swampthing wrote in Fri Jul 17, 2020 6:57 pm:The window that opens up when you load the plane has the top cut off. O moved it to the side and it went away once I started the plane.
What is the resolution of your window ? I will see if I can move the window default position to improve
Mu opinion the throttle detent sounds are extremely loud. You may want to lower volume for them.
Agreed, I will put in the todo list
I got into a deep stall nearly hitting the ground could recover instantly with some throttle, that probably should not happen, I think I should have hit the ground. Its nose heavy even above 600 knots even trimming the elevators out quite a bit.
Now that is very weird. Once the gear is up, the aircraft should need no trimming at all. The fcs has a g-demand law so if you release the stick in level flight, it should remain around 1-g without any trim.
Also the behavior near stall is as expected. Actually if you yank the stick all the way back but without bleeding too much speed, it will remain stuck at around 30 degrees alpha and just stay there indefinitely. Straight wings have a lesser tendency to pitch up and deep stall than swept wing. This is why the f/a-18 (which configuration is similar to the F-5 family for obvious reasons
) can do the famous "hornet walk" sticking its nose at very high alpha without losing control.
What you did looks actually like a hornet walk. You stuck the nose at alpha max and used power to keep altitude despite the massive drag from lerx lift. This is possible because a clean F-20 is kind of overpowered. It may even be possible to regain altitude in a deep stall at low altitude, but only at full afterburner and very reluctantly (basically, it is a rocket)
Your experience may differ with a full load.
If you want to deep stall the F-20, you will need to do a tail slide and even then, not all configurations will lead to the same results. The AOA will settle around 50 degrees, and the nose will bob up and down, until you get into denser atmosphere where you can try to power out of the stall. You may try to break the deep stall earlier by rolling the aircraft, though it will be difficult.
If you play with loads (fuel tanks mostly) and rudder, you can even start a semi stable spin ( though most of the time recoverable with some work)
Finally, if you really want some more excitement, this new version comes with the controls to switch off the FCS (CAS controls on the left console of the cockpit). You will have the "raw" aircraft, with the ability to pull incredible g's and a fairly nauseating Dutch roll.
I finally let it crash and thats when i see the ground reactions need a lot of work. It went crazy and locked up Flightgear, Ig you need help with that send me a PM. Other than that looking good.
All the best Steve
Yep I did not define body contact points in the FDM... Should go in the to-do list also
Thank you very much for the feedback
Enrique