boogabooga
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Thanks I'll look into it
GAS 90 is to make the airship is heavier than air so it can fly as a hybrid airship. The other 10 percent is taken up by some imaginary air filled ballonets.
This then makes the use of a neutral buoyancy CEILING somewhat useless. Not sure what course of action to take at the moment.
One possibility would be to add a physical model of the airship which can be used to predict the airship's performance, e.g. maximum altitude, given a set of parameters, e.g. ballonet pressure? Then the predicted results could be presented to the pilot who can then adjust parameters, such as the amount of air in the ballonets, until the predicted performance matches the desired performance. Not entirely sure how it's done in real life so will have to check that a bit.
Yeah, we need to have a discussion about airship physics.
I'll say now that I greatly prefer the CEILING system to the GAS system. It's helpful to the pilot to know the neutral buoyancy altitude, and to be able to set it. Perhaps that's how to implement ballonets.
What is the current model that you are using for airship physics, could you please describe it?