In x-plane, you can easily rip the flaps(Learjet 60) off when you deploy them at greater than 160. However, I don't see this in FS9. Which one is more accurate?

I think FS9 does a great job on most things, and they do not model every little possible chance of pilot stupidity, in favor of concentrating on things like realistic looking scenery, ATC, and the ability to buy tons of add-ons if you want.... instead of modeling what would happen if a pilot put flaps down at too high a rate of speed, or opening doors in flight etc... Would I trade FS9 for a simulation of a flap deployment at excessive speed, don't think so.

It should be..for example the stock 737 shows in its aircraft.cfg:type = 2 // 1 - tail, 2 - leadspan-outboard = 0.8 // 0.0 .. 1.0extending-time = 3 // secondsflaps-position.0 = 0 // flaps-position.1 = 0.5 // flaps-position.4 = 1.0 // damaging-speed = 250 // KIASblowout-speed = 300 // KIASlift_scalar = 1.0drag_scalar = 1.0pitch_scalar= 1.0system_type = 1 //HydraulicBlowoutspeed and damaging speed must do something..Johan[A HREF=http://jdserver.no-ip.com]Personal Server[/A]or..http://62.238.33.10

Some planes do. For example, if you deploy the flaps on the payware Aeroworx Super King Air B200 at too high a speed, they will jam down and you will have to go into the Aeroworx utility to "repair" them. I don't know if the same thing happens on default or freeware aircraft or not. They won't fall off, that I do know. :)Lewis "Moose" GregoryColumbia, South Carolina

Have you tried to rip the flaps off?! Launch the Lear from 15000ft in a downwardly direction at maximumbly reverberations and at 300kias lower the flaps, and for good measure, the gear.:(

I am disappointed to hear that X-Plane does this sort of things.How do they know when exactly flaps will fail or not, do they have access to such plane-specific data? And also maybe flaps will dmagaed but not "ripped". When it comes to damage modelling they better either do it right or not at all.Michael J.WinXP-Home SP2,AMD64 3500+,Abit AV8,Radeon X800Pro,36GB Raptor,1GB PC3200,Audigy 2