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General Forums => Wishlist => Topic started by: Tilt on April 16, 2012, 07:47:01 AM
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Sort of a question and a wish.............
As wings and stabilisers receive damage is their G limit prior breaking point reduced in any way? If not I would wish that it would be.........
e.g. If your graphics are showing holes in your inner wing then your inner wing failure threshold G has been reduced .............. approach the new lower G and you get the normal air frame stress noises (but at this new lower loading) maintain this loading and the wing fails (but at this new lower loading)
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It doesn't at present time. All parts are either functioning perfectly or gone.
+1 on this wish for sure. It would also go nicely with gradually degraded performance on damaged control surfaces.
Wiley.
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I've seen it implemented and it works well.
You get messages in the buffer that you're pulling more Gs than a damaged part can handle.
More than 3 messages and the part comes off.
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It doesn't at present time. All parts are either functioning perfectly or gone.
+1 on this wish for sure. It would also go nicely with gradually degraded performance on damaged control surfaces.
Wiley.
Im pretty sure that if you keep stressing you a/c it gets weaker ingame...
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Im pretty sure that if you keep stressing you a/c it gets weaker ingame...
I'm pretty sure it doesn't. I routinely stress a couple planes doing certain maneuvers, and it always happens at the same point regardless of how shot up I am/how many times I do them on a sortie. The specific quotes I've seen from HTC were with regard to control surfaces, but the impression I'd gotten was the same logic applies to things like wings.
I personally wouldn't want the 3 warnings then it goes. It should be preceded by the stress noise at a lower G point, then break if you pull too far.
Wiley.
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I'm pretty sure it doesn't. I routinely stress a couple planes doing certain maneuvers, and it always happens at the same point regardless of how shot up I am/how many times I do them on a sortie. The specific quotes I've seen from HTC were with regard to control surfaces, but the impression I'd gotten was the same logic applies to things like wings.
I personally wouldn't want the 3 warnings then it goes. It should be preceded by the stress noise at a lower G point, then break if you pull too far.
Wiley.
I would swear I believed that specifically the A6M exibited structural weakness when damaged....about two years ago. I remember flying it and taking some hits, and often performing maneuvers that I thought were "safe" just to snap a wing. I was convinced that damage would waken the structure. I no longer believe this to be the case, but it was always when I was pulling High G's (without blackout) and full rudder at the same time. The new model does not exhibit this at all. But I really thought that it was actually different from and undamaged to a damaged aircraft.
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IMO if damage did reduce the break point threshold then HTC would have said so by now. So I guess it's just a wish then.
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IMO if damage did reduce the break point threshold then HTC would have said so by now. So I guess it's just a wish then.
Maybe they missed the thread. :noid