On Wed, 2003-01-01 at 12:35, David Megginson wrote:
> Luke Scharf writes:
>
> > I've had the same experience in the Cessna 172E Skyhawk that I fly.
> > I can add this to Dave's observations: I haven't been able to cause
> > the nose to drop in an attempted descending power-off turn stall.
> > Some at Cessna did a GREAT job with this aircraft!
>
> Did you try the stall cross-controlled? Note that I'm not
> recommending that, since it can put you inverted.
I kept it as well coordinated as I possibly could!
At my current level of piloting skill, I'm not going to intentionally
spin an airplane without a graybearded instructor or a parachute!
> > BUT, I've never tried to stall a C-172E fully loaded -- I fly in the
> > utility category most of the time. So, our observations may not be
> > valid, depending on how the simulated aircraft is loaded.
> >
> > How is the model in question balanced?
>
> We have it loaded and balanced in or near utility, I think.
Cool - so it should be fairly close to the way I fly the aircraft.
On another note, is there any possibility of adding a way to change the
loading of an airplane? It would be interesting to be able to do
something like:
fgfs --aircraft-type=c172r-3d-yasim \
--aircraft-loading=fuel=38gal,frontseat=200lb,baggage=400lb
and then do crazy things in the simulated aircraft.
-Luke
--
Luke Scharf, Jack of Several Trades
http://www.ccm.ece.vt.edu/~lscharf
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