Melchior FRANZ writes: > > http://baron.flightgear.org/pipermail/flightgear-devel/2003-October/021940.html
Thanks. I think I'd seen that message before, but figured it was two years old and something must have happened since then. Having read through that full thread, I'm now thinking that maybe the better thing for me to do would be to buy X-Plane (or, choke, MSFS) for something to fly in the mean-time, and start trying to understand helicopter aerodynamics and eventually, when life slows down enough that I feel like coding in my spare time and I know quite a bit more about helicopters than I do now, writing another helicopter flight model from scratch. In digging through those messages, it seems like an awful lot still datesback to when the flight model was an integer/fixed-point i386 based platform, and some of the issues with my expectations of helicopter flight versus what's actually happening look like they come from limitations of that model, and not just 'cause I don't have a clue (although that is true generally). But at least it explains why I've had *zero* luck trying to autorotate... Dan _______________________________________________ Flightgear-users mailing list [email protected] http://mail.flightgear.org/mailman/listinfo/flightgear-users 2f585eeea02e2c79d7b1d8c4963bae2d
