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Flying Irons Spitfire IX - Overnight Update (3/28)
- Thread starter collensr
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collensr
SOH-CM-2025
Have re-downloaded and that seems to have cured most of the the animations issues although at low revs I think the prop animation is looking a bit like "the old" Miss Virginia"!
Anyway more seriously my flying skills have degraded so badly that I can't seem to keep the Spit straight on T/O any longer. I need to get back to those UTube videos and re-learn this one. I don't remember it swinging so wildly to the left at the start of the take off run.
Anyway more seriously my flying skills have degraded so badly that I can't seem to keep the Spit straight on T/O any longer. I need to get back to those UTube videos and re-learn this one. I don't remember it swinging so wildly to the left at the start of the take off run.
jcweston351
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Flying Iron just keep getting better & better... This is now really fun to taxi pretty much how I think the real plane would be, I also ground looped it on the landing run out, just didn't quite catch it in time in a slight cross wind just as a real tail dragger would go. It was scary real how it went on me! This is by far the best warbird in MSFS!
For me too. I installed the prop textures of the previous version and all is well.
jankees
SOH-CM-2026
Wing_Z
Charter Member 2011
Remains surely the best Warbird available - reading the changelog boggles the mind.
I tend to agree, could I ask which those are?
That would be these I think:
They're in the \flyingiron-spitfire\SimObjects\Airplanes\flyingiron_spitfire\texture\ folder
Priller
jcweston351
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Hmmm, don't spitfires have wooden propellers?
Daube
SOH-CM-2026
Wasn't it only for Mk.1 ?
shotgunshack
SOH-CM-2023
I think all modern Warbirds have wooden props to lessen engine damage in a wheels-up landing. Difficult to animate.
Bomber_12th
SOH-CM-2025
I think there may have been a misunderstanding amongst the FlyingIron devs with regard to the Spitfire Mk.IX prop, as metal blades on a Spitfire Mk.IX are really just wrong. The only time production Spitfires used metal prop blades, as far as I know, was the Spitfire Mk.I and Mk.II when fitted with the three-bladed De Havilland two-pitch propeller. From the Spitfire Mk.V onward, including the Griffon examples, they used wood laminate prop blades. Both during World War Two, and today's flying examples, all Mk.IX Spitfires I'm aware of have only ever been fitted with wood prop blades. The main portion of the blades were, and are still to this day, made of a high-strength birchwood laminate, with the root of the blades being made of mahogany. When there is a nose-over, or belly landing, the props splinter or completely break off at the root, and being made of wood, there is far less chance of shock loading the engine as opposed to American fighters and bombers, for instance, which all use metal props still to this day (save for the XP-82 restored by Tom Reilly, which uses wood blades made to match the same profile as the original Aeroproducts metal blades).
Speaking of wood props, I think Classic Aircraft Simulations did a wonderful job of modeling/animating a splintered wood prop on their J-3 Cub, when the prop comes into contact with the ground.
Speaking of wood props, I think Classic Aircraft Simulations did a wonderful job of modeling/animating a splintered wood prop on their J-3 Cub, when the prop comes into contact with the ground.
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SH427
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As it stands, a little advice I can pass along maybe, with a conversation I had with an IRL Spit MkIX pilot a couple years ago, I asked how he managed the aircraft on takeoff and his advice was:
"Roll the rudder trim all the way to the right [turning the rudder trim forward to the stop] then turn it back a couple little turns, like maybe a quarter turn. For pitch trim, put the screw holding the backplate of the trim indicator on top of the needle. Move the throttle smartly, not quickly, but smoothly to +4lbs of boost and it basically takes off with minimal input. Once you're up, you just back the rudder trim off as you need it and Robert's your Mother's Brother!"
Works like a charm in DCS and almost puts the plane on rails in MSFS
"Roll the rudder trim all the way to the right [turning the rudder trim forward to the stop] then turn it back a couple little turns, like maybe a quarter turn. For pitch trim, put the screw holding the backplate of the trim indicator on top of the needle. Move the throttle smartly, not quickly, but smoothly to +4lbs of boost and it basically takes off with minimal input. Once you're up, you just back the rudder trim off as you need it and Robert's your Mother's Brother!"
Works like a charm in DCS and almost puts the plane on rails in MSFS
I have the same. Takeoff is never a problem and when the tail is up directional control with rudder is easy. The last phase of the rollout is very different compared to the previous flight model and the aircraft ground loops almost every time when at walking pace. I have tail down with full elevator. Perhaps some power to keep an airflow over the tail?