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General Forums => Aces High General Discussion => Topic started by: vorticon on April 07, 2003, 09:17:10 PM

Title: flight model...
Post by: vorticon on April 07, 2003, 09:17:10 PM
how can any of you make comments on how realistic the flight model is if 60% of you have never seen a real ww2 warbird let alone flown one...how can you "notice" a few bugs in the FM if you dont know what the real flight was like...???
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just something ive noticed


and comparing it to your time spent in a cessna or a glider doesnt count
Title: flight model...
Post by: Thunder on April 07, 2003, 09:26:26 PM
What makes you think some of us haven't .. ya little wipper snapper! :)

"ThunderGeezer"
Title: flight model...
Post by: vorticon on April 07, 2003, 09:27:47 PM
note the percent sign...some of you have and you have every right to complain...
Title: Re: flight model...
Post by: XNachoX on April 07, 2003, 09:31:40 PM
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Originally posted by vorticon
how can any of you make comments on how realistic the flight model is if 60% of you have never seen a real ww2 warbird let alone flown one...how can you "notice" a few bugs in the FM if you dont know what the real flight was like...???
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just something ive noticed


and comparing it to your time spent in a cessna or a glider doesnt count


Back to your board troll.....go!  Geet on outta heah!
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Title: flight model...
Post by: vorticon on April 07, 2003, 09:32:52 PM
NOT UNTIL I EAT YOU OR YOU PAY THE TOLL!!! and the bigger brother thing no longer works...its part of our what not to do lessons HAHAHAHAAH
Title: flight model...
Post by: XNachoX on April 07, 2003, 09:39:50 PM
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Originally posted by vorticon
NOT UNTIL I EAT YOU OR YOU PAY THE TOLL!!! and the bigger brother thing no longer works...its part of our what not to do lessons HAHAHAHAAH


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Title: flight model...
Post by: vorticon on April 08, 2003, 01:04:39 PM
mmmm mace...its a lot better than salt
Title: flight model...
Post by: vorticon on April 08, 2003, 01:09:28 PM
and the post has bee nhijacked...back on topic everyone
Title: flight model...
Post by: Ductape on April 08, 2003, 01:11:28 PM
Ooooohhhhhhhh Kkkkkaaaaaayyyyyyy!!
I can see this is a constructive, let alone productive subject. I can't see where it's going, but judging from where its been I will inform the powers that be to man the delousing tent!:eek:
I flew in P-3C Orion during Viet Nam and I can assure you, none of the flight models in Aces High are anything like it.:)
Title: flight model...
Post by: vorticon on April 08, 2003, 01:19:44 PM
nope...just wondering how it is tha tpeople can talk about flight models when theyve never flown a real ww2 warbird...
Title: flight model...
Post by: F4UDOA on April 08, 2003, 01:24:14 PM
Just because we haven't flown them doesn't mean that there aren't clear indicators of how an A/C should fly.

1. Speed

2. Stall

3. Climb

4. Roll

These are parameters of flight that can be measured and compared easily.

Stabilty is more tricky but then you have flight manual data that tells you how to trim an A/C for coordinated flight. Plus there is flight test reports that give detailed account.

Also I may never have flown a warbird but I have flown. So the "Feel of flight" is not that foriegn.
Title: flight model...
Post by: udet on April 08, 2003, 01:39:02 PM
vorticon: I think people with enough knowledge of aviation, maybe who have read some pilot reports on a particular airplane, can make judgements  on whether it is modelled correctly or not.
fyi gliders are a lot more maneuvrable than Cessnas, and that coupled with the stick and the cockpit arrangement makes them in my opinion similar to fighters in "feel", of course, removing the stick forces and the engine.
Title: flight model...
Post by: Ductape on April 08, 2003, 01:39:25 PM
OH!!
Something I forgot to add.
Dale (High Tech) HAS flown a real warbird. I KNOW I saw a picture of him somewhere looping a P51D. He also made this flight simulator. I am willing to trust his judgment because truthfully, I don't lose a heck of a lot of sleep worrying about the flight model.:cool:
Title: flight model...
Post by: Kweassa on April 08, 2003, 06:39:14 PM
Think of it this way vort.

 This problem does not just apply to this one case, but everything out there in the society.

 How do we discuss politics when we're not politicians?

 How do we discuss Monday Night Football when we're not pro-sportsmen?

 How do we look back on past moments when we weren't even born at that time?

 .......

 Flight modelling, I think, can be referred to as historical reconstruction. Just as historians reconstruct the past with factual data, and translate them in their terms with logic, developers model what they can with data, and critics discuss them with logic ;)
Title: Re: flight model...
Post by: mora on April 09, 2003, 09:00:13 AM
nevermind
Title: flight model...
Post by: vorticon on April 09, 2003, 11:25:49 AM
well that helps kweasa...but it really isnt very applicable because everyone knows about sports  and politics (or at least they think they do) but really how are you supposed to know anything about flight model except what you think its supposed to be like wich means if someone thought that the p51 flew like a hurri2d then they would whine along that line...