September 9, 201510 yr Get it at the .ORG Flying gliders since 1980 Flightsimming since 1992 AMD Ryzen 5600x, 32GB RAM, GPU Nvidia RTX 3060 Ti 8 GB, 1 TB and 500 GB nvme2 SSD drives, HP 27" 60Hz LED monitor @ 1920x1080, T16000, Hotas from old X52 Pro, Saitek Combat Rudder Pro (2010 model)
September 9, 201510 yr Fun fun fun! | My Liveries | FAA ZMP | PPL ASEL | | Windows 11 | MSI Z690 Tomahawk | 12700K 4.7GHz | MSI RTX 4080 | 64GB 6000 MHz DDR5 | 500GB Samsung 860 Evo SSD | 2x 2TB Samsung 970 Evo M.2 | EVGA 850W Gold | Corsair 5000X | HP G2 (VR) / LG 27" 1440p |
September 9, 201510 yr Purchased the Yak a few years ago and have always enjoyed flying it. Intel i-9 13900KF @ 6.0 Ghz, MSI RTX 4090 Suprim Liquid X 24GB, MSI MAG CORELIQUID C360, MSI Z790 A-PRO WIFI, MSI MPG A1000G 1000W, G.SKILL 48Gb@76000 MHz DDR5, MSI SPATIUM M480 PCIe 4.0 NVMe M.2 2TB, Windows 11 Pro Ghost Spectre x64 “We sleep safe in our beds because rough men stand ready in the day and night to visit violence on those who would do us harm”.
September 9, 201510 yr Commercial Member Go figure.... I just bought that in the sale on Monday.... Oh well, at least it was rather inexpensive with the sale price and all, and the developer gets a bit of money from it. I actually spent about an hour in it last night, very, very nice. Easy to control, nice sounds. Spent a bit of time trying to do some aerobatics, but other than loops, I'm not all that good! Jim Stewart Milviz Person.
September 10, 201510 yr Author Just like another freeware aerobatics airplane for XPlane, this yak-55 ( don't know yet, but can see from the videos...) has a characteristics, a very true one, that no aircraft can reproduce when using FSX or P3D core FDM - the instant stop from a roll at max roll rate. In FSX there is always too much inertia and a sudden stop isn't possible, as well as other stunt maneuvers that I've seen IRL being performed by these models. Looking fwd to try this one ! Flying gliders since 1980 Flightsimming since 1992 AMD Ryzen 5600x, 32GB RAM, GPU Nvidia RTX 3060 Ti 8 GB, 1 TB and 500 GB nvme2 SSD drives, HP 27" 60Hz LED monitor @ 1920x1080, T16000, Hotas from old X52 Pro, Saitek Combat Rudder Pro (2010 model)
September 10, 201510 yr Just like another freeware aerobatics airplane for XPlane, this yak-55 ( don't know yet, but can see from the videos...) has a characteristics, a very true one, that no aircraft can reproduce when using FSX or P3D core FDM - the instant stop from a roll at max roll rate. In FSX there is always too much inertia and a sudden stop isn't possible, as well as other stunt maneuvers that I've seen IRL being performed by these models. Hmmm... As far as I know, in FSX core flight model, both moments of inertia (in this case along roll) and the Cl_p coefficient (that is, the damping due to roll rate) can be edited, so in theory there's nothing preventing to edit roll dynamics at one's likings. Maybe there's simply a lack of a good designed unlimited aerobatics aircraft, with regard to flight dynamics. Another issue however is the "breaking" of FSX flight model in certain extreme maneuvers. I don't know if it's inherent to the flight model, or if it's simply due to a poor .air file (from 5:50 onwards): "Society has become so fake that the truth actually bothers people".
September 10, 201510 yr Author From my experience, any combination of MoIs and stability derivates falls short from the effect we can get in XPlane. I tried editing the default Extra, after I saw, for the first time in my life, an exhibition of the RedBull Air Races, and specially after having had the chance to fly as a passenger in an Extra 300 :-), but was completely unable to get that same "instant" response. In this other video I recorded sometime ago, another flaw is evident, as, after I kill the engine by setting the mixture to full lean (around 0:45 ), the Extra starts climbing and making wild maneuvers and gaining altitude :-) This flaw is ported to even the best models available for FSX, including, for instance, A2A's P51d... We just have to find the right spot, and the inability to cope with this extreme situations comes to play... Flying gliders since 1980 Flightsimming since 1992 AMD Ryzen 5600x, 32GB RAM, GPU Nvidia RTX 3060 Ti 8 GB, 1 TB and 500 GB nvme2 SSD drives, HP 27" 60Hz LED monitor @ 1920x1080, T16000, Hotas from old X52 Pro, Saitek Combat Rudder Pro (2010 model)
January 2, 201610 yr Love the video. Made me post and now look for the download. Happy New year. Namaste
January 2, 201610 yr Author And THANK YOU for reminding me about it !!! It has been while since I made the OP, and when I installed 10.45b1, I completely forgot about the Yak-55 ... Now trying to find out how it works with the fixed torque bug :-) Flying gliders since 1980 Flightsimming since 1992 AMD Ryzen 5600x, 32GB RAM, GPU Nvidia RTX 3060 Ti 8 GB, 1 TB and 500 GB nvme2 SSD drives, HP 27" 60Hz LED monitor @ 1920x1080, T16000, Hotas from old X52 Pro, Saitek Combat Rudder Pro (2010 model)
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