how slow is "to slow"?

[LonelyplanetXO]

I didnt vote. As Mfitch says it needs to be fast enough to get where I want in the time available for simming. That said. I've been flying the old JustFlight Schweizer 300 recently in OrbX/OzX scenery and find that flying the S300 at 1200' over areas I regularly fly, I discover many, many new airfields I just never noticed before. Good stuff!

LPXO

 

[mike_cyul]

With enough wind, on some of the slower aircraft you can actually go backwards. Now that's slow.

Mike

 

[sknepper]

An Antonov An-2 is slow when it flies low and slow at 35 mph
See this great film shot in the Netherlands of the Aviodrome's An-2 Colt;

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[Willy]

It's only too slow when it stalls out.

 

[Roadburner440]

With enough wind, on some of the slower aircraft you can actually go backwards. Now that's slow.

Mike

I have this problem sometimes with A2A's Accu-sim Cub.. I wound up not even remotely trying to fly it with real weather when there are high winds in the area. That was my first real lesson about TAS, and Ground Speed as I barely watched the scenery creep by even though the airspeed indicator said I was going about 75mph. That flight was sloooowwwwww. I do enjoy the scenery though. Just needs to be a good area like Aerosoft's US Cities X, or the Orbx sceneries (which I have been eyeing, but have yet to pick up).

 

[CP1207]

I've managed to fly backwards in real world flight, not nearly as much fun in FSX (always in a hurry trying to find new oohs! in the Orbx sceneries).