the climbing rate gauge should have HUGE variations caused by atmosphere

[gabuzomeu]

Absolutely,
except perhaps if IAS <>TAS and the air itself does move up and down very fast (let's say we could call this phenomenon.... wind?)

[raaaid]

oh but the vertical wind maybe a maxium of 20 kph while the horizoantal whcih measures the plane +-400 so the error is much less than with the flawed transformed barometer

[Skoshi Tiger]

You could use your radar altimeter? Might be more accurate but would be dependant on the terrain beneath you, or a GPS, or inertal navigation system, or one of those laser gyroscope dodads. It would just be a data gathering and programming issue.


Hmmmm! What did they teach in the BAK syllabus? "High to low lookout below?"

[bolox]

the elemental way to fix this flaw is to link airspeed and angle of climb to have a precise climbing rate reading

However the ASI is part of the same Pitot Static system and thus prone to the same errors

[raaaid]

well but at least you agree with me that altitude needles in the game should oscilate and the climbing rate one a lot

[5./JG27.Farber]

Was there not German method where the needles didnt jump around? - electrical gauges or something? In clod V1 the red sides needle used to jump around but the reds whined till it was fixed. Even though as you say it was realistic........... So it was there but they took it out because a vocal part of the red side didnt want that realistic factor.

[jcenzano]

Originally Posted by raaaid

well but at least you agree with me that altitude needles in the game should oscilate and the climbing rate one a lot

pitot-static VVI´s do not oscilate a lot, but they have LAG and they are somehow sluggish.

Originally Posted by raaaid

if i were to build a climbing rate gauge i would do it base on vertical angle of heading and air speed

and can you tell me how would you build a VVI gauge based on these with WWII technology???

because to get a "highly acurate" verical angle of climb/descent you need an INS or a pretty good attitude indicator and they did not have neither of these back then

on the other hand your "inquietudes científicas" generate pretty interesting posts

As a pilot I can say I haven't really noticed any wobbly oscillations of a VSI ... ever. Atmospheric pressure variances do not occur with the great horizontal or vertical rapidity that would be required to make it do so. Remember, it's just a bourdon tube with a calibrated leak.

[gabuzomeu]

By the way, the same scientific maffia introduced gyro scop driven artificial horizon, while a glass of water is a good reference for horizontal in daily experience...

[5./JG27.Farber]

Just totally ignore me...

I guess you guys were not there.........................................


mazex - what about that radar / command fighter thing your too busy to work on? any news?