I've only tried it with the dc3 On Fri, 2003-08-01 at 16:44, Major A wrote: > > Take the dc3 up to 5000' and cut engines whilst cruising. Without > > paying any attention to maintaining altitude, make some shallow turns > > and try to glide around for a while then try and land the plane once you > > get the feel for it. > > > > I fail to do this. I get an apparent stall, randomly, like one wing is > > stalling before the other. I wiggle the rudder a little and wait for the > > Have you tried any JSBSim aircraft? I suspect that this is a problem > to do with Yasim. In the P51D, 747, and especially the B52, I've seen > this asymmetric stall many times during non-stabilized approaches, and > they usually happen at decent airspeeds (say, 170kt). I haven't ever > experienced anything like this in the A320 or F16 or C172. > > There's another issue I reported earlier, it's probably not a generic > Yasim problem though. In the Cub, cut the engine and try to glide and > then land. I find it impossible to maintain altitude in the last few > 100ft AGL, I always crash into the ground in an uncontrolled way > because the plane suddenly loses airspeed very rapidly. > > This might have to do with the effect that the prop starts turning in > the wrong direction when you build up airspeed with the engine turned > off (try starting FG with the plane at a few 1000ft AGL with 0kt > airspeed, you'll see). I haven't seen this in other Yasim prop planes. > > Andras > > =========================================================================== > Major Andras > e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > www: http://andras.webhop.org/ > =========================================================================== > > _______________________________________________ > Flightgear-devel mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://mail.flightgear.org/mailman/listinfo/flightgear-devel -- Christopher S Horler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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