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Title: dive brakes
Post by: enrico on January 17, 2000, 03:43:00 PM

hi all,
Do the planes of AH have dive brakes? I have pressed shift + c while flying all the fighters, but nothing seemed to happen.
(Anyway, a great sim  (http://bbs.hitechcreations.com/smf/Smileys/default/smile.gif)

Title: dive brakes
Post by: juzz on January 17, 2000, 04:08:00 PM

None of the current planes were fitted with dive brakes, the control is just there to allow for them in future planes, I guess.

Title: dive brakes
Post by: Spatula on January 17, 2000, 10:45:00 PM

I find if apply full rudder left or right you get a massive decress in speed. You kinda travel sideways for a bit, but boy it scrubs off speed  (http://bbs.hitechcreations.com/smf/Smileys/default/smile.gif)

Title: dive brakes
Post by: Rocket on January 18, 2000, 12:02:00 AM

I miss my dive brakes on my hawg.  They don't slow ya down a bit  (http://bbs.hitechcreations.com/smf/Smileys/default/frown.gif)
Hopefully more drag will be added to them in future releases.

Rocket

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Title: dive brakes
Post by: spinny on January 18, 2000, 04:04:00 AM

Not every plane had dive brakes. The dive bombers, of course, did. Some (all?) marks of the P38 had them. The Hog's dive brakes were the wheel covers. You can deploy the Corsair's gear up to about 300 mph to slow down, and, as was mentioned, cross-controlling will slow you down alot. I'm hoping prop drag is introduced soon, as this will help a great deal, also.

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Title: dive brakes
Post by: tshred on January 20, 2000, 05:57:00 AM

Spatula, that's called a slip, and if you cross control(add opposite aileron) you'll find you lose even more speed and alt, usefull when to high on approach for landing and for a/c with no flaps!

ts

Title: dive brakes
Post by: Rocket on January 20, 2000, 09:31:00 AM

Spinny I have dropped gear in the corsair without any noticable drag.  Not sure whether it is small enough not to notice or just not implemented yet.  I usually have to side slip to get landing speed slow enough to survive.  I have also dropped gear chopped throttle and spun the RPM's back in a dive with no noticable differences from a clean dive.


Rocket

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