Curtis L. Olson wrote: > Andy Ross wrote: > > Jon Elson wrote: > > > I was able to make it hang rather reliably by jerking the stick back > > > at 200 KIAS (with the A4) on the takeoff roll. > > > > > > BUT, It will also hang fairly quickly, ONLY at St. Louis (KSTL) and > > > ONLY with the A4 (so far)! > > > > LOL. Congratulations, you crashed the airplane. This isn't a > > software bug, it's called a "tail strike". :) > > Andy, for what it's worth, I suggest trying to take off from KSTL with > the yasim a4 and on the default runway. Otherwise this is a very fine > explanation, but I don't think it's an explanation of the correct > problem. :-)
I'm confused. I thought the bug reports were that the A-4 suffered a tail strike when you yanked back on the stick at 200 knots (something I know I've done in the past, which I believe to be correct behavior), *and* that it crashed 100% of the time during takeoff from STL. No? Just for the record, full-stick AoA on the currently modelled A-4 really will cause a tail strike. If you do it fast enough, you can drive the tail into the ground and cause an FDM halt. Andy -- Andrew J. Ross NextBus Information Systems Senior Software Engineer Emeryville, CA [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.nextbus.com "Men go crazy in conflagrations. They only get better one by one." - Sting (misquoted) _______________________________________________ Flightgear-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.flightgear.org/mailman/listinfo/flightgear-users
