Author Topic: Flying the Ki-84 old Warbirds page (Read 1400 times)

Kerago · « **Reply #15 on:** November 28, 2004, 02:47:01 AM »

Heh, so if I snap my ailerons off trying to pull out of a dive is that because I have auto trim on or because I'm a useless noob?

RedBeard · « **Reply #16 on:** November 28, 2004, 03:21:59 PM »

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Originally posted by Rasker
and heres some speed and turn daius diagrams for the Ki84 and other early AW aicraft: http://www.cactus.org/AirWarrior/Library/AWInfo/EMDiagrams.html

Yowza, that's some old stuff I posted back in the AW2 days (hosted by GEnie for ~$4/hr). Glad to see the data is still around and people are finding it useful. CACTUS was going to shut down the site after I left, but I guess it didn't quite get fully purged.

The diagrams came from Stu Butts, an Air Force test pilot at the time. There's a fair amount of analysis that went in to some of these, but I can't say that they match the current plane data.

I've been thinking of getting involved with online flying once again and have been looking for where everyone went. Looks like AW is dead, WB is under new mgmt (?), and AH has some of the "old timers". Sorry for the off topic comments.

Jim Knutson
Once was Red Beard

Rasker · « **Reply #17 on:** November 30, 2004, 02:29:19 PM »

No problem bro, good to hear from a "legacy". Folks like you helped make combat flght sims what they are today!

Kerago · « **Reply #18 on:** November 30, 2004, 06:24:18 PM »

Someone mentioned that you should turn auto trim off when flying the ki-84. Does this mean you need to manually change trim for different situations or are there settings you can simply place and forget?

Rasker · « **Reply #19 on:** December 01, 2004, 03:02:59 AM »

From what I understand, auto combat trim compensates for traveling at different speeds. With that off, you will have to manually adjust settings when changing speeds.