Now AGL is based in CoM height, it would be nice to know the real distance to the ground
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Dev Pedro
@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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9,660 AnotherFireFox
@pedro16797 You have to recalculate bounding box after staging, or a hinged part pops out. Same as empty CoM.
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Dev Pedro
@AnotherFireFox still there's staging, hinges... changing the CoM, not only fuel consumption. Bounding boxes would be ideal.
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9,660 AnotherFireFox
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
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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