> Take the dc3 up to 5000' and cut engines whilst cruising. Without
> paying any attention to maintaining altitude, make some shallow turns
> and try to glide around for a while then try and land the plane once you
> get the feel for it.
>
> I fail to do this. I get an apparent stall, randomly, like one wing is
> stalling before the other. I wiggle the rudder a little and wait for the
Have you tried any JSBSim aircraft? I suspect that this is a problem
to do with Yasim. In the P51D, 747, and especially the B52, I've seen
this asymmetric stall many times during non-stabilized approaches, and
they usually happen at decent airspeeds (say, 170kt). I haven't ever
experienced anything like this in the A320 or F16 or C172.
There's another issue I reported earlier, it's probably not a generic
Yasim problem though. In the Cub, cut the engine and try to glide and
then land. I find it impossible to maintain altitude in the last few
100ft AGL, I always crash into the ground in an uncontrolled way
because the plane suddenly loses airspeed very rapidly.
This might have to do with the effect that the prop starts turning in
the wrong direction when you build up airspeed with the engine turned
off (try starting FG with the plane at a few 1000ft AGL with 0kt
airspeed, you'll see). I haven't seen this in other Yasim prop planes.
Andras
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