Andy Ross wrote:
Jim Wilson wrote:
To be honnest, I don't think anyone would even notice if the Boeing were tail scraping over the runway. For example, it is very comon for F-16 to hit the runway with their ventral fins on startup or touchdown. This is usually only noticed afterwards by the groud crew.Now you will note that the B747-400 on take off, rather than yanking back on the stick you need to just bring the nose up a bit and let it lift off, lest the aft section of the fuselage scrapes on the pavement...just like the real thing. Hmmm...anyone have a sound effect for that? :-)To be fair, the tail has always been scraping inside the FDM. It's just obvious now that's what is happening. Before, it looked like you were running out of elevator authority. And I agree, a "scraping" sound would be really nice ear candy, and very easy to implement. I can just set a "/sim/fuselage-contact" boolean whenever one of the non-gear contact points is touching the ground.
On a side note, it would be nice to make a distinction between locations that would crash the aircraft (nose, wing tips) and part that just cause the aircraft to clip to the ground (belly, ventral fins).
Erik
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