by wlbragg » Tue Oct 01, 2019 8:34 pm
Thorsten beat me to it.
Alouette-III is JSBSim and works well. I think it is the flexibility that JSBSim would provide that pulls me that way. I am aware that without good flight data that JSBSim isn't going to get me where I want to be either. But with it, I think there are more options and technically you can achieve better results even for rotary FDM's. But you do have to have the data and the talent to be able to use it and model the flight systems. Neither of which I posses at the moment. The current YASim FDM, while somewhat adequate, is really basic and I am not sure it is even close to reality. For example the turboshaft engines are not modeled, just a single gearbox that until I modified it had only one engine worth of power applied to it.
I think it is impossible to get "YASim for helicopters is of very high quality" with the amount of documentation available. Maybe the YASim FDM structure supports more detail, maybe not, who knows, how do you find out. I think one would have to study the FDM code itself to figure out everything that is available and how to use it.
From what I found the YASim documentation is almost non-existent. I think there may be more documentation as well as help available on the JSBSim side.
Kansas and Ohio/Midwest scenery development.
KEQA, 3AU, KRCP Airport Layout
Intel i7/GeForce RTX 2070/Max-Q