Hello Aleatorylamp,
Happy Easter to you also. I hadn't even thought that there was a holiday here.
My kids are on Spring Break.
My Son is sick again. He has had a fever for a couple days but not bad enough to give him medication yet.
For the last two days, my Wife and Daughter have been on a college visit.
They got back around 0700 this morning and are both asleep right now.
As you already know, earlier in the week, we were all on a couple college visits.
LOTS of things we need to do before this break ends, so I hadn't even considered that there was a holiday involved.
Regarding FW 200:
I would suggest that you first try to find out what the proper pitch values should be if not for that particular aeroplane, then for something very similar in power and speed.
Don't change things just because *I* said things don't quite look right. I have done no testing on your FW 200 that is really worth mentioning. Changing things without a clear objective is not terribly productive.
Did these people fit the optimal propeller to this aeroplane? If not, then perhaps it SHOULD be behaving exactly the way it is now.
Over the last couple days, I have also been playing with a Lockheed Model 10E Electra because it has an interesting instrument panel including the Sperry Autopilot gauge. Apparently there is some kind of configuration file that adjusts the behaviour of this gauge also. ....But again, without a clear objective in mind, it doesn't make sense to mess with it. Too many cans of worms open already.
My programming objectives for the Propeller Tables are pretty simple for now; I just want utilities that will help me work faster and be able to visually compare the curves I am trying to generate. The "intelligent part" isn't going to happen for a while yet.
Good Luck on the QBasic programming.
I actually was halfway tempted to do these utilities in Java to test out my development environment and perhaps show my Son who is trying to learn Java in school right now.
The problem here is that I can program about as fast as I can think in C but go quite a lot slower in Java.
Also, the problem is one of math conversions and binary editing and Java is not really the ideal language in my opinion.
- Ivan.
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