Re: [Flightgear-devel] Engine failure in JSBSim

[Erik H. <er...@eh...>]

Buchanan, Stuart wrote:
> Hi All,
> 
> I've just about finished an improved Nasal tutorial system with take-off,
> landing and pattern tutorials for the JSBSim c172p. I'm now scripting a
> tutorial of an engine failure. However, I can't find the correct property
> to cause the engine to fail in a non-restartable way.
> 
> I've tried fuel starvation, changing the
> engines/engine/faults/.*-serviceable flags. The only thing that works is
> setting the magnetos to 0. However, that makes it too easy to restart,
> especially as ideally I want the user to go through some sort of restart
> procedure that I guess would include a magneto check .
> 
> Does anyone have any ideas?

I think you're the first one to touch this area so it's probably not 
that well supported at this point.

Erik

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