Stability and Control characteristics of the Early Mark Spitfires

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Originally Posted by Crumpp

Gates was not NACA and neither was the RAE when they published the Operating Notes.

I read the notes. Do you consider that the warnings against misuse are exceptional for the period, or exceptional compared to later WWII aircraft with better stability characteristics?

Originally Posted by Crumpp

It is not meant to be a good example of advances in stability and control. The thread is meant to point out the measureable and definable characteristics so that they can be modeled for the game.

That is a good idea and worth pursuing, but there is an unfortunate snag. Not only are people using different control hardware to control the same virtual aircraft, they have the option to tune the response between the physical control deflection and the virtual control surface deflection with nonlinear curves. This ability is not under the umbrella of the flight sim software itself. Some people have simulated control surface loading (FFB), some do not, and again the user can quietly do their own stability modifications to make their plane handle differently to what the devs attempt to program.

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