Tony Peden writes: > > In real life, it's also much harder to do a tail strike than it is > > with the JSBSim 172 -- it's quite safe to pull all the way back on the > > yoke to keep the weight off the nosewheel. > > Hmm, downwash (or, more precisely, the lack thereof)
I cannot say. One thing we're not modelling yet is nosewheel shimmy: on the 172s I fly, the nosewheel starts to vibrate very unpleasantly at around 50kt if it still has weight on it, so raising it is the only way to have a smooth takeoff roll. On landing, it's just as noticeable; by around 40kt, I often have the yoke pulled back all the way (gradually, of course), both to take weight off the nosewheel and to put more weight on the mains to improve braking -- besides, it just looks cool rolling down the runway with the nosewheel six inches up in the air. All the best, David n.b. My airport is near sea level; at higher elevations, the indicated airspeed would be lower to give the same ground speed. -- David Megginson, [EMAIL PROTECTED], http://www.megginson.com/ _______________________________________________ Flightgear-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.flightgear.org/mailman/listinfo/flightgear-devel
