New FDE

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Krazycolin
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New FDE

Post by Krazycolin » Sat Jan 18, 2014 6:11 pm

This fixes most of the issues with the exception of the hover stance. we're still trying to figure out how to do that one without borking all of the nice flight dynamics that are in...

www.milviz.com/filesfordownload/MV407_FDE.zip

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Re: New FDE

Post by kdfw » Sat Jan 18, 2014 9:07 pm

maybe if you export your model with 5deg nose up (so the mast is vertical wrt the ground reference), it will fix the hover attitude?

just sayin'

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Re: New FDE

Post by N4GIX » Sat Jan 18, 2014 9:37 pm

kdfw wrote:maybe if you export your model with 5deg nose up (so the mast is vertical wrt the ground reference), it will fix the hover attitude?

just sayin'
Then it'd be sitting on the tail end of the skids while on the ground. :shock:

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Re: New FDE

Post by Krazycolin » Sat Jan 18, 2014 9:39 pm

Actually, he's right Bill.

This is a chopper and that's what you do.

Do remember this is our FIRST chopper. We're still learning the ins and outs of them...

We'll get it. Worry not.

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Re: New FDE

Post by N4GIX » Sat Jan 18, 2014 9:43 pm

Oh right, I completely forgot that the deck angle when on ground can be set in the aircraft.cfg file's entry for static_pitch, which is currently:
static_pitch = 0.198

Thus compensating for the tilted model origin...

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Re: New FDE

Post by kdfw » Sun Jan 19, 2014 3:16 am

... and any chance giving us rigid skids? it will clean up the bounce when weight is coming off the wheels for htr-based flight models. i'm sure Fred will agree.

just askin'

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Re: New FDE

Post by Krazycolin » Sun Jan 19, 2014 3:17 am

Yes. We're going to remove the "wheels"


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