Tuxklok wrote:The cvs version seems to work perfectly with no modifications needed now. Thanks Buck!
Indeed.
Reading the fantastic documentation(Yakko, my hat off to you, and to both of you for the aircraft), I have to say that under CVS it's even more overpowered than the numbers quoted in the doc.
So I started looking at jsbsim piston engine header and source files, as well as your engine configuration comments, and reverting back to the real displacement, as well as setting the compression ratio (<compression-ratio>6.5</compression-ratio>).
Do you have a number for volumetric efficiency ? If you provide it, it's actually used by jsbsim in piston engines.
You might want to join the jsbsim mailing list (I'd say get the manual, but it's scant on engine and propulsion data atm) :
http://jsbsim.sourceforge.net/ and ask there on how to tweak fuel consumption without boosting displacement and thus power.
I'm also under the impression that for boost levels, rated power is only used in calculating the boost steps, and actual power boost only comes from the manifold pressure increase. And as far as I could ascertain, rated power should be the total power with boost (but then, it's not used to calculate power, so it's only important when you have multiple boost levels. that's from a quick search in the source files, so I might be wrong.)
Don't take my word for it, ask on the jsb mailing list, they're a bunch of friendly, deeply knowledgeable guys (there is thread going on about the pitfalls of making good sims) and will give you invaluable advice.
Great, great work : this might be the plane that makes me fly leviathans of the sky
Really gives a feel of big airliner.
Managed to land only once so far, with a huge bounce on first touchdown, hahaha.
I've noticed something (and with other a/c with more than two engines) : it would seem joystick commands by default for mixture and pitch only affect engine 1 and 2 (even with all engines selected), while the keyboard shortcuts affect all engines as expected by default.
This is NOT specific to the Super Connie, and I was wondering if anyone else had noticed ?
There are glitches with the camera keyboard bindings ( I suspect because cvs has model view added, or is that already in 1.9.0 and 1.9.1 ?) : Ctrl-E takes me to the view before Engineer view, which is Model View. I then hit v, and I'm in the Engineer seat.
Thanks for your hard work,
Cheers !!
Nic