Re: [Flightgear-devel] Random thoughts about LinuxTag.

[David M. <da...@me...>]

Jon S. Berndt writes:

 > > You get the wind (inclusive up/downdrafts) from Christian's weather
 > > module, don't you?
 > 
 > I don't know where it comes from. Tony did the initial work and if anything
 > is handled from the bus I don't know what that is, yet.

All of the FDMs get NED wind components from the bus.  We're not
separating turbulence into a separate vector yet, but that won't be
hard to do.  The only way to set winds right now is to assign values
to the properties manually, either at startup or through the telnet
interface.

Setting the wind at startup doesn't work so well, though, since the
JSBSim gear code doesn't model static friction yet (i.e. the plane
will skid around a bit).


All the best,


David

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