I've noticed a problem with stalls in YASim. Try this: 1. Climb to a safe altitude. 2. Cut power to idle. 3. Keep raising the nose slowly to hold the current altitude until the stall occurs.
In a real Skyhawk, it's 50:50 whether the nose will even drop much if I pull the yoke all the way back; often, I just get mild buffetting as the nose drops a couple of degrees, picks up speed, and lifts up again and the plane mushes on forward. There's never any roll in a power-off stall, though a power-on stall can sometimes cause a slight incipient spin. In my Warrior, my instructor and I were unable to get anything but buffetting in any configuration: full flaps, no flaps, power, no power, sharp pull-back, etc.. Even a departure stall (in a 30 degree climbing bank with power) failed to cause the outside wing to drop. On the other hand, with the simulated YASim planes I tested this morning (Cub, Skyhawk, and Warrior), a straight-ahead stall *always* causes a violent wing drop, often followed by inverted flight. I understand that that can happen on a cross-controlled approach stall (rudder full one direction, ailerons full the other) even in trainers, but I cannot test it in real life since no plane I fly is certified to fly inverted. It can also happen in the departure stall I mentioned above, though I cannot coax my Warrior to do it. Otherwise, though, the trainers I've flown simply do not normally stall that way. What can we do to prevent the over-eager wing drop in YASim? Is there something we can change in the config files, or is it a C++ code problem? I understand that many higher-performance aircraft can have quite violent (and even unrecoverable) stalls, as can some trainers like the Traumahawk, and I don't want to lose the ability to model cross-controlled approach stalls, but we need to get the other stalls right as well. Skyhawks and Cherokees are very forgiving planes, or else many fewer low-time pilots would live to become high-time pilots. All the best, David -- David Megginson, [EMAIL PROTECTED], http://www.megginson.com/ _______________________________________________ Flightgear-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.flightgear.org/mailman/listinfo/flightgear-devel
