Minimum required inputs for sizing and aircraft and running a mission

[emski0]

Hi,
Is there somewhere the minimum required inputs for FLOPS and GASPS, for sizing an aircraft and running a mission?
I haven't seen it anywhere, if so i think a list with the minimum required inputs could be quite helpful.
Thanks

[Kenneth-T-Moore]

Hey, emski. I have experimented with a minimal FLOPS aircraft, just to see how much I could shrink the aircraft definition. To do this, I added the empty mass as aircraft:design:empty_mass,91530.52715913,lbm. This means that all of the inputs that eventually contribute to the empty weight can be zeroed out, though in practice, I needed to keep some of them to prevent divide by zero errors (hydraulic system pressure was an example of this).

https://gist.github.com/Kenneth-T-Moore/7160ec8a176eb0b70c6c3a77be3b5318

I do think we need to make this easier, so that the user isn't forced to carry along legacy inputs that aren't part of their aicraft description.