Friday Update, February 17, 2012

[Insuber]

Originally Posted by airmalik

Excellent update B6.



Can anyone decipher this into layman terms? Is this referring to modeling of slips?

It regards the physical model of the wing and of the air flow around it. It means that CloD adopts a calculated flight model, as opposed to the parametric one. In the more sophisticated physical models the lift/drag is calculated for a number of wing portions, or slices, whereas in the simpler ones the calculation is done on the entire wing.

IIRC, CFS and FS used a parametric FM, or a variant of it, while XPlane adopts a physical model with several "slices" and separated wings.

Cheers,
Ins

To all: Please, stop using again the expression "layman's terms", enough is enougH