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Any mod can show the Center of Mass & Center of Lift in flight?


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Some time I need to determine dump how much fuel and pump the fuel to change the CoM before spaceplane reentry.

But without a indicator like the Editor's one, I can only guess it.

Is there any mod can show the CoM & CoL in flight?

Thanks:)

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http://forum.kerbalspaceprogram.com/threads/80581

you asked :)

Even without it, you can figure out by looking ho SAS is struggling with the control : if it pitches up, your plane is naturally pitching down, so CoM is before CoL. Transfer fuel from front to back and stop when SAS is pitching neither up nor down. (if SAS has to pitch down CoM is behind CoM).

edit : this mod seems out of date :/

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If you are looking for the center of lift in flight, I might say it's a bit late to be looking for it.

You should be checking how the CoL and CoM shift as fuel drain in the VAB.

You can more or less deduce the CoM since it's where your camera is centered.

As for the CoL, it's either in the right place or it isn't. If it isn't, how did you get off the ground in the first place?

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If you are looking for the center of lift in flight, I might say it's a bit late to be looking for it.

You should be checking how the CoL and CoM shift as fuel drain in the VAB.

You can more or less deduce the CoM since it's where your camera is centered.

As for the CoL, it's either in the right place or it isn't. If it isn't, how did you get off the ground in the first place?

That spaceplane is a shuttle, no need to consider the CoL CoM problem during take off,

Sometimes I will take the payload back to kerbin, so the CoM of the shuttle always change.

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