Re: [Flightgear-devel] poll (more complex than at first appears?)

2005-06-12 Thread Gerard Robin
Le samedi 11 juin 2005 à 09:24 -0700, Andy Ross a écrit : > Gerard Robin wrote: > > with Yasim we must find a medium way to get the same effect. About > > retractable gears no problems, about contact points on the fuse big > > problems . > > I'm not understanding this at all; JSBSim and YASim

Re: [Flightgear-devel] poll (more complex than at first appears?)

2005-06-11 Thread Lee Elliott
On Saturday 11 Jun 2005 16:35, Andy Ross wrote: > Lee Elliott wrote: > > One problem with using YASim for sea planes is that the > > fuselage mustn't contact the surface as this equates to a > > crash. While I was experimenting with the SR45 I found that > > I had to omit the lower fuselage deck t

Re: [Flightgear-devel] poll (more complex than at first appears?)

2005-06-11 Thread Gerard Robin
Le samedi 11 juin 2005 à 09:24 -0700, Andy Ross a écrit : > Gerard Robin wrote: > > with Yasim we must find a medium way to get the same effect. About > > retractable gears no problems, about contact points on the fuse big > > problems . > > I'm not understanding this at all; JSBSim and YASim

RE: [Flightgear-devel] poll (more complex than at first appears?)

2005-06-11 Thread Jon Berndt
> Andy wrote: > > whereas YASim allows different gear object > to retract independently. !!! ... now there's a thought. Hmmm. I feel a feature request coming for JSBSim. :-) Jon ___ Flightgear-devel mailing list Flightgear-devel@flightgear.org ht

Re: [Flightgear-devel] poll (more complex than at first appears?)

2005-06-11 Thread Andy Ross
Gerard Robin wrote: > with Yasim we must find a medium way to get the same effect. About > retractable gears no problems, about contact points on the fuse big > problems . I'm not understanding this at all; JSBSim and YASim have all but identical* gear systems. Can you please post the YASim c

Re: [Flightgear-devel] poll (more complex than at first appears?)

2005-06-11 Thread Gerard Robin
Le samedi 11 juin 2005 à 08:39 -0700, Andy Ross a écrit : > Gerard Robin wrote: > > I could not use JSB (no rotor FDM) and with the use of Yasim it has > > been very difficult to find the right way which make that model to > > stand correctly on water with gear-up. > > > > To answer that, JSBSim gi

Re: [Flightgear-devel] poll (more complex than at first appears?)

2005-06-11 Thread Andy Ross
Gerard Robin wrote: > I could not use JSB (no rotor FDM) and with the use of Yasim it has > been very difficult to find the right way which make that model to > stand correctly on water with gear-up. > > To answer that, JSBSim gives a better flexibility. Both JSBSim and YASim use manually placed g

Re: [Flightgear-devel] poll (more complex than at first appears?)

2005-06-11 Thread Andy Ross
Lee Elliott wrote: > One problem with using YASim for sea planes is that the fuselage > mustn't contact the surface as this equates to a crash. While I > was experimenting with the SR45 I found that I had to omit the > lower fuselage deck to achieve this, which must then affect the > flying accura

Re: [Flightgear-devel] poll (more complex than at first appears?)

2005-06-11 Thread Gerard Robin
Le samedi 11 juin 2005 à 10:20 +0100, Lee Elliott a écrit : > On Friday 10 Jun 2005 22:41, Andy Ross wrote: > > theoreticle wrote: > > > Let's say someone comes up with a model for the old Pan Am > > > Clipper, that wants to land fully loaded with passengers and > > > half loaded with fuel. The ac

Re: [Flightgear-devel] poll (more complex than at first appears?)

2005-06-11 Thread Lee Elliott
On Friday 10 Jun 2005 22:41, Andy Ross wrote: > theoreticle wrote: > > Let's say someone comes up with a model for the old Pan Am > > Clipper, that wants to land fully loaded with passengers and > > half loaded with fuel. The actual aircraft will sink it's > > fuselage as far as 5 feet into the wa

Re: [Flightgear-devel] poll (more complex than at first appears?)

2005-06-10 Thread Gerard Robin
Le vendredi 10 juin 2005 à 17:27 -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] a écrit : > Let's say someone comes up with a model for the old Pan Am Clipper, that > wants to land fully loaded with passengers and half loaded with fuel. The > actual aircraft will sink it's fuselage as far as 5 feet into the water, >

Re: [Flightgear-devel] poll (more complex than at first appears?)

2005-06-10 Thread Andy Ross
theoreticle wrote: > Let's say someone comes up with a model for the old Pan Am Clipper, > that wants to land fully loaded with passengers and half loaded with > fuel. The actual aircraft will sink it's fuselage as far as 5 feet > into the water, perhaps more if landing in 'seas'. There absolutel

Re: [Flightgear-devel] poll (more complex than at first appears?)

2005-06-10 Thread theoreticle
Let's say someone comes up with a model for the old Pan Am Clipper, that wants to land fully loaded with passengers and half loaded with fuel. The actual aircraft will sink it's fuselage as far as 5 feet into the water, perhaps more if landing in 'seas'. There absolutely must be some code to