An aircraft is an aircraft is an aircraft is a glider
Agreed. In my FDMs I do same way. All dynamics are done ignoring engine powers. Only the drag caused by the nacelle is concerned.
Then I make the engine behaved right later and in the case of MD-11 and the secret, suddenly the pitch power tables work. Rather than using a wonky engine to adjust an FDM.
turbine simulation in JSBSim is very simplistic
The advantage being I can completely customize it without even replacing it! So I keep startup/shutdown etc...
In the MD-11 I have proper thrust levels vs fan and core speed, and custom FADEC, to control, custom startup/shutdown control, even custom calculations for EPR EGT and such, without replacing FGTurbine. We can make him behave how we want because of how simple it is!
But don't trust it by default
he thinks it is possibly you?!
Why not just use the balls and say it out right?
Kind Regards,
Josh