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Crash & damage?

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Alexraptor

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Is there any way or any addon to get more realistic crash and damage?
I'm not one to go out of my way to try to crash a plane, but what really bugs me is the overstress of FSX(and FS9 i guess lol).
Pulling off a hard maneuver such as trying to recover from an all too steep dive or something usually just ends up in a crash "aircraft overstressed" while in reality that would not happen, but rather the plane would start taking structural damage and may actually survive conditions above its tolerance for a few moments.

Is there anything one can do?
 
There are a few models with crash damage - the Aussim Piper Warrior "crashes" rather nicely... What the model needs is a special set of "crash" textures and the appropriate mdl. There is also a "crash sim" addon at simmarket that adds a certain amount of crash effects as well - explosions and fire...

Some pics of the Warrior getting wrecked:
 
I was thinking more of the function, i mean for instance will any of these keep a plane from simply just going "crash" when overstressed?
 
It is a problem! For instance the certified mach limit for the 747-400 is M0.920. However in the sim fly at M0.901 for thirty seconds and Poof! The real plane has been flown across the Pacific at a sustained M.960 and flight tested to M.996. The aircraft has survived various ham fisted excursions well over M1.0.

Yes they could us a more sophisticated algorithim. It might be possible to do as you desire through (1) raising the sim damage limits (2) adding a gauge program to take the duration and inrensity of exceedences into account. A2A may be working on such stuff, though I am not privy to what is going on over there.

Cheers: T.
 
Will that only disable the overstress crash or will it also disable stress damage period? IE flaps and landing gears being busted at too high speeds.
 
I think many people here have only experienced the FS world of 'damage modeling' and so have no real frame of reference to the posters question.

I would love to experience accurate flight control, airframe, or engine damage when flying an airframe beyond spec. or into severe turbulence or what have you...and also see real wheels up landing damage modeled so if it where necessary to belly in - the airpane might shed a few parts and pieces and maybe smoke or catch fire - and leave a dirt furrow in the ground along the way.

What FSX gives you is either a stillshot of an unrealistically half-buried airplane with a green banner - OR - you disable the 'damage' majigger and get the flubber bouncing buddy plane...both options are lame at best
 
Ya. I sure would like to see a little more "reality" there. Getting stuck in a tree with and B777 is lame.

David :kilroy:
 
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