USAF Museum on Late War Japanese Fighters

[Minotaur]

Pyro;

I not sure I agree with you. Is rebeer/debeer an evolution?  Or; is it the main cause for many a revolution?    

Mino

[This message has been edited by Minotaur (edited 11-26-1999).]

[Vermillion]

Don't know about you Mino,

But rebeering (getting up to grab another beer), or debeering (potty break), is a significant cause for my K/D ratio to plummet.

Pyro, can you model that correctly?  

How many of you have been in the bathroom, getting rid of that last beer, when you hear your aircraft take a hailstorm of pings ??  


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Vermillion
WB's: (verm--), **MOL**, Men of Leisure,
"Real men fly Radials, Nancy Boys fly Spitfires "

[SnakeEyes]

Yuppers... been pee-killed at least once.  By a fellow named -grsm- back in WB 1.11.  As you can see, it made quite an impression.  

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[Toad]

Pyro:

So is the trim an integral feature of the autopilot? Does the autopilot work through the trim?

I realize the "autopilots in fighters" is a playability issue.

It seems we wouldn't need trim that isn't there with a functional autopilot. After all, if you have to pay the pizza man or rebeer, you just engage the a/p, right?

The non-adjustable trim-tab type trim was usually set to provide relatively "hands off" flying at normal cruise airspeed to decrease pilot workload/fatigue in cruise.

Why not leave the a/p in for playability, set trim tabs for cruise and not model pilot adjustable trim that shouldn't be there?

I think some people are getting the wrong idea about trim; they think you HAVE to have it to make the airplane perform. Modeling trim that isn't there may contribute to that perception.

Just a thought...