I'm unhappy with the overall flight dynamics model of the fixed wing implementation. Some of the stuff in it is ok, but it doesn't feel natural enough. Not bad for 5 post-it notes I guess.
However, I've been doing some investigation and there was a lot of work done in the Open Source community most significantly on LaRCsim by E. Bruce Jackson - which is a general flight sim model that he wrote while at Nasa (and I tend to think those guys know about flying)
Whilst nothing is going to be a simple piece of drop in code, this should at least give me a better insight into lift and what happens depending on the angle of attack etc
I'm unhappy with the overall flight dynamics model of the fixed wing implementation. Some of the stuff in it is ok, but it doesn't feel natural enough. Not bad for 5 post-it notes I guess.
However, I've been doing some investigation and there was a lot of work done in the Open Source community most significantly on LaRCsim by E. Bruce Jackson - which is a general flight sim model that he wrote while at Nasa (and I tend to think those guys know about flying)
Whilst nothing is going to be a simple piece of drop in code, this should at least give me a better insight into lift and what happens depending on the angle of attack etc