Author Topic: Both wingtips missing bug, heavy roll induced  (Read 371 times)

Offline Krusty

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Both wingtips missing bug, heavy roll induced
« on: December 21, 2009, 06:16:12 PM »
I reported this with a P-40E a while back, and a spitfire before that longer back...

It's all post 2.06, after the FMs/airflow have been tweaked, but losing both your wingtips is not controllable.

You lose one, and it rolls very heavy to one side. You lose both wingtips symmetrically, you would think the only roll is torque-related, but not so!

You have to stomp on rudder. So hard, in fact, you turn circles in the direction of that rudder stomp just to keep your "wing stubs" level with the horizon.

I did it in a Fw190A8 the other day. Had to hit hard right rudder just to keep myself oriented. Despite heading away from the fight (running to land) I ended up doing a turn all the way around to the right and flying back into it. I bailed before a LA took a cheap shot for a free kill (he was 800 and HOing, naturally). No amount of throttling back, spooling back RPM, angling up or down for speed changes, affected this roll to one side.

I've even submitted film in the past of a P-40E with the same problem (hard roll to the side, should not have happened, did not decrease depending on RPM, throttle, etc).

There have been many times in the past, through many versions of Aces High, that I've lost both wingtips, and been able to bring the wounded plane in for landing by using rudder to adjust roll left and right. I've set down probably well over a dozen planes of different types this way for safe but ego-battered landings.

Now it's not possible.


What changed? The induced roll makes it impossible to attempt anymore.

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Re: Both wingtips missing bug, heavy roll induced
« Reply #1 on: December 21, 2009, 06:36:23 PM »
I think it was the P-40E that I had this happen to. I dropped RPM about 1/4 and then I was able to steer it cautiously but pitching up turned in one direction causing more correction and so on.
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Re: Both wingtips missing bug, heavy roll induced
« Reply #2 on: December 21, 2009, 08:37:56 PM »
In the P-40E I submitted a film of me flying for about 3-5 minutes or so (I was relatively alone when I ripped the tips off) and attempted to land. It also went super-squirrelly (like trying to stand on a ballance ball) when I put any flaps down. It was still reacting very unlike it "should" based on the many prior years of experience.


Change logs never mentioned anything related to this, other than the airflow recode. Seems to have started at that time or later.