Priority bugs & other issues that need to be looked into

[klem]

Problem: aircraft like the Hurricane and Spitfire fly one wing low when flying straight at a 'combat' cruise speeds.

Improvement: Ability to manually set bendable trim tabs.

Reason: To enable players to determine settings, speed etc at which aircraft flies wings level and straight at a chosen 'combat' cruise.

Method: Simulate the fixed bending of a trim tab (or bending the trailing edge of the Spitfire Aileron) by perhaps entering a fixed trim tab offset (e.g. -2.5 degrees) in the 'Plane' settings, like we have for gun loadouts, with the resulting aileron effect calculated by the FM or even a simplistic fixed addition or subtraction of the aileron deflection.

The trim tab setting for level flight at particular air speed and power etc settings would be found by trial and error (as was the practice in RL). For example the Spitfire could be flown level at the pilots notes cruise settings with airspeed stabilised at a chosen altitude and the trim tab set to give wings level under those conditions.

[Vengeanze]

Originally Posted by klem

Problem: aircraft like the Hurricane and Spitfire fly one wing low when flying straight at a 'combat' cruise speeds.

Improvement: Ability to manually set bendable trim tabs.

Reason: To enable players to determine settings, speed etc at which aircraft flies wings level and straight at a chosen 'combat' cruise.

Method: Simulate the fixed bending of a trim tab (or bending the trailing edge of the Spitfire Aileron) by perhaps entering a fixed trim tab offset (e.g. -2.5 degrees) in the 'Plane' settings, like we have for gun loadouts, with the resulting aileron effect calculated by the FM or even a simplistic fixed addition or subtraction of the aileron deflection.

The trim tab setting for level flight at particular air speed and power etc settings would be found by trial and error (as was the practice in RL). For example the Spitfire could be flown level at the pilots notes cruise settings with airspeed stabilised at a chosen altitude and the trim tab set to give wings level under those conditions.

Not sure I follow u all the way but I always thought that the sliding of the plane was a tourque thing and u countermeasure it with rudder trim (as aileron trim didn't exist).
But perhaps you're talking about a difficulty setting.

[klem]

Originally Posted by Vengeanze

Not sure I follow u all the way but I always thought that the sliding of the plane was a tourque thing and u countermeasure it with rudder trim (as aileron trim didn't exist).
But perhaps you're talking about a difficulty setting.

You're basically right but the wings could only be level under one particular set of circumstances when the torque is perfectly counteracted by rudder alone. Under other conditions one wing will be low as the rudder cannot perfectly offset the torque under all conditions.

Here's what Alex Henshaw said about production testing the Spitfire MkV:

"After a thorough pre-flight check I would take off and, once at circuit height, I would trim the aircraft and try to get her to fly straight-and-level with hands off the stick. The MarkV lacked aileron trim tabs and most new ones tended to fly one wing low. When that happened I would land immediately and a mechanic would bend the trailing edge of the aileron up or down and then bend the other aileron in the opposite direction. Then I'd take off again and trim it hands off to see if the wing dropping had been cleared." They could often get it right first time.

The wing high/low tendency would return if he went outside the speed/power etc settings by some margin as the torque would be different.

[Vengeanze]

Originally Posted by klem

You're basically right but the wings could only be level under one particular set of circumstances when the torque is perfectly counteracted by rudder alone. Under other conditions one wing will be low as the rudder cannot perfectly offset the torque under all conditions.

Here's what Alex Henshaw said about production testing the Spitfire MkV:

"After a thorough pre-flight check I would take off and, once at circuit height, I would trim the aircraft and try to get her to fly straight-and-level with hands off the stick. The MarkV lacked aileron trim tabs and most new ones tended to fly one wing low. When that happened I would land immediately and a mechanic would bend the trailing edge of the aileron up or down and then bend the other aileron in the opposite direction. Then I'd take off again and trim it hands off to see if the wing dropping had been cleared." They could often get it right first time.

The wing high/low tendency would return if he went outside the speed/power etc settings by some margin as the torque would be different.

Friggin kewl! I want it.

[Thee_oddball]

Originally Posted by Sauf
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+1 for me

+1