Re: [Flightgear-devel] gear compression +- wow

2007-01-20 Thread Erik Hofman
Jon S. Berndt wrote: John Denker wrote: I can't test this right now, but I suspect that this line in FGLGear.cpp is the culprit: WOW = lastWOW = true; // should the value be initialized to true? I recommend changing this to: WOW = lastWOW = false; I suspect that will do the trick.

Re: [Flightgear-devel] gear compression +- wow

2007-01-17 Thread Berndt, Jon S
John Denker wrote: I observe that if the aircraft is initialized to an airborne position, the /gear/gear/wow property is stuck at 1, indicating weight on the wheels, even though the compression-norm property is zero. This initialization can come via the command line via

Re: [Flightgear-devel] gear compression +- wow

2007-01-17 Thread Jon S. Berndt
John Denker wrote: I observe that if the aircraft is initialized to an airborne position, the /gear/gear/wow property is stuck at 1, indicating weight on the wheels, even though the compression-norm property is zero. This initialization can come via the command line via

Re: [Flightgear-devel] gear compression +- wow

2007-01-16 Thread John Denker
On 01/16/2007 12:35 PM, Curtis Olson wrote: I was told that JSBSim only runs the wow computations when the altitude 200' agl. That's what we call an undocumented feature. It would be nice to change this behavior, but you'll need to convince the jsbsim gods that this is a problem that

Re: [Flightgear-devel] gear compression +- wow

2007-01-16 Thread Curtis Olson
I was told that JSBSim only runs the wow computations when the altitude 200' agl. It would be nice to change this behavior, but you'll need to convince the jsbsim gods that this is a problem that needs to be fixed! Curt. On 1/16/07, John Denker wrote: Hi -- I observe that if the aircraft

Re: [Flightgear-devel] gear compression +- wow

2007-01-16 Thread Jon S. Berndt
On 01/16/2007 12:35 PM, Curtis Olson wrote: I was told that JSBSim only runs the wow computations when the altitude 200' agl. That's what we call an undocumented feature. It would be nice to change this behavior, but you'll need to convince the jsbsim gods that this is a problem that