Hi Curt Yep good points - so besides the AOA issue, I think this jet is pretty much done.
BTW - checked out your nice pics with you in the simulator - must have been a ball. Regards Shelton. > Shelton D'Cruz wrote: > >Ok thats good to know - how about stalls - how does it react? > > YAsim models some simple stalls. You definitely know when you've > stalled. True life stall behavior is very difficult to model because it > can be so different from aircraft to aircraft. There seems to be a > small issue in YAsim with some strange behavior when your aoa goes a > little past negative. I was looking at that last night and today, but > quickly got in over my head. Hopefully Andy can figure this out without > too much additional work. When you fly in the normal regimes you should > almost never run into this problem. > > For whatever it's worth, some people like to hop into a sim and evaluate > the flight dynamics model by taking it to the extreme edges of the > flight regime before looking at anything else. If it feels right, the > sim is great, if not the sim stinks. In this case, who here has stalled > a Citation Jet? Who would know exactly how it reacts or doesn't react? > How easy is it to recover in real life? If I told you it stalled > exactly right would you be able to prove me wrong? If you told me it > didn't stall right, could I prove you wrong? > > I'm not a full scale pilot, but I have flown a variety of R/C aircraft. > They all have wildly different stall characteristics. > > So who knows... I think the YAsim Citation has a plausible stall but I > have no way to say if it's anything close to realistic or not. > > Curt. _______________________________________________ Flightgear-users mailing list [email protected] http://mail.flightgear.org/mailman/listinfo/flightgear-users 2f585eeea02e2c79d7b1d8c4963bae2d
