[Flightgear-devel] Creating a PA34-Seneca (which FDM to choose?)

[Jim W. <ji...@ke...>]

> From: Torsten Dreyer
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> Long intro for my question: 
> What is the best FDM to use, when I have the airplane manual with its 
> dimensions, performance data, mass-and-balance section and with the ability 
> to actually fly the plane and get the real data like "what indicated speed at 
> what pitch with which power setting at altitude 8000ft with ISA?"
> How do I convert these real-life data into a FDM config-file?
> 
> If you like, here is the original after which I try to build the model:
> http://www.littlewing-air.de/fotoshow/index_fotoshow.html
> 

Hi Torsten,

Nice model and great project.  On your description I would suggest YASim as it was designed to work with the kind of data you are describing.  Since this sort of  question comes up so often you might want to check the archives and put what you find in the FlightGear wiki.  I did a little googling, and found it isn't that easy to get the right discussions,  but I know that very detailed and explicit comparisions of the flight model systems are there in the discussions.

Best regards.

Jim