Ok success. It does rest slightly off the ground at the nose ... i removed the fake gear and all the mstab objects (clever use of mstab , by the way :)) , and still the same results... I have to admit I've never noticed this behavior before.
On Fri, Apr 15, 2011 at 1:17 PM, Adrian Musceac <kanto...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Friday, April 15, 2011 20:43:45 syd adams wrote: >> One small ,narrow fuselage piece inside and at the bottom of the main >> fuselage doesnt make a difference here, you don't need a lot . And >> they don't seem to trigger a crash like gear does. >> > > The gear only triggers a crash when its absolute height above ground level is > -1. This happens because gear position doesn't change when retracted > (obviously it would be quite hard to calculate its position during the > extension phase, because every airplane might have a different way to extend > and retract). > There is no force computed and applied to the model when the gear is > retracted, however the collision check still happens and if you have a long > enough gear strut it will go below -1 AGL when flying low or crash landing. > It should be pretty easy to replicate this with the IAR80, I haven't tried > with other aircraft. > > Adrian > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Benefiting from Server Virtualization: Beyond Initial Workload > Consolidation -- Increasing the use of server virtualization is a top > priority.Virtualization can reduce costs, simplify management, and improve > application availability and disaster protection. Learn more about boosting > the value of server virtualization. http://p.sf.net/sfu/vmware-sfdev2dev > _______________________________________________ > Flightgear-devel mailing list > Flightgear-devel@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/flightgear-devel > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Benefiting from Server Virtualization: Beyond Initial Workload Consolidation -- Increasing the use of server virtualization is a top priority.Virtualization can reduce costs, simplify management, and improve application availability and disaster protection. Learn more about boosting the value of server virtualization. http://p.sf.net/sfu/vmware-sfdev2dev _______________________________________________ Flightgear-devel mailing list Flightgear-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/flightgear-devel
