Now AGL is based in CoM height, it would be nice to know the real distance to the ground
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Dev Pedro5.8 years ago
@AnotherFireFox the thing is that even with dry CoM the altitude is going to change a lot depending on the craft, a dynamic bounding box would be appreciated
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9,685 AnotherFireFox5.8 years ago
@pedro16797 You have to recalculate bounding box after staging, or a hinged part pops out. Same as empty CoM.
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Dev Pedro5.8 years ago
@AnotherFireFox still there's staging, hinges... changing the CoM, not only fuel consumption. Bounding boxes would be ideal.
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9,685 AnotherFireFox5.8 years ago
This results in making suicide burn program hard since you don't really know at what AGL you're landed. I'm not sure how hard it is to draw a bounding cylinder to get the height in the matter of program. If it's hard enough to affect the performance, I guess using dry CoM instead of current CoM to get the height would be an option. At least this height wouldn't be changed inflight. @AndrewGarrison
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507 swope+1 5.9 years ago
Maybe a bounding cylinder would be more intuitive for people? What if the bottom part is long? We wouldn't want the center point.
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