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  • Please see the most recent updates in the "Where did the .com name go?" thread. Posts number 16 and 17.

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bill lyons Pa22

real planes differ from puplished specs anyway, which tend to be on a brand new aircraft and not one thats been through several oweners and seen a lot of miles.

Speaking of Bill, lets not forget Golden Wings or even his partner in crime Lynn and even Leon Louis who painted the liveing daylights outa everything Bill and lynn made :engel016:
 
I'm not sure that Vne is based on indicated air speed. My memory isnt what it used to be you see, but i sem to recall that the V numbers are based on true or corrected (?) airspeed.
One thing we have to keep in mind though is that FS9 was a pivot point in what people expected from aircraft. in the early days, it was enough to have a plane that looked reasonably close to what it was supposed to be and still have the flight model all messed up because most people didnt have a good grasp of what flight models did or how ( especially how ), and you got all kinds of behaviour from them that became accepted as just the way it is.. lots of arguments whent back and fourth about whether FS was a game or a simulator. It wasnt until it got towards the end of the fs9 era that folks began seeing more and more accurate representations. The planes were no longer just for fun. theyd started becoming serious simulations. Now days?/ it seems sometimes that nowdays its nothing but serious simulations. everything has to be so exact. mind you, i dont mind exactness, in fact, i keep striving to achieve greater and greater exactitude in my own work, but i'll never fly the tripacer because its exact. i'll fly it because it's fun. i got my virtual family with me and i can dream of stuffing the kid into the cargo hold.
Our perspectives changed around the time this was released. So did our expectations. it doesnt make it a bad plane. It simply is what it is, a very fun aircraft for a lazy afternoon.
Pam
 
In the 1970's manufacturers started to change their critical speeds from calibrated to indicated because they realized that calibrated is not predictable.

Today, the convention is critical speeds are either indicated, or in the case of aircraft capable of achieving something close to Mach, you can have critical speeds based on Mach ratio as well as indicated airspeed. This is because the nature of air flow changes so radically as it approaches Mach 1.0. This includes localized areas where changes in air pressures may cause air flow in certain sections of the aircraft to reach Mach 1.0 before other sections of the aircraft.

These speeds are referred to as Mach critical speeds.

Cheers,

Ken
 
stiz said:
real planes differ from puplished specs anyway, which tend to be on a brand new aircraft and not one thats been through several oweners and seen a lot of miles.

Speaking of Bill, lets not forget Golden Wings or even his partner in crime Lynn and even Leon Louis who painted the liveing daylights outa everything Bill and lynn made :engel016:
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That's very true. They were one heck of a team. I just loved the little personal touches, like the sign on the hangar where you could have your name listed as the chief pilot! That was just so cool!

Ken
 
Slug Flyer said:
Ken,

The Tri-Pacer as released flew like a veritable rocket for me, well in excess of any published real-world performance data. I am not the only one who thought so.

But, of course we were all just complaining for the fun of it, we really got a kick out of running one of the most beloved developers in the community down. :kilroy:
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We used to have a really cool member here, named El Pescador, who had an interesting thing he said to someone when they posted something so outrageous that it cut off any desire for further communication, and I will now quote it for you:

"You sir, shall enjoy no more rejoinder from me!"
 
Ken Stallings said:
We used to have a really cool member here, named El Pescador, who had an interesting thing he said to someone when they posted something so outrageous that it cut off any desire for further communication, and I will now quote it for you:

"You sir, shall enjoy no more rejoinder from me!"
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And you, sir, shall enjoy no more sarcasm from me, since you clearly lack the capacity to recognize it.
 
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