On mardi 11 novembre 2008, Anders Gidenstam wrote: > On Tue, 11 Nov 2008, gerard robin wrote: > > In addition to it there is a drag when the gear (down) is IN the water > > , i remember that Vivian couldn't take off the Catalina, since the gear > > were down. > > I may understand that you don't know the JSBSim features/ressources. > > I think that was me. But it wasn't the gear - I had forgot to release the > handbrake (a.k.a. mooring :).
Which will be updated since now we have that nice external_reactions features :) > > But seriously, ground interaction in FlightGear is a weak spot of JSBSim. > I'll try to look into it (note, no promise on the time scale, though..). Yes it can be improved, not only JSBSim is involved, i know that we have a lot of problem with aircrafts on Carrier with YASIm for instance the F-14 (groundcache bug ? ) With JSBSim we have that stupid ground reaction force due to pitch, (was said by Dave on the JSBSim-devel ) > > Cheers, > > Anders - currently working on an aircraft with no gears (really :). Cheers -- Gérard http://pagesperso-orange.fr/GRTux/ J'ai décidé d'être heureux parce que c'est bon pour la santé. Voltaire ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Moblin Your Move Developer's challenge Build the coolest Linux based applications with Moblin SDK & win great prizes Grand prize is a trip for two to an Open Source event anywhere in the world http://moblin-contest.org/redirect.php?banner_id=100&url=/ _______________________________________________ Flightgear-devel mailing list Flightgear-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/flightgear-devel
