Flight model: Asymmetric flaps

[Shuffler]

When your flap is gone the plane reacts as if it is still in the same position as when it was damaged.




Flaps reshape airflow over the wing to increase lift and stave off stall in low speed situations.

[maus92]

When your flap is gone the plane reacts as if it is still in the same position as when it was damaged.

Say the flaps are up, and one gets shot off.  Are you saying that the plane will act as if the flaps were still up, even if I command the remaining flap to lower?  Or are you saying that the remaining flap will not deploy (or raise) if the other has been damaged?

[CAP1]

Say the flaps are up, and one gets shot off.  Are you saying that the plane will act as if the flaps were still up, even if I command the remaining flap to lower?  Or are you saying that the remaining flap will not deploy (or raise) if the other has been damaged?

in that case, the undamaged flap will lower.

 i just had this happen in a lancaster last night. an me110 shot my left flap off. when i was lined up for my landing, i deployed my flaps. the aircraft was sorta ok at 10 degrees......at 20 degrees, it got so hard, that i simply retracted them, and landed with no flaps.

[Ack-Ack]

Say the flaps are up, and one gets shot off.  Are you saying that the plane will act as if the flaps were still up, even if I command the remaining flap to lower?  Or are you saying that the remaining flap will not deploy (or raise) if the other has been damaged?

The undamaged flap will lower but the damaged one will remain in whatever position it was damaged at.  Basically, the damage model treats it as though the damaged flap was jammed at that position rather than destroyed.


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