could just change the
gear from being FIXED to RETRACT in the JSBSim file and everything will be
OK. Might require a few more contact points to be defined for a wheels-up
landing.
> > > or model for such an effort.
> >
> > Can't the model for the gear-handle be "borrowed" from the C310?
<snip>
>
> Stuart,
>
> Would you be willing to let me add an RG version on top of the standard
> C182?
Of course - it is after all GPL'd and in CVS (but thanks for asking
anyway).
Roberto mentioned that he has some c172 legs that might be appropriate for
a c182-RG.
I don't know whether this should just a c182rg-set.xml file in the c182
directory, or completely separate in a c182rg directory. I suspect the
latter as the FDM and models files will (eventually) be different. We can
live with a dependency on the c182 directory for the moment as the c182 is
commonly provided in distributions.
It is nice to see such interest in such an old and slightly out of date
model. It will spur me on to make improvements - a 3-D panel would be of
use to both the c182 and c182-RG, as well as providing instruments for a
c310 and c172 3-D panel as well.
-Stuart
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