> I have yet to find any aircraft in FlightGear that stalls in 
> a realistic way.  
> As you approach the stall the aircraft should shudder and 
> shake and this should become more pronounced as the stall 
> deepens.  The shuddering and shaking should also be audible.  
> At the final stages of the stall depending on the aircraft it 
> should either mush straight ahead while still shuddering 
> and shaking or it should drop a wing and (for some aircraft) 
> enter a spin.   
> Aircraft with a "critical wing" such as the P-51 should stall 
> with little warning (perhaps a little shaking just before 
> full stall) and should drop a wing very quickly when stalled. 
>  Instead it mushes straight ahead like a trainer but without 
> any shuddering or shaking.  Very unrealistic.  This is IMO 
> one of the most important things that needs improved in FG.
> 
> Hal 

The capability is there in JSBSim, and one of the things I've been doing
as a lower-priority effort in recent weeks is to look at modeling
wing-lift over the entire range of alpha. There is also a model for lift
hysteresis, which is seldom used and understood. I agree that our flight
modeling could be improved in this area.

Jon



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