An aircraft is an aircraft is an aircraft is a glider
Agreed. In my FDMs I do same way. All dynamics are done ignoring engine powers. Only the drag caused by the nacelle is concerned.
Then I make the engine behaved right later and in the case of MD-11 and the secret, suddenly the pitch power tables work. Rather than using a wonky engine to adjust an FDM.
turbine simulation in JSBSim is very simplistic
The advantage being I can completely customize it without even replacing it! So I keep startup/shutdown etc...
In the MD-11 I have proper thrust levels vs fan and core speed, and custom FADEC, to control, custom startup/shutdown control, even custom calculations for EPR EGT and such, without replacing FGTurbine. We can make him behave how we want because of how simple it is!
![Mr. Green :mrgreen:](./images/smilies/icon_mrgreen.gif)
But don't trust it by default
he thinks it is possibly you?!
Why not just use the balls and say it out right?
Kind Regards,
Josh