Hi there,Is their anyone who can comment on the stall behavior of the recently released JustFlight Beechcraft Duchess 76.I love the airplane but today I did some familiarization trails and when trying to enter a Vs and Vso stall and all I could achieve was a benign stall where the nose dropped gently and the wings remain level throughout. Luckily so of course but as the documentation is a tad sparse with regard to flight behavior, I wondered if this stall behavior is characteristic for the real Duchess?Thanks,Rob

It is apparently possible to put the Beech 76 into an unrecoverable spin in real life (if you are mad enough to want to try - and if anyone reading this has a real one, for God's sake don't try it, you will die). But as far as the FS Beech 76 goes, and indeed most other FS aircraft, high alpha stuff is not a strong point.It's not actually a certification requirement for twins to demonstrate spin recovery in many countries, even so, Beechcraft did test the Duchess in that way, but of course when they test things like that, they have spin recovery 'chutes on the things and people wearing parachutes, which is why it would be silly to try it on one at your local flying club that was not so equipped.Beechcraft conducted 146 spins on the B 76 to research the spin characteristics of both it and light twins in general. They found that you had to push it and really abuse things to get it to spin (which is good, since it is essentially a trainer with a bit of long range capability). They found it typically required keeping full power on one engine to induce enough yaw to get the thing into a spin (with the yoke right back too of course, and well timed). They found it would develop into a full spin in two and a half rotations. Once in the spin, AoA was 42 degrees and autorotation was 150 degrees per second, with a bit over three hundred feet being lost for each autorotation. What they discovered with the Beech 76 though, was that unlike with a lot of twins, applying power to the engine on the inside of the autorotation did not significantly help it to recover from a spin, which is often the case when a twin goes into a spin as it assists the rudder in stopping the autorotation.I bet you won't get the JF Beech 76 to do any of that, since it is tricky to get a twin or even a single to spin believably in FS (the Flight 1 Cessna 441 does a bit of it if you really want a twin in FS that can be a handful). But if you want to indulge in all that spinning malarkey, try Condor or Silent Wings, both those sims emulate spins and stalls very well indeed, and of course you can fly powered aircraft in Silent Wings and even port FS aircraft over into it (with a lot of effort).Al

Hi Al (Chock)Thanks very much for this piece of bacground info. If someone else can chime in don't hesitate...