Changed steering to use the rudder command rather than the rudder
position. During taxi, the rudder trim shouldn't affect the steering
in any serious way.
This should be configurable in the aircraft file, since not all
aircraft use the rudder pedals for ground steering.
[In FlightGear, this may make it easier to taxi straight.]
Changed the steering gain from +/-0.1 to +/-1.0, so that the steering
angle for the nosewheel (when present) is the same as the rudder
deflection angle. That's probably not exactly right, but it's much
better than we had before -- you can now steer the plane on the ground
reasonably during taxiing.
Tony submitted:
JSBsim:
Added trimming routine, it is longitudinal & in-air only at this point
Added support for taking wind & weather data from external source
Added support for flaps.
Added independently settable pitch trim
Added alphamin and max to config file, stall modeling and warning to
follow
c172.cfg:
Flaps!
Adjusted Cmo, model should be speed stable now
FG:
Hooked up Christian's weather code, should be using it soon.
Hooked up the trimming routine. Note that the X-15 will not trim.
This is not a model or trimming routine deficiency, just the
nature of the X-15
The trimming routine sets the pitch trim and and throttle at startup.
The throttle is set using Norman's code for the autothrottle so the
autothrottle is on by default. --notrim will turn it off.
Added --vc, --mach, and --notrim switches
(vc is airspeed in knots)
uBody, vBody, and wBody are still supported, last one entered
on the command line counts, i.e. you can set vc or mach or u,v,
and w but any combination will be ignored.