Clearly it is at 1/4 of the chord lenght |
Gliders usually have laminar airfoils that may have resulting force at about 50% of the chord. That means the CoG (defined as in real DG1001M) is too much off of the resulting lift force in the X-plane. Thus a large moment is produced and the aircraft tends to pitch up.
So how to solve this problem?
A) Solution might be to simply change the CoG position in the plane maker. However that breakes designed balance for ground operation as the CoG moves towards the main wheel.
B) Move the wings so that chord's 25% (1/4) will match desired position of the CoG. Then just hide the wings and replace them by ones imported as misc. object that will not be taken into flight model calculation.
C) Calculate airfoil's moment correction.
I'll go for B). This sulution seems to be most accurate at given circumstances
B) solution applied |
As I found later, there is no need to move the lift force (wings). I misunderstood some things here. So the solution is C). Explanation is here.
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