Luke Scharf writes: > I went flying yesterday in a 1964 Cessna 172E w/ a ~145hp engine and a > climb prop. The W&B put it into the utility category, and I flew these > tests about 4000' MSL with an altimeter setting of 30.13 > > Here's what I found: > 1. Left-roll tencency: Hands off 105mph, the roll rate seemed to > be very roughly about 1 deg/sec. The ground-adjustable trim tab > had the aircraft darn-close to being coordinated. A fingertip > touch on the right aileron every 2-3 seconds would keep the > wings level without so much as a conscious thought on my part. > > 2. Nose-up with flaps: Hands off 80mph, add one notch of flaps: > The nose does indeed shoot skyward.. The aircraft climbed 100ft > and slowed to 60mph before I got nervous and gave it a tap on > the down elevator. > > Summary: The model was more accurate than I (a regular but low-time > Cessna 172 pilot) thought. Some of the effects may have been somewhat > exaggerated, but a bigger engine in the simulated aircraft might account > for a lot of it. The "seat of the pants" feel that you have when flying > the real aircraft covers up most of the effects.
Thank you very much for doing the test and posting the results. I did tone down the behaviour; after looking at your test, perhaps I toned it down too far. All the best, David -- David Megginson, [EMAIL PROTECTED], http://www.megginson.com/ _______________________________________________ Flightgear-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.flightgear.org/mailman/listinfo/flightgear-devel
