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Originally Posted by Blackdog_kt
This is a "factory test" thread. You fly, you get the data, you post them here in the format Klem asks.  |
As someone who has been testing 1C FMs going on 10+ years now I have learned there are two sides to the flight model testing coin
1) the in-game data
2) the real world data
Where one without the other make it pretty useless data.
And mistakes can be made in both!
For example
How many threads have you seen where someone claims there is an error in the FM because 'they' were unable to obtain such and such at such and such altitude? Only to find out later the person making that claim didn't know the difference between IAS and TAS.
How many threads have you seen where someone claims there is an error in the FM because 'they' were unable to obtain such and such at such and such altitude? Only to find out later the person making the claim was comparing the in game plane to the wrong real world data.
With that in mind..
I think before we make any claims about anything we should make an effort to agree upon the real world data we should be comparing the in game planes to. Granted in some cases you will be hard pressed to find the real world data for the exact version of the in game plane, if any. But it just does not make any since to make a claim about how right or wrong the FM is until we can at least agree upon the real world data we are using as the baseline for comparisons
With that said..
I think this thread would be a good place to submit the real world data that matches as closely as it can the in game planes, and leave the test results per test in separate threads devoted to that plane and that test. It would be nice to agree upon a min set of data that should be collected and presented in those individual test, and this thread would/could provide examples of that.
Anyway, just my two cents