I apolozize for the question that maybe is stupid.The FS stall warning is the "virtual" version of the stick shaker (for liners) or the acoustic stall warning (for the smaller planes)???What I mean is when FS triggers the warning, the plane is still in a recoverable "buffet" area (like when the stall warning or stick shaker go off in real planes I suppose) or already in stall????Thanks in advance for answering!!!Regards

you mean the red thingie in the corner? try flying for a minute with the thingie continuously on screen and you'll know :-)

The stall warning in real planes is goes off in imminent. In a Piper, the sounds is constant because it's a little metal tab on the leading edge that get's flipped up when the relative wind hits it from below (set near critical angle of attack). In planes like the Cessna 150/152 and some 170's the sound increases the deeper into the stall you go due to the stall system it has. It has a hole in the leading edge that when at a certain angle will actually cause the air to be sucked out rather than blown into it so the faster it's sucked out (the further it is beyond the critical angle of attack), the louder it gets. The idea is to not stall so the warnings are designed to indicate you're on the verge, but can still recover with quick action. You're going to most-likely see a stall on take-off or landing so you may not have the altitude to recover from a stall so a warning that goes off after you're stalled would be useless.----------------------------------------------------------------John MorganReal World: KGEG, UND Aerospace Spokane Satillite, Private ASEL 141.2 hrs, 314 landings, 46 inst. apprs.Virtual: MSFS 2004"There is a feeling about an airport that no other piece of ground can have. No matter what the name of the country on whose land it lies, an airport is a place you can see and touch that leads to a reality that can only be thought and felt." - The Bridge Across Forever: A Love Story by Richard Bach

From experience, `stall` means stall, not about-to-stall. In the low speed flight regime FS is not accurate enough to mimic real stalling, which is why developers have to go through hoops to get aircraft to behave realistically at near-stall speeds. Allcott

Hi. You are right the stall horn is an indicator of a flight attitude where a stall can occur. It typically starts a few knots above the actual full stall, in a normal flight attitude. MSFS flight dynamics does not allow a model, with real numbers, to implement Slow flight / Stall flight envelope and is very much useless. My nr. 1 problem with MSFS GA Flight models. I was able to create a model that will behave close to real, but I had to increase the BHP, decrease Drag and play all kinds of games, that makes the rest of the parameters, in a cruise mode, be totally off, like fuel consumption, cruise attitude etc. In real life we practice Slow flight with the horn on, on a daily basis,and some 172s will actually fly, still controllable, at 35KIAS. One of my Emcy procedure that I try to teach students, is that just about any Emcy landing in one of these birds, should be survivable, if you maintain control and master the slow fight, and the Rudder fall. Some developers here, claim realistic flight models, where they are being used in "real training", in real world, it makes me laugh.TV