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Offline Schatzi

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Bad flight charachteristics in demo
« Reply #15 on: April 24, 2006, 12:49:10 PM »
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Originally posted by scottydawg
Dang, I'll have to check that out.  I don't mind flat spins, makes you harder to hit.



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Stall recovery is a very important skill and can be easily practiced :).


Things that help you regain control:

- Nose down!
- rudder opposite spin
- Chop throttle (sometimes "playing" with throttle carefully might be required)
- retract flaps if they are down (while they add lift at slow speed, they keep you from regaining steady airstream on your wing)
- as little aileron input as possible - none is best (same prob as flaps)


Things that might help, but only use if you cant recover otherwise:

- turn off engine (i cant tell you why, but it sometimes helps)
- drop gear for a second or two (the drag seems to stabilize the plane)
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Offline TexMurphy

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« Reply #16 on: April 24, 2006, 03:21:31 PM »
In fact intentional stalls can sometimes be very usefull.

For instance when your e-fighting someone and you push your plane as high up as you can to store away the E you can, if you know where the envelope is, use a controlled stall to help swing your nose around to get into the decending part of your manouver.

Thats something you cant ever do with the stall limmiter...

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« Reply #17 on: April 24, 2006, 03:57:55 PM »
Triming your elev down helps also , alot in a Mustang , we learned the hard way :)
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