Aces High Bulletin Board
General Forums => Aircraft and Vehicles => Topic started by: Minotaur on December 19, 1999, 10:19:00 AM
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This might seem a little confusing. It was, at least for me.
At about 25k I was forced to perform a very hard evasive. Although I had not intended to stall / spin, this was the result. My initial airspeed was low, around 150mph. As I recall, I attempted a very hard Split-S, angled to the right or left. I was trying to get out of my attackers plane of motion and get some speed.
Normally, I have been able to recover from spins by getting the nose down, getting off the throttle and counter countrolling. However; this one was much different.
The confusing part, was that I could not recover from this spin using manual controls. The nose was pointed straight down. I was rapidly rotating, only on the rotational axis. The stall horn was pounding in my ears. All my manual inputs, including on / off the throttle only served in part, to slow the spin.
Fighting the spin all the way down, losing over 20k. I knew that I could not recover. I was sure that "The ground was going to come up and smite me". I simply engaged OttoLevelPilot, within 5 seconds I was flying level. I came out of the spin at low speed, maybe around 120mpg. (I got shot down anyway, but I hate giving someone my famous "Lawndart Kill". (http://bbs.hitechcreations.com/smf/Smileys/default/smile.gif) )
I am sure that I had taken no damage. I checked on the way down while I was spinning via my joystick macro. So, I considered this spin to be in an un-damaged plane.
This is my first spin in AH of such proportion, essentially un-recoverable. I have not been able to reproduce it for some reason.
I was just wondering if this modeled spin was inherent to the actual Spit FM, AH Beta FM / spin modeling, if it happens to other people / in different planes (AH), or just my poor flying? (http://bbs.hitechcreations.com/smf/Smileys/default/smile.gif)
Thanks in advance.
Merry Christmas Everyone!
Mino
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Auto leveller should not pull plane out of spin. I spun few times during fights, and was fighting spins with usual rudder and aileron input. Just for fun I once tried auto trim level. Worked the best (http://bbs.hitechcreations.com/smf/Smileys/default/smile.gif)
But totally unrealistic. Please, we don't need some board computer to pull the planes out of spins..
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cc Hristo and thanks.
I already knew about Otto's abilities. I have actually spent quite a bit of time testing his / her spectacular flying abilities.
For this particular episode I just pulled a "Major Wimp Move". I had no kills for the day and had already "Lawndarted" a number of times. Karma evened it out. I was removed from the skies quickly, at the joy of another player. (http://bbs.hitechcreations.com/smf/Smileys/default/smile.gif)
My question was primarily about the accuracy of this drastic spin for a real airplane, the AH modeling or my ineptitude at flying the simulated skies of AH. (http://bbs.hitechcreations.com/smf/Smileys/default/smile.gif)
I was also kind of wondering if any others had experienced anything close to this unrecoverable spin?
Merry Christmas Everyone!
Mino
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Minitaur
I was once killed by a spin from at least 9k.
I couldnt believe it. Never occured do me to hit otto at the time. Not being a trained pilot I tried the varios things I had done in EAW. Didn't help. This was at least 3 weeks ago so current versions may or may not be different.