[HN Gopher] Mscsim - flight dynamics simulation software
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       Mscsim - flight dynamics simulation software
        
       Author : app4soft
       Score  : 83 points
       Date   : 2021-01-28 13:01 UTC (10 hours ago)
        
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 (TXT) w3m dump (github.com)
        
       | plafl wrote:
       | Every time I see something like this I think I should open source
       | my masters thesis in aerospace engineering. It was an helicopter
       | simulator implemented in (ancient, numarray) python. At least it
       | could be an starting point for someone else although it's written
       | in spanish (damn!). I think that the flight dynamics are much
       | better than anything else I have seen on the wild. It had an
       | interface with FlightGear. I just have written a friend of mine
       | that teaches at my university to ask about copyright...
        
         | app4soft wrote:
         | > _Every time I see something like this I think I should open
         | source my masters thesis in aerospace engineering._
         | 
         | Just do it! ;)
        
       | bjeds wrote:
       | Wow, that's very impressive for a one-man-project. If the author
       | is reading this, can you describe the background to this
       | software, why you started writing it, and how it's been going?
        
         | app4soft wrote:
         | JFTR, I'm not an author, but spotting this project for more
         | than a year.
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         | Take a look on slides published by _Marek Cel_ (author) on
         | Scribd.[0]
         | 
         | Beside _`mscsim`_ , there is also _`mscsim-cc0`_ -- fully
         | Public Domain version of this flight simulator software
         | kernel.[1]
         | 
         | Also, author developed arcade-style flightsim game for Andorid
         | (and probably for other platforms, as it is pure Qt
         | project).[2,3]
         | 
         | [0] https://www.scribd.com/user/458580892/Marek-Cel
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         | [1] https://github.com/marek-cel/mscsim-cc0
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         | [2] https://github.com/marek-cel/fightersfs
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         | [3] http://marekcel.pl/?lang=en&page=fsg
        
       | wycy wrote:
       | If the author is reading this, would you be able to explain your
       | maneuvering model? I browsed the source a bit but couldn't find
       | it, though I see references to OpenFOAM. Is the maneuvering based
       | on interpolating on CFD results, is it a coefficient-based
       | maneuvering model, or something else?
        
         | SloopJon wrote:
         | It may be too sparse to answer your question, but there is a
         | related paper on the author's web site:
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         | http://marekcel.pl/docs/mscsim_doc.pdf
        
           | wycy wrote:
           | That actually did answer a lot of my questions--thanks
        
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