October 5, 200421 yr Is there any known way to increase the spin severity in FS2004?As an example I spun an F14 at 59,000ft delibrately, by stalling it and then forcabley trying to pull the nose up with some rudder in. It rolled out and spun quite violently at first. I fought with it a bit, but it didn't feel right. It would come out of one spin one way and into another the other way. However, and what I want to solve, is when I just left it along, it came out of its own.I have tried spinning lots of planes in FS2004 and it just doesn't feel right. For one, taking a large jet to the edge of stall at 40,000ft and then stalling it, causes it to simply stop in the air and start falling backwards.As far as I understand it a spin of this kind is caused by the wing stalling unevenly, as in one wing stall first and the sudden drop of lift throws the plane in to a severe Yaw that it can't get out of due to lack of forward speed. The controls should be almost unresonisve without forward velocity, and hence you spin down like a stone until you can get the nose down and keep it down and pick up air flow.FS2004 doesn't seem to get this at all right.Any thoughts?
October 5, 200421 yr The only planes I know of that spin realistically are made by RealAir Simulations. http://www.realairsimulations.com/You can try the freeware Cessna 172, and their payware planes are great as well. ------------------------- Craig from KBUF
October 5, 200421 yr It's all to do with the way the airfile is made, and perhaps to a certain extent the way the aifcraft.cfg overrides a number of airfile settings. If you search the forums here and other places with Google you might find out more about it. I'm no expert although I have played around with airfiles so I don't know the exact things that would help to model the effect you want. It's probably easier to seek alternative ready made files, though some knowledge may be required to set them up properly. This can be partially learned by studying the aircraft.cfg files of planes you are interested in and see how they vary. It is best to compare existing and replacement files to see which settings are necessary to keep and which ones might help to make a favourable flight response. I hope this helps somewhat.
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