re: [Flightgear-devel] c172p-3d - checked against a Cessna 172E

2002-12-31 Thread David Megginson
Luke Scharf writes: > I'll take any excuse to flying on a nice VFR day! :-) I'd like one of those here. All the best, David -- David Megginson, [EMAIL PROTECTED], http://www.megginson.com/ ___ Flightgear-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] htt

re: [Flightgear-devel] c172p-3d - checked against a Cessna 172E

2002-12-31 Thread Luke Scharf
On Tue, 2002-12-31 at 07:09, David Megginson wrote: > 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. I'll take any excuse to flying on a nice VFR day! :-) -Luke -- Luke Scharf, Jac

Re: [Flightgear-devel] c172p-3d - checked against a Cessna 172E

2002-12-31 Thread Luke Scharf
On Mon, 2002-12-30 at 22:52, Luke Scharf wrote: > 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.

re: [Flightgear-devel] c172p-3d - checked against a Cessna 172E

2002-12-31 Thread David Megginson
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 o

[Flightgear-devel] c172p-3d - checked against a Cessna 172E

2002-12-30 Thread Luke Scharf
I remember a while ago that there was a discussion about some properties of the Cessna 172p-3d model. 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