Re: [Flightgear-devel] Turn ball fix & JSB notes

[Tony P. <ap...@ea...>]

On Monday 27 August 2001 01:53 pm, you wrote:
> BERNDT, JON S. (JON) (JSC-EX) (LM) writes:
>  > I disagree. Also, I am not sure what you are referring to by "ficticious
>  > force". This also was not a bug, really, but a potential
>  > misunderstanding in how pilot accels should be calculated. I have other
>  > ideas for simulating turbulence. THese should enter the EOM in the
>  > coming months.
>
> More specifically, it was an interface mismatch.  Since LaRCSim and
> JSBSim are reporting information through the same interface, they
> should report it in the same way (i.e. the rest of FlightGear should
> not have to know which FDM is in use).  Since Tony maintains the
> interface code for both sims, he can have a debate with himself about
> which approach to standardize, then let us know who won.

I believe that JSBSim is more physically correct, but their does seem to be 
some expectation out there that vertical accel should be referenced to one.

If left purely up to me, I will change the LaRCsim output.

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>
> All the best,
>
>
> David

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