Re: [Flightgear-devel] Class-based MP aircraft visibility

2010-05-26 Thread Stuart Buchanan
On Tue, May 25, 2010 at 5:05 PM, Chris O'Neill wrote: > On Tue, 2010-05-25 at 15:45 +0200, Csaba Halász wrote: >> On Tue, May 25, 2010 at 10:32 AM, Stuart Buchanan wrote: >> > >> > I wonder if it would be worth having a "child-friendly" MP Group (I >> > think this term >> > is easier to understand

Re: [Flightgear-devel] YASim "effectiveness" tag

2010-05-26 Thread Gary Neely
Andy, James, & Syd, Much thanks for helping me understand this. -Gary On Wed, May 26, 2010 at 12:24 PM, Andy Ross wrote: > On 05/26/2010 12:44 AM, James Turner wrote: >> This is a wild guess, but from memory (of discussions here), and reinforced >> by the code snippet above, effectiveness is

Re: [Flightgear-devel] YASim "effectiveness" tag

2010-05-26 Thread Andy Ross
On 05/26/2010 12:44 AM, James Turner wrote: > This is a wild guess, but from memory (of discussions here), and reinforced > by the code snippet above, effectiveness is a hack/tweak to account for > surfaces/controls that work better/worse than YASim predicts. So > effectiveness of 1.1 makes the

Re: [Flightgear-devel] YASim "effectiveness" tag

2010-05-26 Thread James Turner
On 26 May 2010, at 00:47, syd adams wrote: > Hi Gary ... Ive wondered about this myself. > > Found this section in YASim/Surface.cpp : > > > // Similar to the above -- interpolates out the flap lift past the > // stall alpha > float Surface::flapLift(float alpha) > { > float flapLift = _cz