Hurricane engine torque

[TomcatViP]

Home computating power is not the real limiter for flight Sim.
Think that your FM does not hve to compute how your plane will behave to any kind of solicitation. Most of the Maths are done once for all B4 you release your FM.

For example if I want to simulate flight buffeting on low level flight at high speed I won't hve to actually calculate for each image projected on the screen how my ctrl surface will behave and than what wld be the amplitude of the plane then pilot head shaking !! An average non harmonic solicitation will do the trick

Good Phy and Math are essential to hve a nice FM. But an overall comprehension of what you hev to look too or generally speaking a comprehension of the flight phenomenas (and I didn't say "sciences") is of utmost importance.

Years ago Engineers where computing real FM with computers that had the power of a today pocket calculator. Nowadays a millions more power is used at every steps of the process by any one in the dev chain (thx to CAO requirements)... And we don't do better planes (F35/Typhoon/A400M etc...)