On Thursday 06 April 2006 07:41 pm, Dave Perry wrote: > Hal V. Engel wrote: > >I have yet to find any aircraft in FlightGear that stalls in a realistic > > way. > > It is possible in YaSim to get fairly real stall behavior and even a > spin. Most Piper single engine AC have fairly docile stall > characteristics with only slight control buffet. If anything, the > pa24-250 in fgfs has more severe stalls than the real AC. > > > 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. > > Again try the pa24. In a takeoff and departure stall to the left or > right, it tends to drop the lower wing rapidly and suddenly at the stall > with an occasional spin if your coordination is sloppy. It tends to > mush with no power and a straight ahead stall. Even in a landing > configuration (full flaps, gear down, no power), if you are aggressive > with the yoke, it will drop a wing, but not an fast or suddenly as in > the departure stalls. Also, it always snaps toward the low wing in an > accelerated stall (60 deg bank to get the 2 gs) and if you don't > immediately release the yoke, you will be inverted.
Just tried the pa24 after installing 0.9.10 and it does indeed have more realistic stall behavior. It does drop a wing and will spin. Have not flown a real pa24 so I can't comment on how close this is to the real thing but it is definitely better than most of the available FG aircraft in this regard. I would recommend the pa24 for those that want to learn more about how to handle stalls and spins. > > >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. > > I also tried the p51 and I agree. It won't even do an accelerated stall > in a 60 degree bank. I believe the p51 is a YaSim model. so with a > little tweaking, it should stall much more realisticly. I will do some > experimenting with it. I am looking forward to having the flight characteristics of the P-51 improved. I really get a kick out of flying it now but would like it to stall/snap/spin in a realistic manner. Particularly since I mostly fly aerobatics in the P-51 I would like to add span rolls to my list of manovers. As a side note 0.9.10 is great. My thanks to everyone working on this for your hard work. Hal ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by xPML, a groundbreaking scripting language that extends applications into web and mobile media. Attend the live webcast and join the prime developer group breaking into this new coding territory! http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid=110944&bid=241720&dat=121642 _______________________________________________ Flightgear-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/flightgear-users
