Thorsten wrote in Sat May 14, 2011 2:12 pm:I beg to differ. You did not launch and land as it was in reality, you did launch and land as a Flightsimulator would allow you to do it and just didn't notice the difference to reality. There are lots of physics issues which are not in Flightgear, but needed for spaceflight.
I am talking about what I had been tested and know really. Atmosphere on high altitudes in JSB acts exactly as it should and produce very small drag, but drag, and exactly drag what I had awaited. I was even changed reactions a bit to make 100...150km orbital flight more durable, because that small drag was lead to fast deorbit on second or third orbit as it does in reality on that altitudes.
Yes, shield heating issues is still up to You if You make reentry. But those reactions in first approach do not changes nothing but only possibility of craft to burn out if it oriented wrong side too long. I suppose it's not problem. If You thinks what these reactions really changes drag then I could say not so, at least if You are using Datcom calculated data for hypersonic flight.
To be exact, burn on west Africa coast leads exact to landing somewhere in Kasakhstan. I had been tested it.
Maybe some magnetic fields really produces shifts but I suppose not so, at least until You give me formula for that to prove You are right. And if You would give to me formula it would be included in JSBSim fast.
About long term flights I could say what we simply do not need it now. We need only short flights up to number of orbits because no normal man could wait with simulator so long and currently there is not so much of possibility to make a time warps in FG with all that terrain lags.
And, to finish that reasoning, some long way begins from first step. If You do not make it then here will be no long way, at least for You.
Thorsten wrote in Sat May 14, 2011 2:12 pm:Nope - I'm trying to explain to you why there has not been any response on the devel list. However, if you think you know already, then I'll just quit taking here.
People who wants to do something search for means. People who do not, them search for explanations. I want to do, so I do not need explanations. I need "I could help". If You personally could not then much talking is wasting of time for both of us only.