There is a Flightgear property called /sim/hitches/winch/automatic-release-angle-deg that can be used to simulate a safety feature built into modern gliders. If the cable angle gets too great during a winch launch, the hook will automatically release the cable. This usually happens when the glider gets almost on top of the winch at the top of the launch without releasing the cable.
Unfortunately winch launching has two separate implementations, one in Nasal for JSBSim, and another one in C++ for YASIM. The YASIM one does not implement this property so I wrote a patch to add this.
As discussed on the mailing list, make this more consistent with JSBsim.
We could still define common locations for these values as well, but
waiting on positive answer to that discussion on the ML.
when active does not touch the way the YASim jet calculates fuel flow, but separates out the afterburning component of thrust, calculates the TSFC of that component and uses the same method of fuel flow calculation for the afterburning component then adds it to the existing fuel flow
When inactive (atsfc doesn't exist or is zero) it just behaves exactly as before
I finally got around to testing this small patch thoroughly, and I'm satisfied that it doesn't affect anything else & works across many different versions (i've been testing it with current as it has changed over the last 7 months)
* Fixed the initial conditions settings (geodetic altitude is now correctly computed).
* FGLGear reports the time at which it detected a violent ground hit (aka crash)
* Doc update of the kinematic component
* TurboProp code cleanup with the removal of lots of obsolete/no-op members.
* Fixed the trim on ground algorithm. Now JSBSim aircrafts should no longer be 'dropped' on the runway at start.
* Removed a correction on the propeller induced velocity that was giving erratic results when the aircraft aero velocity is very small.
* Various source comments updates.
I didn’t know about this feature when doing the original CMake files,
we can use this to target header-file includes more precisely.
(Probably more cases exist that can be changed from global to target-
specific includes)
