I've got a copy. aka everything you wanted to know about flight simulation in 25 words or less"
Probably not a bad book for someone who is thinking of doing some simulation stuff, but really light on any in-depth analysis. So if you're an aero major, you'll blow off the stuff on flight dynamics, but perhaps you want to know something about OSG, so go to Chap 8 for an overview but don't expect much else. I found Chap 4 particularly unuseful! If you are not a control theory type, the few sections on LaPlace transfers, time domains, transfer functions, PIDs, etc is a lot of words, equations that create more confusion than explanation. OTOH, if you've studied or worked in the field, skip over this section.... All in all, as with most survey books, he touches all the bases, but never spends any time drilling down into the nitty-gritties. On a more gentle positive note, the list of references and citations at the end of each chapter will be useful to the reader who wishes to explore further. A good starting point for the beginner or anyone who wants to know "how things work" John W. On Tue, 2010-05-25 at 09:31 -0500, Curtis Olson wrote: > Hi Gene, > > Thanks for posting the link, this looks like it could be an > interesting book. Years ago I found a book with similar aspirations > at barnes and noble, but at the time it was hopelessly dated. We were > way beyond it already with the FlightGear project. This book looks > like it is much more up to date (the author makes reference to > OpenSceneGraph for instance.) If someone decided to jump in and buy a > copy they will have to post a book review here. > > > Thanks, > > > Curt. > > > On Tue, May 25, 2010 at 9:18 AM, Gene Buckle wrote: > I was perusing the free issue of Computer Pilot that was > recently put > online. They've got a little blurb about a new book that some > here may > find interesting - it's called Principles of Flight Simulation > by David > Allerton. The ISBN # is 978-0-470-75436-8. > > Here's an Amazon link for it that has more info: > > http://www.amazon.com/Principles-Flight-Simulation-Aerospace-PEP/dp/0470754362/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1274797000&sr=8-1 > > g. > > > -- > Proud owner of F-15C 80-0007 > http://www.f15sim.com - The only one of its kind. > http://www.simpits.org/geneb - The Me-109F/X Project > > ScarletDME - The red hot Data Management Environment > A Multi-Value database for the masses, not the classes. > http://www.scarletdme.org - Get it _today_! > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > _______________________________________________ > Flightgear-devel mailing list > Flightgear-devel@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/flightgear-devel > > > > -- > Curtis Olson: http://baron.flightgear.org/~curt/ > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > _______________________________________________ > Flightgear-devel mailing list > Flightgear-devel@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/flightgear-devel ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ Flightgear-devel mailing list Flightgear-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/flightgear-devel
