Bug #9406
CoM dependent deploy direction of elevons
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Description
Desc: When the center of mass changes after decoupling, the deploy direction of elevons is affected, i.e. they are not independent from the center of mass.
Repr:
1. Fly the attached plane.
2. Open the cargo ramp door and decouple the dummy cargo.
3. Notice that during pitch maneuvers the deploy direction of the inner elevons has now inverted.
| CoM elevon deployment bug 1.jpg (194 KB) CoM elevon deployment bug 1.jpg | Elevon orientation before decoupling dummy cargo. | ||
| CoM elevon deployment bug 2.jpg (201 KB) CoM elevon deployment bug 2.jpg | Elevon orientation after decoupling dummy cargo. | ||
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History
#1
Updated by sal_vager about 8 years ago
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- Status changed from New to Not a Bug
- % Done changed from 0 to 100
Hi Vycma, this is how the game works, and has been this way since the beginning.
Sorry but this is not a bug.
#2
Updated by Anonymous about 8 years ago
I wrote a comment on that on a related issue with this.
http://bugs.kerbalspaceprogram.com/issues/9407
I think there still would be a better solution. While technically the CoM dependency works as expected, you might want to consider to tweak it a little, because it clearly looks plain wrong in such a borderline case. And resetting the authority limit every time the CoM changes significantly is not very elegant.