Andy Ross wrote:
>Jon Elson wrote:
>
>
>>Possibly related. I was able to make it hang rather reliably by
>>jerking the stick back at 200 KIAS (with the A4) on the takeoff
>>roll.
>>
>>
>
>LOL. Congratulations, you crashed the airplane. This isn't a
>software bug, it's called a "tail strike". :)
>
OK, possible, on those particular trys. But, it also does the same,
while youre
still rolling along with all 3 gear flat on the ground. I switched
airport, to
KSUS, and had none of these problems.
>YASim isn't smart enough to try to model the forces exterted on a
>(rapidly deforming) airframe by the crunching metal in the tail. It
>just models the airframe points as (very stiff) landing gear. If, at
>the end of any iteration, it finds that the base of the gear is under
>the ground, it determines that the aircraft has crashed and halts
>simulation.
>
>A nice feature would be to display a report of what part of the
>airframe crashed, and what the relevant velocities were.
>
Yes, reporting the hit, and maybe vertical velocity would be useful to
know how
bad you did!
Jon
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