JSBSIM(1)

okay bestie, this is the manual page for JSBSim 🦋 let's get into it 💅

✨ NAME ✨

JSBSim is the standalone version of the JSBSim open source flight dynamics model 🛫

📜 SYNOPSIS

JSBSim <script filename> <output filenames> <options>

💖 DESCRIPTION

okay so JSBSim is a standalone version of the JSBSim open source flight dynamics model library ✈️ you hand it a script file, it runs the simulation, and it dumps the results into one or more files. iconic, honestly 🫶

🎀 OPTIONS 🎀

• --help — shows the usage info and then exits 👋
• --version — shows the JSBSim version number and exits 🔢
• --outputlogfile=filename — sends the processed data to filename 📝
• --logdirectivefile=filename — uses the data logging directives in filename. this one can be used multiple times, so go wild 🔁
• --root=path — makes path the JSBSim root directory, aka the folder where the aircraft model lives, with the aircraft, engine... subdirectories inside 📂
• --aircraft=filename — uses the aircraft model in filename 🛩️
• --script=filename — runs the simulation script in filename 🎬 ⚠️ this one is incompatible with --catalog!
• --realtime — runs the simulation in actual real world time ⏰
• --nice[=sleep period] — cuts down CPU usage by pausing the sim between frames for sleep period nanoseconds. if you don't give a sleep period, it gets set to 0.01 nanoseconds 😴
• --nohighlight — no colors in the output, thank you very much 🙅
• --suspend — suspends the simulation right after it's initialized ⏸️
• --initfile=filename — uses the initialization file filename 🗂️
• --catalog[=aircraft] — prints all the properties for the aircraft model. if you pass a model name, that's the aircraft it uses. otherwise it grabs the model loaded through the initialization file 📋 ⚠️ this one is incompatible with --script!
• --property=name=value — sets the property name to value 🔧
• --simulation-rate=rate — sets the simulation rate (dT) to rate. if rate is less than 1, it's read as a time step size in seconds. otherwise it's read as a rate in Hertz ⏱️
• --end=time — sets the simulation end time to time 🏁

🚦 EXIT STATUS 🚦

JSBSim exits with 0 on success, and with 1 if the command-line arguments have the wrong syntax or an error happens 💀

🔗 SEE ALSO 🔗

fgfs(1), and the JSBSim Web site 🌐

That's the whole page, bestie 🎀 it came from the FlightGear man pages, source version dated 2017-06-25, page JSBSIM(1) 💜🌈